Yohan

I am not the man in the mirror? I am not looking at myself looking at myself?

Another way to think about this. Reality contains everything, but reality is not contained by anything. I can point to things in reality, but I can't ...

@SoftEdgedWonder I can use a mirror to indirectly observe what my face looks like. Indirect self knowledge is possible. My point is that some part of ...

My two rules are: — Yohanthen: Agents cannot refer to themselves. — Yohan — Banno I can use my finger to point at my body, but I can't point the tip o...

My two rules are: Only agents can refer to anything. (reference is a form of thought) Agents cannot refer to themselves. (A finger can only point away...

Yeah, how? I don't think you gave a reason in what preceded this question. 99 doctors to 1 doesn't translate to 99% odds, not if all we know is that t...

Am I in a position to determine who I can and cannot trust? If two experts are not in agreement, is it always safer to bet on the expert who has more ...

There is also nothing inherently irrational with not being in concurrence with the overwhelming scientific consensus. I talk about minority experts an...

I am speaking of motives or attitudes. Not views. Also, there is nothing inherently irrational with being in concurrence with the overwhelming scienti...

I stated a truism. I'm not misleading It's good to keep a level of skepticism for all people at all times.. Because basically nobody is totally ration...

Irrational over-trust vs irrational under-trust. Both sides can be immune to facts and a waste of time.

To me this sounds very clunky. Do you think all of reality is clunky? To me its like rocks and dirt. All these technical things. Part of being in the ...

I don't see it as a metaphysical term. Metaphysics is reductive, leading to essence. The sensory experience is appearance, emergent, and relative to t...

In my world there are many worlds. In your world there is one. Who is right. Well, it depends. If we use the analogy of a house...I consider every roo...

There is no singular "real world". Your world and my world are very different, even though we are both human males(I think?). Imagine how different is...

Science doesn't have a way of establishing fact. Rather than admit this, which I believe honest scientists do, some science advocates and probably act...

But isn't that a bad way to use the word fact?

This is science apologetics. If something can be confirmed as fact, explain how. This definition is like saying 'something is confirmed if its been so...

You speak as if irrationality is a trait of a minority of people. I've encountered very few people who I was convinced were truly open to being proven...

It was delated for another time

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Can't argue with fire.

PS. I meant to say 'flip book'

Pondering this question, the idea of sophistry expanded for me. I suspect most politicians, philosophers, religious leaders, the news, media, is run b...

What is the right question?

I doubt it's impossible to do good science without peer review. Peer review might help reduce the odds of error, but it doesn't guarantee it. Peer rev...

Are you saying we have a model of reality, and then theories about the model? And the model is constructed based on experience and interpretation, and...

Does anything ever repeat? I doubt it. However, I suspect core principles, and reality itself at its core, don't change. Consistent: compatible or in ...

So there is nothing but models of models of models ad infinitum>?

Reality cannot be inconsistent. Reality is the standard by which we measure if something is consistent or not. What ever is consistent with reality, i...

I think it's only Christianity that states the Golden in the positive. I think it's less confusing stated in the negative. Golden In the same way that...

The biggest threat are un-governed people with great power. Who governs the government? If we are capable of governing the government, then shouldn't ...

Ironically, I think a lot of the world's problems are due to people trying to 'help' others by meddling and violating the will of other people. So fir...

So...safety and efficacy have already been established. The FDA is just making extra sure, even though we are already quite sure. We just gotta go thr...

Serial killers treat people the way they want to be treated to make them trusting and vulnerable, so that they can eventually treat them as they(the s...

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Golden Dime rule: I want others to treat me as I want to be treated, therefore I will treat others as they want to be treated

No relative point of view can give a complete view of what reality is. This is like the parable of the blind men trying to describe what an elephant i...

Ok you win. Independent of any observer, the earth is round enough in my opinion. G'day

My basic view is The majority is always wrong Reality is stranger than fiction Life is an amazing mystery, but we insist on reducing it down to our si...

pp The earth is both what we see and walk on, which is somewhat flat and bumpy etc, as well as the round object we view from outer space. Science inve...

Round or roundish?

If we are super exact, it is neither flat nor round. Just look at it closely. It only appears flat or round from a distance. Distance blurs the fine d...

All definitions break down when we exercise rigorous precision. There is no meaning that is not vague.

Which point of view is more objective. The microscopic or macroscopic. Far enough a way the earth looks like a shapeless blip Closer, like a sphere Cl...

If you ask a native speaker the rules of their language, they may have trouble articulating them because for them they follow the rules automatically....

I agree with that Being consciousness is different than having consciousness. I doubt anything has consciousness. Consciousness is like the cinema scr...

To be is to have quality. Can we at least agree on this? Then, we can ask: Is quality a feature of matter, or is matter a kind of quality. If quality ...

Even if the theory is based on the myth, which I doubt, I don't see how that makes it a myth nor reliant on the myth. I don't get you at all. The Oedi...