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2§3, trying to build momentum again: Riemann abstracts from the analysis of specific surfaces and their coordinate systems to properties which remain ...

Maybe an experiment you could do would be to survey posts on this forum and see how many times 'subjective', 'objective' are used and 'subject' and 'o...

I'm tired of debating whether nature is inside our theories of it or not. Imagining that nature is all we have to say about it is a pointless retrojec...

Information and probability are dual notions; wherever you have a probability distribution you have an entropy. The connection between the two is part...

Well we know that physical processes interact with others, it is not so surprising that their interaction can effect all involved or produce novel phe...

I don't think that subjective and objective are particularly useful terms. At what point does objective light reflecting from an object become a subje...

Oh no, I think it makes the point than an observer need not be human quite nicely. The next bolded bit, which leads on from it, extends the logic to e...

Yes, it was an analogy to express suspicion about the physical intuition underlying particles existing in superposition. Einstein saw quantum mechanic...

Tell me why people are required for the natural formation of salt (which requires quantum mechanical effects due to the ionic bond). Specifically tell...

Except 'observation' has been occurring since before humans existed, all a 'measurement' is (AFAIK) is a mapping from a superposition of eigenstates o...

Presumably quantum phenomena were happening long before there were people.

People gonna keep thinking quantum observers are people.

I think life happened to all of we intrepid learners.

Finally a picture of what's going on: /uploads/resized/files/mt/bkiuqyatzke6mk2o.jpeg For the sake of actually moving on in the reading group, I'm goi...

I'm sure there are people that think it's tenable. I don't. I don't really want to get into a discussion of contemporary religious practice, all the u...

They probably don't have it nowadays, seeing the devil and hell as more symbolic/discursive/institutional or allegorical as is usual for most people. ...

I lived with a Franciscan nun for just over a year. Unsurprisingly, we argued a lot. Typically about theodicy, the Franciscans have an interesting tak...

I've got 1.8k of the damn things, I should probably post less.

I've got a maths degree and a good chunk of it was self taught due to course structure. Currently doing a PhD in it too, and I've been employed as a r...

A citable resource on philosophy in general is the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Descartes' Discourse on Method broadly concerns epistemology ...

2 + 2 can equal 0,1,2,3 or 4 in modular arithmetic. If each 2 has the dimension of decibel sound measurements, the total number of decibels is 5ish. W...

If everything is inconsequential, so is the fact that it is.

I'm not familiar enough with how you think to know why you think a distinction between organic and machine has a structural symmetry to the distinctio...

To whom are you addressing the quote and what's its purpose?

Blame @"Pierre-Normand".

And you have some kind of information transfer/encoding approach to the meaning of the words on the Rosetta stone. We could work out what they meant b...

I have definitively demonstrated sympathies for leftist extremism and related terrorism, going so far as to condemn it. I have so thoroughly committed...

But... but why is dog?

What about the Rosetta stone? Big fucking thing with scribblings on it dug out of the earth. Did the words have meaning before they were discovered ag...

Perhaps this is surprising but I do have basic reading skills. @"Fooloso4"' excellent post, though it's more a series of interlinking references, make...

My stake in it? Honestly, I think society was better in the times of ancient Sumeria. When people started suggesting that sexual pleasure was somethin...

Yeah no worries. It's a shame that you missed me expressing disapproval of a contemporary communist movement killing loads of people. I don't know how...

That's ok, absurd caricatures satirise themselves.

Yes, I know nothing about history and pay no attention to the news. Discard everything I say.

That's a great post, thank you. Rule of thumb: the extreme left will call you a prick and interrupt your shows, the extreme right will do the same the...

Headlines now: Medical doctor treats tape worm infection using experimental Buddhist surgery. Worms still there, attachment to body gone.

No worries, I had to edit the post 47 times for it to be coherent. You can be the lightning.

Has anyone actually heard of a vocal proponent of political correctness, that isn't just some wackjob on Tumblr, saying: 'I believe that no one should...

I'm quite happy to be accused. This makes more sense to me now, thank you for the clarification. It's an interesting topic to think through. Something...

Yes. It does nicely show that a (system of) rule( s ) can be followed regardless of whatever mutations they may later develop. Though playing the game...

What gave you the impression that I was defending it? I appreciate that you are attempting to give me a revelation through rhetoric; I see technology,...

I don't think it's a sin to believe that technology gives us the opportunity to live better lives. I'm very grateful that when I get ill I can go to a...

No no, I think you're putting more effort into your posts in this thread now, and they seem broadly on topic and well considered to me. Though, I am a...

Have some airy brain farts. I don't have any practical skills, so the 'adaptation agenda' in the paper made me want to think about failure points in p...

@"andrewk"@"SophistiCat"@"fishfry"@"Owen", missing anything vital?

Wasn't aware there's already a thread for it. I'll pin this one, thanks for including the reference.

Hey good! Now you're ready to start considering the arguments in the paper!

For those of you too lazy for close reading: First question for any paper: what is it trying to do? (1) The paper is trying to highlight that current ...

ITT people try to convince an OP explicitly asking for help with a natural deduction proof in a specified system that it isn't worth the bother. ? (((...