While I welcome your approach and think that it is among the more promising ways of looking at the problem, I must object to the remark about "missing...
My comments were directed at your OP and some following posts. It seemed to me that your dissatisfaction with Cantorian mathematical theories of conti...
It seems to me that you are laboring under a simplistic mereological and atomistic understanding of topology. In topology a line is not just a bunch o...
I think that you are making some unconscious metaphysical assumptions here. Why does continuous motion preserve identity and discrete motion does not?...
I am afraid that you just can't get past the concept of counting, or rather to see it in its context. There's no point in me trying to explain it to y...
Yes, this nicely illustrates the very confusion that I've been talking about. True enough, but this has nothing to do with counting. You are saying th...
Because I was responding to your own line of argument, e.g. here. You haven't argued that moving is somehow related to counting, you just imagined som...
Such a machine would not be possible. But we are not talking about this machine specifically, we are talking about any thing that moves, so this is a ...
You are begging the question. You are essentially saying that motion is just like this impossible thing, therefore motion is impossible. You must show...
Like I said, passing all rational coordinates in order is not a problem. After all, there is a (total) order relation for rational coordinates, so tha...
The superfluous assumption here is sequentially. It would be reasonable to say that for motion to be continuous the position of the body must pass eve...
"This thing is just like that thing" is not an argument. The best that I can make of your attempt is basically the same as before: you are saying that...
An analogy can only be useful for illustrating an argument, and you have yet to offer an argument. You assert that moving from place to place is possi...
I suppose that etymology can be of use if you are interested in the history of ideas, and in particular in exegesis of old philosophers, which is what...
You are making two mistakes: 1. Suppressed premises. You are assuming that your scenario is a stochastic process with a non-zero probability of failur...
Well, the HUP has been experimentally confirmed, so that means we can perceive its predictions, albeit indirectly - but isn't that the case with any m...
I don't see what Schrodinger's cat has to do with a coin flip. Of course, probability is involved in both cases, one way or another, but that's not mu...
It's not just futile to change a well-established vocabulary, it seems senseless. Is there any particular reason that the word "probability" should no...
Guys, you are both swimming upstream, and for no good reason that I can see. There are ways of talking about probability in both senses. Probability i...
That's just what we mean when we say that the probability of a coin toss outcome is 50%. So the answer to your question in the OP: it doesn't matter w...
Has anyone here read any existing literature on the subject? There's lots! First it should be noted that nothing about evidence and confirmation is ne...
Physicalism As you can see, there isn't anything like a common agreement on what the term means, and the prospects of it amounting to a coherent stand...
Physicalism isn't necessarily framed in mereological terms (I personally dislike this approach). Asking "how experience is made up of physical stuff" ...
Physicalism also can't explain why some physical systems are cars and others are not. Take any summation of Physicalism as a philosophical doctrine, a...
Well, you appear to be a competent speaker of English, don't you already know what people mean when they say that something exists? I didn't have any ...
The brain doesn't generate color, it experiences color (or rather, your entire organism experiences color, since the brain does not function in isolat...
Or, more directly, does the word "exist" necessarily implies having a location? How could you argue for that? (You haven't even tried, as far as I can...
But what motivated the Chinese Room and similar thought experiments is the very idea that without conscious experience there is not "true" understandi...
Well, a paper computer executes instructions just as a microprocessor computer does. So what is true of the one ought to be true of the other. To be c...
Well, if you stipulate from the start that you are merely imagining a thing, you are, ipso facto, stipulating that the thought is not about, does not ...
So you think there is a problem specifically in the case where we are contemplating something imaginary? I should note that physicalists do not all sh...
It is not unprecedented, but it feels like it is becoming more common and accepted. As for "a collection of groups" - tu quoque again in lieu of addre...
Again, I'm wondering what the evidence for this is. The evidence is the straightforward proof by contradiction. That the Liar sentence is not truth-ap...
No, that's just a transparent attempt at a tu quoque and ad hominem: people who talk about "post-truth" are themselves poopy-heads, and that being the...
Nick Bostrom has done some fairly involved investigations in epistemic probability, starting with his PhD thesis. That's not to say that he is right, ...
A computer program is an abstraction, just as an idea, a formula, a narrative. The world cannot literally be a computer program: if it is a computer a...
I read the novel as an adult, and to be honest, the "big ideas" interested me much less than the literature. And it is great literature, no doubt abou...
What sense is that? Does it have anything to do with what I asked? ("How can you possibly prove physical laws with a calculation?") How do you figure ...
Right, of course, you even have transgender friends :-} Look, if you want to be "truthful," why these disingenuous excuses? If you think that there's ...
How can you possibly prove physical laws with a calculation? Being computable or otherwise neither proves nor disproves anything. Nor does this have a...
OK, but what kind of an explanation are we looking for? If we are looking for a motivation (why ought we be afraid), that's one thing. If we are looki...
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