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SO explain, using only physics, why folk stop at the red light.

Well, first set out for us "the physical explanation of the workings of traffic lights". Then we'll be able to tell you what's missing.

I've been unable to follow this.

Philosophy is not like football. Although some folk treat it that way. it's not about teams.

Behold, your overman. https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2018101/rs_634x1024-181101083041-634-Freddie-Mercury-J1R-110118.jpg?fit=a...

Odd then, that physics can't even explain how traffic lights work.

An interesting idea. The Tractatus is of course a work about signs, much of which was carried over to the Investigations, but a large part of which wa...

Well, that'll save you from thinking.

Then how do you explain the strange goings on at Capital Hill and thereabouts?

Interesting. Canberra, where I reside, was designed by one Walter Burley Griffin, who set out this fair city along cosmic ley lines, as can be seen in...

Which reminds me of Russell's joke that while every individual human being has a mother, it is a fallacy to supose that therefore the human species ha...

My understanding is pretty limited (see what I did there?), and this will be wrong, but what I understand is... So z is an input to a calculation f su...

That works.

But is there any time travel involved? It's amusing that these arbitrary bits of geography take on a "spiritual" significance.

:lol: Cosmological, not ontological. My mistake - Aquinas, not Anselm. Thanks!

Yep. We blame them for everything.

Thank you. One does one's best to help. In first aid, consciousness is assessed by obtaining a reaction. Would that philosophers might learn first aid...

Cameron Corner would be more fun. Three New Year's parties in one night. https://visitcornercountry.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Corner-Country-C...

You borrowed from Anselm but left off "and this we all call god".

This seems to me about right, although I baulk at existence being irrational - rather it is a given, outside of, or presupposed by, explanation. But t...

There's a difference between something's being true and it being discerned. It's true that the colour changes over distance, whether you discern it or...

Yes, indeed. But it relies on the same supposed logic.

And this is exactly the point. There is a change over distance. It must be odd to live so far in the past... :wink: May I ask, Javra, where the insist...

Ouch. Too much invested, it seems. The cosmological argument is not as straight forward as you supose.

One sees the image as a whole, not only by scanning it; and Hook's law does not assume a block universe. 2024 must be almost everywhere by now...?

It's worth pointing out that the notion of causation at play here is metaphysical, not physical. And here I am using "metaphysical" in the sense used ...

A local joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08:45

Silly of me to offer some familiarity with the literature. Here's the ChatGPT summary of Russell's article for you: And here's the same for the Anscom...

The absence of an icon next to your name makes it difficult for old folk such as I to spot your posts, as I scroll up and down on my laptop. If I have...

There was an unnecessarily long thread a few years ago on the topic of change not requiring time. It was one of those odd threads that apparently pit ...

No surprise, no paradox. We live in your future. Always have.

Just to be sure, I'm offering more than just that. The notion of cause being used is broken. There's the classic philosophical assault from Russell in...

There is however a difference between setting out how a word is used and actually using it. Just as there is a difference between reading a car manual...

...over the course of this thread.

But you have been shown that this is not correct. If you refuse to countenance their having a place in deliberation, or conferring a consequence, that...

Of course not. What is shown is that dictionaries can only be a secondary way of understanding a word. Of much greater import is the way the word is u...

I misremembered - it was Philip of Macedon, apparently, who on conquering southern Greece sent a message to Sparta asking if he should come as friend ...

Kastrup is more cult figure than philosopher. Idealism has precious few followers amongst professional philosopher. Consciousness is not just percepti...

There was more than just quantum weirdness in the thread cited.

The bowling ball causes the depression in the cushion. Cause is not always prior to effect. Indeed sometimes it is impossible to decide which event is...

Let's take a different track and listen to Granny Weatherwax in conversation with her nostalgic one-time lover Mustrum Ridcully. Counterfactuals are r...

Thanks. that's pretty much as I'd understood the sequence. For my part I was initially reluctant to engage with the topic, because there are so very m...

It just came up in a thread about God, in answer to a question from @"jgill".

You want to segregate out the interaction from the individuation. Perhaps they are not distinct. But my suspicions rest more on what "causal history" ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8713/causality-determination-and-such-stuff/p1

Various quantum effects, for a start. But see also https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8713/causality-determination-and-such-stuff/p1

The bits here are not tied together with sufficient clarity.

I didn't notice. Causality is far from unproblematic. Nothing I've said should be understood as suggesting otherwise.

We know some things don't. That ought be enough to put this to rest. But then threads such as this are not about causation.

, Meh. Causality is not found in formal logic. Certainly not in modal logic. A first cause is not logically necessary.