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Assuming that thesis, how does an evolved brain still fit in? If time is just part of our mediation, I don't see how it can be applied to the presumed...

Do you know if they've got any big computers that can do it almost instantaneously ? I haven't checked in for awhile. I never focused on NLP, but I kn...

Another relevant quote. ///////////////////////////////////// The voice is heard ( understood ) ­... closest to the self as the absolute effacement of...

We might see faster progress on the digital front. Natural language processing is getting pretty good. Translation on the fly was a sci-fi idea, and n...

:up: Thanks for clarifying! That helps. I still think your not seeing/addressing the issue I'm raising. You and I both believe that the brain evolved,...

Excellent questions! Altered Carbon runs with this idea and allows personality/memory/self to be stored on a kind of flash drive. Is there anything sp...

Derrida (quoted below) might sometimes be said to exaggerate, but I think the pure witness (which is presented most boldly and directed by that metaph...

I think my position is more general than that. I'm willing to put all current physics on the side of the model. Let's say that 'electron talk' is the ...

I think it's basically an extension of the grammar we already use between humans. Other humans are different enough already to see the world different...

I'm amenable to this view, but note that it assumes the existence of a non-mental world, a substrate of some kind (the germs needed time to evolve int...

Ah, but that brain is (positioned as) a mere part of the dream. I really can grok the solipsistic idea. I suppose that I more or less believe (in some...

The 'correlation' approach that I associate with this is ‘the idea according to which we only ever have access to the correlation between thinking and...

A bit of tangent in this thread (started one exactly on the theme), but I'll leave a quote from the guy and a comment. It is relevant to the OP, more ...

Stirner treated the 'the sacred' as a sort of X that played the role of such an authority. I call it the triangle inequality. The 'geometry' goes like...

Indeed. Try to compound interest more and more often, and you'll naturally bump into probably the most famous number (for insiders) which is e.

As you probably know, the old timers of math tended to feel that way...that only 'potential' infinity was respectable. But beyond what is accepted for...

Looked it up, and it's a big part of math. 'We'll transform this into a quadratic equation, which we covered last week...'

Do you mean \aleph_0 , the cardinality of the natural numbers?

One problem here is maybe a lack of separation of (1) a postulated direct experience of conscious, and (2) criteria for determining with others whethe...

I don't think so, if we exclude versions of the karma idea. One can envision nature as amoral and nevertheless trust in the actual relative social har...

That sounds right, given that it's a human making the claim. I suppose we can talk about layers. Perhaps there's the bias we can peel off (culture-dee...

The circle is the limit of a polygon with n-sides. Each polygon is therefore an approximation of the circle. No polygon is itself the circle, of cours...

Well it makes for a lovely myth (sort of like Nietzsche going mad from his denial of God). He moved on from the lemniscate to the Hebrew alphabet befo...

Or, if you are feeling mischievous, hand him some 2^{\aleph_0} and tell him the computable numbers are countable.

Bigger picture: do you think in terms of lots of organisms each making a model of their world? Are you (roughly) an indirect realist? I understand the...

Well, I could definitely scrounge up some gripes about them. But they are readable. A bit squishy tho for my current taste. My current view is mechani...

Thanks ! I found it.

The eternal Now, eternally self-present, is the eye of the storm of life, the frame of every picture, or perhaps the canvas on which it is painted. Th...

I accidentally hit 'flag' instead of 'reply,' which I mention both to apologize and to indicate to moderators that it was a mistake. (I hoped one coul...

I think you are pointing toward an updated version of 'We ought to obey God rather than men.' Of course 'God' is replaced by this or that principle, m...

Note, my friend, that you still don't deal with the problem of the substrate. I think you grant a plurality of subjects? Is there a world that precede...

Yes, I get that. Call it part of the mediation. This too I understand. As a tentative indirect realist, I'd include all this in mediation. The stuff-i...

Depends what you mean by 'self.' I'd include the body, so a passed out person is still a self.

This vision seems to require either some kind of 'divine' synchronization of our video games or a substrate of some kind (what some thinkers have prob...

Cool. I was just looking for clarification. I acknowledge the complexity and sophistication of your position. It's a highly developed 'left wing' visi...

A little more on 'pure witness': https://integrallife.com/always-already-the-brilliant-clarity-of-ever-present-awareness/ This 'God itself' in entiret...

I find this quite plausible. But what's the status of the world shared with others ? Do they exist 'outside' this consciousness?

I get that, really. Call it the transcendental ego or the 'pure witness.' It seems to be a collapse of consciousness into being. All that is is consci...

I don't know about this. I don't doubt that you can find fragments and build a case in this direction, but the older W wasn't exactly systematic, and ...

I don't find the underlined sentence to be obvious. Instead you seem to be starting from an implicitly postulated 'ego thing,' for which the world is ...

I'd prefer to quote Popper himself, but I don't have a digital copy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#BasiStatFalsConv One way to look at th...

This makes excellent sense. I'd add that Popper is also including the social element of technique and communication. I have to 'believe' in a purporte...

I agree that it's a switch. Measurements seem to be forced to choose one among a finite number of options. (A Turing machine has an arbitrarily long t...

I like what I know of Pierce, and I'm fairly familiar w/ pragmatism (James, Rorty). It'd be great to hear what you can add from that angle.

If one assumes that an ego is 'given' or 'primary,' then perhaps one can cast everything else as an appearance for that ego. But I don't think this st...

I think there's some truth in this, but I don't know if it's best to leap from the impossibly of exactly specifying the nature of science to the worth...

If other subjects exist, then so does the world? Yes? If you are retreating to a group of subjects constructing a kind of interpretative layer on top ...

I think you need to support this claim. I've been reading Popper's Logic, and I was surprised how flexible P was, probably because people like to pain...

Some more Husserl quotes, that may come in handy,

That seems to be the case, and I find that problematic. The plausibility of the thesis that the world is my dream depends upon common-sense experience...