We already have self updating programs now and the world hasn't ended. This sort of ability to self refer and self alter isn't a problem in and of its...
You do not understand the concept of cardinality, do you? The size of the interval is the size of the continuum, aleph-1. Why do you keep asserting th...
This is mistaken. My point is simple. Infinity is often intuitively understood as unbounded quantitatively. In other words, given any arbitrary number...
You misread what you quoted. I said the mathematical conception has no contradictions, I didn't say it was identical to the colloquial definition. The...
Oh I wasn't asking you to concede anything, I just started googling for some stuff and came across it. :) it looks like an attempt to recapture infini...
No it isn't. Infinity in mathematics simply means some set's members can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with a proper subset of the parent se...
I did address your argument. Your first premise was simply false (hierarchy of infinities). I didn't introduce any magic numbers, and the theory of ca...
Do you understand the point of Hilbert's Hotel? David Hilbert was a mathematician, not someone who rejected the notion of infinity as contradictory. T...
"Actual infinity" is a word. The cardinality of the set of natural numbers is actually infinite and a number, namely the number aleph-null. That numbe...
Have you read up on the hyperreals before? It's not anything I've studied but it looks like it's intended to capture this "true continuum" you're talk...
The problem is the word is not used in one single way. The way you prefer is inconsistent at times and at others only vaguely understood and has limit...
That's not a philosophical conception, that's as much the colloquial conception as anything else. The two aren't incompatible either since in a sense ...
Philosophy does not have a different definition of infinity outside the colloquial ones which are inconsistent. A potential infinity is just that: pot...
That's fair. I don't know much about Pierce outside vague recollections of semiotics as an undergrad, and a somewhat obscure fact that he discovered/c...
You make a big deal out of an unimportant point. No one ought care about how these are defined in natural language because the meaning is often in flu...
I definitely didn't say the brain was a quantum computer (it's a macroscopic object, any such effects would have decohered). If anything I expect it t...
This is the exactly what I was talking about . The issue is you're misrepresenting what is being said. It should be patently obvious mathematicians do...
Well, no... Lemme try to reset this bit. My point is that not all computation is Turing computation. Quantum computing (possibly, physics is unsettled...
This is just my off the cuff thoughts, and I'm not a cognitive scientist of any sort, but an obvious starting point is that there's a difference in st...
Tell me the exact formal definition of a mathematical mapping and infinity within the context of form mathematics and prove the contradiction. Don't d...
That's not true. For example, in QM the position and momentum of particles are continuous. Spacetime is also taken to be continuous, time is always ta...
Define what God is. If this cannot be done then it's both pointless to believe in it and pointless to discuss it at all. If it can be defined - and ma...
Then there is no argument to be had. You're not articulating a viewpoint that can be defended at all. So why even talk about it ever, much less believ...
You said that what these SJWs, believe entails fascism: I didn't call you a fascist nor did I identify your political ideology. I said you're overstat...
You two don't know MU and Devan. They will just insist there is a contradiction. When you ask then to formally show the contradiction, they will just ...
Well, for it to be coherent the various terms must refer to the same being unless Christians want to be polytheists. By the Identity of Indiscernables...
Indeed those exist. And note how they have done little to nothing alleviate people - even political philosophers - from making a snap judgement that s...
That's not remotely what fascism is. Saying it's not overstating it to call it that is both silly and flipping to the opposite ideological side. There...
Then as I concluded you are making a trivially true statement that should be so inconsequential that making it as if it mattered is silly. Most people...
Joyous day, quote function deploy: That clearly implies that only the left does this and now you're trying to say otherwise. Interesting. Besides you,...
You are proving the point I made. "Only the left does this" implies you have a particular conception of Justice: a right wing one. And yet you complai...
No, what "gets you good" is that you are somehow ignorant of your own political assumptions when you say things like: I mean, yeah, I wonder what it w...
You are parroting, wittingly or not, the most standard far right conservative talking points, pissing and moaning about the Boogeyman terms and ideas ...
pointless. Devan will just keep saying infinity is contradictory even when you ask him to show the exact formal contradiction as opposed to a non-intu...
If that's the case then perhaps he shouldn't quote these two passages right after another because that's exactly what the following seemed to imply: I...
I'm sorry, but no. Plomin's book makes it clear that there are no policy recommendations made on the basis of his work, which is very contrary to Murr...
No one should ever cite Dawkins in debates like this. The mere existence of epigenetics just nullifies his old selfish gene nonsense. If I were him I'...
Eh, that's kind of a bad comparison. The extent to which 2 of those mentioned make mistakes aren't even comparable to the extent to which Trump does. ...
I wasn't shocked that they said something stupid but the level at which it was stupid. Namely, ignoring that it was the political agenda of note for m...
That's not even comparable. Assume there's direct control over what TeleSur puts out and what the Venezuelan government demands of them. Great, now ho...
"Reasoned Logic" is basically redundant, and it's beside the point. I think one could in principle have "physical evidence and good reasoning" backing...
Who Telesur is funded by is irrelevant to what I was saying. The issue I raised wasn't "government involvement in sources of information and communica...
I mentioned nothing about legality at all, so this is nearly all irrelevant. I said people here, and evidently you, place greater emphasis on whether ...
The point is it's a meaningless idea now. Epigenetics is in many ways the culmination of this age old topic. Nature and nurture are far from these eas...
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