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By virtue of them being labeled scientific hypotheses they are testable. Philosophical exploration might be any sort of babble. Quantum mysticism, etc...

And there's the problem. Human language lacks the preciseness of mathematics. Start at ground zero: Ontology. "the nature of being"? "being" being wha...

I agree. :chin: I see your icon only lists physics as a part of philosophy. Are you saying all the other branches of science are spin-offs? Or is this...

Thanks for the heads-up about math. :cool: (SEP) So even tools can be metaphysical. Well, that may clarify things. No need to continue. :yawn:

After 426 posts on this thread there doesn't seem to be a consensus. It's certainly not the philosophy of nature of past ages, having been eclipsed by...

Science is full of meanings and values that are germane to discussions within those disciplines. It's usually the scientists who participate. Whether ...

So metaphysics is foundational, without which interpreting scientific results and speculations go nowhere? This is a bit vague for me, but my backgrou...

You are probably correct. Certainly science evolved in philosophical frameworks. But I think apart from logical structures science is no longer philos...

Following Gravity's Rainbow I suspect. An (ex)professional physicist, he once told me he had left the profession and was concentrating on his guitar. ...

It depends on whether speculation in the sciences is "philosophy". I think it is not. Even the definition of speculative philosophy is something diffe...

Do young people still read books? BITD long ago when the English teacher would assign a classic novel we would go to Classic Comics. Nowadays they pro...

Apparently many critics of WAP are conservative Republicans rather than liberal Democrats. This pushes me out of the centrist lane and toward the righ...

It's an immense subject - Wikipedia has over 26,000 mathematics articles - consisting of a lot more than Platonic ideals. There's a tremendous amount ...

Yes, some time ago. It's around the house somewhere, so I'll try to find it. The notion of voices in one's head from the various gods of the time - a ...

So, something that is not perfect is deeply flawed?

But it's easy to think of the ancient Greek getting an idea and thinking it is a God speaking to him.

C- You forgot sweet.

Followed by several intense volumes on the meanings of the punch lines. For your next project please dissect the taste of chocolate ice cream.

Yes, curious isn't it? A problem is that this is an existence theorem. I've never used it for this reason, going instead with Banach's theorem that in...

Well, there are lots of ambiguities in mathematical symbolism. The equal symbol for example, then the idea of transforms and transformations, etc. In ...

Hey, I been drinking sodas and eating burgers at the Varsity long time ago. No need to translate.

Even having been a prof of mathematics I learn something about the subject on this forum. Never came across this. :smile:

Someone had to say it. Everyone on TPF knows it down deep inside. Now that it's in the open one can stand erect, proud to advance what we all know to ...

Would the rest of us be allowed to observe? Would there be big words I don't understand? As it is, I can bluff by not posting. :worry:

And this is an example of mysticism? Obsession with lemniscates will lead to no good. Please see your psychoanalyst. :chin:

That should do it.

Not sure about the connection. When I speak of flow in action I'm talking of the phenomenon that a one-time acquaintance, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi , de...

Only two? What of the mode of complete involvement with an action in which we lose sense of self and immerse in the flow? Is this part of one of the t...

They haven't paid me anything the last twenty two years. :sad: Yes, the aether of fields interacting, etc. I find that hard to visualize as well.

According to Feynman Einstein defined mean curvature of space in the following way: In other words, you measure the surface area, A, and measure the r...

I owe my friend an apology. Space does warp in the presence of great mass. "Bending" or "curving" on the other hand requires definitions, like the thr...

Concerning Hanover's avatar, living in the land of milk and honey makes one look like that. I went to school in Atlanta eons ago and I, too, resembled...

That long sentence of which this was a part was meant as a joke. If you took that goblygook seriously, see your mental health professional :razz: :ok:

Hardly. To be is to be and to be perceived is to be and be perceived while in the state of perception allowing one to realize one is being perceived, ...

Nevertheless, if Europe is denied fossil fuel products from Russia, the US must reopen drilling and exploration in order to reach the point of human e...

It's too rigorous to be considered philosophy. :cool:

Is there a cause having the effect of T Clark leaving the room? Perhaps not, like the instantaneous decay of a uranium atom. :chin:

Sartre'sThe Look: (Wiki) I have found this to be a profound truth. Especially in certain dangerous activities.

As well as reaching out and bending space to your will. Your grasp of nothing is exceptional :cool:

Good luck with that. A Nobel undertaking. Let's start with a clear and correct definition of "being". :cool:

No. What "bends" is spacetime, which does not have the Euclidean metric in R^4. The Euclidean metric is how we normally measure spacial dimensions. We...

I don't give it much thought. On the other hand weak emergence runs throughout my explorations in dynamical systems in the complex plane. Interesting ...

Well, I could call myself a philosopher and others would let that pass without comment. But if I called myself a mathematician, some sort of proof - l...

Some think that the only example of strong emergence is consciousness. (Wiki)

(Wiki) Observe my avatar as an example.

Be my guest. It distorts spacetime in the appropriate metric. Space by itself doesn't bend.

Guess that "depends on the definition of is." :smirk:

(Wiki) I see no contradiction.

There is curved space - a type of geometry, and there is spacetime curvature, a way to interpret general relativity. Empty space doesn't bend, IMO. :c...

How, then, is "success" measured? Probably not by getting hundreds of posts on a thread one starts on TPF.