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we are riding in the back of a pickup truck, trying to guess where we are going by looking behind.

[ Rather, from our perspective, we are moving forward while able only to look backward.

It is causality, not time, that has a direction. Time is the space in which causality evolves. If time "ran backwards", we wouldn't notice, because ou...

Of course we do. Our appraisal of something as beautiful is a property of our minds, not the thing. But we project this into the thing.

What about fractals? These are infinite spaces that you can explore on a computer. Their instantiation in a computer realizes what was an abstract inf...

I would still classify unicorns as imaginary. It is just that they are intersubjectively imaginary. But they are not forces in the world, in the same ...

The point is, it was money, but no longer is, despite being physically identical at both times. The money is not the paper.

I am not excluding them from the real. I am refining the overbroad category of real: things that are ontologically real, vs. things that are ontologic...

This seems to be your favorite rhetorical gun, too bad you can't seem to hit anything with it.

Even if this were so, the components of this synthesis seem worthy of discussion.

The fact that a ten dollar note is money is not a property of the physical paper. In 5000 years whatever nation backs it will have long since collapse...

Everyone is simultaneously mental and physical subject. Your personal identity is simultaneously mental subject and object, when you reflect on it. Mo...

Yes, but this is my point. The categories of "real" and "imaginary" are inadequate to describe social realities. I am attempting to amend them by expa...

No ought. I was starting from the commonplace dichotomy of real/imaginary, where what is real exists "in the world", and what is imaginary is "in the ...

Not abstract reals. Imaginary reals. Would numbers, qualities, logical principles, scientific laws, and so on, disappear if we collectively stopped be...

Either way you see it, my point remains the same. Things live in the world, but cross over into the mental world in the form of sensations, and apprai...

Hate to disappoint you, but you can't give a meaningful reply after randomly half-reading a few sentences. Does money or any of the other examples I c...

I'm not familiar, his division is into the Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic? But since money is a collective fiction, it is resistant to our individual t...

For me this is as real as it gets. But capital R types usually want more, as you did in the previous post. You want to justify these intuitions, not r...

But the question, unless I misunderstood, is not "what is ethics definitionally", but rather "what is ethics ontologically?".

:rofl:

Gun ownership, like the right to be unvaccinated/unmasked, is of the family of purported rights, favored by right wingers, which come at the expense o...

We aren't as clever as we think we are. But we can talk. This is what separates us from the other animals. No other animal can communicate with remote...

To the extent that we see them expressed in even 'unintelligent' and very nonhuman species, such as fish, we can guess: quite. The innate ethical tend...

And this specific position is?

What it is is a codification, elaboration, ossification, (and in some cases, perversion),of innate concepts and feelings of fairness and justice that ...

The winner takes all system is the fatal flaw of American democracy, we are observing it's resultant collapse in real time. It creates the perverse ou...

I'm not an expert on these matters. That is why I wrote my post as I did. So you say the information content of the universe is not equal to the infor...

I don't even know who you are arguing with anymore. Again, where am I assuming this? I made an argument that the number of possible universes is infin...

Raymond has declared it to be nonsense. The matter is settled then, nothing more need be said.

Of course its arbitrary, its an encoding. The only requirement is that it be reversible. I am asserting: *if* the information content of the universe ...

Let me try again. By the state of the universe, I mean a snapshot of the types, positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe. I'm no ...

No? It's true that I struggled to express myself here. Either the state of the universe can be represented by a real or it cannot. If it can: an infin...

I'm not staking my claim on whether you can or cannot. (Reals are continuous. Reals comprise of potentially infinite information, so I don't see why y...

This is an old and tired fallacy. Consider the state of the universe to be represented by a real number: say 1.12365... Given an infinite set of real ...

If there is a threshold I imagine it would vary among individuals and cultures. There is no formula. This touches upon a tension in philosophy, betwee...

I would also assume not. Therefore, the requirement that something be sacred must be that some, not all, people regard it so. Therefore, my example an...

Despite the crude sophistry of the OP, the possibility does seem real that that time is an illusion. Suppose it was, that every moment was contemporan...

Is any, to all?

Happiness has intrinsic value. The positive valence of happiness is hardwired. That is what intrinsic value looks like.

"Do viruses have will?" is analogous to "are viruses alive?". In both cases the virus meets some of the criteria of the word in question, but not all....

We can imagine a case where we believe we raised our arm: we have the intention, and receive the sensory motor feedback of raising out arm, but in fac...

Change can be thought of as a meta property, a property of properties. My weight, a property, has the property of being in constant flux. My age has t...

Suppose Jesus returned to earth for a few months and kept a blog of his slumming vacation. The Christians who knew of this momentous event took posses...

Decisions originating in the brain propagate to the peripheral nervous system which contracts muscles and applies forces to the system. The system is ...

Yeah, except this is a philosophy forum, discussing philosophical topics. You know, "what is really out there?" "What do we really know?" Not the prag...

:roll: Don't be so dense. My point is that your list was incomplete. My version is the sense in which Descartes would doubt he had hands, were he to d...

Well put. Now that I think about it some more, the argument is convincing.

This was my addition to your list, sorry I thought it was obvious. Not "as much as". Funny, this strikes me as your attitude. You are the one who is c...

Going back to the OP. English is a real language. The range of sentences expressible in English is infinite. Is that an infinity in the world? Of cour...