I know Hume's problem, etc. Science is just the least worst thing we seem to have. It makes us fail better. Let's let our theories do our dying for us...
At some point the rubber meets the road (experiments are done) or it's just theology or poetry. No doubt there's a 'formal' side to any mathematical s...
I get that. I've always understood it as your own invention, a brew or a stew or superscientific postreligious goo, and I like the taste of my poetry ...
One of my versions of that is the smell of 'garbage juice' which the trucks leave behind in the early morning. How ineffable that spell ! Feuerbach st...
Beautiful quote ! Reminds me of Dostoevsky and Sartre. Also of this: This is the knotty child who questions Everything with that most terrible of ques...
I agree, and yet insist that qualia are alogical, elusive, paradoxical. So we must talk of objects. Bridges dropped on ballerinas is beautiful, the se...
Theology is itself the god it seeks, I might metaphorically suggest. But, granting the poetic license of intending at least to further decorate a conc...
Turning the crank of tautology detector won't get you what you want. I happen to be trained in math, and it's the discipline in which one never knows ...
I don't accept his 'proof,' and I'm trying to emphasize the absurdity of getting from symbols dancing on a page metamagically to your bag ditty gad fr...
In the USA, I don't see the silencing of theists or really any kind of supernatural theorists. You can even believe that extraterrestrial reptiles who...
So, putting it bluntly, do you go from Gödel's 'proof' to a religion with specific content? Does your God prohibit incest ? (Asking for a friend.) If ...
I'm saying that most folks want a personal god who cares about them and that the gods cooked up by logicians and metaphysicians tend to be uselessly a...
A problem with your Göd above, neglecting the question machinery with which he it is lowered upon the world state, is its abominable blankness and bla...
Thesis a chew sorry. (This is a true story. ) We are chew chew drains. A chew place bikini. The moral of the story is oral. There is chew munch spoke ...
This sounds like a variety of deism. The philosophical problem, which I don't think you've address, is the trust you put in the word 'mind' to do so m...
There's plenty of that to be had, but there's also presentation of a fragile absolute. If the ego or subject has been revealed as a tired and tangled ...
This recognition (correct or not) of brute fact or pure contingency seems to be 'the mystical' for young Wittgenstein and 'the nausea' for young Sartr...
That limited applicability is due to the model 'not noticing' or 'accounting for' the bending of space by mass (it's been awhile, perhaps a physicist ...
Reminds me of Nietzsche's vision of all the life-hating old men and their blasphemies against the river that ever runs over (life.) On the flip there'...
As I see it, nonconformity is only ever partial if it's at all intelligible. I agree with Rorty and others that metaphors are mad, essentially sensele...
No big deal, but I think the logic is flowing backwards here. You try to derive the synchronization of action in the world from the synchronization of...
It is a big question indeed. You mention necessary beings, and I think we crave (at times anyway) an escape from contingency and pragmatic conjectures...
Respectfully, to challenge a popular anthropomorphic prejudice, for one thing. Experienced drivers can concentrate on high-level strategic decisions (...
Oh we love love our fantasies. I'm mostly with Blake and Vico myself. We secrete the reel world chew gather, poetically. We undergo self help noses, e...
I don't think you are quite following me, though you make some good related points with which I agree. Try to imagine the so-called unity of individua...
Intriguing. I am attached (at least on this forum) to that which gives itself at least partially to language. I am inclined to respect the revelatory ...
It's as if you can visualize only one dialectical opponent, whose lance is ever the accusation that what you're doing isn't science. To this rude ride...
Agreed. Is there something sociopathic-shamanic about the philosopher? A controlled touch of madness? 'Fringe' sounds right on it. I was thinking not ...
I think you know that Newton (Kant's inspiration, I think) was wrong, and that science deals in tentative hypotheses and models that work well enough ...
I very much agree that we ought beware. I take one of the big insights of 20th century philosophy to be 'watch out for the metaphors (pictures) that q...
Dirt cheap. Easy to grok. Two parameters. Sum up millions of points with a couple of 64 bit floating point numbers. You can do a sine wave model with ...
Both! The shine says wet point! (I'm working lately at an experimental prose style that is dense with suggestiveness. For the most part, it's carefull...
As I understand it, it's logically possible that a theory keeps on working indefinitely as we crank up the 'resolution' of our measurements. The point...
That's sort of what I mean by 'mound' and 'mutter.' This has 'mind'/'mound' contaminated with stuffishness and 'matter'/'mutter' contaminated with lan...
Now you just need to show me a correlation, except that one side of that correlation is...private and impossible to show by definition. Do you see it ...
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