For me, I think truth possibly would make sense as more like a condition that asserts what those sentences are about, which then maybe eases the probl...
The way you've been presenting this thought completely fails to acknowledge the fact that you can distinguish between the existence or non-existence o...
Yes, I see what you mean though I may have put it a different way. Yes, I sympathize with a pluralistic way of looking at things in comparable kinds o...
I think I could plausibly talk about this involving minds and ask a similar question. Not as an argument but I am just interested how you will answer....
Yes, exactly. So the fact that language didn't exist 8 million years ago doesn't affect the fact that mountains existed 8 million years ago, because t...
But surely, truth isn't really about the sentence itself, its about what the sentence is about. Changing the sentence or making it disappear doesn't c...
Sure, and nothing there is different from what I implied in the post I said. You make the distinction between the sentence "I am 25 years old" and wha...
Sure, and nothing there is different from what I implied in the post I said. You make the distinction between the sentence "I am 25 years old" and wha...
Fair enough. When I was thinking of object, I wasn't thinking about it in any way that I think would be different from what you are saying is a state....
I dunno, when I look up the definition of "proposition" on wikipedia, and it says that they are "the type of object that declarative sentences denote"...
I would actually say this article is more or less exactly what was meant by mystical in the video. I'm not sure I would agree unless there is some fur...
Highly recommend you watch this video: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo?si=bxEOt_Iau2tJmQa7 You may want to start at the clip from 01:30:00 to 01:33:40 to...
Imo, I want to remove 1. because I don't see how you can do this in a way which either suggests you hold a view like idealism or is just something tha...
Why would that struggle be anymore preferable? If you are not an insular person and are also adept at social situations and dealing with stress then t...
But why should I believe this dogmatism that withdrawal would be any better? What is this based on? Why should it be so general to every person on the...
You don't think monks do what they do because they want to do it and think it is beneficial to them? Differences that most people don't need convincin...
Not sure what you mean by this. I really meant in a much more trivial way that doesn't threaten physicalism tbh. The fact that some constructs in scie...
It was because you were saying quantum theory undermines objectivity, to which I say - not necessarily. But this can be in the trivial sense of the wa...
Nothing about that inherently suggests anything about subjectivity. There are quantum interpretations with a mathematical basis from which you can bui...
Well this is interpretation dependent. It isn't a fact that quantum mechanics formally, or otherwise, entails inherent subjectiveor non-objective univ...
The question is whether "ridding ourselves of physicalism" has any actual meaningful consequences for physicalists. I think what gives physicalists me...
No, but in general things are not mutually exclusive like that in our language use. The same physical scenarios can have overlapping descriptions whic...
Disagree, because the question is clearly independent of the exact physical content. You can draw arbitrary boundaries on the world and apply this que...
Mutual in the sense of just reflecting how we choose to apply labels and where those labels end. Yes, I would say so; but I would say what we would ca...
No, because you can have observations at multiple different scales and independently apply the abstract concept of design to each scale. It has nothin...
Yes, true; though they still have a correspondence to the same area of reality, which injects redundancy. By virtue of coarse-graining itself, the coa...
Well I don't want to take this example too seriously but surely these distinctions are more or less at the same scale or granularity? At the same time...
What are you implying? I don't understand what you are saying here. My answer reflects the fact that I am saying something much more general than the ...
Not at all. I haven't been talking about prescribing explanations to get smaller. I'm just saying when you make observations at finer, smaller scale, ...
I think its a lot weaker than reduction: e.g. consider these descriptions from wikipedia. "Ontological reductionism: a belief that the whole of realit...
What do you mean? Well I am just implying that her work isn't actual physics, its philosophy and what she is saying is not a description of reality wi...
I don't think of the fact that laws may behave the same everywhere as holism. With regard to explanation, you could equally ask why should there not b...
I mean, clearly she is not a physicist and there is no mathematical model here. It's just speculative interpretation withiut the benefit of a formal m...
Imo it would only be 'happy chance' if one of the equivalent descriptions could be the case while the other (e.g. conservation laws) failed, but clear...
Which conclusion? What do you mean, specifically? Don't know what you mean, I am literally just reporting Friston's account to you. I actually don't k...
Not sure what you mean here but I think from the free energy perspective, information can be more or less equated with dynamics. In fact, some recent ...
I don't think this is example is actually apt to what you said it was going to demonstrate in the first sentence. You are more or less comparing quant...
I want to emphasize that I think all of the descriptions are "just models" or at least, none are any less so than others; but, they are all being appl...
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