I think I understand what you are saying about scaling, but I am not familiar with this phrase. What does it mean? Seems like physics is always trying...
I don't see any advantage to the fact that your way of conceptualizing pi is "entirely finite." There's always something wrong with the math. That's w...
I have no trouble with this way of seeing it. Agreed, but I think many people don't see it that way. Some think that math somehow produces reality. Th...
I still don't get it. I don't see any advantage in your way of seeing things. For me, pi is clearly a number. I guess numbers and mathematics began wi...
This may be true, but I don't think everybody qualified to have an opinion agrees with you. There are physicists who believe the universe is infinite....
It makes ontological sense to me. I do agree that is a useful, abstract simplification. Really, all math is. All reality is. I can imagine these appar...
I don't understand why you want to challenge this. I use approximations to pi all the time. When I want a quick and dirty approximation of the area of...
I don't think "bigot" is the right word, but certainly babies are fairly rigidly judgmental. What was most interesting to me is that they have a clear...
Here's a link to Karen Wynn's publications page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZBkyZBIAAAAJ&hl=en Here's a link to a 60 Minutes piece on h...
All mathematics is about "potential" entities. So what we gonna do? Round pi off to 3.14? 3.14159? How many decimal places do I need to get to the rea...
Just read something in "Axios" I hadn't thought about in. There is technology, not yet implemented, to allow electric cars and trucks to provide power...
That can't be true. Calculus is all about infinity. If you believe that mathematics represents some sort of idealistic ultimate reality, perhaps Canto...
I had heard that Napoleon was the one who implemented the metric system in Europe. F...ing tyrannical system of measurement! Turns out that's wrong. I...
I guess he'll have to find another recipe. We don't use your so-called "Celsius" scale here in the US. We use God's chosen Fahrenheit scale. We have t...
The forum's bologna has a first name It's b-i-t-t-e-r The forum's bologna has a second name It's c-r-a-n-k I like to read him every day And if you ask...
You are expressing opinions as if they are fact without providing any evidence. I am skeptical that things actually work the way you say they do. It c...
This map shows the limits of the historic Storegga subsea slides that made a mess of the lands surrounding the North Atlantic about 8,000 years ago. /...
You've missed the point. This is a serious philosophical issue, like the sororities paradox - How many women in a group does it take to make a college...
Most often when I eat sausage for breakfast I take a good Italian sausage, remove the casing, and then squish it on the griddle to make it flat. So, a...
Solar power - Thought this was interesting. Couldn't find another good place for it. From Neurologica Blog: When I first started reporting about solar...
Agreed. Even though I said this: I'm pretty comfortable with my understanding of what is and isn't art. Again, I just thought it was an interesting pe...
After looking over this and your other threads, I'm starting to get a feeling you're not a strong supporter of religion in general and Christianity sp...
Humans, like all living organisms, have to procure food, water, and other resources to live. That's what we mean when we say "work." Does that make us...
Note - this is an add-on to a thread that is two months old. /uploads/resized/files/ux/wtbtsk9tkk9qd2fz.png This picture was generated by artificial i...
This video addresses all those types of biblical questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbj0Wcb5go Sometimes I find it hard to believe how good C...
It all comes back to this, from the OP: Are you saying there was no reality until there was consciousness? That's an argument I've made before in a so...
The phrase "mixing up" was a confusing choice of language on my part. What I meant was that it is a mistake to confuse scientific principles with meta...
Quantum mechanics is science. It is a description of how the world is or appears to be, or at least how we think it is. Noumena and phenomena are meta...
I think you are responding to me, but I'm not sure. It would be helpful if you put in links to previous posts to make that clear. As you noted, there ...
An analogy defines a relationship between relationships. The relationship between my hand and my glove can be considered analogous to that between my ...
Given the definition you're using, your argument is circular. If reality is the measure of irony, how can it be ironic. It is meaninglessly self-refer...
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