Metaphysician Undercover

What is this "trigger point" you keep talking about? Is it a solar change, something to do with the sun's magnetic field, causing reduced energy from ...

According to the article I quoted, scientists have not yet been able to satisfactorily replicate spider webs artificially. I think they can chemically...

No, I think I'll leave that for now. I believe there are better options than systems theory. As I said, I'm not into boundaries myself. I'd prefer to ...

That looks like a piece of apple. Spider webs are even more amazing:

I don't believe it. That five gram piece of hash was huge. There's no way an ant could have stolen it. That would have required an army of ants.

It's not quite like that, because we don't really have the game yet which I want to try to play on the Risk board. My goal was to try and find a way t...

What words do for "complex thought" is a type of compression. The complex thought, with multiple facets (being complex) is "compressed" and represente...

Consider the "thinking self" as a type of system. There are external things which influence the self, some you've mentioned like knowledge and the emp...

I like this idea, "something personal, but not of the self". It seems very consistent with what I was arguing in the "Is there an external world?" thr...

Of course using a screwdriver is not applying mechanics. But using a screw driver is applying a screw driver, just like using mathematics is applying ...

isn't that really what philosophy is, an act of seeking help.? No I don't see the difference you are claiming. To use math is to apply mathematics. An...

So do you see then, that we can make the general claim "complex thought does not need words"? And in your examples, the words are "needed" not for the...

That's what I've heard called "the eureka moment". I can't say I've ever really experienced anything like the way it is described. Sometimes with a pr...

It means to treat mathematically. So, I would assume that using mathematics in a field of study constitutes mathematizing. I think it depends on how y...

Let me explain then. You have provided examples of complex thought which uses words. These examples are insufficient to produce the inductive conclusi...

Well, it's like I said, I don't really understand what you mean by "insight". How can there be no way or process toward it? Is its appearance magical?...

So if using mathematics in a field of study does not constitute mathematizing it, then what does? Is physics mathematized? Is music mathematized?

Give me a break. Are you going to produce your offer or not?

I'm game. What's this offer to Praxis?

You're no fun. Every time you think you see a weasel you run and hide.

I assume that everyone I converse with here is a person, so "I" is very relevant because a person has personality. And if you are a bot, or in some ot...

You are characterizing the person who changes one's position as a "weasel", instead of seeing the person as open minded, and ready to accept change. T...

That some complex thoughts use words does not mean that all complex thoughts use words.

These people "the flock" are murdering for the purpose of material gain of the organization, as you state. That they are brainwashed fools, and think ...

Humans have their own superpower, mathematics. Sometimes though, as demonstrated above, the superpower of mathematics is really quite useless.

Could you explain what you mean here? Aren't probabilities and statistics mathematical?

Why do you think that one who is constantly changing positions, would think that they "have it down"? Wouldn't the person who thinks oneself to "have ...

I think what I said, or at least meant, is that the materialists kill for material gains, and they claim this killing to be in the name of God, i.e. f...

This article says an ant can lift 5000 times its own body weight: https://entomologytoday.org/2014/02/11/ants-can-lift-up-to-5000-times-their-own-body...

"Immediate and present", I wonder what that means. I think I see why you say it's that whereof we cannot speak. By the time we speak of anything immed...

Why do you ask me to agree with you? I never saw the Beatles before they got "really big". But there is no need to assume that they were "really small...

I look at all those places "whereof one cannot speak" as challenges, to find a way to speak about them. What "whereof one cannot speak" refers to is o...

I think a proper analysis would reveal to you that most of the killing which has occurred in the wars we have seen is materialist based, the desire fo...

As I explained earlier, external and internal are spatial terms. We tend to set, or assume a boundary between mind (and body) and the external, but we...

Maybe that shit which Banno referred to was the fire and brimstone of God's wrath.

Such symmetry is pure fiction, a useful principle employed by mathematicians with no corresponding reality in the world. The type of things that you c...

The issue I pointed to earlier in the thread, is the nature of the assumed "mind-independent world". This world is not necessarily external, it might ...

Freemasonry has 94 degrees?

The point was that since metaphysics concerns being, or existence, in the most general sense, all observational evidence is relevant to any metaphysic...

So it wasn't the temperature you were talking about, you were talking about how fucked up the street corners are in NYC. The engineers couldn't make a...

These are activities, not things. Activities are attributed to things, as what a thing is doing, so the law of identity doesn't apply. This is partly ...

That metaphor is probably as old as humanity, describing the rebirth of the soul, after an individual's death. When one dies it is replaced by another...

This is a very good point. Isaac and I spent days arguing the accuracy of systems theory, only to find out in the end, that Isaac was arguing the usef...

When the observational evidence does not support a particular metaphysical perspective, isn't this a case of undermining that metaphysics? Metaphysics...

Actually, as philosophers, we can and ought to question what is observed. There are two principal facets of observation. First, the person prepares on...

Oh good, because when you say things like "The only truly closed system is the universe so any part of it decreasing entropy is not defying the second...

All the things we hear, see, touch, and otherwise sense, "seem external", but this does not necessarily mean that any of them actually are. That is th...

So if I look at a cell membrane through a microscope, I will see a "statistical feature of a network" there "at the membrane"? If not, then what do yo...

Sorry Tones, You have not pointed out any contradiction. If I remember correctly, you define contradiction as saying 'is' and 'is not' of the exact sa...

The problem with this way of modeling is that it sets a boundary to the outside of the system, but it does not set a boundary to the inside. As Isaac ...