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That's exactly right. The set of computable numbers is said to have "measure zero." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_set It's not impossible. The co...

You're entirely correct about that, but now you are understanding and agreeing with my point. If you throw a dart at the real line, you'll hit a nonco...

Appreciate that. Just trying to carve out some clarity in a fuzzy discussion. Is 1/3 = .3333.... = 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + ... some number? There's no...

Well yeah, that's my point. You claimed there's a dup earth, I asked you to support your claim, and you have apparently backtracked. Yes? You said all...

Well then I'm glad I didn't watch it! It's bad form to post a vid you didn't watch IMO. But now that you pointed us to the good parts I'll take a look...

Correct. Even if the universe is finite there might well be type-1 multiverses, which are simply regions of space too far apart for light to have gott...

First, why is the space infinite? Your premise is that the universe is finite but sufficiently large that there are regions inaccessible to each other...

How does the second sentence follow from the first? Do the universes share the same history? Why should they do that?

For those of us who prefer not to sit through a video and who have only a nodding acquaintance with the topic, can you please remind us what a level 3...

I don't understand what you mean by assigning the name "truth" to some property of an object, like pink. That doesn't make any sense to me. Secondly, ...

Same old Craig cosmological argument. Same old First Mover argument. Same old false argument. Consider the following model of causation. Let E(n) stan...

I thought you meant that atheists only believe in the existence of physical things. If you didn't mean that at least I'll try to clarify my own thinki...

Interesting. Even the great Searle has a harassment problem as you may know.

Don't atheists do math? Believe in justice? Follow the law? All abstractions. Non-physical. Atheists believe in and use abstractions.

Propaganda. Here is one of history's most brilliant experts in getting everyone to think the same way. Is this what you have in mind? http://www.psywa...

Your quote from the developer of a particular software application claiming his program shows "emergence" is an example of what I'm talking about. A w...

ps ... Let me give some more detail. Say we have a sophisticated neural network that plays Go, like Google's amazing AlphaGo program. Essentially they...

This is the specific example I have in mind and that I am disputing. No Turing machine or algorithm can have emergent behavior. A program that impleme...

Strongly disagree. Equality and freedom are directly opposed. They're a tradeoff. If you live in a capitalist economy, there's more freedom and less e...

Because it's programmed to. The assumption is that this is an AI, meaning an artificial intelligence. In other words it's the execution of an algorith...

As I understand it, this is the territory mined by Descartes back in 1641. He asked himself, what can I be sure of? I doubt everything. But then I mus...

Self-defense is a human right. The anti-gun politicians all seem to be protected by armed police escorts. They have the right to self-defense. YOU don...

Do you have a reference for this? Or is the infinite tower of meta's something you are bringing to the discussion that's not in the primary literature...

Do you mean the axiom of infinity? I would be curious to see a reference for this relationship. I know some set theory but I have never heard of any r...

Yes, agreed. But there are great teachers online. There are some really good videos out there. It's a better way of getting educated. You don't need t...

Of course not. Caesar is a salad. A salad is composed of many different individual ingredients. Therefore it is composite, and not prime. Glad I could...

I have a fantasy. We know that 100 Americans a day die in automobile accidents. Actually it's 110, now that the new annual number is 40k. Lot of dead ...

Because nobody notices the extreme daily violence of US foreign policy. That's by design. During the Vietnam war there were actual journalists on site...

Political quietism in Islam? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_quietism_in_Islam Quietism in Christian philosophy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

I don't know anything about the subject and can't respond to any of your questions. Hopefully you'll get some insight on Stackexchange.

I see your point. Googling around shows many people asking if Tarski's definition is circular. You know more about this than I do.

Tarski's work is taken seriously. You are dismissing it. Clearly logicians don't dismiss it. As I say I'm not in a position to discuss the issue in de...

For what it's worth, that is not the mainstream view. But I'm not familiar with the subject so I can't really say.

That doesn't preclude you from learning what the logicians think about it. I might be a vegetarian but I could still go to butcher school and learn ho...

That's a very good question. In set theory, which is regarded as the foundation of math, we think of the axioms as statements accepted without proof i...

As I understand it, the Planck constant is defined in terms of meters^2 times kilograms per second. The physical phenomenon is part of nature, but the...

All measurement is approximate anyway, and any drift in the vibrational frequency of cesium atoms is probably orders of magnitude smaller than the mea...

SO Doesn't God already know that? Why doesn't God just kill all the unworthy and be done with it? These word games make no sense. The God who plays wi...

That's a bit muddled. No statement has any truth value by itself. It's just a string of symbols. 2 + 2 = 4 doesn't mean anything until we say what are...

Now we're back to formalism versus Platonism. To a formalist, there is no truth, just provability. To a Platonist, there's truth and then there's what...

I have no doubt :-) Thanks for the comments.

Yes, different. Provability is a syntactic notion. Given some axioms and some inference rules, a given statement either has a proof or its negation ha...

The provability of a statement is a function of the axioms. The truth of a given statement is a function of which model, or interpretation of the axio...

I don't know what that means. Can you give an example? That doesn't correspond with my understanding of what a statement is. A statement in a formal s...

ps -- Facts for the fact-challenged. In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the United Nations to eradicate heroin prod...

But that's an absolute falsehood. By 2002 the Taliban had virtually eliminated the opium trade in Afghanistan. Are you this seriously uninformed? Or j...

ps I wanted to make sure I wasn't exaggerating when I said the US guards the poppy fields in Afghanistan. Google served me up this link real quick. I ...

Yeah fentanyl. A few years ago I read about it in the context of it being the drug of choice for medical professionals in hospitals. Doctors and nurse...

Ditto caffeine :-) ps -- On a more serious note, the question is not whether any given drug is a net good for society. The question is, it is less har...

Why aren't you surprised? You wrote: I pointed out that our brains have receptors for cannabinoid molecules. Therefore you should be surprised. Why AR...