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The electrical signals it receives from the optic nerve are a representation. What did you think that data was?

The lenses, the photo-receptors, the optic nerves delivering electrical signals.

Actually we have theories for how experience is created by the brain. The schematic of the nervous system gives us ample reason to believe that a spid...

The eye has a lens and photo-receptors. The ear has cilia that send an electrical facsimile of vibrations. Obviously a representation is being deliver...

You seemed to be describing some kind of subjective idealism, so I gave you Berkeley's solution. Well that was easy! Don't be ridiculous. It's Frog.

Not if you have a god to ground your dreamy universe. What warrants this assertion? I think you're begging the question, and committing the dire crime...

What's the consequence?

I don't think so. Neither group appears to be saying anything. It's all physical, it's all ideas, it's all information, it's all frog.

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Realism: "The realist wishes to claim that apart from the mundane sort of empirical dependence of objects and their properties familiar to us from eve...

And what is that exactly? :cool:

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/100-trillion-global-economy-1800px.jpg A little perspective.

Is abortion a privilege?

No, the subject is in this world, imagining things. The object of imagination, in this case, is a world that contains no conscious entities.

Think possible worlds. There are possible worlds that don't contain me. I have no problem imagining them. Likewise, there are possible worlds that con...

Closer to what mark?

Existence is a concept whose meaning is opposed to absence. Ultimately, the absence of anything is a void. A world that contains nothing, is a void. H...

How about real estate? Doesn't that always go up? Just thinking of inflation hedges these days. Oh, just saw that you addressed that.

True. Here there may be differing cultural values that afflict regional problems. As an American, I was taught early the saying "Give me liberty, or g...

Sometimes justice is just unavailable. You don't give up on justice because of that, though. You keep struggling, because it might become feasible tom...

Regretting the immorality of humankind is one activity. Trying to understand the world is another. The second activity is better done by hypothesizing...

There are different sorts of anti-realism. Ontological anti-realists reject the debate regarding idealism and physicalism as valuable or resolvable. M...

The alternative is pretty dire, so I'll have faith.

A relation is an attribution to multiple objects. A property is attributed to one object. Relations and properties are kindred things, but not exactly...

I don't think Newton is necessarily incompatible with some types of idealism. If the world is an abstract object, it would be independent of my will a...

Unsolved problem.

Whatever the reason may be for our seeing the coffee get colder instead of hotter, it's not physics. It's pretty astonishing.

@"Fooloso4". This sounds incredibly arrogant. :joke:

Per O'Dowd, physics doesn't care whether the system goes from greater entropy to lower entropy or the reverse.

That causes a lot of confusion.

Ah, I see. He's using the word in a unique way.

The coffee gets cold. Physics only describes entropy fluctuations. It does not dictate an arrow of time. So my perception grounds my answer, not scien...

Watch the video.

A proposition is not generally considered to be a representation. I'm glad to see that he didn't use that word.

O'Dowd says physics just describes entropy fluctuations, so 180 is incorrect.

Entropy doesn't care about the direction of time. That's a misconception. See here: https://youtu.be/QkWT-xMTm1M

Did he really? That's odd.

Of course.

I agree. Putin could stop any time he wants to. He continues because it's benefitting him.

I don't think relations "reside" somewhere. They're properties, aren't they? The apple's property of redness doesn't have a location. If the apple is ...

Did he specify or imply mind independence?

I think you're just expressing your own frustration here. Pro-life women are just people like everyone else. They are our fellow citizens.

Where's the combat mission?

I think Aristotle's proof is amenable to materialism. I don't think materialism as we understand it existed back then.

:up: We seem to know about space and time a priori. This supports the idea that they're aspects of us rather than the world (as it is). But aren't the...

Can't we be Kantian about it and say that what we're observing is the mechanics of the mind? If so, I would point to the Zodiac (don't throw anything ...

Somewhere around 60 percent of electrical energy in the US comes from coal and natural gas.

What's your suggestion?

A scientific description is usually justified, ideally true, and believed, though that's not the only useful definition of knowledge. I take it by "de...