Metaphysician Undercover

AI creeps me out. If you read between the lines of my prior post, you'll see that I can't even think about it without falling into a dark hole. I migh...

You know, most manuals can be found very quickly with a google search. You only need to stand up from the couch to get the brand and model number off ...

That's why these AI companions you can buy (it might not be incorrect to call it a digital slave), are actually very good. They get to know you very w...

Why do you say the topic is irrelevant"? The concept of infinite is commonly used in mathematics, so there must be at least some relevance. It is not ...

I think the main difference between Plato and Kant, is that Kant denies the human intellect direct access to the noumenon as intelligible object. He d...

The problem I see is that those people who have developed "traumas and unhealthy cycles and various harmful idiosyncrasies" which are festering in the...

So, does this mean that the mind itself is mind independent? For example, everything that is thought, is mind dependent. But the thinker, being the mi...

You wouldn't expect completion from a thread titled "Infinity" would you? The problem though, is that you really cannot use the entire set of natural ...

You said, an instrument reads the numeric value of an object. There is a few fundamental errors with this statement, which render it incoherent.. Here...

Classic Banno! Well, Magnus was very quick to pick up on your nasty habit of straw manning the other person's claims to make it appear like your own e...

Now the issue I pointed to is that we generally restrict the boundaries of "the object" according to visual information, and that's why we conclude th...

Janus, both statements say what space and time "are". "Space and time" is the subject and the statements are definitive as to what space and time are....

All I can say, is that what "measurement" means to you is nothing like what it means to me. And since what you said looks nonsensical to me, I can tel...

I don't think your analogy works. Particles like photons and electrons, in their relation to electromagnetic waves, are not analogous to water molecul...

That's funny. Why do you think that you can line them all up? That seems like an extraordinarily irrational idea to me. You don't honestly believe it,...

I believe this is exactly how the false, determinist representation of time is created. We create abstract "units" of time based on certain activities...

I like your post Mww, but this line stands out to me, as erroneous. Many things seem to share the same space, and that becomes problematic for physics...

Try this explanation. To claim that the measurement of time is objective requires that we have an object to refer to, to meet the criteria for "true",...

You ignored the point I made. "Size", "weight", etc., are not "the object", those terms refer to a specific feature, a property of the supposed object...

Well, "objective" has many meanings. Here, you imply that if two people agree, then it is "objective". That would imply a meaning of "objective" which...

So the passage of time itself is independent. Right? Therefore before and after are also independent. What is subjective (dependent on an observer) is...

That is exactly what I am disagreeing with. That feature of the world, which we know and measure as the passing of time, is a real, independent, and v...

That, is a real problem, isn't it?

Yes, time does pass for the clock itself. The passage of time is what is measured by the clock. Seconds, minutes, hours, etc., are the units of measur...

The issue is the relationship between one possible world and another, and the discontinuity implied by that relationship. If someone assumes that ther...

I believe there is something very important hidden within this passage. The "time-symmetric" character of physical equations is a feature of determini...

That's called The Coriolis effect. It's a feature of spacetime curvature, which also results in time dilation. Not only is it the reason why the shit ...

Notice this condition, it's a rigid designator "if" it designates the same object in every possible worlds. The issue is that possible worlds are abst...

This is the issue which Wittgenstein elucidated with the so-called private language argument. First, he lays out the common conditions for "identity" ...

Sure, but this implies that whether the speaker wants the meaning to be necessary (the same in all possible worlds) or not, is just a subjective stipu...

When they bring out in-the-flesh AI, will they all act like movie stars, because movies will be easiest to access for learning materials? Or, will the...

Oh my God, bring on the flesh.

Is GPT in love with you?

Everything Trump does is about Trump. It's all designed as a show to demonstrate how great he is. He has no other intentions. How does it make sense t...

Right, none of them are actually true when properly analyzed. Identity doesn't work that way. So forget about it, Kripke is just blowing smoke.

I see the point and I agree with the principles, but it looks to me like a misuse of "specious". What James argued is that the common conception of "p...

I think, therefore I want to be. Metaphysics.

Chaos? Civil war?

So you're saying that I might have equally wondered, why was the spider talking, as wonder why my brother didn't look like my brother. But I'll ask yo...

OK, the problem is in the way we understand the word. My dictionary defines "specious" as superficially plausible, but actually wrong, or misleading. ...

I'd have to say the opposite. I know it was my brother, because I know my brother very well, and the dream (myself) told me unequivocally, that it was...

As I said, I agree with this. But I think that describing the present as pure actuality is far from indicating that the present is "specious". "Pure a...

That's a very strange aspect of dreams. I often wake up wondering how I knew what I knew in the dream. For example, I'll have a dream involving some p...

I'm inclined to agree with Derrida on this. I believe that I experience the present as the simultaneity of the past (as memory) and the future (as ant...

I believe that determinism obscures the importance of the present by establishing continuity between past and future. This makes understanding our exp...

When Jesus spoke about the end of the world, I think he refers to the whole world, everywhere. In this sense, every part of the world is in The Bible.

Your odometer hasn't hit 30k yet? Are you still in last year?

I think I said this already. I believe there is no such thing as "a present moment in time". That is an artificial construct which amounts to a falsit...

How can you say that the past is fixed, when what I remember as past is changing all the time? The things which have happened within the past are fixe...

You've possessed my soul for the past month. No one could giv'er like I did, to assist you in reaching the desired tally. Now that you've obtained the...