Kaiser Basileus

Cosmic consciousness is an exponential category error. Consciousness is a subset of mind, which is a metaphor for the patterns in the brain, and brain...

Math is a language and like all languages is as useful as it's ability to describe reality.

I trust that the system is based on measurements that replicate because things keep working, which they wouldn't of the measurements used to create th...

You are the internal story you tell about how you fit into the world and society. If you don't have that story, there is no You.

The same input continues to match the output and poof, you have a yardstick, or whatever. The act of measurement is the act of validating causality. R...

Solipcism is irrelevant. Your experience of the external/other is what the word reality refers to. How precisely that replicates is a separate questio...

No, there are no a priori things. Or did you mean the replication occurs in the context of nature? Rephrase?

•Science is rigor, or the body of knowledge rigorously obtained. •Logic is relationships which always replicate; a subset of science. •Math is relatio...

talk about them meaningfully* typically understood* class of ideology* duck autocorrect

Both those terms have many definitions and variations, so to talk about them magically we must look to the most central element of them. Communism is ...

Science is rigor, or the body of knowledge rigorously obtained. Logic is a subset of science that describes relationships that always replicate. Math ...

Meaning is the desire for things to be other than they are and it comes in two flavours, avoid and approach.

Science is rigor. You can study anything rigorously, but if it's based on fantasy, the results will be too. The common core of all versions of religio...

Metaphysics is all of the deepest "What is the nature of" questions; time, space, energy, matter, self, consciousness, truth, knowledge, infinity, par...

I think you summed up my point very neatly there. Anecdote is the lowest form of evidence precisely because you cannot know how strong it is all on it...

My metaphor for that relationship is that matter is low entropy, entangled energy, but i'm not a physicist. Anyhow, you've got the idea straight.

It's the vernacular definition, the relationship between parts. Test it by replacing the term relationship where you'd otherwise use the term emergenc...

Emergence is identical to relationship. Build a Venn diagram of any two things. The overlap is where emergent qualities exist. Whether they are releva...

Matter is low entropy, entangled energy. Particles are an instance of matter.

No, and it's not hard. Mind is a metaphor for the patterns in the brain and being like something is merely a redescription of experience itself. Why i...

Change is the universal substrate of the universe and all physical processes can be understood in relation to it. Time is measured change.

Whatever that is out there, represented internally by our external sensory experience, it's what the word reality refers to. Solipcism answers nothing...

Why questions may mean either How?, in the mechanistic sense, or Why? as in "from what intent?" or "toward what end?" They are clearly different categ...

Anecdote is always the lowest form of evidence because it can never be verified directly, or if it is, the verification is always stronger than the an...

Not really. One can be a historian of What without caring a whit about how things developed or how they work.

1. Which propositions are true/knowledge? 2. How can we tell which propositions are true/knowledge? Knowledge is justified belief. What evidence count...

Interpretation is one contingency that must be accounted for - perspective. It might also be wrapped up in another - priority. In all cases, salience ...

Ask more questions?

That's easy enough. (tiny.cc/epistemology) The external/physical/material world is that which we access through our senses.

Both. We have the semantic version only because it keeps working that way. The ontological answer is that individual things do not exist until and for...

Maths doesn't even exist beyond useful. There's no way to strictly delineate one thing from another, so individuation is subject to the same rule. The...

Both. We have the semantic version only because it keeps working that way. The ontological answer is that individual things do not exist until and for...

Justified "true" belief is a step too far. If everyone in the entire species thought something was a fact and it turned it not to be, it would still h...

Math rests on the same foundation as logic - it keeps working. It has, as far as we can tell, always worked, and will, as far as we can tell, continue...

Truth in any more absolute sense is inaccessible to us. It's statistical probability at best, which is a sort of knowledge, but not a fact. It's not "...

Justified "true" belief is a step too far. If everyone in the entire species thought something was a fact and it turned it not to be, it would still h...

Sure it does. But can you ever be 100% sure that you used it correctly? Can you be so sure of the premises that you plugged into that 100% certain log...

Yes. Logic works for 100% of applications that i'm aware of, but i'm no expert in logic.

You can never know anything is "true" with 100% certainty. Certain *enough* for a given purpose is all that knowledge can possibly mean.

If you don't know it, it's not a fact to you, or for any of your purposes. Likewise if we collectively don't know it, it's not a fact for all intents ...

I don't know if i got these responded to in order. The response threading here is confusing me.

A fact is an individual instance of truth just as a choice is an individual instance of freedom. Knowledge is equivalent to epistemological warrant.

Everything you mention can be categorised either as empirical or logical. There really are only two ways of knowing.

Paradox simply doesn't exist in reality. It's a shortcoming of language. Every "thing" is a pattern with a purpose and the pattern is subservient to t...

I'd say percentage of certainty and level of confidence are identical. In any case, it's a fuzzy number so to think of it as numbers isn't really impo...

Yes, they do, but what that means to them isn't relevant to what it means to us. Things aren't a priori and we don't know how the animal thought proce...

The first purpose is recognition, In the case of stars, we say "That pattern is easily recognisable and that's useful because it moves certain ways th...

An attribute is a lower order thing used to compose higher order things.. A thing is a pattern with a purpose.

The stuff that the attributes apply to is part of the pattern as much as the attributes, or to put it another way, the attribute of encompassing a cer...

Purpose as in recognition, danger avoidance, interest (pass to consciousness), and so forth, in order of complexity - any human desire or purpose, etc...