Thanks for the comment. Yeah, the OP is just dumb, but I'd come across Hoffman before and thought it would be an interesting topic. The critical paper...
P.P.S. In a sympathetic comment in the same issue (Esse est percipi & verum factum est) Jan Koenderink writes that the "interface theory" is "part of ...
Don't get me wrong, I haven't actually said anything against Hoffman's work other than that it's controversial, which is actually a good thing if, lik...
lol, pot, kettle? I am not angry, but I don't respect lazy and incurious people, especially not on a philosophy forum. I have actually looked a bit in...
Excuse me if I come off patronizing, but you give an impression of someone who is not at all familiar with how science is done. What Hoffmann et al. d...
That's not a "new discovery" but rather a purely theoretical and controversial argument promulgated by Donald Hoffman (a bona fide cognitive scientist...
Let's just say that there is more than one sense of truth. One basic sense is where you accept or reject a proposition. This sense is well tracked by ...
I haven't read the works to which you refer (Cora Diamond and her unnamed critic), but I like your gloss on the nature moral statements. I wouldn't wo...
I don't get what it is you don't get, but let me address this bit: No, chess does not exist in a vacuum, any more than a line. I think when people tal...
Within the context of a given mathematical system, yes. But there is more than one system, and hence more than one way to define/describe a line. For ...
Far more people die from old age than from what you call "horrible diseases," such as polio, but that doesn't mean that we needn't do anything about p...
A line is not usually defined as a distance, if it is defined at all: in some systems it is a primitive element, which is not defined, but merely cons...
No, you are right: entropy is a tricky thing (or things, since there are different kinds). Also, while the simple version of the 2nd law (entropy incr...
No, the second law applies to all systems, but that just goes back to what you said at the start of your post. You should have stopped while you were ...
From my Youtube likes: Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach Capriccio BMV 992 "On the Departure of His Beloved Brother" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxxnEkOj...
My criticism probably won't be useful or convincing to you, but here goes. I draw the line at premise one - a moral system - in the way both your oppo...
The question is unclear, which is why I think the responses are all over the place. What sort of an answer to do you expect? Is this a scientific ques...
Sure. There's also a difference between hybridisation and selection. And a difference between pumpkins and shovels. Point? I can understand queasiness...
We have been literally creating new species since prehistoric times. There are parasites that only exist because of humans - not to mention practicall...
Direct manipulation of genome is just the latest technology used in the process of adapting other species for our needs - and we are already using it ...
@"Hanover"@"Baden" You should start mass-deleting his posts when you ban his next sock. It probably takes like 15 minutes to make a new account, and h...
I should still commend you for writing out the texts - much better than just dropping a youtube link, which I certainly wouldn't watch, even with a pi...
Yeah well, this goes both ways. You are entitled to my attention if you know what you are talking about. And I see no evidence of that. But good luck ...
Well, it may be necessary in some sense - just not in the sense of physical indeterminism. Indeed, if one insists on considering the question in this ...
Another thing is that the scientific enterprise does not exist independently of "other phenomen in the history of histories of human civilizations". O...
Your point - that science is cyclical - is just postulated out of nowhere. "ust like any other phenomenon in the history of histories of human civiliz...
It is unclear to me how anything can give us the "ultimate" answer - one that cannot in turn be challenged with the same question: Why that and not so...
That doesn't really clarify anything. What are sufficient reasons? Who makes the determination? If someones determines to do something upon deliberati...
I guess a climatology class for someone training in meteorology is like a cosmology class for someone training in orbital mechanics. Good to have for ...
Yeah, if there was a way to throttle a poster, limiting the number of comments and topics per day to, say, 10 and 1, then he would've been ok. No wors...
Whether or not the universe can be thought of as an "object", what's important in this context is whether it is the sort of... thing that can stand in...
It's easier when the deficit angle is large - e.g. 90 degrees, as in the example given in the link above. If after making three right turns at a right...
Yes, you can detect intrinsic curvature on a sphere, even if it is not embedded in 3D space. Angles in a triangle won't sum up to 180 degrees. http://...
Are you saying that the universe is nothing more than an unstructured collection of items about which nothing can be said other than that they are dis...
The universe is a class or a set in the sense that these abstractions can be used to talk about the universe as the "sum total" of all there is, but n...
Just to add to what @"Kenosha Kid" said, entropy does not decrease when space expands. Rather, the ceiling of maximum entropy is lifted, so it has mor...
I think the like score is unclear and misreading. Since likes are not offset by dislikes, the metric is cumulative, so it mixes several unrelated fact...
I wasn't closely following the debate with the crackpot, but these numbers jumped out at me.If our energy needs were on the order of 10% of all solar ...
So what you were trying to say was that all and only those atheists who are notorious for furiously proselytizing are notorious for furiously proselyt...
That's like saying "Americans are notorious for relentlessly shooting people in the street." The statement exposes your ignorant prejudice. There are ...
So have any of you guys sobered up yet? I don't mind the like feature (it's almost invisible anyway), but I would much rather have the number of posts...
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