"In the active practical reality of consciousness observation thus finds opened up before it a new field. Psychology contains the collection of laws i...
Good OP. Sometimes a beheaded cranium lasts alive for a few seconds. The "seat" of consciousness is the brain, complex matter. A structure like that c...
But nature for Descates is separate from the supernatural and is known psychologically. Logically for him i'm saying all that is is supernatural, alth...
With Descartes, existence and essence are the same. For Sartre there is a divide between the two, hence our situation as humans. Maybe everything is s...
For me the world is as mathematical as geometric imagery. The world is mystical, nah, miraculous in how it is woven together. Maybe mathematics gives ...
I read this same argument in Kant recently. He wants mathematics to come from our intuition of the world yet doesn't believe the second antimony must ...
Would it be mathematically possible to project an infinite plane unto a "discrete chunk" (to use QM language)? To me this sounds like a contradiction,...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-iyuSw9KM&t=235s&pp=2AHrAZACAcoFCkNjYyBzYWJpbmU%3D Thanks for your response. The above video is very interesting but i...
Engineering claringly uses math as if it applies to reality. You seem to be saying there is nothing contradictory about continuums or that there would...
Some things obviously apply to the world. It is often said that there are no perfect shapes in the world. But we can mentally draw a perfect shape WIT...
It seems to me the foundation of mathematics is the number 1. Even zero is understood as compared to one. Zen masters wrote with one hand while erasin...
But do not Godel's theorems preclude proving everything in mathematics, assuming it's a consistent science, from the ground up. Systems don't exist in...
Hi. Finding quotes from Cantor on the internet with an apparent reliable source is difficult. There are lots of "quotes" out there but which are actua...
I had no intention of misrepresenting you, but how many times over the years have we debated Zeno? Several for sure. It's not about supertasks. The cy...
Ive never seen such a video. And i was supporting Cantor so i dont know what you are talking about. As for seeing beyond mathematics, when i pressed f...
No because i hardly ever ever use them. I don't have original sources for quotes by them; I had learned a little about them from internet videos. I've...
I thought fishfry was referencing the set of all sets and numbers, and you seemed to wonder how we can go without being able to prove mathematics as a...
Well from what I've been reading from secondary sources God is the infinity model for all infinities for Cantor. Godel had his ontological proof too, ...
" Cantor believed that God's infinity is the beginning and end of all other infinities, and that God's knowledge makes all infinity finite in some way...
Achilles and the tortoise combine the "fact" (?) of infinite divisibility of space with the arrow paradox. The latter doesn't seem to understand propu...
The difference between an arithematic infinity and a spacial/geometric one is that in the former the numbers have no spatial size and can thus sum to ...
The thing about Zeno's paradoxes is that there is no finite time involved. The time would be divided infinitely just as much as the space or distance....
The books you've recommended sound very interesting. I think Kant was right in saying that mathematics involves time (that is, process, synthesis). To...
Thanks for the superb reply. The reason i brought up Hawking's "no boundary" thesis is that i was thinking maybe geometry and limits are incomplete by...
I dont think that a real number can't be divided infinitely. The area of a circle is pi-r-squared wherein pi represents an aspect of space (the area)....
If i cut a cake horizontally starting from the halfway point upwards with each slice being half the size of the one immediately below, what would the ...
So if no real number is an infinitesimal, numbers are then what is relation to geometry. Is 2 then 2 points, or are all numbers a point? According to ...
"Thomas Reid's excellent book, Inquiry into the Human Mind... affords us a very thorough conviction of the inadequacy of the senses for producing the ...
Kant quite clearly, after he read Hume, doubted the reality of everything except for his brain. Just as Descartes had done. Kant had logic while Desca...
Hegel on Kant's philosophy: "The other side, in contrast, is the independence of the thinking that grasps itself, the principle of freedom, which this...
Eloquent, but it doesn't really address the issue i've raised. I'll let Christopher Hitchens speak for me here: "I don't believe that it's true that r...
It implies that the merits can be exchanged between conscious beings even though to be free in a moment is to be in total control of which way to turn...
Propitiation to my mind is a denial of free will. To be free is to be the only one making the decision. Ratzinger and Aquinas seem very confused. Do o...
Thoughts: With regard to why believe in spirituality, it's important to know that the universe is not necessarily fair. It is just, but that' differen...
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