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Oh, man. If Trump would just employ the mechanism most of us have that mediates between what pops into consciousness and what comes out of our mouths ...

Hey, I use that. The wiggle makes it true. :smile: Your discussion with Uni is the best thing I have seen on this site. Hey, I love Bret Baier ! :cool...

We are limited by what we do not know that which we do not know. What is beyond our realm of perception is to some extent beyond our realm of concepti...

It seems professionals in science or math become uncomfortable in this environment. My own experience is my first thread about the diagonal paradox, t...

The mathematics supporting quantum mechanics is entirely logical. But, although there are various metaphysical interpretations of QM, are there metaph...

If quantum theory becomes philosophically stable at some time in the future all this stuff that spins off its mysteries will probably become scientifi...

Especially true for the aged. Have an end of life project that keeps you thinking, hoping to expire before its completion.

I just heard a pin drop. :yawn:

Is risk vs reward a proper philosophical subject? I don't see much here to indicate it is. The world is full of stories of those who have succeeded in...

Hunter is becoming legendary. An Errol Flynn for our political age, sailing the American Main. Like Trump, the more he is pummeled the more he is admi...

Is Writer's Block contagious over the internet? Nasty virus.

Yes. Impeachment effort seems ridiculous. Especially since Trump leads in the polls.

Prepare yourselves for a second Trump term as President. Borderless Biden has been asleep at the switch too long. Financial crook or senile elder?

:up: Try to come to grips with existentialism. There must be something that gives you pleasure. Discover paths that lead from that activity, even if i...

After being retired over twenty years all holidays are forgettable, just days others get off work.

Alex Honnold starred in the Oscar-winning film "Free Solo" and became the world's most famous rock climber. He epitomizes a certain justification of c...

What's with this categorization? Is there a name for a philosophical study of "mean old people"? The philosophy of risk should be the psychology of ri...

I pop in here to mention an old friend of mine, Michael Fain, who collaborated with his wife, Judith Barnard, to produce the best sellers under "Judit...

This should work for definitions and examples and evaluations of certain complicated computations. As to reasoning and the guess work that goes into p...

There's the problem, whether regarding the moon or a quantum particle. Were philosophical terms defined more clearly some threads would vanish. Exist ...

Done all the time: n-dimensional vector spaces. I think the Hilbert space ( a special kind of vector space) in quantum mechanics may be infinite dimen...

Would you want this on your tombstone? :smile:

I'm not following you. But that's OK, I am not a philosopher.

An entertaining and fanciful philosophical abstraction of a bit of mathematics. But we are looking at two lines, not planes. The real axis and the ima...

I take it you use "topological" loosely, like some use "fractal" - both well-defined mathematical terms. ??

It's a world in which a being embodies the characteristics of two genres, the rational and the imaginative. A bit like mankind.

Thanks for the links. Particularly the one concerning a reduction of ST dimensions to two at quantum scales.( I continue to dabble in the complex plan...

A clue

What makes these "problems" unsolved and real? :chin:

Work-arounds were in existence 3,600 years ago and have improved over the eras since. And, yes, 2,600 years ago there was considerable dismay among th...

I supported Womens' Lib and that resulted in me becoming "Mr. Mom" - a single parent - for a while. But life moved on in unexpected but welcome ways.

I think I have mentioned before, but I wrote a Wikipedia page on an obscure mathematical topic a few years ago. Recently, when I asked chat about that...

I use the Bing version of AI chat, but it's been disappointing. On some historical issues it simply reprints paragraphs from Wikipedia. Two days ago I...

Some time back on this forum I mentioned that October of 1958 when I started a postgraduate curriculum for the USAF at the U of Chicago I found that t...

Born in Alabama. Naturalized Coloradan. High Prairie.

An analogy I've used before is that a differential equation (like the Schrodinger equation) may have a multitude of solutions, one of which suits the ...

Pop science usage seems to be anything that is wiggly and is wiggly upon magnification. Mandelbrot's creation carefully derived in the complex plane i...

OK, this guy is legit. A lot depends on how intelligence is defined, at least for me. Do cells think as well?

In high school in the 1950s in Atlanta I had a course in civics. Is that what you were talking about? Also world history. But emphasis was on science ...

Thanks. I learned something. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1767856/

"Fractal" in this environment would imply intelligence at each level would be the the same - if magnified it would be what we normally call intelligen...

Eloquent.

The essential singularity of complex analysis would seem strange enough it might provide some clues about how math diverges from reality in a spectacu...

Man, you have really gotten into this stuff !! I admire your tenacity and ability to digest material that spooks me. :smile:

Sounds a little like the Waldorf School which goes back to 1919. Or Spacial Dynamics, a more recent attempt to combine movement and art into all aspec...

Perhaps the rise of Alexander the Great, or the Atomic Age. I would speculate lots of instances. Your second question is a good one. Actually, the Ato...

From the perspective of a mathematician, I would say examples exist. Not necessarily physical. If a function is "real" (not a real function) examples ...

Agree.

No. From my perspective at the time, social movements were on their way. I think of Lem's rebuttal of the Butterfly Theories of history; his Ergodic T...

Along with its bed mate? :cool: