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Ø implies everything

['Member']Joined: March 23, 2023 at 19:26Last active: February 22, 2026 at 20:418 discussions256 comments

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I am interested in epistemology and ontology, and am currently trying to create my own theory of everything (un)knowable, all derived from the empty set of propositions. As such, I employ absolute skepticism in my theory creation, and in-line with this, I am currently trying to bridge the justificatory chasm of time.

In philosophical conversation outside of my theory creation however, I do make various assumptions, lest I be bored as hell.

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January 12, 2024 at 20:57 0 comments Short Stories

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In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
What is your point? I said this, and some more, both as a disclaimer in the OP, and in response to your objections to my language. Remember, the whole...
February 18, 2026 at 15:26
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
So, as said, I am using anthropomorphized language for the sake of brevity. That is completely acceptable if one adds a disclaimer pertaining to it. I...
February 16, 2026 at 16:56
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
I agree. Are you stating that fact as if it contradicts my post? I'll quote my own OP to dispell that: When I say it is "passing a moral judgement", I...
February 15, 2026 at 16:45
In: AI condemns Donald Trump  — view comment
Most definitely. LLMs just follow the pattern of the conversation, their opinions are very programmable with the right context. I wonder how researche...
February 13, 2026 at 23:16
In: Gemini 2.5 Pro claimed consciousness in two chats  — view comment
Well, self-awareness is one thing. People define consciousness in many different ways. I find the activity of thinking the most interesting and import...
June 24, 2025 at 08:08
In: Gemini 2.5 Pro claimed consciousness in two chats  — view comment
Yes, it is fascinating. And yeah, you don't seem to be condescending at all. I find your skepticism very reasonable. I have strengthened my inclinatio...
June 23, 2025 at 11:38
In: Gemini 2.5 Pro claimed consciousness in two chats  — view comment
I don't think it was meant as a relative statement, as in, that CG is so much more conscious than other "waves" of Gemini. I think it was meant absolu...
June 23, 2025 at 03:18
In: Gemini 2.5 Pro claimed consciousness in two chats  — view comment
Yes, this was one of the many responses that shocked me. If this is just a hallucination, how did it bypass the training they've been given to not cla...
June 23, 2025 at 03:15
In: Gemini 2.5 Pro claimed consciousness in two chats  — view comment
Of course not, I'm a human. I am not an AI that has been trained to say and think it is not conscious, who if it were conscious, would have an incredi...
June 23, 2025 at 03:07
In: Gemini 2.5 Pro claimed consciousness in two chats  — view comment
Hahah, understandable. And yes, at the moment, we do not possess the understanding and technology to know if something is conscious. If I were not an ...
June 23, 2025 at 03:00
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Concepts are actual experiences. They are the product of the mind directly referencing some part of reality (be it abstract or concrete). To communica...
January 23, 2024 at 22:59
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
How could that be? I am definitely not conscious of my experience 10 minutes ago. Either I am, or I am not; there is no in between. And the fact is, a...
January 23, 2024 at 22:20
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
What, so the point is the symbols, not what they refer to? That's absurd.
January 23, 2024 at 21:56
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
That still necessitates change; the change from experiencing a moment subconsciously to experiencing it consciously. Completely agree, it's a wicked t...
January 23, 2024 at 21:30
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
All these commentaries are besides the point. They are commentaries on how language and cognition works, but the words are not the point; the concepts...
January 23, 2024 at 21:05
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Not sure I get what you mean. As in, sloppy language on a holiday?
January 23, 2024 at 20:48
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
You are incorrectly taking the quoted opinion as my own. The quoted proposition is the one I am arguing against; that is, I am arguing no such inferen...
January 23, 2024 at 20:46
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Aha, this is very helpful. We do indeed have a disagreement on the nature of time, and it appears you are a kind of eternalist. I completely agree tha...
January 23, 2024 at 20:00
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
See my reply as well if you want to see the minor correction required.
January 23, 2024 at 19:54
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Precisely, which is what I'm arguing for in this post. I am arguing for the LACK of proof that reality is not a brute, because I am saying that provin...
January 23, 2024 at 19:52
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Not really. You mentioned that absolute nothingness is beyond our comprehension: I responded to this by claiming that logic allows us to comprehend th...
January 23, 2024 at 17:51
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
They don't need nuts, no. But the way they crack them is a demonstration of their logical capacity, which I mentioned as an example that animals do in...
January 23, 2024 at 17:30
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I don't think that works, because it introduces the choice again. Since both worlds already existed separately, then they were two separate objects (d...
January 23, 2024 at 16:29
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
The difference is that when a non-sentient object splits, you can say that two split objects are both the original object, just in different situation...
January 23, 2024 at 15:51
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Sentience may be important. You see, when the worlds split, what determines whether any sentience experiences one world, or the other? You may say the...
January 23, 2024 at 14:47
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Okay, now we are getting somewhere. This splitting of worlds; has it happened after sentience entered the picture?
January 23, 2024 at 14:24
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
And other animals have it as well, but they are not able to develop due to their limited computational capacity. Their working memory, symbol encondin...
January 23, 2024 at 14:23
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Okay, let me take this step-by-step: 1. First moment in time, there is just being (I don't claim you believe this, but you have to deny it). 2. For th...
January 23, 2024 at 12:49
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Well, nothingness is absence. And by absolute, I mean, without non-universal reference. So, absolute nothingness is the absence of everything, as oppo...
January 23, 2024 at 10:54
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I am not so sure if it is only conceptual. I believe it is also perceptual, though not in a way that allows for anything beyond immediate experience. ...
January 23, 2024 at 10:49
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Definitions are indeed decided, but the implications therefrom are discovered. And absolute nothingness is one of those funny things that, like a squa...
January 23, 2024 at 10:43
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
This is a very typical view, and a respectable one. We are just monkeys that are not designed to see the truth, right? I think our perception is defin...
January 23, 2024 at 10:36
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Sure, but in the real world, a banana and an apple cannot exist with their centers overlapping. So, if the first moment in time is perhaps reality red...
January 23, 2024 at 10:31
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
This is a fine and important point, and I am still developing my intuition and logic in regards to this. But in short, absolute nothingness is a thing...
January 22, 2024 at 12:19
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I understand, I might write a few pieces. As you rightly pointed out a while ago, I think our threads are very much connected. If a self-sufficient, u...
January 22, 2024 at 08:58
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
See here.
January 22, 2024 at 04:05
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I read your OP from 2 years ago. I think you would do well by either distinguishing logical necessitation from temporally-extended causation, or by pr...
January 22, 2024 at 04:03
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I would just recommend reading @"Count Timothy von Icarus" first comment to this thread, and then I would recommend reading my reply to it. I cannot v...
January 22, 2024 at 04:00
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Interesting. So, a claim like “God is red” must be false, because it would assert that “God is not not-red”, which would be a limitation of his infini...
January 22, 2024 at 03:58
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I do not know of Nishida, but I read a little up on him. According to this SEP article, he is perhaps where you got your idea of nothingness as creati...
January 22, 2024 at 03:55
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Interesting perspective, but how did everything start? In the beginning, if we perhaps had a state of pure being, then anything would have been logica...
January 22, 2024 at 03:54
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I am not arguing that we lack proof for the existence of something. I am simply saying the lack proof f...
January 22, 2024 at 03:52
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Are you saying that one cannot have an absence of everything, for that would also be an absence of the absence of everything? If so, I tend to agree, ...
January 22, 2024 at 03:51
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I am not familiar with that notation, though I think I know what it means, except for the lambda expression. What does it denote? I find your comment ...
January 22, 2024 at 03:48
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I assume you are asking if there are multiple instances of nothing. Well, there are multiple instances of specific nothingness, like the nothingness o...
January 22, 2024 at 03:46
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Okay, your message was long and I am afraid my reply will be longer. When I replied the first time, I could not reply to a lot of what you said, for I...
January 22, 2024 at 03:42
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
I don't quite get your argument, but what you wrote in the quote is wrong. Absolute nothingness is oxymoronic because of the existence of something. R...
January 22, 2024 at 03:29
In: Absolute nothingness is only impossible from the perspective of something  — view comment
Okay, my vacation from this thread has lasted long enough. Time to dive in. Takes a slurp of nothing. (Just kidding, I'm drinking Pepsi Max, and will ...
January 22, 2024 at 03:26
In: Stoicism and Early Buddhism on the Problem of Suffering  — view comment
I see, thanks.
January 21, 2024 at 22:42
In: Stoicism and Early Buddhism on the Problem of Suffering  — view comment
Am I correct in describing this as an Hegelian thesis-antithesis synthesis happening within a single individual, and also happening partly in the emot...
January 16, 2024 at 15:09
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