Metaphysician Undercover

The logical problems are the result of not having an adequate way of measuring. We are reduced to logical possibility. If we had the proper way we wou...

It's due to the way that time exists, in conjunction with the limitations of our capacity to measure. We are limited in our ability to measure time by...

Thanks Das, I'm going to hold off on any further reply right now and take a look at your essay.

No, she looks very happy with all those little piglets. What's there to feel sorry about?

I agree with this, and this use of time stamps to understand change is commonly found as cause and effect, which is a temporal ordering. In physics, t...

Commonly known as a "sow", which is pronounced differently from the verb "to sow", which is pronounced like "sew", or as we say "like so". You're prob...

Timestamps are not sufficient, because what is at issue is the fundamental difference between a describable state-of-being, and the activity of becomi...

This roughly correlates with the division in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, theoretical and practical knowledge. Each of those two is divided into b...

This realness is a creation of the conscious mind, through the use of memory. The consciousness uses chronology to create a sense of order which appea...

Only if you are a Platonic realist. Metaphysically, that's an issue with set theory in general, Platonism is presupposed. And when abstractions such a...

Are you saying that topology adds something to the line, which is more than just the real numbers? What more could there be?

NOS4A2 can be entertaining, but he seems to be get lazy, just posting a whole lot of X files now. In the 80's if you showed up to a party in a Lada, y...

So are saying that there is more to the continuous number line than the points which are the real numbers? Can you explain that?

Then why does mathematics combine the two? Real numbers are points representing a continuous number line.

I'm not so keen on birch embers personally, the bark is smokey. Is that white or yellow birch?

Aristotle demonstrated that "knowledge", claimed by Parmenides as "being", is inconsistent with the reality of "becoming" which was asserted by Heracl...

I mean that if the tortoise is moving it is never at a point. This is because time is continuously passing, therefore motion is continuous too. So the...

Most likely that person is yourself, and that person is dumber than you. A possibility which is highly probable.

I believe "zero-point energy" is the consequence of relativity type thinking. Since relativity denies absolute rest, anything which appears like it ou...

The problem with this proposal is that there is too much relativity already baked into the procedural methods of quantum physics. Our understanding of...

Maybe there are true, real limits within time and space, real quanta or discrete units of these, but use of the current way of modeling, which imposes...

During the debate, prior to the election, Trump said that if he is elected, the war would be ended before he even takes office, because he knows Putin...

I don't think the tortoise actually wins. In a similar way to the way that Achilles cannot catch up to the tortoise, the tortoise also cannot actually...

This would be one type of trial and error, to use it as a way of solving a specific problem. In the more general sense it is defined as "the process o...

How's that relevant to what we are talking about, spatial expansion? If the distance between the object and the center of the earth is caused to chang...

I don't see your point. Either the ball is at 2m or it is not. If it is falling it is not at 2m, it is moving. If it is at 2m then something is holdin...

I don't think so, because a ball at 2m will stay at 2m, as time passes, unless forced to change. However if space expands as time passes, the differen...

The reason to assume a separation between actor and observer is that this separation is purposeful. The purpose is as I explained, it provides for a m...

The point was not to refute the purposefulness of individual agencies, but to question how we identify and locate the purpose or intention. If there i...

That's similar to what I think as well. But do you see what this implies about the concept of energy? In application the concept of energy is applied ...

This demonstrates the contradiction I mentioned. Energy is defined as "the capacity to do work". To assume that there is energy within a closed system...

No I can't. The only viable reason for the impossibility of perpetual motion is that in reality energy is not conserved as time passes. This fact is f...

I think that this is exactly what I meant to express, so you understand well. I believe that the qualification of "to accomplish some end" is too rest...

Let's consider the obvious. it's an extremely useful principle. And, the truth or falsity of useful principles is generally not relevant to those who ...

Energy is never conserved. That is why we cannot have a perpetual motion machine, and why there is a need for the second law of thermodynamics. Simply...

The issue of duality is not a matter of how the conscious I relates to its conscious experience, and how the conscious I remembers a dream. Those ar b...

So that's the reason for my question. Do you think that QM physics has found a loop hole to avoid Newton's deterministic first law of motion? If the m...

If Newton's first law of motion is a feature of physics, then physics certainly is deterministic. So are you suggesting that modern physics, by workin...

Well, I guess I misunderstood you then. But you did say: That is what led me to think you were proposing a duality of I's. The unconscious agent can b...

I don't agree with this. The fundamentals of the modern concept of free will were developed by St Augustine, from principles derived from Plato and Ar...

What occurs to me, is that you have effectively divided the mind into two distinct sources of agency, the conscious I and the unconscious I. I take th...

Thanks for clearing that up ENOAH. Now I understand. However, I prefer to think of the real being as a unity of the two, the living body, and the "I" ...

I don't see how you reduce the "I" to the body. In my dreams I do things that a body could not do, randomly jump from one location or situation to ano...

You could consider the case of sleep apnea. Suppose a person is asleep, and quits breathing. At the same time, that person is dreaming that they are s...

I don't think that this explanation properly allows for the creative capacity of dreams, and waking life for that matter. It cannot be that all experi...

Likewise, we say "quantum field" but it's just "a kind of confabulation, hand-waving". And, because we don't really know what we're talking about, it ...

I don't really understand what you mean by "fitness to surface", but your post doesn't resolve the problem. The question is why do I at sometimes use ...

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This may not be relevant to your discussion with Wayfarer, but you are still confusing the map with the terrain. The physical field is represented mat...

You limit "field" to "a physical quantity", then complain because Wayfarer's proposed "field" doesn't meet the criteria of your definition. But your d...