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Well, individuation (self-identity, self-awareness is essentially indexical) is inherently part of it. You're apart from the rest/others, yet interact...
July 09, 2019 at 14:18
Right, they'll just say that qualia etc are fundamental (cf atomic) in the first place. Given what we already know, I'm not sure how much explanatory ...
July 07, 2019 at 22:09
... darned. :) Evidence That Elon Musk Is an Alien (Alissa Walker, Jun 2019) :D Psychoceramics or satire?
June 29, 2019 at 13:54
You're back , good to see lifesigns. :)
June 29, 2019 at 13:43
Oxford academic argues invisible aliens are interbreeding with humans Jay Staker The Oxford Student Apr 2019 Well I'll be ... :D
June 28, 2019 at 01:46
We could start in the simple with identity. Without identity, what would these comments mean? Indeed, meaning presupposes identity. That's not to say ...
May 25, 2019 at 06:32
Yahweh getting a fit over an apple and cursing us forever is obviously creative story-telling. What about the boars beavers goats rabbits squirrels et...
May 19, 2019 at 15:11
My 2 ¢s. H2O is a model of water. And such a successful one that we occasionally use the two interchangeably. Even though the model is not the modeled...
May 11, 2019 at 13:28
Rome opens up exorcism course to all major Christian faiths to fight rising demonic forces Leonardo Blair Christian Post May 2019 Systematic madness ?...
May 11, 2019 at 03:11
Good historical comments, though I don't think Christianity was any particular single movement in the first centuries after Jesus had departed. Greek ...
May 07, 2019 at 20:52
So you abandon the principle of sufficient reason. An "atemporal", "eternal" cause of a universe that has a definite age (like 14 billion years) or a ...
April 29, 2019 at 04:15
Strictly speaking, pondering cogito ergo sum implies that thinking exists. And, deductively, that's about it, according to Gassendi (1592-1655). Think...
April 20, 2019 at 01:14
Primate Amygdala Neurons Simulate Decision Processes of Social Partners Fabian Grabenhorst, Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Wilfried Genest, Gustavo Deco, Wolf...
April 12, 2019 at 03:57
There are all kinds of people out there promoting preaching indoctrinating proselytizing their fancies every day. When their religious faiths spill ov...
April 07, 2019 at 03:01
... is illogical. As mentioned, ? is not just one of your ordinary numbers, that you can stuff into ordinary arithmetic. That would be the illogical p...
April 07, 2019 at 02:57
Nitpicking, I'd say ... 1. we employ logic to understand reality has served us well; for that matter, meaning presupposes identity 2. if ? derives a c...
April 06, 2019 at 20:54
, as mentioned by , you can't get A ? ¬A 3. ¬A ? A 4. ¬A ? ¬¬A (contraposition of 3) 5. ¬A ? A (double negation elimination) so your 4 is wrong.
April 06, 2019 at 17:35
Poor Cantor, depressed, bipolar, suicidal, ... :confused: , Perez' paper isn't about Cantor's "Absolute Infinite" (which is nonsense), but alleges to ...
April 04, 2019 at 20:59
Or everything in it is shrinking...?
April 04, 2019 at 20:54
Maybe ... British computer scientist's new "nullity" idea provokes reaction from mathematicians, Wikinews, Dec 2006 Addressing mathematical inconsiste...
April 03, 2019 at 01:45
Suppose it's true that I posted this. What's the difference between it being absolutely true and true? Nutn' really. It's not like it becomes less tru...
March 31, 2019 at 01:30
Too bad . :confused: Furthermore, there's an inconspicuous sleight of hand move in P1 Presumably "we" refers to us, humans at large, like other forums...
March 27, 2019 at 13:46
I admittedly did not read the whole document. :meh: P1: 1. I cannot experience your self-awareness (I'd then be you instead) 2. by P1 we cannot possib...
March 26, 2019 at 14:37
While we're at it: A World Without Clouds Natalie Wolchover Quanta Magazine Feb 2019
March 12, 2019 at 02:22
:up: :up: Already on it.
March 11, 2019 at 19:48
Came across this one: There's so much CO2 in the atmosphere that planting trees can no longer save us Rob Ludacer, Jessica Orwig Business Insider Oct ...
March 10, 2019 at 23:34
Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him Geeta Pandey, BBC, Feb 2019 Maybe we'll get a court precedence for antinatalism?
February 09, 2019 at 15:09
The Trolley problem (and whatever variations) is good for some and bad for others. Apparently it is good and bad. Or undecidable?
February 04, 2019 at 06:39
I could have all the preferences and opinions in the world, yet still not like getting hurt. I'm willing to put up with the shorter discomfort of goin...
February 03, 2019 at 16:50
Here's one rendition of the Euthyphro, where G is whatever deity of relevance (like Aditi, Yama, Yahweh, Varuna, Allah, etc): G acts according to mora...
February 02, 2019 at 07:02
Do Christians (still) take the likes of these to be fundamental? Doesn't seem quite right to me.
January 30, 2019 at 03:41
Air Quality Real-time Map (Berkeley Earth) Air Pollution Overview (Berkeley Earth) Looks somewhat different from what I expected. Air Pollution and Ci...
January 23, 2019 at 01:39
Colloquially, isn't possible just self-consistent and either of non/hypothetical? Self-consistent is at least the usual identity (ontological, proposi...
January 18, 2019 at 05:18
Doesn't "meaning" presuppose identity (the 1st law)? How would our talk have much meaning without self-identity (of some sort or other), including the...
January 10, 2019 at 05:41
:D https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1080888071552266242
January 05, 2019 at 00:11
, thanks for the article, looks interesting, putting it on the (way too long to-read) queue. :)
January 01, 2019 at 20:37
: ? ? ? Cantor et al has shown there are meaningful ways of going about this, which is taught today in high schools and universities.
January 01, 2019 at 20:34
, it's been addressed more than once by others (including here).
January 01, 2019 at 20:24
You can disagree all you like, but it does not give "the wrong results". You switched to a different definition from a (less technical) dictionary tha...
January 01, 2019 at 20:21
, I happen to know @"Metaphysician Undercover" (and @"aletheist") from the old now-defunct philosophyforums.com. Metaphysician Undercover tend to wand...
January 01, 2019 at 20:03
@"Devans99", FYI, some details about the real numbers, ?, that we use for modeling the world: Zero is the additive identity: 0 ? ? ? x ? ? ? is closed...
January 01, 2019 at 19:43
Happy Holidays, New Years, and all that, everyone, and be excellent to each other. :party:
December 24, 2018 at 12:29
Not sure it's worthwhile mentioning the obvious, but that's what a bijection does, @"Metaphysician Undercover". Feel free to derive the contradiction ...
December 24, 2018 at 12:26
It's called a bijection. (Fairly basic high school mathematics, if memory serves.) Kind of odd to just deny something without really knowing about it....
December 23, 2018 at 23:08
In short, I can't perceive anything if I'm not around. But that does not entail that anything isn't around. Conflating epistemics and ontology (which,...
December 02, 2018 at 08:44
Spirits dull or impair the mind. :) Anyway, Berkeley conjured up his deity as a coat hanger for his world, a mental monism, like others have come up w...
December 02, 2018 at 06:34
Excuse me, I'm not just an idea of yours. How rude. :D
December 01, 2018 at 13:57
In: Calculus  — view comment
@"Devans99", it seems like you're not reading (or understanding) the mathematics and/or definitions. There are reasonably good online resources, thoug...
November 28, 2018 at 17:36
If it's impossible, then derive the contradiction. After all, simply saying so doesn't make it so. I tried (the former rendition) and failed (as shown...
November 28, 2018 at 17:31
In: Calculus  — view comment
No. The lim, as defined, is zero.
November 28, 2018 at 17:28