Harry Hindu

That was your answer to my question about where the rules of inference were. You seemed to be shocked that I might question the existence of rules of ...

Why don't we go back and see if we can define proposition. What forms do propositions take? If I were to look for a proposition where would I look? Wh...

No, we wouldn't. But I doubt we're simulations. Why would the creators create simulations that create simulations? What would be the point?

If you can't tell me where rules of inference are, then how can you say that they even exist? Are the scribbles you made in your posts the rules of in...

What I said about the distinction between natural and unnatural (artificial) has nothing to do with the distinction between reality and simulation. So...

That's nice, but every rule of inference is either uttered or scribbled. Where do these rules of inference exist?

1. is fine. I take issue with 2 and 4. 2 and 3 seem to be saying the same thing. As I pointed out to Tate propsitions can be true or false. A true or ...

Did propositions exist prior to humans existing? If the answer is no, then propositions depend on our existence. If the answer is yes, then I'd have t...

What does it mean for a proposition to exist "beyond" any particular person? Where, in relation to a person, does a proposition exist? You being wrong...

I don't understand your point. It's really simple. A simulation is part of reality in the same way that the Earth is part of reality and the same way ...

That's pretty cool. I can't imagine the the time that went into making that. My point was that even the map is part of the territory depending on how ...

By understanding that if a simulation is a world it is no longer a simulation. A simulation only makes sense in light of a world. Is a map of the terr...

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No. It's not. A simulation exists within reality as it is composed of real things. You need a real computer to create a simulated one. I have no idea ...

I never said that meaning and the effect were synonymous. I said that the relationship between some effect and its causes is synonymous with meaning. ...

A young person could die tomorrow. No one at any age knows how long they have. The point is to live each day like it's your last no matter how old you...

There's nothing to teach. You give meaning to your life by simply living. Of the millions, if not billions, of possible genetic combinations between y...

Invalid if we think of the simulation as part of reality. All simulations exist within one reality. Simulating an old gaming console on your modern co...

As I pointed out, all you need is a more powerful information processing system to simulate another system that has less information. Your argument is...

Language habits left over from when humans thought of themselves as special and separate from nature. When did we start calling chimps and dolphins "b...

I wasn't trying to separate dream from dreamer. I was pointing out that if you can talk about it must exist. The manner in which it exists is irreleva...

I exist. I dream. Do dreams exist? It follows from the idea that people are attempting to communicate sonething when they use words. If what you are t...

I have shown that the proof is in the way people use the word, "meaning" in that they are referring to a causal relationship. I think that universenes...

To expand on this: One's legacy (the effect) is a result of one's actions (the causes) in life. As such you create your own meaning by your actions - ...

I'm not confusing anything. I'm saying that meaning is the relationship between cause and effect and reference is a type of causal relation.

If meaning were subjective and interpretive then how can we ever hope to communicate using scribbles on a screen? Wouldn't we have to have a common un...

Right. So we're not disagreeing that your actions have effects on the world (meaning), or that one can have an interpretation of those effects as bein...

In the definition I have provided for meaning as the relationship between cause and effect. The definition I have provided stems from my own observati...

How is this any different from saying that others judge your 'meaning/value' based on your effects on the world and their individual lives? Meaning an...

No, it's yours as you are the one that thinks that value and meaning are objective. If that were the case then a serial killer's values and meanings w...

If 'seeking meaning' is seeking value then what makes a life valuable if not the effects it has on the world?

Why wouldn't you want to do that?

You edited your post where you seemed to disagree that value is subjective. I can't have an intellectual discussion with someone who changes their pos...

All you have to do is watch the news to see that the value of human life varies from individual to individual. Why don't you go ask a serial killer wh...

Ad hominems and intellectual dishonesty are not an argument against anything that I have said. You would flunk a class in logic.

Then meaning is equivalent to value? Each human places varying degrees of value on different things, therefore meaning cannot be something objective a...

If you answered it point me to where you answered it. If you think asking questions is a form of hostility then maybe you shouldn't participate on a p...

I didn't ask why people ask it. I'm asking what they are saying, or assuming, when asking. Again, what is meaning?

Not every meaning is profound. Most meanings are simple and trivial. In asking what the meaning of life is, the asker tends to believe they are asking...

I'm more interested in why you don't think that, not that you actually don't think it. So what is it that you think people are asking when they ask wh...

And it stands to reason that the subject is first-person when referred to in the first person (you and I). The point being that a subject is an object...

That depends on how you define meaning. If meaning is the relationship between cause and effect then meaning is innate to the universe. In asking what...

We are familiar with the issue. It's just we've solved the issue. It's not our problem you don't like, or understand, the solution. If you can't answe...

Then the subject is an object, like a person. What is an experience? Would it be fair to define experience as the information of the subject/object/pe...

All excellent questions. I'm certainly not advocating solipsism. If the external world is an illusion, then how and why this particular illusion and h...

Like I said, YOU already reified THE subject by giving it a name, "subject". I'm merely asking what you mean by YOUR use of the scribble, "subject". W...

How is human existence "all for nothing"? My wife and children's and friends' existence is not all for nothing. Their existence everything to me, and ...

This isn't exactly true or useful. While it does take more power to emulate a system, you can fully emulate an older system on a more powerful system....

What is meaningless about human existence? Maybe it's the conception of meaninglessness that is the distraction from just getting on with life and cre...

If it's so golden in the South then why are there millions migrating from the South to the North?