That is a question for you to answer: you are the one setting the parameters of your thought experiment. You seem to be unsure as to what you are aski...
In a conspiracist's world, perhaps. Or perhaps both a controlled by a third, hidden agent? Meanwhile, in the real world, things aren't as simple and s...
Depends on what you mean by thing/object, so you should clarify that first (and before that I would suggest clarifying the need for such a definition ...
I was referring to how folk who are unfamiliar with specialist terms that are based on words in the ordinary language try to make sense of those terms...
A "countable" set is one that can be placed into a one-to-one correspondence with the counting numbers - integers. Why do mathematicians define "count...
Of course these are word games. An experience is an experience of something "in the world" - of being warm or cold, of sitting or standing, of convers...
So, you reframe the problem to be not about making what is best for others, but about what is best for your self-image. (Playing a devil's advocate he...
I am not sure that I agree. For simple, totalizing moral theories, such as classical utilitarianism, it is very much relevant (perhaps as a reductio)....
Like I said, I don't want to get involved in that old trainwreck. I already said what I wanted to say about Thompson's Lamp. And since you don't want ...
Well, as far as I can see, you haven't done either: you haven't demonstrated any contradictions in TL, nor linked it to continuous motion. But I am no...
You are just restating - reimagining - Thompson's Lamp thought experiment, which has nothing to do with continuous motion as such (and repeating once ...
I don't see how it's a problem for continuous motion that you can imagine something else taking place alongside of it. Solution to what? I have yet to...
The interesting thing about Thompson's Lamp thought experiment is that it produces an indeterminate outcome where one might not expect it. If you take...
RIP DC Dennett. He was very much a public philosopher, and my impression (as a member of the public who occasionally peruses academic publications) is...
Maya Beiser's take on Terry Riley's classic (cello with loop pedals and percussions) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ld5pPWE-QIUs9HBYZiR...
I think this bears reiterating. There is no point in trying to nail down the one correct definition of knowledge, because, like many words in the ordi...
I fell in love with Scarlatti K87. I'd heard it before (it is one of his best known sonatas), but yesterday it hit me hard for some reason. Clara Hask...
It is a bit cheap to proclaim that AI will never be able to achieve something or other because it hasn't done so yet, or just because. A more substant...
Yes, it's deeply ironic that the instincts of populist movements are invariably authoritarian, anti-democratic. They don't trust the people to govern ...
I think you are mixing up counterfactual possible worlds with different partitions of the same world. All these supervenience definitions are ultimate...
There is a somewhat more detailed introduction found in the IEP article on supervenience, where you can also find references to original publications ...
This doesn't follow, unless by "limited" you mean just that: being limited by something else. But that would make your argument a simple and uninteres...
Although emergence is often sloganized in terms of wholes vs. parts, it doesn't necessarily boil down to mereology, nor to substances. (Also, emergenc...
It is not. Just reread the definitions and pay attention to the placing of the terms. This is essential to understand in a discussion of emergence. Yo...
Yes, this is almost identical to the definition that I quoted in my post, and it is the opposite of what you stated and then used to argue that consci...
This is an incorrect definition of supervenience: the relationship goes in the opposite direction. And you go on to make an incorrect argument from it...
Not a web developer (or a pro developer) here, so don't have anything to contribute. I have a slightly off topic question though if you don't mind. I'...
Sorry, no, I don't have Safari and don't know how to make extensions for it. That wouldn't be possible with an extension. Code that runs on your brows...
Sorry for the late response. I've been traveling and otherwise preoccupied. On the contrary, I wouldn't even know how to understand determinism other ...
Predictability is the most straightforward and intuitive path towards inductive (or abductive, if you prefer) inference of determinism. But induction ...
Depends on what sort of determinism is at stake. The definition that I quoted from one of the papers commits only to the existence of a one-to-one map...
If Bach Kept Bees... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1iCfYplXT0&list=OLAK5uy_mI-r7tUXPwv15I67mgsRSrWNzrzHJgr9U&index=6 Music from the young Arvo Pärt...
Because it's a critical command-and-control center? And yet it was taken with hardly a shot fired, and two generals, including a deputy Minister of De...
Particularly puzzling is how it happened that Wagner was allowed to cross the border and capture a million+ city hosting Southern Military District he...
Wagner wasn't military. They weren't even legal (an "illegal armed group" is how Russian law qualifies such formations). As for what purpose they serv...
For all that's already been known, the degree of dysfunction in the power structure and the society that this episode has brought to the surface is pr...
Things are still in motion, and of what has happened so far a lot remains unclear, and a lot will probably remain hidden from view in the foreseeable ...
That was one mistake they did not repeat this time around. Reportedly, when Wagner and then MoD were recruiting fighters from prisons, political priso...
Don't you know? It's a CIA/State Dept/NATO coup! They are omnipresent and all-powerful. Nothing in the world happens but through their agency and inte...
I rather see it instrumentally, as a characteristic of specific theories or models that we adopt. And I mean not just scientific theories, but also ou...
Predictability, in the sense that you employ in your thought experiment, is not usually part of the definition of determinism, nor does it follow as a...
They publish articles about the Ukraine war under the heading "US-NATO Conflict with Russia over Ukraine" That's quality journalism for you :roll: The...
Huh. Well, it is possible to put yourself on ignore, and also make ignored posts invisible. That would explain your experience. I did try a fresh inst...
Russian propaganda is also trying to play the cui bono card. Their western proxies amplify that narrative: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/16...
Fixed broken option selections in the extension options panel. Hiding posts and/or topics by ignored users should work now. (Thanks to @"T Clark" for ...
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