Seems to me that "objective truth" is only hazy on a philosophy forum. Objectivity and truth are often used interchangeably. You are asserting truth (...
But you only know of nerve firings thanks to your "inner film show". To even relate the mind to an "inner film show" means that there is something abo...
The problem here is that you're not reading what I wrote. Sure, but being human also entails using reason, and it's seems to me that you're all emotio...
I love these contradictions. If its a "given", isnt it true? And if it applies to "we", and not just "you", isnt it objective? So basically you're say...
Seem to me that you need to know what a word means (what word refers to) to know how to use it. When looking up a word in the dictionary, we find the ...
John D. Collier's website Dr. Collier mentions "enformation" in the first link I provided to you in the other thread: I would like to add John D. Coll...
In seeking critique regarding how well written something is, are you asking for objective criticism or subjective criticism? How well something is wri...
Enformation is also mentioned by John Collier. Is Dr. Collier and Gnomon one and the same? I doubt it. What philosophical views are "well established"...
I'm here to learn about other ideas and expose my ideas criticism. I don't state my ideas just to look at myself write. I expect someone to read it an...
So meaning is how useful some bit of information is? It seems to me that it is all useful to someone at some time, even when they don't know it, as in...
How were humans informed of the Big Bang if not by observing space expanding? The expansion of space (the effect) is information because it was caused...
The latter sentence doesn't follow from the prior one. All statements are empirical. Statements are about a particular view from somewhere. We are vis...
The reason why the scientific culture ignores metaphysical questions is because their is no way to falsify the answers to the questions, which is a fu...
What are the questions you are attempting to answer in regards to the images with dots? What the dots represent answers a different question than what...
Now, imagine that the book is the Bible. Think about how much conflicting information has been interpreted from the Bible. The amount of (potential) i...
That's because trust/mistrust comes in degrees. If you don't fully trust, then logically, there is a degree of mistrust. Who, or what, do you fully tr...
To say that loss occurred during compression is agreeing with me that the information was there, but now it is gone after compression. The compressed ...
Encrypting information is a kind of processing information. And in processing information, you are adding information, like the algorithm used to enco...
Which is to say that "games" is a meaningless scribble as it doesn't represent or invoke any necessary and sufficient features other than the scribble...
You are incapable of thinking your arguments through before posting. You're simply talking about types (useful vs useless) of information, not quantit...
It certainly contains more information than this: sdp m-0w3r] sfd'gmp nAWE(0b7rb[ asid vp dsfg sd rgsdfh dfghjt-r9hume5[po6iu sufyumw4-5t9nme sdfgh s ...
Methinks that unenlightened posts would be considerably better if he really was logical. So the ordered image has twice the amount of information of t...
Come back when you know how to read. Destruction of the image is a causal process, so yes that would change the information content. What the image is...
Potential information is being confused as actual information here. When the information is predictable then disorder resolves to order, but that is o...
"Consciousness" and "mind" are also terms that leave an awful lot of very large, open questions, about what "consciousness" and "mind" is or means or ...
Well, yeah. That sounds logical. If distrust is the absence of trust, then yes, more distrust equals less trust. So you tell me, Unenlightened: how mu...
With all this "trust" in the world, one wonders how there is so much racism (distrust of others with a different skin color), xenophobia (distrust of ...
The whole premise of this thread is wrong. How much power someone is willing to give someone else over them is subjective. It is why we have different...
Exactly. It's subjective. Some people give some of their decision-making power to others because making decisions is hard for them. How much power som...
Then 1 does refer to things, like velocity and time. Glad to see that you finally see that I made sense, Banno. Now, the question is, does speed and t...
Google is just a search engine that provides links to trustworthy, or untrustworthy information. It's not so much should you trust Google, but should ...
It's really difficult to see, but there is a variation of 0.111... cm. in the size of the apples. Thanks for the excellent clarification. When we use ...
Yes, but you seem to be ignoring what I said. If what you and I both said is true, then how do we reconcile our opposing, but true, viewpoints? I was ...
Numbers represent potentials, not actuals. Why does dividing things by three, into thirds, create an "infinite" number of threes after the decimal poi...
No, that just implies you can add one - a finite value - to any number - another finite value. So where does one get the notion of infinity from when ...
My point was that China is one of the least diverse countries in the world, and in which citizens have fewer freedoms and CHOICE, like women getting t...
If it were settled for you,, you'd be able to answer these questions. True wisdom comes in questioning everything - in never being settled until all p...
Hypocrisy. It is kind of difficult to be racist when your whole country consists of one race. But then the final outcome of unfettered racism is that ...
Only that our thoughts are finite. We don't know if the universe is. But then this brings up how our thoughts relate to the world. In thinking about i...
Right, so in your example, you'd be just making noises with your mouth. Like I said, any instance where you aren't using words to refer to something, ...
The fact that someone can add one to some number in no way implies some notion of infinity. If anything, adding one to some number just produces a fin...
It seems like you're taking about the meaning of true and false. Something that is the case would be considered the truth. Just because it is consider...
I'd just be changing the scribbles, not the meaning. Demands and requests are asserting your intentions. Saying "Please be seated" and "Keep quiet" is...
It seems that we can assert that something is the case in each of these examples: 1. That the person doesn't know who the third president of the Unite...
It seems to me, that when communicating, how we observe the rules of the language we are using must not be subjective or else we'd be talking past eac...
Only odd if you were the only being in the universe. You wouldn't be using pointers because there would be no need to point to things if you were the ...
I would argue that language being about stuff is language's primary, if not it's only, function - to inform, to communicate. I would also say that our...
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