Well the fact that you reacted to a comment 500 posts means you've been paying attention to this topic, and I must thank you for that and for your con...
I notice nobody has really addressed the core question of this topic. I don't expect Wayfarer to answer since he's not a proponent of mind-independenc...
You need to assert that a thermostat is now not an object (in 'the usual sense') in order to make a point? I actually agree with all but that last bit...
I was going to suggest a thermostat, which performs experiments and acts upon the result of the experiment. I always reach for simple examples. But yo...
It is indeed an assumption. It being an 'object' seems to be a mental designation, so not part of the assumption of whatever it is in itself not being...
This topic got away from me, moving faster than I could follow. This coupled with being really busy with work and ailing mother, it got to be over a m...
Indeed, maybe he was wrong. I think any decent definition of 'universe' would involve it being a closed system. If not, it is at best part of some lar...
Late to the party again... PSR seems to be more of a classical principle, talking more about a sufficient reason why I chose chocolate today despite p...
Peano Arithmetic seems to concern only natural numbers, and is not closed under a lot of operations. A lot more axioms are needed to move into extensi...
It isn't more fundamental under all views. Under idealism, perceived time is more fundamental than the time from any theory. About the Bergson Einstei...
Note that under such natural units, all four of those constants have the value of 1. This is what you asked about. It suggests that such units are not...
So this modern materialism then, what does it suggest, especially above and beyond what naturalism does? It's how I use the word, but mostly just to i...
What is meant by this? Kind of like a rock 10 km deep experiencing heat and pressure, all sans any cognition to mentally experience those things? That...
I realized the reason you quoted it, and ran more with the title since it had direct application to the issue brought up in the OP. As for there being...
@"Wayfarer" The bit from Davies is interesting, and seems to stem from his attempt to justify a claim other than a multiverse to explain the fine tuni...
Those are just two possible definitions of what it means to be real. I actually counted 6 or more such definitions. Most of the assertions about what ...
Does this mean existent, but not in a material way? Because that implication is there, an equivocation of being real and existing. I point this out be...
A problem with a materialist view perhaps, since only material things exist. A physicalist view only says that people are no more than arrangements of...
How could they not be? I mean, OK, under idealism, mathematics is nothing but mental constructs. I get that, and there are even non-idealists that say...
For one, I distinguish mathematics being objectively real, and mathematics being objectively true. The latter seems to hold, and the former I thought ...
We both think that. I don't go so far as to say that I 'know that'. Right. I don't know a whole lot about mathematical Platonism, being unsure about t...
OK, so you're open to there being others, but you don't see evidence of such, which just means that they're sufficiently separated to not notice each ...
OK, I took that from the evidence that each has language, something one doesn't have without interactions with others. That's the standard line, yes. ...
That would be evidence of not-solipsism, but the fact said place is said to exist because it is being described by one or more observers makes its des...
Realism can be relational. You can talk about it either way. 2+2=4 seems like an 'ultimate truth', but who can say for sure? What I am getting at is t...
Not contesting that. What I am contesting is that it wasn't 'the universe' until those 'understanding' things designated it as such. Without said obse...
As an entanglement relation, I would suggest it exists. Almost all our pragmatic models involve such a relation, even if the relation isn't recognized...
No argument here since I did a whole topic on that (2 topics ago). But similarly, you, as 'a thing' is also just a mental imputation. Again agree. Whi...
I don't doubt that, and intuition probably plays a significant roles for most. The view makes a hash of personal identity for instance, and that's a l...
Maybe not. You seem to argue the relevance quite well below. There's no mind at the JWST, yet it has a perspective that no human has, especially given...
A cause does not necessarily cause a change. I mean, hairspray is intended to cause a hairdo to not change as much. I also don't like using a word in ...
Thanks for the link. Dangers aside, how exact does one go about training something smarter than its trainers? They talk about the dangers of not being...
Sorry for these large posts, but it's the only way I can keep track of which posts not yet replied to. I tend not to reply to posts prior to my most r...
Perhaps so. I had at least two ideas involving causation, one objective (Eleatic principle) and one relational (the ontology by measurement) that only...
This makes it sound all nice, neat and linear, as opposed to being a vast network of system states leading up to (deterministically or not) the C2 eve...
Yes, that's utilizing the pragmatic definition, but such a definition is necessarily confined to the entity finding utility in the definition, illustr...
The stone stands out to me, so it exists to me. But that's expressed as a relation. Most people's concept of existence is a relation, even if they don...
Causality has been defining most of those familiar notions a lot further back than those theories. The eleatic principle dates back to the Greeks. Yes...
Both presentist and eternalist views fit in with that, so I'm fine with it. 'Realist' is an adjective, so one can be realist about one thing and not a...
In a classical universe, this sort of thing might work, but our universe is not classical, and the vast majority of interpretations of physics do not ...
The correct term is 'worldline', and I am everywhere present on it, and thus it is not something along which I move. Yes, that is an example of physic...
Eternalism has varieties? It seems to have but one: The lack of the premise of a preferred moment in time. All events share the same ontology. I was u...
No actually. I can think of an exception: A solipsistic view would use its past light cone as the hypersurface delimiting past, present and future. It...
Not discussing purpose of life though. Dunno. Who posits such a point of contact? A field has no location or bounds and is thus not the same category ...
The present is 3D in all forms. I have heard of 2-state presentism where the prior state exists until the subsequent state fully exists. A simulation ...
You make it sound like a number line is something that physical I move along. I don't buy that for a moment. It being an object (compound in this case...
Different yes, but not so different. Presentism requires absolutism, else simultaneity would not work. But absolutism doesn't require presentism of an...
Effortless actually since I utilize a number line in almost no calculations. They're handy for graphs though. I could count the number of times the li...
I think there are entire math text books that never once reference 'distance in space'. The ones that do are probably using an example from physical s...
Numbers are independent of space. Number lines are an abstract way of visualizing them. Yes, it is a space of sorts, hence the x being greater than y ...
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