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You are confusing the chronology. This is what you said in reply to your quote of me: There is no good reason to believe objects really selectively re...

Of course, I didn't say that. Read more carefully before knee-jerk replying.

Rather not. The micro scale is just one scale, one perspective, not more or less privileged than the human, planetary, or cosmic. What scale we talk i...

From the indirect realism thread, we have a similar perspective on this topic. Yet part of what confuses these threads is that there really are colore...

Form doesn't seem particularly equivalent to information. Just as the same information might "reside" in different material substrates, it can reside ...

Rather the opposite of reification. Instead of treating abstractions as real, it excludes parts of the real from the category "real". Why hamstring? I...

I don't think analog values are not information, while digital values are. Of course analog values are just as representable on machines. The differen...

The whole point of my op is that information and numbers are the same thing

As she sent it with a computer, absolutely.

True enough. Instead of points I should have said integer marks

I've been thinking more about this. At first I thought I was just mistaken in my op. The set of all possible arrangements of bits is countable, so it ...

This seems like a conflation of information and communication, where communication is the transmission of information from A to B. Tea leaves and rand...

I think they can't. They carry the same information, whether or not it happens to be decodable at the time. Why does that preclude the marks themselve...

I guess I've bought into the hype. For me, thinking about a piece of information, say a snippet of song, pass somehow unchanged through multiple wildl...

"Unmistaken" is not "certain". To be knowledge, a belief must be true. That means for empirical beliefs we can never be totally sure that our beliefs ...

You are making the common mistake of equating knowledge with certainty. Certainty has no place in empirical knowledge, only in math and logic. Your ov...

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/GAW0KW/world-the-world-stanford-1892-antique-map-GAW0KW.jpg This is a world map from 1892. This perspective of the world was...

This seems untrue. Maps are never their territory; if a map was, it would just be the territory. Yet, we can clearly distinguish maps that faithfully ...

I would say that "modelling" refers to informational processes, where one system maps or reflects the relevant informational process of another, witho...

I'm not complaining about criticism, but about the weird appeal to authority. You didn't actually say why my analogy was poor. Heart and blood don't j...

I'm not sure what the philosophical claims are supposed to be. That the brain integrates sensory information and acts upon it seems to be no less an e...

Is it a mistake to say that hearts pump blood? Only a whole organism is capable of sustaining blood circulation, not an isolated heart. Yet that is th...

What distinguishes brains and computers from the rest of the universe is their universality. Unlike anything else we know, brains and computers can en...

I think (weak) emergence is the concept here.

But only in theory, on the subset of starting conditions that can actually be solved. Some may only reach a steady state after trillions of iterations...

This conflates reduction and prediction. No one can or will predict the steady state behavior of Conway's Game of Life from it's initial state. Yet no...

Does it though? For a perception to be fit, it must correlate to truth in some way. Pure hallucination cannot do an organism any good Though the same ...

Right. "Truly see reality" is the legacy of naive r realism. You can reject naive realism while maintaining this concept as an impossible standard. Th...

You allude to this often. This thread is quite long, so it might be helpful to edit the op with a compilation of the best evidence. I think the fundam...

I for one think this is great fun, and will definitely be submitting an answer. Some people are being way over-cynical. No one here knows whether you ...

Let's all enjoy this brief window of hope before they undemocratically shove through another centrist loser offering absolutely nothing, guaranteed to...

I don't want to give an all too easy answer that "everything is just a narrative" and science and religion are"just empty fictions filling space". My ...

I think your inquiry about religion itself captures the essence of religion. Religion is how we fill the symbolic space. The symbolic space is a produ...

The two statements are not contradictory. They simply imply ~A.

Kamela? Really? From one deeply unpopular candidate to another. I have long given up on the Democrats actually delivering anything meaningful policy w...

Was that some kind of inept death threat? I couldn't tell, verbal expression is not this guy's strong suit. If so, I have to wonder why he is permitte...

:rofl: yeah... Wish I could say the same.

Please, gtfo. The music is not there to somehow induce tipping (show me this "scientific evidence"). It's there because management decided the shoppin...

Death metal eh? I think it is the metalheads that can least abide the ear-vomit that passes for music these days. I used to be a black metal exclusive...

That is an interesting perception. I think there is no lack of melody in todays pop, and certainly, they have lyrics. It's just that they are maddenin...

Shitty ass modern pop (that is, modern pop) People blarting their shitty ass modern pop in public places (Beach, park) or next door, implicitly demand...

The way he would become lost, dazedly fumbling between unrelated topics, gazing vacantly, can be explained either by severe anxiety at the enormity of...

Lol, then what do you think you are? It's not just a silly debate, or the silly impression it made, it's what it indicated. The man is senile, there i...

We know this, but does America? Administrations are largely unseen. What was seen was a doddering old fool, next to which the malignant moron seemed s...

Good for you.

Ceding life as we know it to the incorrigible morons is bad enough. Ceding it to senile bitch Biden? It's too much. Biden has to go. I think not. All ...

What a debacle. In the immediate aftermath the momentum for forcing Biden out felt overwhelming. But now with enough authority figures in the DNC rall...

Not just thwart it. They will coopt the system so that they are the true polity: the system's desires becomes their desires, which are at odds with an...

In a system where "the people" (aka the state) owns everything, tyranny is inevitable.

Thanks, I enjoyed this intersection of (the practice of) art, Buddhism and philosophy. He has a clear (and very clearly articulated) indirect realist ...