Metaphysician Undercover

I don't think so, you can add more money if needed.

The amount of wealth is not fixed, because you can keep collecting money by passing Go indefinitely. If the bank runs out of money, make some more. Th...

Yes, I agree this is where the problem is right here. If the arrow is moving, there is no such thing as its position. That's why Aristotle sought to c...

The uncertainty principle is derived from the Fourier transform which involves the problem of "the start" (or however you want to call it), in the sen...

Well we all have our differences of opinion, and to me, that's what makes each of us different, forming our different personalities and consequently o...

I believe I've read Aristotle's work quite well, and thanks for the reference. Aristotle demonstrates that change (becoming) is fundamentally incompat...

It's a principle. It says that no matter how small of a thing you get, you can always get something smaller. Whether or not it's true is debatable, bu...

We might say that "identity" in the pure, absolute sense (if there is such a thing) says nothing about the thing; "I yam what I yam", says nothing abo...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/tech/quadriga-gerald-cotten-cryptocurrency/index.html

I wouldn't say that there is a big difference between these two. And to the extent that members of the culture are oppressed (because we identify "opp...

Yes, I realize this, and I was wondering if this point might come forward. But what this indicates is that all forms of identifying by group are somew...

It's not the knowledge itself which causes benefit or harm, it is the way that the knowledge is used which is beneficial or harmful. So knowledge fall...

I don't see what you're arguing, if you are arguing anything. How would you expect to observe a culture without interacting? By spying through telesco...

You ask a difficult question, and the easy answer is to say that I don't really have the information required to make that judgement. I don't really u...

I don't know what you're saying. It appears nonsensical according to conventional language use, and the philosophy I've studied. Yet you keep assertin...

You saw what NoAxioms wrote, we don't use "time" and "change" in similar ways. you're assertions are completely wrong.

I know that's how you feel, you've already made that quite clear. However, with no intent to hurt your feelings, I must tell you that your feelings ar...

But the subject we're discussing is not simple "observation". What we're discussing is "preserving the more primitive culture for the purpose of...". ...

Yes, that's what I was arguing. It seems quite clear that it is a possibility. All you have to do is assume that there is a limit to the shortest time...

So, have you read the article?

Your premise is clearly unsound so you have no argument. Sorry, form without content is not an argument.

You have no argument, only a feeling. That's why what you say is irrelevant to logic.

I know enough about logic to know that the way you feel about a logical proof is irrelevant to it.

What you "feel' about something is irrelevant as to whether that thing is a logical proof or not. You didn't address the proof in that post, so as far...

The problem is, that in order to maintain that culture for the purpose of observation it would require denying the members of that culture the right t...

It's very simple to prove it logically, (as logical possibilities are very simple to prove as logical possibilities). And I did prove it logically, it...

If it can be proven logically that it is possible for time to pass without any changes occurring, therefore no means of measuring that time, then by t...

I have nothing to oppose here. What I oppose is identifying the individual in reference to the existing culture. So consider the individual in this ex...

OK, since you clearly acknowledge a distinction between "the will of the person", and "the will of the people", then how can you identify the individu...

I agree. Do you agree that the individual has freedom of choice to decide whether or not owning a slave, or opening a facebook account is a good thing...

Right, maybe you're starting to understand. Notice in your example of slavery, the individual who has the will to own slaves does not actually have th...

You identify with the culture rather than with the individual, and this justifies oppression of the individual for the sake of the culture.

Are you familiar with the Inquisition?

Yes I think that this idea of "protecting" is just a veiled form of oppression. When you see that there is a natural will of the individual human bein...

Here's something to consider unenlightened. There is a natural human tendency to learn other cultures. You and I, with education and resources can pic...

The parts are infinitely small.

See how we have similar culture, but different identity. How could two people have the very same culture, such that we could identity a person by clas...

Ask yourself, what is "a culture", what differentiates one culture from another. Unless you're an archeologist who only has physical artifacts to go b...

Within a particular "culture", there are varying ideologies. The supporters of one ideology may relate to the supporters of another ideology in a vari...

What's the difference between Superdeterminism and plain old determinism?

Yes, I wouldn't exactly say that time without change is meaningless. If that were the case there wouldn't be much point to saying it. I would say that...

It's the post where you focused on my claims as to what physicists have determined rather than on the content of the post. Here's the specifics. "Chan...

Until you recognize that the identity of the individual is proper to the individual, qua individual, rather than as a member of any particular group, ...

Those terms do not necessarily imply change or motion, that's just what your claim is. I've already explained to you how time can pass or proceed with...

I was not asserting that. I've been saying that time is not change. It's Terrapin's assumption, that time is change, which leads to the conclusion tha...

I think that you cannot truthfully state that a change has taken place unless that change has been measured. To judge that a change has occurred is to...

I don't know what you would mean by "nonphysical change". You'd have to explain how such a thing could be possible.

I have explained, and distinguished, between what has been determined by physicist, that change occurs in quantum units, and what I have conceived of,...

I explained what I meant. Now you're just changing the subject because you have no defense for your assertion.

I told you, this is my conception. to prove your assertion you need to demonstrate that my conception is impossible.