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I think mind-dependence is misleading. Neither pure subjectivity nor pure objectivity can be conceived in isolation; each requires the other. Aligning...

An exact and scientific metaphysics https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99403-7?fbclid=IwAR25Wl-rdb1Pt0E2Z6Xngg5__x0xcG0xYq0XwDkUuYNIhMqR...

Ok. And they have the same acceleration because they have different inertias. How does this not answer that?

But you are conflating a generalized equation for force (which includes two masses) and acceleration (which includes two masses but in which the inert...

Indeed it is, but the same condition applies with respect to the relationship between force and inertia. The force is a composite product of the two m...

Different masses accelerate at the same rate towards a reference mass because they also have different inertias, which balances the different forces g...

Quality response.

And do you consider having that debate in each individual thread to be a better quality approach than conducting it in its own thread?

Just as you can have quantity without quality, you can have quality without quantity.

I think that "reality" is best characterized as the definiens rather the definiendum, as an attribute or universal. So it is the intension that applie...

Absolutely. Why do we have to know absolutely? I personally start from the (pretty obvious) assumption that 'everybody knows something.' That people k...

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms by Ernst Cassirer

The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy

Cassirer considers the differences between Newton and Leibniz inasmuch as Newton's fluxional calculus remains essentially mechanical in its orientatio...

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If you are a consequentialist, the best outcome is the one which can be most reliably produced, the one over which you have the most control. It is un...

TIme is certainly flux

One question that is occurring to me - given that time is passing more slowly now at the surface of the sun than for us, does this mean that there is ...

It's a question that is likewise asked of objective reality in general. Perhaps the experience of time offers avenues of conceptualizing this overlapp...

Yes. The universe appears to us as fractured into many different-discrete relativistic frames. Trying to correlate between those frames gives rise to ...

That the concept of time only makes sense in the context of awareness. I agree consciousness has what you would call OTE. re. OSE and MSE, an object h...

I'm just not seeing the utility of the distinction. Nothing anywhere stands still. An object in a quantum instant of time has a quantifiable momentum,...

Ok. I understand your usages. I'm not sure I fully agree. To the extent that nothing is every truly at rest, the distinction between OSE and MSE break...

More that time can't be construed as entirely or merely objective. That consciousness is an essentially temporal being, versus merely a being in time.

I think "influence" is misleading. For an ongoing process, the present is more like the face of the past, I'd say. Michael Leyton's book, Symmetry, Ca...

Yes, this was the sense in which I was differentiating it from matter, which only moves through time, has a temporal vector. The objective past, for m...

Yes, this is pretty much where I was going. I like to maintain a connection with the notion of energy. Also, you can 'topologize' the idea of energy b...

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In a war of attrition, the odds heavily favour the masses....

Semantics? Whose to say, its all in the results, which are in the future.

It was just something I've been musing. Not to worry.

If you perceive an event unfold, like an arrow being shot at a person, if you are really fast it is possible to "intercede" in the future of that even...

I mean, the concept that observations are theory-laden is pretty ubiquitous. If you reduce a sensory input to a decontextualized quale, that perhaps m...

Hmm. I think it is pretty established that our perceptions are essentially pre-formatted with and by understanding. The whole catalog of cognitive bia...

I couldn't agree more. There was another thread some time ago questioning the philosophical validity or usefulness of definitions. I couldn't get invo...

The phenomenon of music or melody does indeed ideally illustrate the continuous aspect of consciousness. I keep hearkening back to the Augustine I quo...

I think. I'm assuming there is some inherent relationship between the genesis of the biological cognitive faculty and the transcendental conditions of...

It would seem to me that awareness arises in a fundamental context of meaning. So that unless there is some kind of order or regularity to the change,...

Ok. Do you think this equates with "causality"?

:chin: I don't know. I guess my intuition is that, an event happens in a now. But we don't perceive discrete-instantaneous nows, rather a continuous f...

:up: Yes, I am very interested in the relationship between time and entropy, including the possible temporal implications of negentropy. What I find i...

Just spitballing. Conjectures about the laws of physics themselves changing? I mean, if somehow there was a divergence of relativistic frames? I don't...

You are oversimplifying it. Discursive knowledge didn't appear all of a sudden out of nothing. It was assembled - based on intuitive insights. No poin...

Perhaps there was a different phase of hyperinflation that affected the temporal dimension differently in the very early universe.

Do you think this might relate to the apparently anomalous extremely-early galaxies discovered by the JWT?

Yes, I kind of assumed this was the extent of your scientific understanding. 1000 tonnes attracting another 1000 tonne mass at a distance of 1 meter r...

Is it? I thought the concept of the thermodynamic arrow of time was fairly 'fundamental'.

:up: One physical dimension that does interest me is the relationship between entropy and time. Usually, it is theoretically possible to trace any num...

This doesn't correlate with my intuitions of time. It seems to reflect an inherently reductive mechanistic ontology (which would be reasonable for a p...

Yes. My strongest intuition of the meaning of the nature of time as we experience it might be summed in this excerpt of my favourite passage (by Ficht...