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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...
July 22, 2025 at 05:32
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...
July 20, 2025 at 20:55
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...
July 17, 2025 at 18:01
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...
July 16, 2025 at 06:26
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...
July 15, 2025 at 17:10
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...
July 14, 2025 at 16:22
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...
May 29, 2025 at 04:25
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...
May 26, 2025 at 01:21
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...
May 18, 2025 at 00:38
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...
May 15, 2025 at 12:22
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...
May 13, 2025 at 14:45
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...
May 11, 2025 at 21:18
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...
May 10, 2025 at 21:20
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...
May 09, 2025 at 22:13
@"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...
May 08, 2025 at 22:33
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 ...
May 08, 2025 at 14:17
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...
May 06, 2025 at 23:45
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...
May 05, 2025 at 00:31
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...
May 04, 2025 at 00:13
For one, I distinguish mathematics being objectively real, and mathematics being objectively true. The latter seems to hold, and the former I thought ...
May 02, 2025 at 21:55
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...
May 01, 2025 at 17:27
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 ...
May 01, 2025 at 03:03
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. ...
April 29, 2025 at 16:12
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...
April 28, 2025 at 23:25
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...
April 27, 2025 at 22:17
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...
April 26, 2025 at 21:34
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...
April 25, 2025 at 23:39
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...
April 24, 2025 at 17:22
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...
April 22, 2025 at 19:54
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...
April 21, 2025 at 17:48
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 ...
April 21, 2025 at 01:07
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...
April 20, 2025 at 21:17
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...
April 20, 2025 at 19:02
Perhaps so. I had at least two ideas involving causation, one objective (Eleatic principle) and one relational (the ontology by measurement) that only...
April 19, 2025 at 04:27
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...
April 19, 2025 at 00:31
Yes, that's utilizing the pragmatic definition, but such a definition is necessarily confined to the entity finding utility in the definition, illustr...
April 18, 2025 at 00:59
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...
April 17, 2025 at 23:18
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...
April 13, 2025 at 07:51
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...
April 12, 2025 at 16:35
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 ...
April 11, 2025 at 19:05
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...
April 10, 2025 at 21:44
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...
April 10, 2025 at 17:53
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...
April 10, 2025 at 03:04
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 ...
April 10, 2025 at 01:30
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 ...
April 09, 2025 at 17:32
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...
April 09, 2025 at 17:17
Different yes, but not so different. Presentism requires absolutism, else simultaneity would not work. But absolutism doesn't require presentism of an...
April 09, 2025 at 16:53
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...
April 08, 2025 at 21:14
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...
April 08, 2025 at 13:27
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 ...
April 07, 2025 at 03:36