Banno

It's the Liar. Time doesn't enter into it. The solution involves avoiding self reference in truth statements, either by using a meta language (Tarski)...

I really should go and do stuff.

Dean, to the physics department. "Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for laboratories and expensive equipment and stuff. Why couldn'...

But then, names - or better, identity - is exactly what is at issue here. We know from Kripke and friends that essences are logical rubbish. So it is ...

Good for you. I agree that it is a waste of time defending names. That was rather the point of my mentioning Humpty. I've just gone back over your las...

Let's talk about John. John grew up in Canada, but moved to England. The atoms of his body that he started with were replaced by English atoms. But he...

I beg to offer a counterexample: I believe this is written in the third person. Am I wrong?

Sure. The take-home, again, is that mind is not central to physics. Physics is written in the third person, not the first person.

As a middle-class, middle-age white male in a suit, the most important, and hardest, lesson I have learned is to shut up an listen.

Quanta. A wave function collapses, not when it is observed, so much as when it makes a difference. It makes a difference when it is observed, so the r...

https://www.vox.com/2017/7/18/15983910/donald-trump-russia-putin-natalia-veselnitskaya-collusion

No major city in Europe, America, China, Japan, SE Asia, and places in between has been carpet bombed since the middle of the last century. That is a ...

He has some interesting ideas but the posturing is over the top. Posts that are so defensive are indicative of the lack of conviction in their author....

X-) Very droll. It is the most original piece of thinking I've seen here so far, although there has been some fine exegesis on Indian Philosophy.

If you go with the flow, you will not find yourself up the creek.

I wasn't trying to be informative, just ironic. But the joke is lost in the explanation. Actually, the article's characterisation of America as a naiv...

A new form of Platonic Idealism appears, thanks to .

Ah. Thanks for correcting me.

...from a leftist rag we should not be paying any attention too... How Russia Played Trump.

X-)

My apologies; I wasn't referring to your post directly, and see why you thought so. I had in mind the quanta of pseudo-physics that mysteriously appea...

There is digestion in my stomach, @"Unenlightened". There is digestion going on in your stomach. Perhaps these differ not in being different digestion...

It's a little bit off the rails in here at the moment.

That's very cool. Thinking. Have you been reading Hegel?

It's a cute notion. Reminiscent of climbing the ladder on order to throw it away. Better to remain silent. :-#

Just wondering of you are aware of the Belt and Road Initiative?

I think that is a bit clearer, Way. The trick then is to talk about reincarnation without talking about souls. SO your answer to my OP is roughly that...

Perhaps the rejection of the notion of an essence brings with it the rejection of the soul.

Much as I don't like Sand's posturing, I think there is a logical gap here. A child has memories of being a mechanic; therefore the child has the same...

That's a very good question.

Amongst other things.

an excellent summation; it must be, because I am heading to much the same conclusions. Discarding essences, the self can be thought of as like a rope ...

It's a bit poor to accuse me of not trying, after all the time we have spent chatting. I've gone to pains to show you how the notion of properties is ...

Wallace seemed to be saying something along these lines at the Seminar mentioned in the OP; individual consciousness as a growth or protrusion from a ...

Care to share Lacan?

I just can't come at this "properties" stuff, Meta.

They tend to be benevolent and happy when it suits them; but on other occasions they can be quite nasty.

Yes. So is reincarnation were someone has the memories of someone else? No transmigration?

To show a contradiction, one needs a series of assumptions. Any set of assumptions I put forward would be uninformed. So I am looking for someone to p...

X-) I'm a surprising fellow. It's a good thing to challenge one's prejudices, no?

See above.

Good for you. Stevenson'd toddler is a good case to take. In what sense is the toddler also the drowned girl?

Is the rabbit more than just a rabbit? It depends on what one is doing.

Sure. Think I said something similar to: But what's to argue? If you do not understand that "the cat is on the mat" is about the relation between the ...

Just so. Nevertheless, I remain unconvinced.

Sam26 would be a better guide.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, of course. Interesting cases, but confirmation bias is a very powerful thing.

Yeah, but it's not too far off topic, since the intricacies of his form of Buddhism was what Wallace was expounding.

But I'm not interested in an explanation of Buddhism. Studied it myself years ago form an historic perspective - enjoyed it. I'm interested in if rein...