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Relevant to what?

Just that "per capita" doesn't mean much.

Global warming was a common theme in science fiction in the 1980s. The 1982 movie Blade Runner was typical. So no, the news wasn't broken to Americans...

I see. You just meant that climatology was taught in French high schools in the 1970s. That's odd, but ok.

"In all situations, be melodramatic as hell" --the unenlightened family motto celebrated by his descendants living in Greenland

Sure. We were talking about climate change, not the greenhouse effect in general. It wasn't clear until the 1980s that the climate was warming. I'm no...

Sedimentation captures CO2.

That's not a contradiction.

What?

As the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, the amount of dissolved CO2 in the oceans will increase. It's Henry's Law.

I doubt it. In the 1970s it wasn't clear if the climate was cooling or warming. The effect of the Milankovitch cycle wasn't discovered until the mid 1...

It's in superposition.

Al Gore was American. How many people knew about global warming outside the community of science nerds prior to his work? You're overstating it. It wa...

The CO2 we've added to the atmosphere will be absorbed into the oceans eventually. The greatest challenge to life on earth so far was low CO2, btw. Hi...

The climate doesn't really care.

But it might be used more on the front page. You might be turned onto some amazing music you would have missed otherwise. And then you'll get old and ...

We know exactly how the computer's analog to digital converter works and what the computer does with that data. No, the computer does not have direct ...

Wittgenstein makes this point in the Tractacus 3.221: "Objects I can only name. Signs represent them. I can only speak of them. I cannot assert them. ...

There's a "what are you listening to" thread in the lounge. Would that be nice to have in the front page?

You didn't enter into a dissociative state, then. As it pertains to the thread, just the fact that you had to check makes the point that experience of...

I agree. My focus tends to be on the scale of centuries. The US won't exist in a thousand years, so I tend to ignore it. Maybe I should pay more atten...

I see what you mean, although China is presently the largest producer of CO2. I don't believe the US has ever been in a position to solve the problem....

Why is that significant?

Hence your claim that hallucinations are not the same kind of thing as normal experience is wrong.

If you were on Ketamine you wouldn't be able to tell that you were hallucinating and if someone tried to tell you, you wouldn't believe them. There ar...

Ketamine is another.

The ability to tell the difference can be taken off line with drugs. Datura is one.

It was your wording.

What kind of reasonable solution were you thinking of?

That's a little myopic. We have this problem because we started using fossil fuels. The problem isn't that we're gluttonous. It's not a problem with t...

Like with a blindfold on? :razz:

I have a hamster that drives a little turbine that I use to heat my tea. He's getting old, so my tea is usually luke warm. I think we could use hamste...

It's what we would say of any other species, that its experience is a construction in which its particular strengths and needs are highlighted. Yes, I...

I'd like to leave the "one who sees" out of it because I think the ego is probably constructed as much as the visual field is. Point is, the brain isn...

Don't know. Is he attacking his own theory of acquaintance there?

Yes. It's fatally flawed, but an analysis of our nervous systems leads straight to that conclusion. Maybe a scientific revolution is required.

You misunderstand. It's not a view I favor or dislike. I'm just explaining where we are. Could be. Nevertheless, indirect realism is on the table. Ign...

Indirect realism lives on, though. It's got science behind it. It's a conundrum.

good grief

:up: Yep. :grin:

I think of it as like being in a room and you're really preoccupied with something fascinating. Every now and then you glance at the walls and realize...

This is straight Schopenhauer.

My own version of Korean street toast: chop cabbage and a little carrot, put lots of salt and pepper, saute in butter and add an egg. Flip that and le...

Exactly!

Again, "Science has made me into a skeptic". If that was true, you would have become skeptical about the scientific findings as well and arrived at th...

You may be right. :grin:

The "world" here is all that is the case.

If they're about things in the world, they're fine. It's mainly philosophy that tries to comment on the world from a vantage point external to it.

But what do you actually believe?

Is it a matter of temperament? Indirect realism just suits you better?