Nils, how can we discuss Energy without getting into Physics? Apparently, my posts get too close to the nuts & bolts of sub-atomic physics for your co...
*1. Naive Realism : In social psychology, naïve realism is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people ...
Yes. Shannon, as an engineer, defined his communication theory of Information (knowledge transmission from mind to mind) in technical terms of physica...
I didn't say that defining Information as "processed data" is prejudicial. In the context of Shannon's practical engineering solution to communication...
As a layman, I don't know "what's going on in the experiment". All I know is the conclusion that the scientists inferred from their experiments : that...
The question is prejudicial, implying that information is only "processed data". But ChatGPT saw through the narrow Engineering definition and returne...
Of course. That's why they are trying to devise an experiment to confirm the conjecture. There is already experimental evidence that meta-physical*1 (...
No, you are merely missing the philosophical point . . . . again! :sad: You seem to think the Chicken & Egg conundrum is a logical puzzle. It's a phil...
See my reply to above. Before you accuse me of making assertions that should be restricted to physics experts, I'll deny in advance that my proposal i...
No. It's simply a Chicken or Egg conundrum for us to argue about. It's stated as a dichotomy, but that's simply to simplify the premises. Either/Or qu...
Those with a Physicalist or Materialist worldview tend to think that Philosophy should aspire to the mathematical clarity of Physics. But even Physics...
That comment is an ad hominem, which -- as you well know -- should have no place in a philosophy dialog. It's also a Straw Man fallacy, which attacks ...
Yes --- except for the "outside the universe" implication. By "see" I meant "to imagine", not to sense photons in a physical sense. Human minds, and t...
I hereby cite all of your replies to my posts, which typically assert "strawman" versions of my own arguments, to make them seem like pseudo-science, ...
As usual, interprets "outside, beyond, and transcendent" in a physical sense, while I use those terms for their metaphysical meaning. His Immanentist ...
Like most materialists*1, 's Reality is limited to the reports of his physical senses. That blinkered worldview is good enough for most animals. But i...
I had never heard that term before. Sounds similar to Panpsychism or Pantheism or Pandeism. As I had suspected, despite our differences, it seems that...
I'm sorry if my personal philosophical vocabulary has caused you to be "confused" or "uncertain". Yet the problem may be, not the literal meaning of t...
Ironically, even on a philosophy webpage --- presumably a forum for ideas about ideas --- many posters seem to instinctively argue against any form of...
As I pointed-out before, you completely misunderstood, and/or deliberately mis-stated, the point I was making*1. First, it was not a scientific assert...
You can falsify scientific claims with counter-evidence. How would you falsify a philosophical analogy : Potential as not-yet-real future event? What ...
Apparently, you are expecting technical answers on a philosophical forum. I was addressing a philosophical question, not an electrical engineering que...
That does seem odd. Please show me where I denied "the existence of certain things posited by science". Just a short list of instances would be more h...
You missed the point. I didn't refer to Aristotle as an authority on storage batteries, but as the guy who originally defined the terms "Potential" & ...
Sounds good to me. But how do you determine the accuracy of fit for a world model? Since many of the controversies on this forum revolve around the ph...
Yes. Although my post contrasted Potential with Actual, and Real with Ideal, not Potential Energy with Reality, as you mis-construed it. For example, ...
Just as Space would not exist without Matter, Time would not exist without Change. They are two sides of the same coin. Which Einstein curiously label...
Thanks for the correction. I had never heard of Austin, before reading the Philosophy Now article. And my comments are based on the article, not from ...
Thanks. I suspect that will applaud your succinct appraisal of my Synthetic assessment of Austin's Linguistic analysis of Philosophy's verbal non-sens...
OK. What kind of philosophical world model, based on what kind of scientific evidence, are you willing to accept as Real? Is that less confusing --- o...
Yes. That was the point of my introductory remarks in the post. Since each "subset" is based on different axioms & assumptions, we need to specify whi...
What is real? Depends. A> What do you mean by "real"? B> Do you want an Analytical answer, or a Synthetic solution, or a Technological test, or a Cope...
Is it? I've never seen, tasted, or touched an electron. All I know about those invisible entities is the published interpretations of quantum physicis...
What is Real and what is not? In Science, what is Real & Physical & Actual is what is not Ideal or Imaginary or merely Potential. Yet in Philosophy, w...
For the purposes of this forum, Ideas are the non-things (non-stuff) that we argue about in threads such as this. And for the most part, Ideas are lim...
I view Mathematics as the meta-physical structure (inter-relationships, ratios, proportions) of the physical universe (objects, things). In other word...
Since I have no formal training in Philosophy, I won't presume to comment on the arcane discussion in the video, as it's mostly over my pointy little ...
My point was just to see if you were arguing from a well-thought-out personal worldview, or just parroting a party line (or template). For example, fo...
Are you using Wittgenstein as an authority to justify an evasive non-position on a philosophical question? Does that side-step imply that you have no ...
One interpretation of "politics" is "polarized people" : Lords vs Commons, Republican vs Democrat, us vs them ; friends vs enemies ; Good vs Evil ; ou...
My two bits worth : I assume you meant that the universe is lawless, and completely random. Of course, the "Laws of Physics" are human interpretations...
Would you characterize the world model described above as "Materialism", or "Physicalism", or merely "Atheism"? No information, no patterns, no interr...
To be clear, the "immaterial power" I was referring to is Logical Reasoning (including mathematics), which seems to have reached its pinnacle of evolu...
If the "detail" you're looking for is empirical evidence, it's probably not forthcoming. Mathematics is a language for science, not an object to be st...
Yes. The meaning of immortality would be just the sum of meaningful experiences of the observer. Yet the perspective of infinite experiences might eve...
Slightly off-topic : If you will think of Mathematical relationships as A> a form of Information, and B> Information as "the power to enform a mind", ...
JG, I'm not picking on you by posting long dissertations to your name. It's just that I'm on a roll here, expanding the topic of Quantum Entanglement ...
Yes. I think you could safely say that Mathematics is a mental philosophical language that is used by Science to describe it's sensory observations pr...
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