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So many ways to look at one single question when each word can have so many different meanings, it looks different from different perspectives, pulls ...
March 04, 2020 at 23:24
Problem is that it is not saying much, if anything at all. I could say time and change are two sides of the same coin. And now what? Can either be pro...
March 04, 2020 at 22:47
https://www.iep.utm.edu/zeno-par/ -- "In the Achilles Paradox, Achilles races to catch a slower runner—for example, a tortoise that is crawling in a l...
March 04, 2020 at 22:25
https://www.iep.utm.edu/zeno-par/ -- "Because many of the arguments turn crucially on the notion that space and time are infinitely divisible, Zeno wa...
March 04, 2020 at 22:03
Is one second of time infinitely divisible or not?
March 04, 2020 at 21:43
That is fine, except for Zeno. Those paradoxes are still very relevant in the deepest metaphysical sense, they are exactly the test you need to apply ...
March 04, 2020 at 20:31
Any, and that you do not "see” that makes me think you are a robot, but explains why you can not infer continuity and infinite divisibility are one an...
March 04, 2020 at 20:16
I repeat, Zeno did not make any assumptions, and if you again disagree without actually saying what assumption do you think he made I will conclude yo...
March 04, 2020 at 18:13
That's fine, except for Zeno's paradoxes. The world seems to be digital at the bottom of it, and if we are to believe in contemporary physics, that is...
March 04, 2020 at 17:41
Apparently not true, as explained in my previous post. Perhaps if there were video games and virtual reality in 19th century Pierce would know what me...
March 04, 2020 at 17:13
Imagine a single photograph represents your conscious instant of visual perception. You put your finger in front and left of your nose and move it to ...
March 04, 2020 at 16:18
This has no impact on the argument, I think, but it is quite possible we are only aware as a sequence of conscious instants in time. Motion can then b...
March 03, 2020 at 17:18
That’s right. The issue is this should be self-evident and the problem is people just don’t understand the words. If they did it would be clear “abstr...
March 03, 2020 at 16:34
I said Zeno did not make any assumptions, and time is either analog or digital, where analog, continuous, and infinitely divisible is all one and the ...
March 03, 2020 at 05:17
You failed to mention any reason behind your statement. Zeno is not making any assumptions, and his arguments are indeed about infinite divisibility, ...
March 03, 2020 at 02:16
Peirce is talking gibberish. You only ever directly perceive a physical thing moving from point A to point B, and in no way anything about it suggests...
March 03, 2020 at 00:40
Does any of those guys ever consider the applicability of their concepts of time? He is still talking about the same thing, just awkwardly, and at the...
March 02, 2020 at 23:04
speed = distance / time So now I explained how time is in fact not an illusion. What the hell am I doing here when I have more meaningful conversation...
March 02, 2020 at 19:05
If time is illusion how do you explain velocity and motion in general?
March 02, 2020 at 16:04
Are you a robot? Infinite set will never be complete, therefore infinite set will never exist.
March 02, 2020 at 04:48
Neither the process nor that it has begun was focus of my point, but infinite set the process is assembling and the fact that it can never be complete...
March 02, 2020 at 03:30
Starts with fallacy, continues with assumption, ends with paradox.
March 01, 2020 at 19:06
Infinity is not a number. No logically valid statement can account for uncountable.
March 01, 2020 at 18:51
Process describing a thing that will never be completed, that will never exist.
March 01, 2020 at 15:38
It is located in the brain just like simulated crocodile is located inside the computer and just like representations of actors are located inside a T...
March 01, 2020 at 15:22
You are referring to the concept of infinity that can not actually exist, by definition. The concept does not represent a thing to exist or not exist,...
March 01, 2020 at 15:06
We can talk about infinity in percentages though. For example, if time and space are infinite, would there be more planets that are completely identic...
March 01, 2020 at 01:15
Involving infinity neither side of the argument can be semantically valid. One side wants to count from the beginning where there is no beginning, and...
March 01, 2020 at 00:25
Right. So if we don’t make any assumptions and instead choose arbitrary resolution and size we can make conclusions related to that specific resolutio...
February 29, 2020 at 23:10
Now this is funny. Don't you see that is exactly what I'm saying? All I have to do is set my arbitrary resolution to planck scale and define the arbit...
February 29, 2020 at 19:13
I’m not sure if that article makes one interesting distinction about the abstraction algorithm called “visual perception”. There are colors, clearly a...
February 29, 2020 at 18:41
And I am not arguing what you are refuting. I want to set up a basic unambiguous premise we can all agree with and thus have some starting point. So, ...
February 29, 2020 at 18:14
Can any information be digitally encoded? The answer is yes, and to arbitrary given precision. My monitor can indeed represent any and every possible ...
February 29, 2020 at 17:55
While it is true that abstract concepts only exist in minds as mental entities, minds themselves have no other source of information than the actualit...
February 29, 2020 at 16:53
The question is, can my monitor represent information about every possible object or it can not. What is your answer?
February 29, 2020 at 12:14
That is not the answer, just refusal to accept the premise of the question, and is beside the point since the bottom resolution can be fixed to arbitr...
February 29, 2020 at 09:11
Yes. As far as we can see integer numbers are instantiated or mapped to the real world, how do you find it reasonable to assume this relation abruptly...
February 29, 2020 at 05:25
I’m repeating the question so you don’t fool yourself that you have answered it. No. You claimed there are objects that my monitor can not represent, ...
February 28, 2020 at 21:34
You keep avoiding the question. If my monitor is limited to show only some of all the possible objects, what is it about those remaining objects that ...
February 28, 2020 at 13:33
Maybe time just goes in circles? It's not my goal to prove anything, it's all the same to me. I just like mysteries and here is some mystery it's not ...
February 28, 2020 at 09:24
Maybe this will be easier to think about, and it's also about 'time' this time. Imagine there exists an encyclopedia of all the particles in the unive...
February 28, 2020 at 02:34
It’s not about size. Infinitely large square we can scale down to arbitrary small size without omitting any information, or even fully describe it jus...
February 28, 2020 at 01:16
Can you explain that by describing a type of object or information that can not be visually represented on a computer monitor?
February 28, 2020 at 00:07
You are on the right track now, just wrong side of the equation. The number of pixels is finite and so is the number of their combinations, that part ...
February 28, 2020 at 00:01
You are not addressing the problem. What part of the universe you could not potentialy see on your monitor? You can either name what kind of object or...
February 27, 2020 at 22:02
You don't get it, you can zoom in as much as you wish in arbitrary small steps. You can also forget photographs and imagine all the knowledge there is...
February 27, 2020 at 21:55
I think I see a way to turn around this argument that infinity does not exist into argument that infinity does actually exist. Damn! Reconsidering...
February 27, 2020 at 19:09
I'm not sure. If those are anything like Zeno's paradoxes, then yes, and that does seem related from the perspective of spatial continuity - analog vs...
February 27, 2020 at 17:41
It bothers me. However, whatever new information that mystery holds, I do not see how it can possibly disprove what we can conclude with some standard...
February 27, 2020 at 17:28
You are mistaking mathematics for a self-evident logical fact. In other words, the whole proof is an axiom, what part can you possibly doubt?
February 26, 2020 at 18:22