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jambaugh

['Member']Joined: January 11, 2020 at 20:27Last active: October 23, 2020 at 05:344 discussions32 comments
Location: Georgia USA

Bio

I was born.
I went to school.
I went to more school.
Now I am teaching school.

OK! Here are some more details. I studied Mathematics at the undergraduate and masters' level and then pursued and achieved a PhD in Physics. I've examined non-linear differential equations especially symmetry methods, fundamentals of quantum mechanics, general relativity, group theory, Lie algebras, foundations of mathematics and of science. My interests are broad including science, religion, politics, and other general subjects of philosophy. I am a "Man-made global warming is gonna kill us all, and soon" denier, while acknowledging that I am among the "97%" who agree that humans have had a significant (i.e. measurable above noise) effect on our climate.

Favourite Philosopher

John Locke, Siddh?rtha Gautama, Ayn Rand, Jordan Peterson, Mark Twain, Epicurious

Favourite Quotations

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about!" --Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.” --Water Rat (Kenneth Grahme: "The Wind in the Willows")

Discussions (4)

Comments

In: I came up with an argument in favor of free will. Please critique!  — view comment
I have a much briefer argument. "I am predestined to believe that I have free will!" ( A sign I have placed on my office door, btw.) Any attempt to ar...
October 23, 2020 at 02:59
In: Qualia and Quantum Mechanics, The Sequel  — view comment
My apologies for the very long delay in reply (too many irons in the proverbial fire). And let me also qualify that I've not read through the discussi...
October 23, 2020 at 02:52
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
There is often an implicit assumption in comparing egoistic vs altruistic orientations. That is that value is a zero sum game. This is partly because ...
February 10, 2020 at 01:31
In: The "Fuck You, Greta" Movement  — view comment
Jumping in way late (yet again). The problem I see with Greta and her like is the false application of our cultural parable of the "Emperor's New Clot...
January 27, 2020 at 03:07
In: Qualia and Quantum Mechanics, The Sequel  — view comment
Jeeze that last sentence of mine was almost German in it's length!
January 27, 2020 at 02:51
In: Qualia and Quantum Mechanics, The Sequel  — view comment
Jumping in late here but let me share my thoughts. Your statement is true but only in a less directly useful way to your point. All phenomena is funda...
January 27, 2020 at 02:50
In: What can logic do without information?  — view comment
Seeing a live grenade in the room justifies my assumption that a live grenade is in the room. It may be an illusion but I can only act on my perceptio...
January 27, 2020 at 02:21
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
As you later qualified, we should consider cases, but here I would questions some of the nuances of the term "selfish". I agree it is selfish=not thin...
January 23, 2020 at 11:13
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
I agree with your first sentence here and in fact exclaim that it is a critical point. However I wouldn't classify it into types in this way. It is he...
January 23, 2020 at 11:01
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
You are speaking here of Love as an ideal. I am thinking of love as it is practiced by mortal individuals. The narcissist loves those who focus on the...
January 23, 2020 at 10:01
In: Yet Another Modest Proposal  — view comment
You are quite right, and that is an error in my suggestion. It would be far more ethical to allow anyone to establish their own gold NUGGIT standard a...
January 19, 2020 at 21:05
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
Here is more of my pomposity regarding love. Again adopting the position of moral agnosticism or rather moral anarchy, wherein each individual has his...
January 19, 2020 at 20:58
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
The self annihilating suicide could be considered as such . But you say "truly" rather when I think you mean "purely". I would like to start another t...
January 19, 2020 at 20:37
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
Take an anthropological position for a moment. Consider that each individual has their own notion of moral value. It is exactly that value that they d...
January 19, 2020 at 20:33
In: What can logic do without information?  — view comment
I cannot think of a better definition of pure mathematics than the title of this thread. Pure logic provides a structure to the hypotheticals we might...
January 15, 2020 at 09:38
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
But in the end, when we distill all the potential choices we might take at any given moment, we must select one and only one actual behavior. That is ...
January 15, 2020 at 09:25
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
A secondary comment more on topic. I was describing one manifestation of love "at a level of potentiality" namely that manifestation where we love an ...
January 15, 2020 at 09:10
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
I think you are hitting the nail on the head here at the end in that the fundamental disagreement between us is here where you say: The format here is...
January 15, 2020 at 08:36
In: Moral Anarchism  — view comment
To qualify further. As a moral anarchist I am likewise, at the very least, a moral agnostic. I cannot truly know your personal ethic. I can only guess...
January 15, 2020 at 01:06
In: Moral Anarchism  — view comment
Yes, this is a good point. I don't mean this to be an expression of an ideal to strive toward. It is rather a truth (if I'm correct) to be acknowledge...
January 15, 2020 at 00:53
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
I would add that we often value... morally value since, as I define it, we can't value any other way, the potentialities of others and of circumstance...
January 15, 2020 at 00:39
In: Defining Love [forking from another thread]  — view comment
I disagree. We each value differently and you can value possibilities the same as you can value immediately actualities. Their current behavior is inc...
January 15, 2020 at 00:35
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
I'll reply in the other thread, quoting your last post.
January 15, 2020 at 00:26
In: Moral Anarchism  — view comment
I agree. We should not start from scratch. In my mind we play "salvage" not assuming the traditions of the past are "junk" because we can see they hav...
January 15, 2020 at 00:21
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
An ordinal theory of love, not a cardinal one. See the pope for that. :) And I assert, that for each of your expositions on the permutations of love y...
January 14, 2020 at 22:37
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
I would reword this. The knowledge itself IS objective. I.e. I can state that a subatomic particle will have a specific probability of behaving a cert...
January 14, 2020 at 22:25
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
I argue that your statement here just makes my point. You say you love your child, because... and state what you value namely "everything they can pos...
January 14, 2020 at 22:12
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
There is enough room for the resolution of your dilemma to assume stochastic causality, namely that one event can influence the probabilities of futur...
January 13, 2020 at 23:50
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
Well, it typically manifests in contemplating the EPR experiments where two totally entangled systems, say that are absolutely correlated, are conside...
January 13, 2020 at 23:31
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
Here's my take on love. Definitionally "Love is a moral judgement". Understand this in the context of my belief that morality/ethics is an individual'...
January 13, 2020 at 23:15
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
I agree with Hoffman in part, excepting that there are implicit assumptions when one uses the term "reality" where he is referring to "Ultimate Realit...
January 12, 2020 at 17:05
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
Ah, I could have said that better. The descriptions are physically manifested and those must be objective in and of themselves as records. There's a c...
January 12, 2020 at 16:58
In: Morality Is problematic  — view comment
Pardon my butting in. I'm new to the forum. I have a list of comments on earlier posts but I'll try to be brief. Pardon me (or not as your ethics decl...
January 11, 2020 at 22:09
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