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When I was young I used to think there was something about me that was just better than other people, in ways very similar to how you describe childre...

The point I’m making is that that “...” is an important difference. 0.111 does not equal 1/9. It’s close, and you’re saying it might be close enough f...

Picture if you will a skyscraper in a timeless world; it is eternal and unchanging. Also, every floor of this skyscraper is strictly two-dimensional; ...

I did read what you said, my point is that this isn’t an issue of accuracy at all. Nobody is worrying about 0.999 here at all. They’re only talking ab...

0.999... is not equal to 0.999 0.999... minus 0.999 equals 0.001

The total sum of an infinite series is defined as the limit of the series of partial sums. The sum of the infinite series {0.9, 0.09, 0.009, ... } is ...

That information just is the material world.

All the contemporary panpsychists that I’m familiar with (including myself) say that it is only the metaphysical whatever that’s necessary to have any...

I think by saying “it’s all ghost” Chomsky is being figurative, in several ways: all physics as we now understand it is in terms of what pre-Newtonian...

There are, as you’ve noticed, different senses of the term “materialism”. The sense in most common colloquial use today is the one that means the deni...

Disposal and sale are not necessary conditions of ownership. Lack of ability to do so just means you can’t stop owning it.

Thanks for the link. I watched the whole thing and Chomsky is saying what I expected, just that the world is not like Descartes thought it was. Everyt...

It’s half an hour long, that’s not “short” just to confirm what I expect to find: that Chomsky is a modern physicalist panpsychist, and is only denyin...

Timestamp please?

I watched 5 mins into that video from the timestamp you started at and he didn’t say anything against materialism yet. He said that since Newton’s uni...

Quote please?

:up: These seem like different questions, one asking if it’s necessary, the other asking if it’s sufficient. I think it’s necessary but not sufficient...

Chomskyan panpsychism (which I subscribe to too) is still physicalist. It just says that physical stuff all has a first-person perspective, not that t...

This argument isn’t actually valid, because it could arguably be the case (if not for other, valid proofs that 0.999... = 1) that 0.999... is the very...

Exactly. The assignment of ownership, besides the one necessary ownership of one’s own body, is entirely a contingent social fact. A person owns whate...

If the community actually stole it from you, yes. But David's point was that everything belonged to the community initially, and everything that is pr...

"Stealing" something from someone who stole it from you first isn't theft, it's justice.

The “grounding” of appearances is exactly what noumena are supposed to be for. All I’m suggesting is that we don’t need to suppose there is anything a...

NP :-) FWIW, as non-portable as the Earth may be, I expect in the very long run (late life cycle of the Sun) it will be more effective to move the Ear...

The point of building an artificial SSBE is to do all of the stuff that the Earth and Sun do, but in a smaller, more portable form, that can travel. T...

:up: It is reflexivity of attitude that I hold to make an opinion cognitive, apt for being found objectively correct or not. Intentions are cognitive ...

You asked whether The answer is no, but that doesn’t mean that there has to be something besides abstract and concrete.

Dividing objects into two crisp sets doesn’t mean you know everything about them. Every day in the future will either be a rainy day or not, one of th...

In this case that is exactly what we’re talking about. The supposition of noumena is the supposition that reality isn’t “just an appearance” entirely ...

Good thread. :up: My resolution to this apparent paradox is to distinguish between the speech-acts of "expressing", which is a demonstration of one's ...

I don't know enough of the contingent particulars to apply the principle accurately. In any case, much of the property is and was owned by individuals...

I mistook it for an attempt at derision; at putting down what we're doing here by comparison to what others do. In any case, I already addressed the a...

Weird, it was this post that appeared right before I commented, but now I see that post says it was posted 1d ago. And his site role still says "Banne...

Plagiarism is different from copyright infringement, or any other kind of "intellectual property" (which is only a very recent coinage; older US law r...

He appears to not be banned? Not that I particularly want him banned, just seems odd.

So you would be surprised if a simple simulation of basic physics could produce simulations of chemical interactions, even just a few molecules intera...

But if you simulate the universe and only simulate quantum fields, do you think you will not eventually end up with simulated chemical substances foll...

I just noticed your edit here, and thought I would share something that I wrote on this topic in the mean time, since I did already agree that moral c...

Somehow I missed this reply four days ago, sorry about that. My point was that it's the arrangement of parts that constitutes the object of study at a...

The very nature of procedural justice (as opposed to distributive justice) is connected to issues of property. Because just like analytic knowledge is...

In the way I just explained before the bit you quoted. "To produce" is at best a loose way of saying what I'm trying to say, but all our language is c...

:up: I wouldn’t say that exactly, but the immediate followup question of “How do I decide?” definitely is philosophy.

So the surgeon ought to kill a healthy patient and harvest his organs to save five dying patients?

If we give up any notion of noumenal properties besides a persistent propensity to produce particular kinds of phenomena to particular kinds of observ...

The ownership of ideas is closely related to the ownership of labor and the means of production, because if one company owns the idea of doing some wo...

Thanks!

It was this bit, which felt like an accusation that what I'm / we're doing here on this forum / in this thread is somehow deridable: FWIW this also se...