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For me, I believe mathematical objects, as well as mathematical truths, exist. So I'm a Platonist. This is by analogy with the intuition that material...

Well, to say "The cat is on the mat" means I'm thinking of a certain thing that is a cat, and of another thing that is a mat, and the first thing is o...

Sure, math is a social enterprise. But that's not all it is. As I see it, mathematical truth exists independent of whether there are any conscious bei...

So are you saying that when Georg Cantor first defined infinite sets ca. 1871 and there was great resistance among the world's mathematicians, infinit...

What was the question again? Truth? Who said anything about being able to "describe the exact physical characteristics" of the cat or the mat? Are we ...

Okay, if there is a fixed computer we're using. But if the photo is say K x L pixels, and each pixel contains N bits of information, then by increasin...

What is "the cat"? What is "the mat"? Most of the time, we know what these words mean. But what about (let's take the mat) when the mat is being fabri...

What does that mean, to say that the notion of vertical and horizontal lengths is incommensurate with the notion of diagonal lengths? It is somewhat s...

You ask why the past is immutable. But as a reason not to think of it that way, you mention only that our thoughts about the past can change. There is...

I wasn't explicit enough by what I meant by"scaled down versions". First of all, I'm switching from the diagonal to just continuous functions defined ...

I believe the future is determined regardless of what one believes.

I would say that this is true relative to human understanding (only) — but not in an absolute sense. Because humans experience time one instant at a t...

For any continuous function like whose arclength for a <= x <= b is greater than b-a, its scaled down versions will still have the same ratio of arcle...

As I tried to suggest in the original post, I'm *not* considering facts like "The book is on the table," no matter how clear and useful they may be fo...

Maybe you mean the future is indeterminate with respect to the present. But (and I'm not considering the "many-worlds" hypothesis of multiple futures ...

I'm afraid I don't know what makes an axiom appropriate, but also I don't know what an axiom without a verb means.

I agree that the "I" portion of "Cogito, ergo sum" is gratuitous and very weak. Specifically: If the conclusion is that "I exist", then how can "I" be...

There are at least three distinct meanings for the word "color": 1) the type of visual experience we can have. 2) the property of a material object th...

IvoryBlackBishop: Suppose you have a certain experience on a certain day. Then the fact that that experience was experienced is true, and nothing can ...

When I call something fuzzy, it's not because human's concepts of it are fuzzy ... though that can certainly accompany fuzziness. It's because in an a...

Good questions. 1) The truth of physical reality means everything about elementary particles — of which everything is composed. (People have the same ...

In my opinion, consciousness does not emerge; it is present at all previous times. I believe that because I cannot imagine its emergence from a state ...

On the contrary, I believe that that is exactly what science does. A claim in science is accepted only when the claim is verifiable, over and over, by...

I'm not referring to belief. By "ultimate truth" I mean truth that is not kinda, sorta, -ish. That's why I mentioned how words are often fuzzy, to mak...

I doubt Tegmark's claim that "everything is mathematics" since, first of all, how could abstract mathematics per se generate any sort of physical real...

The word "paradox" has two meanings: 1) something that is true but self-contradictory, and 2) something that is true and seems self-contradictory, but...

I don't "know" what you "mean".

That's the general idea, Dr. G., but to be exact I'm thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_density .

Density and cardinality are different concepts.

What do you disagree with?

The definition of when two sets have the "same cardinality" is (as most people here know) when there is a bijection between the members of one set and...

What I wrote certainly doesn't explain anything (in the sense of Chalmers's Hard Problem). But it does suggest the scope of consciousness in the unive...

Thanks . Yes, for a long time I wondered what kind of arrangments of matter led to consciousness, and whether computer were conscious just because the...

Far simpler than what?

I've never seen an argument in favor of the claim that "consciousness is an illusion" that made any sense. If we're having any kind of illusion at all...

In math, cardinality is often expressed as an equivalence relation between two sets: Sets A and B are equivalent (in cardinality) exactly when there e...

I believe that there is no plant, animal, virus, molecule, atom, or elementary particle that does not have consciousness of some sort. As well as in t...

I think the apparent flow of time that we experience can only be studied in relation to consciousness. All of space and time that has existed, exists,...