The best theories of physics we currently have represent the universe as set of overlapping kinds of mathematical spaces (differentiable manifolds) th...
Objective-as-in-universal as in not subjective-as-in-relative but also subjective-as-in-phenomenal as in not objective-as-in-transcendent. For moralit...
Not sure if you think I was saying that, but I wasn’t. I was saying, like you did even more thoroughly, that there are a bunch of different components...
People try to use words to do things. We call the thing they’re trying to use them for, or the thing they actually accomplish by using them (which mig...
I was recently playing around with a face manipulating app that gives you different options depending on whether (it thinks) you’re male or female. De...
I did only say that that is one (implicitly among other) things that language can do. You seemed to be denying that that is a thing language is ever u...
Sure, because this is an interactive medium where we are each saying things back and forth and they accumulate into a larger discourse like that. But ...
Sex is a compound attribute. Chromosomal sex is not the entirety of sex. There’s also hormonal sex and anatomical sex. If anything, anatomical sex is ...
That is definitely a thing we can do with language. But how would you construe one person making an assertion to another person as “building something...
The image is a figurative one, I think obviously so, since our minds are not directly connected. And with it interpreted so, I see nothing so obviousl...
Analyzing what we’re trying to do by saying things is the right way to analyze speech. One thing we might be trying to do is to convey some state of m...
Philosophy is the bridge between the abstract and the practical, using the abstract tools of logic and rhetoric to do the job of creating the tools wi...
I had my own conversation with 3017 a while back where I put forward my own complete review of all the different things one might mean by “God”, and r...
Plenty of serious believers will hear a naturalistic account of the Big Bang creating the universe and the Earth forming from the sun’s planetary nebu...
I guess since nothing has yet been proposed, that nonexistent proposition can’t be either supported or not, which leaves a score of 0 to 0, as initial...
Two fighters enter the ring for this turn-based fight, one clad in white and the other in black. The fighter in black asks who should throw the first ...
The video is a guy from Fermilab talking about how the “mass increases with velocity” thing is only if you mean relativistic mass, and most physicists...
Strangely, I WAS raised in a religious family and it STILL took me by surprise some time during my growing-up when I realized that adults didn’t think...
@"180 Proof" I’ve located the post of yours that @"3017amen" is quoting, since you said you couldn’t find it: So I think 3017 has taken it that you ar...
A massively object can in principle be accelerated to any sublight speed as measured from any frame of reference, but observers in different frames of...
There is a difference between rest mass and relativistic mass. Physicists today usually just mean rest mass when they speak of mass, and frown on spea...
Still you think it is nevertheless possible to be philosophically in error. If philosophy (the mass noun) is that kind of self-work, a philosophy (the...
“Philosophy” the mass noun, like “lets do some philosophy”, is different from “philosophy” the count noun, like “this is my philosophy, what’s yours?”...
What more do you think there is to approximating the complete truth or making progress other than ruling out the things that are in error? Unless you ...
The starting point of any inquiry is that everything (and its negation) might be logically possible. Then someone or another shows some reason or anot...
Sure, we can’t ever be certain what the complete truth is (about anything, not just philosophy). But in judging some things to be in error and others ...
What do you think “the one true philosophy” means above and beyond the conjunction of all philosophical claims that are not in error? Surely you can h...
You were replying to David's reply to me wherein I supposed that giving everyone constant peak experiences was part of the aim of the transhumanist pr...
Speaking from my experience with peak experiences, one absolutely can be full of bliss regardless of what's going on outside of oneself, and yet still...
The physicists are right that it's impossible to travel at or beyond the speed of light, but we can sensibly talk about what it's like to approach arb...
Oh, it looks like I somehow mixed up those two threads of conversation... I'm not sure what happened, but sorry about that. But to respond to your act...
I thought @"180 Proof" had already addressed that adequately. People who are currently murderers should both be stopped from murdering and also be ena...
I agree that it's a heightened or raised consciousness. But the value of that is that it's a more pleasant, more enjoyable, state of mind; and besides...
I don't think that that can be granted. The peak experiences I have had, which are what I imagine is more in the ballpark of the aim of transhumanist ...
Why would it? What is meaningfulness or beauty, and why would the inevitability of death add that to life? Of course I don't know all of the details o...
I'm unsure if I understand you again, but I didn't mean to suggest that living longer will automatically make anyone happier (though relieving death a...
I'm not convinced that that's true, but if it is: okay, let's make ourselves a different type of brain, and in the mean time survive long enough to do...
If every person has one child, as I stipulated, then population doesn't grow exponentially, it grows... logarithmically? Sorry it's 4AM and I should s...
That is a good point. I guess there have always been a mix of defeatism, and Absurd defiance of the so-called “inevitable”. I’m personally hesitant to...
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