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Her view is that it’s something we continually construct as we encounter new situations - but that as adults we try to avoid prediction error, and in ...
April 20, 2020 at 15:36
Okay, I’m with you now. This also corresponds to @"Coben"’s issue. The internal affect is not the emotion: the conceptualisation is the emotion, which...
April 20, 2020 at 14:44
Someone from this forum put me onto Feldman Barrett’s book ‘How Emotions Are Made’, for which I am most grateful. To address your two points: I’d like...
April 20, 2020 at 12:42
Wittgenstein, as far as I understand it, saw the difference as more about temperament than facts. Even if we could ‘know’ all of the causal conditions...
April 20, 2020 at 09:45
I think the potential is there for personality and character to eventually develop into something more stable. Either that, or the person would find s...
April 20, 2020 at 03:20
The difference is in awareness of why I go this way or that. I can be aware not just of alternative directions (as a personified leaf), but also aware...
April 20, 2020 at 02:49
Their existence is not a separate entity, though. They point to the truth of our relation to all the possibility of existence. It’s not a matter of ch...
April 20, 2020 at 01:49
This I disagree with. That Peter had a thought yesterday at noon may be a fact, but the contents of that thought is potential information. There is no...
April 19, 2020 at 15:42
Competitiveness doesn’t have to be about individual or even group-oriented domination and conflict, or about the influence of power, money or accolade...
April 19, 2020 at 13:34
This is a common error when conceptualising dimensional shift: most sci-fi descriptions of four-dimensional shift assume an alternative space to the s...
April 19, 2020 at 06:33
You’ll have to be more specific than that if you want to dismiss it. Talk about wibbly wobbly...
April 19, 2020 at 03:37
I am fascinated by the way you process this and challenge my perspective. Yes, I think we are closer in understanding here, sort of. If your actions p...
April 19, 2020 at 03:34
Oh, sorry - I didn’t mean ‘logic’ in the mathematical sense. My approach to this is intuitive (I’m an Arts major) so it’s likely you’ll have a good la...
April 19, 2020 at 01:53
I don’t. I’m not about to pretend I have any way of objectively proving the theory. It makes sense from my limited understanding of quantum field theo...
April 18, 2020 at 08:39
Well, there is no convincing evidence that either spacetime or the potential of our universe (in relation to energy, at least) is infinite. Rather, ev...
April 18, 2020 at 07:51
I want to be clear here that I’ve been referring to the particular ‘lonely savage’ in the thought experiment you proposed, who hypothetically has zero...
April 18, 2020 at 04:50
First of all, I don’t think this is so much a temporal shift as a value shift. We still turn to the earth for sustenance and comfort. But the reality ...
April 18, 2020 at 02:47
Well, I’d warn that the existence of peaceful cultures is not a convincing argument against the capacity for war being part of our ‘nature’ - only tha...
April 18, 2020 at 01:40
No problem.
April 17, 2020 at 16:30
I’m not sure how you got that from what I’ve written. That’s not what I mean at all.
April 17, 2020 at 15:36
This is a recognition that neither happiness nor pleasure is accurately reducible to a linear hierarchy of value. Mill made a roughly dichotomous dist...
April 17, 2020 at 07:54
Potentiality is a five-dimensional existence. It’s four-dimensional aspect would appear as a static, eternal state of nothingness.
April 17, 2020 at 02:40
You’re acknowledging a distinction between knowing and believing on the one hand, but reducing it to a degree of uncertainty on the other. You’re reve...
April 17, 2020 at 02:28
yes
April 16, 2020 at 11:58
Nothingness (from our perspective) is potential existence. Something (ie. a particle) comes into existence from an interrelation of this potentiality....
April 16, 2020 at 11:11
This is where our perspectives differ: in how we conceptualise the existence of truth. For you, it seems, objective truth is an actuality. What is pot...
April 16, 2020 at 07:11
The way I see it, human psychology is in many ways a product of social and civilised man, not the other way around - in particular, our capacity to di...
April 16, 2020 at 01:47
I agree that reducing, resampling or collapsing our understanding of reality is necessary to some extent for any level of interaction, including the s...
April 15, 2020 at 16:14
Sure, from our perspective, each of these is different, but to the ‘lonely savage’ there is no distinction between these thoughts and the notion of ob...
April 15, 2020 at 07:20
It adds a dimensional aspect of awareness.
April 15, 2020 at 07:06
No. The ‘subject’ I’m referring to here is the person experiencing, not the ‘truth’ in question. I realise this might be confusing, so I wanted to cle...
April 15, 2020 at 06:44
No, I’m saying that theoretically we can obtain a more accurate view of truth - that’s definitely not the same as saying ‘the information is more true...
April 14, 2020 at 12:41
Simply trying to get rid of or isolate ourselves from the immersive effects of culture on the mind is not going to be productive, as @"unenlightened" ...
April 14, 2020 at 10:26
Consensus increases the perceived potential information of a subject, enabling them to theoretically approach a more accurate or objective view of tru...
April 14, 2020 at 09:23
An understanding of this reality, for starters. Read Carlo Rovelli’s ‘The Order of Time’. He effectively dismantles and then restructures our notion o...
April 14, 2020 at 08:37
No, not a defeater of belief, just of certainty. I’m okay with that, fwiw. Possibility leaves the door open for correction and reformation. Just becau...
April 14, 2020 at 05:20
There is no connection being made here between a digital mind and a digital brain as yet - only between the mind and ‘brain states’ as a concept of me...
April 14, 2020 at 04:53
Blind people learn to distinguish, value and therefore trust alternative sources of sensory information more highly than sighted people. Infants quick...
April 14, 2020 at 02:50
Truths that are true regardless of perspective or bias exist in possibility - they may be perceived, or expressed as a perception. An understanding of...
April 13, 2020 at 10:01
I recognise that at some point we feel compelled to draw a line to protect the integrity of the system. Something must be incorrigible, but that somet...
April 13, 2020 at 02:45
It’s not so much that I’m compelled to define the expression differently. But as an ingredient of truth, possessibility is misleading, wouldn’t you ag...
April 13, 2020 at 00:57
I don’t think it’s that simple. Tallness is a relative term - it applies not just to a specific height, or even a range of possible values height can ...
April 12, 2020 at 15:21
What is it that you refer to as ‘I’? What information are you basing that ‘certainty’ on? And how are you certain of that information? Because we can ...
April 12, 2020 at 05:55
It doesn’t really have any - it’s a formula for existential possibility. We can be certain only that ‘something’ exists, and that ‘something’ is aware...
April 12, 2020 at 02:15
Consider this basic digital signalling structure as one dimensional information: a manifest relation between potential. Now consider two-dimensional i...
April 12, 2020 at 01:12
I agree that an objective may imply a prior intelligence, but an underlying creative impetus does not - and neither does it imply ‘luck’, despite the ...
April 11, 2020 at 17:00
You do know that’s just an expression, don’t you? Not an entirely false belief - in their experience of the Earth, it does actually appear flat. You c...
April 11, 2020 at 16:17
Not so much an objective as an impetus, but why not think that? There is a tendency to misconstrue creativity as motivation to design or produce somet...
April 11, 2020 at 11:59
Be careful what you wish for. I think if that happened, if we could not relate to people of the past, then we’d risk repeating errors. For instance, i...
April 11, 2020 at 03:20
I don’t think truth is something you can possess or grasp, it’s more something you approach, point to or share in. You can integrate a potential expre...
April 11, 2020 at 02:10