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Yes, I think it's an idea worth entertaining that this universe we find ourselves in is a bubble, in a sea of other unique non interacting bubbles. Un...
April 29, 2024 at 13:32
the different possibilities don't necessarily have to interact with each other, do they? It's like running two simulations on the same computer "simul...
April 29, 2024 at 13:22
what are empirical logics?
April 29, 2024 at 12:33
it's another non paradox. Some people seem really eager to call any thought experiment a "paradox".
April 29, 2024 at 08:29
Well, given that THIS universe is possible, then there must be at least some part of THAT universe which looks exactly like this one. So... at least f...
April 28, 2024 at 20:55
If this is truly the argument given, then I don't see an undistributed middle. Are you sure you got this part right? after having watched the clip fro...
April 28, 2024 at 17:40
I don't even know what you're talking about, judgey and bullying. You've been judging and bullying me for the last page. I just wanted to offer a link...
April 28, 2024 at 16:10
point out something clever? No... I tried to contribute something straight forward to the thread, a data point of interest. I thought people intereste...
April 28, 2024 at 16:02
I honestly just want you to accept that, in a thread where the title is about trusting your own mind, it's on topic for me to link to a Reddit post ab...
April 28, 2024 at 15:58
I don't need to you explain philosophy to me. If you want to talk to me, what I need you to attempt to make clear is your own thoughts - you didn't do...
April 28, 2024 at 15:43
yes. If you perceived me saying some post of yours read like a non sequitur to me as rude, just know, the point of me saying that is not rudeness or c...
April 28, 2024 at 14:57
If you believe I was cruel to you first, please show me where
April 28, 2024 at 14:50
This is a thread about trusting your own mind. I linked to a Reddit thread about a dude who was having trouble figuring out how to trust his own mind....
April 28, 2024 at 14:47
you have decided, for god knows what reason, to just start saying rude things to me. I don't understand what the context is for you to be speaking to ...
April 28, 2024 at 14:40
why are you doing this? If you want to reply to me, then please tell me what the hell you're even talking about. If you don't want to make it clear, p...
April 28, 2024 at 14:37
I have no idea how any of these words relate, at all, to anything I said in this thread. This whole conversation seems beyond absurd. What in the worl...
April 28, 2024 at 14:35
I have no idea what you're talking about at this point.
April 28, 2024 at 14:31
I don't recall saying anything like this. Can you clarify what you think my position along these lines is?
April 28, 2024 at 13:43
throwing in random jabs at me does not make you look mature, rational, or calm headed.
April 28, 2024 at 11:09
I just think you've interpreted a bunch of stuff into it that isn't in there. The guy is saying something very straight forward and there's nothing po...
April 27, 2024 at 18:24
yeah that just sounds like nonsense to me.
April 27, 2024 at 18:11
much of what you're saying here just comes across like a complete non sequitur to me. I have no idea how a guy saying he doesn't trust his own reasoni...
April 27, 2024 at 17:40
If he doubts his own ability to reason, and his own ability to reason leads him to think he should trust science, then OF COURSE he's going to doubt i...
April 27, 2024 at 15:06
I really don't know what you're on about anymore. This thread is about trusting your own mind, trusting your own judgment, trusting your own ability t...
April 27, 2024 at 08:25
this guy's post is also an epistemological problem. "Why should I accept any scientific conclusions?" it's a question of epistemology. If you, yoursel...
April 27, 2024 at 01:13
That's... 100% a matter of trusting himself. He literally spells it out in his own words in the post and/or comments. "I have no ability" His talking ...
April 26, 2024 at 21:00
There's an interesting case study here in trusting / mistrusting your own mind https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateEvolution/comments/18lbtt9/how_do_i_as_a...
April 26, 2024 at 16:56
Why do you think that?
April 26, 2024 at 14:57
do you think there are any brute facts? Things that just *are true*, with no cause or reason for them being true?
April 26, 2024 at 14:26
I think it might make more sense to say "causality has a *reason*" rathern than causality has a cause. Things that are true have a *reason* for being ...
April 26, 2024 at 14:18
My friend says, "My grandpa just died." I say, "Yeah well he was a flat earther so..."
April 26, 2024 at 11:47
I think it's a really strange thing that some peoples first inclination on hearing about the death of someone is to try to discredit them or list all ...
April 26, 2024 at 11:40
I can't tell if that's a "yes" or more of a "I don't know"
April 26, 2024 at 10:46
I think that's a sensible direction. But does that imply necessarily that time and or space in our universe must be discrete and not continuous?
April 26, 2024 at 10:44
or how many pizzas you can buy, if they cost 50 cents each and you have a dollar.
April 25, 2024 at 15:45
When it comes to the supertask of counting a "countably infinite set", by exponentially decreasing the time it takes to count, here's the problem I ha...
April 25, 2024 at 09:12
So why don't you just link me to the reading materials that would lead me to believe that the supertask you described in your op is possible to comple...
April 25, 2024 at 07:21
I think that if you're not good at maths and logic, I would think that you might not be in a good position to know if this is a valid paradox or just ...
April 24, 2024 at 09:08
That comment doesn't justify why the person should reach the end of the stair case.
April 24, 2024 at 08:57
Here's what Wikipedia says about paradoxies `despite apparently valid reasoning from true or apparently true premises` - that's key! The premises and ...
April 24, 2024 at 07:31
Yes, but usually where the contradiction occurs exactly is supposed to be *non-obvious*. "He went down some endless stairs, and reached the end". It's...
April 24, 2024 at 07:28
I don't see a reason to think that a person will reach the bottom of the infinite staircase, ever. You described it as endless, and yet claim he reach...
April 24, 2024 at 06:12
He just made it up, it doesn't come from anywhere. That's why I'm questioning if it's really a paradox, that's why I want another source for it
April 22, 2024 at 10:33
I don't think the intention was for physics to be a problem. It's probably supposed to be a purely mathematical problem, it's too fantastical for phys...
April 22, 2024 at 10:19
where does relativity come in?
April 22, 2024 at 10:05
Is there another source for this paradox? Or did you just invent this yourself?
April 22, 2024 at 09:22
I get an occasional email from Quora about interesting questions and answers of the day. By pure serendipity this came up today: https://www.quora.com...
April 16, 2024 at 13:13
Yeah, this confusion seems common.
April 16, 2024 at 10:22
I'm not seeing what you're seeing in that comment. Distal objects being part of the casual history of an experience doesn't make them constituents of ...
April 16, 2024 at 08:27
Then why did you point me to your post where 1 takes up half the space on the die :P
April 14, 2024 at 20:55