Metaphysician Undercover

Check Wikipedia on "The Evolution of The Eye": "Eyes and other sensory organs probably evolved before the brain: There is no need for an information-p...

Did you read the article, and see how the experiments showed the tool to function without the brain?

If you unite the eyes and the brain, in this way, you cannot say that it is the brain which produces eyesight, because it cannot be done without the e...

Momentum is a property of a body with mass. Photons have no mass. Photons do not transfer momentum.

I don't understand your use of "momenta". Momentum requires mass. All these virtual particles with infinite possibilities, doesn't produce any mass.

I was objecting to your use of "equilibrium" as the defining feature of good. Obviously I do not agree with you, that we get our sense of good and evi...

Obviously not, because good is attributed to acts, and equilibrium is attributed to a lack of activity. "If you want to get to heaven, you got to rais...

This would be very strange, because "interactions" are explained in terms of the fundamental property of mass, inertia, according to Newton's first la...

You're not making sense Harry. To doubt a certainty is contradiction. The fact that you are doubting it means that it is not a certainty. To doubt is ...

I suppose China might rescue Russia, by purchasing it from Putin, they might have enough money. That's assuming Putin hasn't already sold out to the d...

That is the problem with "mass". It's just not at all understood by physicists. Momentum is the product of mass and velocity. But then we have "energy...

That makes two of us. Joe Mello spits out a lot of nonsense without thinking first.

I am not dismissing the importance of habitual behaviour, or the role of certainty. What I am saying is that it must be the case that uncertainty, dou...

I think the question was, what is the source of the sense of good and evil.

It's not the argument. I don't think a country is a type of thing which can be blamed. A country is not a being with intention. Individual people are ...

You could say that the point signifies something. So it's similar to when some one draws a map, and marks a point to signify a city. The point signifi...

What is this concept of "a particle in the vacuum"? Is it a vacuum, which is not really a vacuum because there is something there, which must be a par...

Yes. It's the only way to give Putin what they think he deserves. War against Russia, whether clandestine or overt, appears to be inevitable.

I think you misunderstand the nature of "belief". There is always some degree of doubt, insecurity, uncertainty, underlying all belief, inherent withi...

To me, your example looks like this: All the necessary ingredients for a cake were distributed around the kitchen. It so happened that they came to be...

Here's an example of what I am saying. We can represent the certainty as the basis for the habitual activity. I know that the act X will have the outc...

What you, many others in this thread, and Wittgenstein himself, fail to recognize, is that doubt and uncertainty is what underlies human actions, as i...

I wouldn't really say that chance is ignorance, but it's more like the way that we represent our ignorance. So for example, if I do not know the cause...

The problem being that chance/luck/randomness is not an explanation of anything, nor was spontaneous generation an explanation of anything. That's a m...

That's so incoherent it's actually funny.

Bad intel doesn't explain seeing what isn't there. Blurry vision, seeing vague and undistinguishable things, does not account for making those things ...

Being familiar with some of my posts, you probably already have a good idea of what I would say about this proposal. The idea of one point becoming tw...

Tiny organisms, too small to be seen, which grew to a visible size were said to originate in "spontaneous generation". That was an accepted theory. Th...

This is a good demonstration of the role of intention in interpretation. You see what you want to see. They wanted to invade Iraq, they saw weapons of...

The blame game is not really applicable to international politics, nor is it good to apply it. We can blame individual human beings, but we cannot bla...

Thanks, jgill. As you may know, I am not into interpretations of mathematical symbols and formulations, having rejected such dogmatism in high school ...

Human feelings are extremely complex and difficult to decipher, from observation of a person's actions. That's why psychology is borderline science. A...

So it's bad vs bad, they'll kill each other, therefore the conflict is good? The problem of course, is that the bad supports itself trough abuse of th...

I know that the same person can perceive one, then the other, but this will only incline the perceiver to wonder which is the correct interpretation. ...

I give up. How many? I will note though, that changing the incandescent for the LED has provided us with a much more efficient source of light. And th...

Your example was the Necker cube. As I quoted from Wikipedia the two possible interpretations exclude each other by way of contradiction. They do not ...

"Correct" was your word. So I tried to explain to you that the proper interpretation of intentional ambiguity would be that neither interpretation is ...

Without qualification as to greater in what sense, that question doesn't even make sense to me. Are you talking magnanimous? If so, I can't even begin...

If Russia's policy is to use nukes to defend the homeland, and Putin claims Ukraine as Russian, then any military assistance provided to the Ukrainian...

Perhaps it's an order of "significance", but Joe would not even identify it as such. If Joe said it was an order of significance, then I would say tha...

This is a good example of why I do not understand you. First you say that a living being is greater than a dead thing. Then you say that a thought is ...

You haven't yet told me what quality you are talking about. That's what I keep asking of you. Greater in what quality? "Greater" itself does not refer...

According to Wikipedia, the Necker cube is an ambiguous drawing, "it can be interpreted to have either the lower-left or the upper-right square as its...

I explained this already. A whole is greater than the sum of its parts, because there is something "extra" which is the cause of the unity of the part...

Being valid does not necessarily imply "correct", because the conclusion must also be sound. In the case of meaning, the true meaning is the one inten...

That's not true Joe, we were talking about "greater", not "better". I've held "greater" to be something which can be measured quantitatively. I sugges...

Can I say that a thing's elements are its parts? If so, then we have to consider that there is more to a thing than just its element, there is whateve...

Let me try another way of explanation Wayfarer. See if you can ignore all the riff raff around you, the entire physical world, and place yourself squa...

You did not explain yourself. You just kept insisting that this is "greater" than that, without stating your criteria for greatness, and when I asked ...

Yes I agree, but the point is that agreement does not imply "the same". That I agree with you indicates a specific type of relationship between us, it...