frank

Take it easy killer

from wh.gov: "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE The mission of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States...

Everything is going to be fine.

Could you dumb this down a little for dummies like me? :grin:

I totally agree, and also with what you said about the universe becoming monolithic by virtue of the imperative of relationship. That shows up in Scho...

I think physics is prompting a shift in worldview. Whether it catches on, I don't know.

I understand what you're saying. But if you tell me what things in the toddler's visual field she's pointing to, each one of those elements is a unive...

There isn't a scientific definition of life according to Robert Rosen. If pressed to come up with one, we'd have to say it has something to do with a ...

The cultural background of this discussion is the image of God as a clockmaker, who sets the world in motion, then leaves it to itself. Subtract out t...

You're correct.

You're talking about universals, there, so you're starting with a time-honored way of dividing things up. I was talking about particulars. For particu...

I don't think so. There's no physical evidence behind the way we divide the world up.

https://i.imgur.com/a3idKgE.jpeg

Still, an inanimate object can make distinctions you program it to recognize. You don't have to be a magic human to do that. I think the rest is just ...

If the question was whether our common worldview assures us that distinctions don't need conscious input, then dinosaurs would be on point. But dinosa...

It could do that with AI directed actuation. Just tell the AI what you want to shoot.

This is an SEP article on underdetermination of knowledge. It's like a relative of the problem of induction. With regard to gravity, it means this: an...

Any discrete object is discrete by virtue of standing out against a background. Think of this thesis: The realm of the senses is all rabbit-duck and i...

Aren't all scientific theories underdetermined? Does that mean science, in general, reflects our biases, our worldviews, our pet perspectives?

This would be a violation of the prime directive, so the phaser has to have AI directed activation. The AI doesn't know anything about physicality. Th...

The same sentence can be presented by any number of utterances, whether sounds or marks on a screen. Sentences are commonly accepted as abstract objec...

Inalienable rights are guaranteed by Nature. It's basically stoicism. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/George_Washington_Greenough_...

Supposedly you can let things take their course and the results will speak for themselves. If we screw up, society will become diseased. If we get it ...

I know that. By the way, you haven't escaped abstract objects. A sentence is also abstract.

Not at all. I said a proposition is what we imagine the world would say. If you notice, my account of propositions is very similar to Russell's. He be...

To each his own

:grin: Read more Emerson. He'll show how to think for yourself.

Start with thinking for yourself. Then all the philosopher does is broaden your horizons.

This is philosophy, not theology. Feel free to engage the ideas in play rather than becoming caught up in interpretation of the text.

The thing is, that the same P can be expressed by a lot of different methods: verbal sequence, marks on page, interpretive dance, sculpture, etc. Mayb...

I think your account is missing this: that propositions are not first or second person accounts. They're in third person. They aren't necessarily spok...

This is a hand is a proposition. I was giving you my handy dandy explanation of what a proposition is: that it comes from interaction with the world, ...

"Maybe I died. Maybe these are just the last thoughts of a dying man” -- Shikishima

So you take a break, poop out the pasta, and go back for more.

This is my theory: We think of our interaction with the world as if it's a conversation we're having with it. When you look for your sunglasses, you'r...

For now, yea.

You been reading Hayek? He said price reflects all pertinent information in a free market. It's a powerful idea, especially if you're an investor. Exc...

They can't actually give you an infinite amount of pasta.

It's the nature of business that partnerships go sour. You have to nail everything down in legal documents and even then, a former friend is likely to...

Nothing competes with a really good German chocolate cake, and make it homemade strawberry ice cream. Mmmm.

Wow! What to drink?

I was just kidding.

I was told that after 911 they were thinking about the possibility of starting small pox vaccines again. I guess biological warfare was a concern.

Capitalism made and deployed the small pox vaccine, so that saved 530 million people so far.

And fascism. That was quite a few eggs.

Plus Russia had no experience with democracy. They had an absolute monarchy up to the 20th Century.

Yep, it's interesting. Maybe off topic for this thread.

They were definitely badass.

:up:

Based on a examination of the records from the time, Hosking estimates 37 million Soviet citizens died unnatural deaths between 1917 and the 1950s. It...