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For what it's worth I supported Obama's Iran deal, imperfect as it was. For someone who wants to get us out of the wars, Trump's Iran policy has been ...

I'm an old, as the kids say. In grade school -- full disclosure, this was during the Eisenhower administration -- we used to talk about current events...

Just dropping in to trigger the checkbox liberals. Sorry you didn't get your war. I'm old enough to remember when Dems didn't pray for war just to mak...

I was just talking about this in another thread, and realized that I'm confused on a point of physics. I know two things: * The 13 fields. I definitel...

Let me restate your quote as a formal argument. P: The square root of two" has no valid meaning in the rational number system. C: This means that taki...

I see your point. You are saying that there are 2 books and two fish and 2 schools of thought; but there is no 2 in the abstract. Well, imagining or m...

If you mean electron microscope photos of a lattice of atoms, those are still subject to the quantum and classical measurement problems. To clarify wh...

All physical measurement is approximate. You can't have a physical stick of length 1. It's not only impossible, it's meaningless. There is no physical...

No, that does not follow. The irrationality of \sqrt 2 is a purely mathematical fact. It tells us nothing about the physical world.

Ok. I just don't think that when Newton thought of a point moving through continuous space he was thinking, "I could simulate this with a computer." W...

I stand by what I wrote and you didn't change my mind. I agree that you can SIMULATE continuous systems with discrete ones, and SIMULATE discrete syst...

Right. You can SIMULATE a continuous system with a discrete one. But their fundamental nature is different. A flow, as conceived by the ancients and a...

At the time, I responded thoughtfully to your ideas. You never once engaged with the points I made. Now weeks later you're still repeating your claims...

Conflating the discrete with the continuous; the computable with the noncomputable.

I haven't read the thread but saw the title and just wanted to put in my two cents. Postmodernists observe that logic has often been used to suppress ...

One argument that I find compelling is a meta-argument, It's the currency, or the contemporariness, or the topicality of the simulation hypothesis tha...

I didn't understand a word @"aletheist" wrote but I was embarrassed to admit it. I do not understand what metaphysical actuality is. Are the natural n...

LOLOL.

I think I still don't know what actuality means. But you said that potential infinity has metaphysical actuality. Don't the natural numbers (as modele...

I wonder if I understand that. Potential infinity is often taken to be the collection (but not set) of the natural numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, ... It's potent...

Ah, that's a good feature. Solves the problem. Ok! No memory between lives. I get it.

You want to make a mathematical claim (sqrt 2 doesn't exist) but you won't accept a mathematical response. Makes for pointless conversation. I have al...

LOL

No, you're thinking of something else. I'm talking about the algebraic construction. Which I'll outline. * Say you believe in the rationals. You belie...

I could respond but what would be the point? It is a logical truth that IF you believe in the rational numbers then you must necessarily believe in th...

I love coffee. My favorite part of the day is my morning coffee. I can't wait to wake up tomorrow morning and smell the coffee. Often I grind my fresh...

A simulation of gravity doesn't attract nearby bowling balls. A simulation of the brain would perfectly simulate the behavior of a brain but would not...

I don't want to do that. I want the opportunity to do better in the next life. It would be awful to live the same life over and over. This by the way ...

The square root of two is rational? Am I misreading your sentence?/quote] Oh that's a typo, sorry. Is that what you were asking earlier? Yes typo of c...

Isn't that Pascal's wager? If God exists, a little piety, showing up to church on Sunday, being kind to your fellow man, are a small price to pay for ...

You're a funny guy. You: The moon is made of green cheese. Me: Actually scientists think it's made of dirt and rocks and stuff. You: Ok good, now that...

Oh I see. You were concerned that you'd change the value of an integral by moving things around. But right, that can't happen because the pieces aren'...

Yes, ok. I'm not objecting, I'm agreeing. Yes of course! That's the point. Which reminds me of another reason the Vitali set is a warmup to B-T. The t...

Question doesn't compute. IMO you are understanding some of the technical steps but not grokking the overall structure of the proof. I actually can't ...

Ok now that we have sort of a B-T discussion space, I want to suggest some warmup exercises to get a handle on the proof. I'll leave out all the detai...

Ok. I didn't go through it in detail. You shouldn't get hung up on the particular rotations, that's not relevant. What's important is that the isometr...

I made some comments in the other thread so as not to pollute this one. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/368991

I'm making the point that the facts of math are not quite as arbitrary as the facts of other formal games such as chess. That's something peculiar or ...

Ok. First, if you have been talking about mathematical objects and not physical space, my misunderstanding. But then all your mathematical objections ...

The funny thing is I never said that. What triggered you? Was it the mastodons? PETA member?

You know it's funny. I quoted the exact words you used to start this thread. Taking you at your word, I gave you my opinion. Now you might have said, ...

Greta. I rest my case.

Always glad to see substantive argument on the Philosophy Forum. Socrates watches with admiration and approval from his place in the pantheon of philo...

I'll toss in my two cents that this is a beautiful list of first world problems. Back in the day, and in many places in the world today, finding food ...

You're welcome. No, really? Just kidding!! I enjoy the new civility and hope to perpetuate it. I couldn't tell who was crazy, you or me. You were so s...

Thanks man. I was going to say the same but @"Metaphysician Undercover" and I have reached a point of mutual civility and I'm trying to keep that goin...

LOL Now you're trolling me seeing if I'll take the bait. There are no infinitesimals in the real numbers. If you're working in some other number syste...

Well I can't agree till I understand what you're saying. Why can't a computer, or an "information processing system," be conscious? We're information ...

Just jumping in to the thread, curious about this. Why the living? If consciousness (feelings, qualia, etc.) are information, then we already know tha...

Oh gosh. Thanks for mentioning it. I was idly skimming through the many posts in this thread that I hadn't read. And I swear this is how my brain work...