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One can do something close to that. It's called a map. From the map, if it is a contour map, one can construct elevations along a sightline and thus r...

Correct. and that is what everyone in the world does, and then they use it to explain to themselves why blue men cannot sing the whites and the orient...

Your guru so fat, if she invaded Crimea it would sink.

My logic's logialler than your logic 'cos you ain't got any logicalicity, an' anyway your mama...

You're a sceptic. I'm a sceptic too. I don't think even colourblind people are racially colourblind. Race shows up even in black and white photography...

Trumps bombs were righteous and friendly bombs.

I think that's right. Reentry produces kind of fractal/recursive infinity. The last case of P.56 that you had problems with produces an indeterminate ...

Perhaps like Christianity, Marxism too has not been tried because it was found difficult.

Oh, good.

I assume that blind people live in the same reality as me. And bees likewise.

How would you know? You're not even in my reality.

This may be your reality, but my reality is different. In my reality, bees do not talk to me or tell me about their access to light. They are too busy...

Chesterton is an old favourite, very human and a great writer. But the Christianity he was talking about is not a system at all. In the hypothetical e...

What makes anyone think that there is a system that works? What even is the measure or criterion of 'working'? What constitutes failure? Are you and y...

I watched the "is reality real?" vid in your notes, and the arguments there were all towards indirect realism, which posits a Kantian objective realit...

It just wouldn't work with imaginary forgeries would it? Everyone would notice.

A joke, but it got you the attention and a proper answer.

Here it is in an easily digestible and truly enlightening form.

Alas, I find myself stuck again at the same place as last time. I think i understand how re-entry introduces time and square wave oscillation, and sor...

Illusions are real. Hallucinations are real. Fantasies are real. Copies and forgeries are real. Appearances are real.

The devil would make some work for idle hands. Or in modern parlance, ennui leads to mindless violence and destruction, much bombing etc, until there ...

The one true religion obviously does not conflict with true science, because the truth cannot be contradictory. It's all the false religions and all t...

Its a big long book about one word. The authors arrive at a list of about 16 different definitions in use by "reputable philosophers" not counting its...

You'll have to read the book to find out.

Try telling AI to start a new 'school of art'. What is happening is industrial plagiarism, and industrial forgery. It has an empty feel because it is ...

the Meaning of Meaning. Read the book O ye lovers of definition, and despair.

Some people think God is real, and some people think God is unreal, and they are all correct?

What everyone else is getting at is that reality is that about which one can be deceived. So in the case where what is real to you is unreal to me, at...

Now I see how it works! One maverick retired scientist is a honest Joe getting fairly paid, but a dozen is a venal conspiracy. You must be right becau...

Yeah, my mind has been infected since almost forever Yes indeed, the source is the process of letting go. The idea of freedom becomes confused and con...

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/beyond-recycling-what-to-do-about-climate-change https://theconversation.com/how-rising-water-vapour-in-the-atmos...

But in this case, of course, Do not follow the money. https://www.desmog.com/2023/05/15/judith-curry-denier-montana-climate-trial/

Pipe dream. a literal pipe dream. Two of them in fact. Hydrogen and fusion. Instead of taking action, fantasise about the magic bullet we will have in...

But , can you not see the graphs going up? That means things are getting better, because nearer to God.

Thanks for that. I think I need to read some Kierkegaard. No one seems to argue with him - perhaps it's the intimidating Big Guy standing at his shoul...

I don't think I have defined it, except negatively. Even in mechanics this applies; the 'free' wheel is the one that is not tied by belt or gear but c...

I notice someone has forgotten the first rule of alien club.

The pot calling the ice cream-maker black. Reminds me of the sexual morality of the Catholic church.

Thanks! My theory is that every thread should have a theme tune, because communication requires and assists a community to come together, and music is...

So follow it. Try not to keep going in a circle though.

Yes, you said that, and then you said it is when we avoid doing what we don't want to do, and then t you said it is when we do what we think to do. I ...

It's not interesting. It doesn't follow the money. The only fact is that the government is spending money on climate research (and presumably on mitig...

In the UK, summer consists of three warm days and a thunderstorm; all the rest is cold and wet except in February alone, which is even worse. But with...

Do you think that anything that is not thought is arbitrary? I would say rather that thought is mechanical, and not free at all. You see I suggested t...

We do think it, and we are ruled by that thinking. But what of freedom? My suggestion is that freedom is the starting place, and we immediately make r...

Or we could try shaping our desires to the circumstances. But personally, I prefer to leave things the shape they are, and not be a slave to circumsta...

Well there's some Orgs spending money, but are they making money? you know like Big Oil, and Big Pharma? Show me the commercial interests distorting t...

Do I need to make the argument that conspiracies of the poor and powerless are not worth worrying about?

Who are they? Multi-National windmill manufacturers?

Sandy Denny was better than Joan Baez better even than Joni Mitchell at expressing the emotional intensity of a lyric. You need more... https://www.yo...