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I can subscribe to this. However, most people, including me, also need a sense of potency to pursue an idea. In the face of life's factors, a person m...

If self-love is experienced properly, as motivation for industriousness, enlightenment, responsibility and self-respect, then I can agree. The problem...

I understand. I just wanted to suggest that maybe the problem isn't that the universe is not sufficiently emotive, but that emotion is not what counts...

Oh. He knows. :) The strife actually increases. But with this kind of strife, there is a sense of purpose. The burden is even greater, but this kind o...

I know that the OP specifically wanted a non-suicidal option, but rationally speaking, if things are that bad, why not just check out. It doesn't appe...

That is interesting. It seems like absurdism, but I wonder what specifically do you mean by the "cosmos doesn't care". That is, you do care, and you a...

I am in that boat as well, so I wonder if the category of human beings under consideration aren't just supposed to accept burden and discontentment as...

I will then answer under the assumption that we are not questioning the efficiency of algebraic numbers as they are used in the design and analysis of...

Maybe I am not on the same page with you here. Before I try to answer in any detail, I have to get clear on the substance of our conversation. Are you...

I think that you are ascribing to mathematics the kind of role that I don't think it has. At least, not directly. Or maybe I did walk into this when e...

If you view mathematics as explanative device for natural phenomena, I can certainly understand your concern. However, I see mathematics first and for...

Probably I don't understand the point of the conversation. But just to be clear. The space tessellation/partitioning was not to show how one mathemati...

I am trying to honestly understand, but why do you propose that sets should only include apriori existing entities, and not ones defined by the proces...

I think that people develop intuitions, depending on whether they consider mathematical objects as rigorous philosophical metaphors for some physical ...

I will allow myself to interject, although the physics involved in your discussion appears beyond my competence. In any case, just because something i...

I understand. After all, this is the rationals' whole gimmick - they are dense. Of course, the finite decimal fractions rationals I talked about earli...

This is exactly the geometric interpretation that got me into trouble. :) It assumes that rays have points corresponding to every non-negative real nu...

Actually, yes. Dedekind cuts are another constructive approach. Not too different in spirit, I would say. Rational numbers are actually quite nasty, i...

I think that we might come from different understanding of what the real numbers "should" represent in modern mathematics. My real analysis textbook i...

The way I reason about it (ie, as a software engineer), real numbers specify the convergence characteristic of approximation processes that deal with ...

I am not an American, but the population always disapproves government decisions that were not properly communicated. No matter who's right or wrong, ...

Let's say, I need to drink water from the waterhole, I like eating grass, and I am afraid of meeting lions. Who cares if I have established my identit...

I did not mean to say that all thoughts refer to the subject. In fact, I did not address (or honestly even think of) the distinctions between awarenes...

You probably mean objects incapable of being subjects. They will be machines by definition, no matter what. Or do you mean, that we are not machines, ...

What about AGI in computers. Hypothetically. We can either presuppose that despite any behavioral characteristics machines are to rocks and planets di...

Yes, but money does not necessarily equate prosperity. I could make the argument that the unshaken faith of its followers is a much more important ass...

My bad. I thought you were serious there.

Sorry, but honestly, I am not informed on the subject.

I think that most people will agree that banking and stock trading (especially day-trading), even though being legitimate ways of making money, leave ...

This problem is actually going to get much worse, and I believe may cause the dissolution of societies as we know them today. It is frequently ignored...

The problem with using commodities and natural resources directly for barter is that they have limited application. Money have unlimited application, ...

Actually, being from East Europe, I can assure you that the connection is mostly tangential. The more to the east a culture is, the more preference fo...

Money are symbolic for insured debt. I wouldn't call "debt" a fiction anymore then I would call "promise" a fiction. The problem with money is that by...

As is usual, I am reaching the limits of my narrow philosophical competence. But I propose that the conversation does not equate Marx to modern social...

One could begin with the acceptance of the divine entitlement to privilege, indirectly stemming from the king's own divine right. This notion was used...

I read somewhere that the popularization of Christianity was helped by the public disaffection for the elitist ethics in the Greco-Roman polytheistic ...

Not in direct opposition to this statement, but just a remark... Some educators are stuck on introducing maximum controversy when they present their s...

From a programmer's point of view, cardinality equivalence between two sets is about their expressibility through each other. card(N) = card(E) tells ...

My interests are quite light and superficial compared to other forum posters. Still, I recommend the Bryan Magee interviews in philosophy as an access...

We assume that thinking is real, because we are thinking, and we exist. If we didn't exist, any consequence of us thinking, which includes being, and ...

I am not familiar either, considering that I didn't understand its significance before yesterday. But from what I understand, it essentially states th...

I see. Thinking about it, semidecidability I imagine will carry a lot of practical utility for applications like automated theorem proving, even thoug...

I am not intimately familiar with the subject, but I think there is some issue with the Wikipedia article. There also may be linguistical confusion ag...

My understanding from the definition was that for a theory to be decidable, it is necessary to have effective enumeration of its theorems, not to have...

I think I understand the nuance. There are undecidable deductively complete theories, so claiming that an undecidable statement makes a theory deducti...

Thanks for the response. I'm sorry I couldn't respond earlier. I couldn't express myself properly, but this is what I meant. I was attempting to const...

I would like to rudely interject and ask a neophyte question that has been bugging me for some time. Tell me if you think it deserves a separate threa...

To elaborate on the previous remarks, we don't see with our senses, but with our brains. Sensation is, for the most part, the act of altering the brai...

Einstein actually was amused by the opposite quality: “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is...

Depends on what you mean by "know" and "exist". For the first part, to me, knowing is acting modulo reasoning. For a pragmatic treatment (i.e. not spi...