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Metaphysician Undercover

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The CIA has always had the capacity to tap my phone, find out whatever information they want about me, and I'm sure they could have me killed if they ...
March 10, 2017 at 22:23
The problem with colour is not as straight forward as measuring with a ruler. The colours which we see are combinations of different wavelengths, and ...
March 10, 2017 at 17:15
Well I don't think you can prevent governments from having a "warfare arsenal". That's just a matter of fact that we must live with, and they claim th...
March 10, 2017 at 14:12
Tom is trying to backtrack, and tone down that rhetoric, now saying that animals lack a certain "type" of knowledge. But that's a rather meaningless s...
March 10, 2017 at 13:43
That's what I've been trying to explain to you, an image is a representation. Since the image is never exactly the same as the thing represented, it i...
March 10, 2017 at 13:14
You haven't considered the possibility that the whistle blower has created the "dangerous waters" which is being reported, just like the fireman who l...
March 10, 2017 at 12:54
I don't know about this "surface" you refer to. The coin consists of molecules which consists of atoms. What constitutes this so-called "surface"? And...
March 10, 2017 at 12:33
I really haven't seen "the reason" yet, so I can't say whether I agree or disagree. Perhaps we can clarify this reason, so I can make a decision. So t...
March 10, 2017 at 01:49
Actually I have tried short sessions in the past, 10 or 15 minutes, I liked to make a short go, take a break and then another go. I might have done th...
March 10, 2017 at 01:11
With a microscope, molecules can be "seen", so they must be reflecting or emitting some light, or electrical charge. Anyway, that's beside the point. ...
March 09, 2017 at 22:59
This is where I can't get to, seeing through my own stuff. Suppose I want an extended period of meditation, so I tell my wife I'm going on the mountai...
March 09, 2017 at 22:44
Exactly, you don't see the individual molecules, because your sensing system is interpreting what's there as one object, not a whole bunch of objects....
March 09, 2017 at 22:15
I think you're mixing up conscious with self-conscious.
March 09, 2017 at 21:25
Instead of sensing the coin as one oval shaped object, it could be sensed as many individual molecules.
March 09, 2017 at 21:17
Yeah, sure, I agree. It's just that the concept "black hole" itself might be misleading.
March 09, 2017 at 13:30
Is this really the case though? Is the outcome of an atom colliding with another atom really probabilistic, or is it deterministic? And are the action...
March 09, 2017 at 13:28
That's assuming general relativity provides us with an accurate model of things at this scale. But we can consider that the concept of "event horizon"...
March 09, 2017 at 13:12
Apparently, God does forgive. I think that human forgiving is an extension of the divine forgiving. The "going to hell" statement is not well defined....
March 09, 2017 at 13:05
That's what's called forgiving. In Christianity forgiving is a very important aspect of how one approaches "the sinner". To forgive is to accept the f...
March 09, 2017 at 12:53
Well, I admit it is impossible to do that in any absolute sense. We each do it in our own little way, but that's why subjectivity is so important, we ...
March 09, 2017 at 12:27
If there was evidence of Russian hacking, and interfering in the U.S. election, then isn't it the responsibility of the CIA to determine the specifics...
March 09, 2017 at 12:12
No, I have never had any formal instruction on meditation. But the question is, should I approach meditation with the preconceived idea that I am goin...
March 09, 2017 at 04:28
Ok, I see you completely missed the point, so I'll explain it more clearly. You are sensing something, seeing it. You sense it as a round coloured sha...
March 09, 2017 at 04:10
How is the act of spying, by the CIA, perceived as wrongdoing, isn't that their mandate? Oh I think I understand, when you're a member of the party be...
March 09, 2017 at 01:05
What I am referring to is younger education, grade school through high school. This is the primary learning, where we learn our intellectual habits. W...
March 09, 2017 at 00:57
Sorry, I didn't notice any argument, perhaps you could repeat it in a way which I might be able to understand.
March 08, 2017 at 22:44
If I understand correctly, it is not the case that there are red pixels in the composition, there are none, and that prompts the claim that there is n...
March 08, 2017 at 22:42
You don't see them. isn't it objective fact that seeing is interpretation? As I said, what we see as colour is a mixture of wavelengths, not a pure wa...
March 08, 2017 at 14:21
There are two distinct aspects of "the institution", which are closely related in practise, but are separable in theory, such that an institution may ...
March 08, 2017 at 13:49
What does this mean?
March 08, 2017 at 01:56
It looks all blue and green to me. But what do I know?
March 08, 2017 at 01:32
Actually, if there was a cumulonimbus cloud directly above you, it would be dark grey, and not white, because they're very thick, dense, and block out...
March 08, 2017 at 01:25
The problem is not religious institutionalism itself. But I think, as I tried to describe, the problem lies in the idea that, correct belief, and mora...
March 08, 2017 at 01:13
Why not? I would say that all these things are interpretations. That there is a presence, that there is a colour, that there is a shape, all of these ...
March 08, 2017 at 00:40
Your logic seems to be a little bit faulty. I see no indication that law based on the human condition is the only way to avoid the "Hobbesian state of...
March 07, 2017 at 22:20
Afraid to face the truth now?
March 07, 2017 at 21:18
I do not agree with your premise, that law should be based in the human condition. I think that law should be based in morality. And from the perspect...
March 07, 2017 at 20:56
Do you understand quantum field theory, and how non-locality relates to field theory? Look it up.
March 07, 2017 at 13:49
Don't we need some consistency between individuals as well? This consistency gives us what some people call inter-subjectivity, which in some cases it...
March 07, 2017 at 13:46
I believe that there is quantum uncertainty, which was originally not well understood. I also believe that field theory was developed as a means of ap...
March 07, 2017 at 13:24
The answer to your question (who, then, imposes it upon the imposers, I wonder?), is inherent within your statement. Organized religions assume the ex...
March 07, 2017 at 13:18
Actually, your method for determining colour proceeds from a faulty premise. You assume that a particular colour has a corresponding range of waveleng...
March 07, 2017 at 12:30
Actually I think it was quite evident that we were beyond the possibility of a productive discussion. We were nowhere near agreement on the meaning of...
March 07, 2017 at 11:51
Why do you like quantum field theory then, as this is relativity based?
March 07, 2017 at 03:44
Yeah I know, it's all assumptions, that's where we started in this conversation in the first place. That a thing has a continuous existence in time, i...
March 06, 2017 at 22:49
What's the point in lying? I thought we were doing philosophy. What comes up from google is this: "the action or process of causing so much damage to ...
March 06, 2017 at 21:15
I don't see what instrumentation has to do with this. The fact is that the vast majority of colours which we see, talk about, refer to, and describe, ...
March 06, 2017 at 21:01
This is a subject of knowledge, not an object of cognition. We need to be careful to keep this distinction. There are pure ideals, such as mathematica...
March 06, 2017 at 14:44
Human eyes can see millions of different shades of colour. This is not because there are millions of different wavelengths between 400 and 740.
March 06, 2017 at 13:44
As I pointed out earlier, to define "red" as a particular range of wavelength is unacceptable, because the vast majority of instances of seeing a part...
March 06, 2017 at 13:40