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I have read that scientists have measured human bodies at the moment before and after death, and can't detect the soul or spirit. I'm not sure this pr...

Who's they and what would such a proof involve? I don't know what you mean by that. The best I can suggest is that you read through the Wiki pages tha...

Oh gosh no. It's a very simple theorem. It just shows that the universe isn't literally identical to three-dimensional Euclidean space. And as I've sa...

As a math undergrad I called up the physics dept and asked them if there was way to study physics in an accelerated manner since I already knew a lot ...

For example they might let a hardened young killer out of prison if he offers to undergo experimental treatments to cure him of his violent tendencies...

This was a very strange announcement from a government agency. I for one don't think anyone's discovered space aliens or even vehicles "we couldn't ma...

And what shall we do about the corruption in a certain first-world country I could name? What could possibly go wrong? East Germany here we come.

Tell it to Wiki, which yesterday you claimed was the ultimate authority on these matters and which, once you realized it agrees with me, you no longer...

Just perusing recent threads so no worries if this topic's no longer of interest. But you should be aware that the negation of the axiom of choice is ...

But the equal sign is not the topic of discussion. The concept of mathematical equality is. No wonder you name-checked Robert Recorde. You looked up t...

Prompted by our conversation I went and looked at what Wikipedia says. It 100% absolutely agrees with what I said. You're being quite disingenuous to ...

I'm really interested in diving into this but haven't had time to think about it much or read your other post to me on the subject. Instead of deferri...

I am hardly responsible for anything on Wikipedia, let alone your own interpretations of same. I didn't spend any time looking at that Wiki page. I kn...

I haven't read this thread, just jumping in with something I know about this, which is that Freud had this same concern. Wild and crazy passionate ero...

Could not be, ever since Riemann and others discovered the logical consistency of non-Euclidean geometry in the 1840's. Prior to then it was believed ...

Yes that's very cool. I do happen to know that Robert Recorde invented the equal sign. I keep hoping someone will ask me someday. You're wrong mathema...

Yes. My rule and everyone else's. That's what the equal sign means.

For sake of conversation, I don't think they actually executed any heliocentrists. If you're thinking of Giordano Bruno, Wikipedia points out that ......

This is the same error @"jgill" pointed out that I made the other day. I do not assert that 2 + 2 and 4 are identical. They're obviously different sym...

Are you identifying an object such as the number 4 with the process that "creates" it? I think that's a pretty big stretch. I can't imagine Aristotle ...

I have that happen to me a lot.

Thank you. I missed that. I'll reply separately. My own sense is that the very last people in the world who have a clue about philosophical issues are...

I am the first to admit that believing meat is special is obviously false; in the sense that looking back, believing the earth is the center of the un...

We have a perfect model of how this works; namely, processes in any process-based operating system such as Unix. A process is an executing program. Fo...

They are exactly the same set. If you have some mathematical framework in which 2 + 2 and 4 do not represent the exact same abstract mathematical obje...

In my opinion opening and closing switches can never implement consciousness; for the reason that opening and closing switches essentially defines the...

Hi, this remark has been on my mind. It's totally counter to everything I think I know, so I wanted to make sure I understand you. This is in referenc...

PA is a formal symbolic system no different in principle than the game of chess. Do you think chess has ontological significance? Yes or no? If no, th...

On the contrary. I've made a concerted effort to engage with your ideas. I just can't discern any. Well then you have no idea what a number is, what a...

Oh from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-physics/, different article than I was looking at. So there is scholarly interest meaning histori...

Messages from the collective unconscious. Dreams are mysterious. Why think they mean something. Why think they DON'T mean anything? It's an arbitrary ...

What you wrote seemed interesting but a little off my beaten path so I will leave this as it is.

Yes thank you. People often don't like math because it's taught in a dogmatic way. But mathematicians themselves are very openminded, at least after a...

LOL That's a great theory as long as you don't plan to go back to that restaurant. Although these days none of us may ever go back to any restaurants....

I posted this on some other thread recently. There's a forest somewhere, and in that forest are trees, and one of those trees has branches and leaves,...

A caterpillar has a metaphysics.

I am surprised you've heard of it. Yet you don't agree that 2 + 2 and 4 refer to the same thing. In my prior conversations with you, you've convinced ...

Oh I see. I don't generally read every post, just the ones that tag me, unless it's a topic I'm especially interested in. So I may have missed your ot...

I'm sorry, I'm being facetious about a galaxy made of junk and I did not mean to confuse the issue.

I agree with pretty much everything you say; and even with some of the same passion. I'm not sure why you directed this at me, but I'll take the liber...

I have many dreams I don't understand. Plots, characters, situations, dialog, dilemmas for me (always the protagonist) to solve. I had one this mornin...

I have not been talking about Zeno's paradoxes of motion at all. I don't understand why you're mentioning it. Oh I see the connection you're making. P...

Great stuff! Ok. I will take another look at that. Uh oh I'm in trouble. This is the opposite of what I thought was true. So first, I did not follow a...

The point here would be that transfinite numbers are an abstraction but not an isolated one. They're an abstraction that arose naturally from the stud...

That's a very interesting post. I don't know if it's specifically aimed at something I wrote. It doesn't sound like it offhand. If you say that 1 + 1 ...

Not necessarily. The sequence 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ... has infinitely many 1's but not infinitely many fish. Not any in fact. It is not true that "everythi...

I don't have any references saved but I Googled around and found these. No warranty is expressed or implied as they say. I found these links but did n...

And the converse!

I can already see that my own idea is pulling me into consequences I don't agree with. If the mind is the only thing that can NOT be simulated, the mi...

LOL. Well this isn't so bad. I seem to recall that Heisenberg uncertainty comes ultimately from Fourier analysis or some such. The idea seems to be re...