Banno

You are completely correct... or not.

Yeah we can. the ratio of the radius to the circumference of a circle; that is it exactly and entirely. There are other ways to say the same thing, su...

Which joke - that ? is beyond our grasp or that Nietzsche is difficult?

A neat little article explaining why Ukraine has so much of what the ridiculous orange emperor calls "raw" earth... What’s so special about Ukraine’s ...

Indeed, I think we could go on for another few pages at least. doesn't appear to have seen the joke, for a start.

Indeed, what is it that we do not grasp? That we might not know the trillionth digit? (Wolfram was no help...) But knowing that Pi is the smallest pos...

Well, here we are, talking about ? - so, no, it is not beyond our grasp... At least for some of us. And what that AI describes as "the philosophy of P...

Similarly, perhaps the reference still works in your absence becasue the reference is communal. "That cloud" remains a rigid designator. I doubt Kripk...

So now we are in a position to perhaps address this: A name is successful if it is used consistently and coherently by a community, and this regardles...

This occurs as part of an extended discussion. Kripke does offer the causal theory as a solution, but there are problems. I'd take a different track i...

We need to be clear that, in those possible worlds in which I do not exist, "Banno" does not refer to anything. Now go back to In standard possible wo...

well, let's wait and see.

One of the curious things about confabulating is that folk do not realise that is what they are doing - the confabulation is, for them, quite genuine....

Ok. :rofl:

Seriously? But again, the question I asked was not if Trump might control the markets, but the extent to whciht he markets might control Trump. The on...

I might reply to this by going back to the point I made a while ago, that there is a difference between probability and possibility, in terms of what ...

Ok. Others will be. :wink:

We are still on that topic.

...which may well happen without any recourse to mystical notions... those with whom you have interacted may carry on in kind; see Hofstadter's I am a...

So Indian religion is an elaborate confabulation from the yearning for justice? Fine - as Lennon sang, whatever gets you through the night, it's alrig...

If it's not my consciousness that continues, what is the point? Other consciousnesses will continue after you are dead - is that the recompense? But w...

So is it nihilistic? I don't see that it is. That "aggregate of material elements" is the very source of value.

Nice. Yes, this is the issue with reincarnation. It is at best a very minor consideration.

A recent piece from Slavoj Žižek, Trump’s Oval Office clash with Zelensky killed diplomacy. A few philosophical ideas are drawn in to the analysis, wh...

A nod back to . Given that I was oblivious to much of what occurred last night, only finding out about it after I woke, I'm not too concerned about ob...

This again is the problem of confounding what you believe with what is true. That you will not know that you are oblivious does not mean you are not o...

Comforting, then, to think that some part of each of us returns in another. But what that part is, and how to formulate that return, remains obscure.

What is an object, for you? Pegasus was the mount of Bellerophon. Therefor something was the mount of Bellerophon. Whether that something was an objec...

Yep.

Sure. The question being asked is, to what extent does the market control Trump?

All of them.

As Sir Bernard Woolley might say, I'm critical, you are antagonistic, he is a right bastard...

Yep. While all that is quite right, there are forces that the orange emperor will need to contend with that are distinct from the institutions of the ...

Yep. I was responding to that response. I do understand that you do not like what I have to say. You are of course not under any obligation to respond...

Wishful thinking? What remains of the Wayfarer from previous lives? In what sense are you still them, and not just someone else who happens to have me...

Here, I suspect, is the defining characteristic of the upcoming election: A survey about how we see the future should worry politicians Life wasn't be...

Once one is dead, one is no longer a player, as it were, and so inevitably things cannot go in one's favour. The particular interests that make you wh...

An excellent analysis by Alan Kohler: To make America great, Donald Trump is undoing its greatness as global stock markets fall In the name of making ...

I quite agree. This is a different topic to "eternal oblivion", which is not something to be feared. One might not be anxious about being dead, so muc...

Have a read of Confirmable and Influential Metaphysics by J. W. N. Watkins, or see the old thread. Myths that are "haunted universe doctrines", are an...

Nice. Like Ross Ryan. But he is not Pegasus. Pegasus is mythical, so any real creature claiming to be Pegasus is a con.

What you are describing appears to be a novice version of transcendental idealism. is right to ask you how it can explain both the consistency of your...

Not quite. That realisation is neural processes in the brain. It is not seperate from yet caused by those neural processes. And a babe's brain is pre-...

Part of the problem here is that it remains very unclear what "determinism" might mean. Indeed, the presumption that physics is deterministic is almos...

It would be better to say that a brute fact does not have any further explanation. it's not just that the explanation is not available to us, but that...

As Wittgenstein pointed out, being dead is not something that will happen to you; when you are dead, there is no longer a "you". Death is no more a pa...

Daniel Dennett proposed that we don't dream, that we do not have an experience over a period of time while asleep, but that rather a memory of dreamin...

"Confabulate" would be a better term.

He communicated to me several papers, published in English and Spanish, mostly on quantification and individuation, which he was able to defend at len...

This seems to presume a fixed domain - that the very same things exist in every possible world. If that is not presumed, then there might be bound var...