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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Competitiveness doesn’t have to be about individual or even group-oriented domination and conflict, or about the influence of power, money or accolade...
This is a common error when conceptualising dimensional shift: most sci-fi descriptions of four-dimensional shift assume an alternative space to the s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
This is a recognition that neither happiness nor pleasure is accurately reducible to a linear hierarchy of value. Mill made a roughly dichotomous dist...
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...
Nothingness (from our perspective) is potential existence. Something (ie. a particle) comes into existence from an interrelation of this potentiality....
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...
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...
I agree that reducing, resampling or collapsing our understanding of reality is necessary to some extent for any level of interaction, including the s...
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...
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...
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...
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" ...
Consensus increases the perceived potential information of a subject, enabling them to theoretically approach a more accurate or objective view of tru...
An understanding of this reality, for starters. Read Carlo Rovelli’s ‘The Order of Time’. He effectively dismantles and then restructures our notion o...
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...
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...
Blind people learn to distinguish, value and therefore trust alternative sources of sensory information more highly than sighted people. Infants quick...
Truths that are true regardless of perspective or bias exist in possibility - they may be perceived, or expressed as a perception. An understanding of...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Consider this basic digital signalling structure as one dimensional information: a manifest relation between potential. Now consider two-dimensional i...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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