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simeonz

['Member']Joined: August 11, 2019 at 15:50Last active: November 30, 2021 at 22:491 discussions309 comments

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My professional interests are computer science and software engineering. But since I believe that all cognitive efforts require solid foundations, I am also interested in physics, mathematics, philosophy of science, philosophy in general, etc.

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In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
You are right, that we could potentially find laws which produce more accurate description of the universe at larger scales. Albeit not focused on liv...
November 30, 2021 at 23:02
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
The chemistry that we refer to usually, that we use for artificial synthetic purposes doesn't act in this way with respect to the main reactants, but ...
November 29, 2021 at 12:19
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
Have not done is more proper then they cannot do. You may argue that natural evolution is so complex that it is obviously naive hypothesis. It seems t...
November 29, 2021 at 11:55
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
I don't believe that natural selection requires invariable homeostasis, at least for its explanation to work technically. It requires sustainability o...
November 29, 2021 at 09:56
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
Not sure which particular metaphysical concerns you refer to, but I have stated before, that a variation on the pantheistic or panpsychic theme, in my...
November 29, 2021 at 00:30
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
I think that the mutual information established between the entangled entities is acquired at the expense of new information theoretic entropy. Entang...
November 28, 2021 at 23:28
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
This is going to start with some explanation about information theoretic concepts, which may seem unrelated at first, but the purpose of their introdu...
November 28, 2021 at 18:55
In: Historical Evidence for the Existence of the Bicameral Mind in Ancient Sumer  — view comment
I was trying to get off the forum , but this thread brought me to ask for a few clarifications. Does the above statement imply that the solipsistic qu...
March 29, 2021 at 19:35
In: The Origin of the First Living Cell with or without Evolution?  — view comment
Our views differ, in the sense that I do not postulate any new empirical relations. I haven't elaborated much either way, because the point was to def...
March 29, 2021 at 09:54
In: The Origin of the First Living Cell with or without Evolution?  — view comment
I was not familiar with the concept, before you mentioned it, but self-organization theory appears to convey the idea that a system without innate ord...
March 28, 2021 at 22:00
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
If I may take a rain check for a while. I need a few days to compose my thoughts. On a different note, I didn't actually mean illiterate, as in functi...
March 28, 2021 at 21:13
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
I make the effort to the extent, which my ability and energy afford me. I admit that it is not as good as it could be. I have my philosophy textbook, ...
March 27, 2021 at 10:10
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
Thanks. I start with the notion of a concise response, and end up with a lot of words. There are usually no paragraphs in what I write. A monolithic c...
March 27, 2021 at 09:09
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
We differ here in our perspective, about what is reasonable and unreasonable explanation. Because I admit the hypotheses of panpsychism and pantheism,...
March 27, 2021 at 02:36
In: Some science will just never be correct  — view comment
As @"SophistCat" mentioned, you could replace conclusions with beliefs, but that may not have changed much. Knowledge, I consider, is just a word for ...
March 26, 2021 at 23:17
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
@"Banno" drew my attention to your response, so I would like to suggest that while we discover separate instances of logical relations in objects and ...
March 26, 2021 at 22:40
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
If by chance, you mean, improbable event, then this is not what is involved. The hypotheses are not presupposing extraordinary occurrences. That would...
March 26, 2021 at 14:30
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
The local factors of two spatio-temporal regions may be symmetric or asymmetric. By extrapolation of those conditions to the state of the entire unive...
March 25, 2021 at 12:27
In: What is probability?  — view comment
I have a rather layman understanding of 20th century physics, but this is evidently important question for QM. Without philosophically meaningful desc...
March 25, 2021 at 04:05
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
The laws of biological and chemical order, may or may not have unifying underlying platonic causes. I honestly could not conjecture either way. Altern...
March 25, 2021 at 03:03
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
First, to talk about conceptualization, rather then instinct and notion, we need the development of language or some kind of signs. First, because oth...
March 24, 2021 at 14:01
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
You have to account for the fact that our brain is capable of detecting isometries, similarities, etc, which is product of marriage between ourselves ...
March 24, 2021 at 06:45
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
From the same link I am left with the impression that this is utilitarian model of knowledge. I propose that only the basis of mathematics, such as pr...
March 23, 2021 at 20:36
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
Arguing is too strongly put. I am expressing opinion. Namely, that only the very fundamentals of mathematics are situated cognition, but most of it re...
March 23, 2021 at 20:05
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
I am a little moody and out of sorts, so I apologize that I made no attempt to reply. I will give my brief account of Benecerraf's argument, from what...
March 23, 2021 at 18:34
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
As I have articulated in another post, intuitions are discovered contingently, but truth is only one possibility behind their conception. There are wr...
March 23, 2021 at 15:42
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
But how would Wittgenstein handle international relations, culture exchange, global politics? In the end, aren't we all one society with internal boun...
March 23, 2021 at 15:28
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
A computer can produce mathematical proofs through syntactical processing and it does not need any fiat at all. I meant action in the sense we talk ab...
March 23, 2021 at 15:24
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
Yes. In retrospect, I realize that I got a little carried away from the topic. I got stuck on the issue of the nature of experience. I'll think about ...
March 19, 2021 at 07:16
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
I will try to briefly summarize my take on each idea. Those are my interpretations, so you could argue with them or not, but I am not sure that any of...
March 19, 2021 at 06:52
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
Do you agree that abstractions "in the mind" can be formed differently according to each of those hypotheses?
March 19, 2021 at 06:28
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
Possibilianism is mostly concerned with theistic claims, but it is essentially attitude open towards the exploration of unproven claims, as long as th...
March 19, 2021 at 06:18
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
I wasn't trying to be ambivalent towards people's preconceptions, or indifferent towards my own preconceptions. I elaborated my rational and empirical...
March 19, 2021 at 05:42
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
I made some crude editing. (I wrote the text in an external editor, then pasted it in a hurry. It was originally displayed on a wider content area.)
March 18, 2021 at 18:14
In: Platonic Realism & Scientific Method  — view comment
The question can't be answered without some kind of speculation, obviously. But we have to distinguish between tentative proposals about the nature of...
March 18, 2021 at 17:41
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
The syntactical or neurological processing is undeniably an action. Symbolic inference using a deduction system is an action. Thinking is an action. I...
March 17, 2021 at 19:55
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
I am not sure how you mean it. Human beings, I believe, are capable of classification according to features and of mental homomorphic representations ...
March 17, 2021 at 16:46
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
The problem is, that you demonstrated that syntax could be abused, not that concepts with strict semantics behind the syntax can be used in innovative...
March 17, 2021 at 15:38
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
Simple materially implied intuitions can become very reliable. When they have been ratified from experience for generations and convention has reached...
March 17, 2021 at 15:19
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
What I mean is, that if you try to create a basis, x_1, x_2, ..., such that each string can be represented as a sum of i_1 * x_1 + i_2 * x_2 ..., you ...
March 17, 2021 at 15:04
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
This is confusing syntax and semantics. Strings are infinitely dimensional space, we are talking about the concept of integers, which are ordered set.
March 17, 2021 at 14:57
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
I have a discussion with another member of this forum in a different thread. I am arguing there that ultimately everything rests on innate conviction,...
March 17, 2021 at 09:41
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
You are correct, strictly speaking. Practically speaking, this does not apply to arithmetic anymore, unless you were a raised as a feral child, a.k.a ...
March 17, 2021 at 09:31
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
There are many things to consider. First, I think we agree that abstract reasoning is the game of token resolutions that substitute for directly estab...
March 16, 2021 at 19:42
In: Is pessimism or optimism the most useful starting point for thinking?  — view comment
What is the goal? Avoiding any deception at all costs, or living to see your grand-kids?
March 16, 2021 at 12:22
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
By the way, I made a mistake in my first post. I said ring in the last paragraph, whereas I should have said cyclic group. I don't practice my algebra...
March 16, 2021 at 12:01
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
Sorry, I was ambiguous. The latter. My aim was to clarify the meta-statements in my response, but I meant the basic ones in the text. The meta-stateme...
March 16, 2021 at 11:45
In: Philosophy vs. real life  — view comment
I agree with much, but probably not the conclusion. I agree that sometimes evolutionary biology is wrongly ascribed as resolution of philosophy, ethic...
March 16, 2021 at 11:13
In: Why is primacy of intuition rejected or considered trivial?  — view comment
There are two aspects to each of those statements. One is validity and the other soundness. In ordinary everyday reason, those are usually joined. The...
March 16, 2021 at 10:46
In: Philosophy vs. real life  — view comment
Although Wayfarer is probably sarcastic, I am not on the opinion that the statement is incorrect. The answer to your question is, that arguments have ...
March 16, 2021 at 08:35
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