T_Clark

I'll look for the paper on the web and I'll look at your thread. I've ordered it.

This is exactly the kind of question I was talking about. Why don't you start a new thread. I'll participate.

Perhaps I will. However, in the meantime, you might look at StreetlightX's thread.

This is what really helped me in the Anderson paper - the discussion of reductionist vs. constructionist views. It clarified for me how the magical, a...

You, StreetlightX, and fdrake have set me thinking about these issues a lot recently. I think you can see me thrashing about in various discussions tr...

I like it when posters go back to the great philosophers for their inspiration. Does enlightenment = reductionism?

Well... I'm talking about your standard type question. Matters of fact. Is the capital of France Bucharest? Are neutrons and protons made up of smalle...

Words of the Day 3/21/18 Some "E" words. Eccentric - I like this word. It goes two ways. 1) Describes a person who's behavior is unconventional and ma...

Ok.

I started this thread because I wanted to get some ideas straight in my own head, not to talk in-depth about specific scientific issues. The threads I...

This is a quote from P.W. Anderson StreetlightX used in his "More is Different" discussion. "The main fallacy in this kind of thinking is that the red...

From the same root as "sangria."

This point came up a few posts ago when I said reductionist science that might work for a lot of physics can lead you astray in other branches, e.g. b...

I doubt any biologist thinks of herself as practicing a branch of physics.

I suggest you look at it.

I vote for "bumberclat," which TL introduced.

The world is such an incredible place.

I don't think it's off topic. To me it's the whole point of this discussion. Let me reword to see if that works better. I make the distinction between...

Those Finns - here is a hockey rink in New Haven Connecticut by Eero Saarinen in 1959, for goodness sakes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...

Example 1 - A belief in an objective morality can lead people to focus more on blame than on solving the problem. Example 2 - Belief in objective real...

More stonehengey than traditionally mosquey, but wonderful. I went on the web and looked at some stills of the interiors. Wonderful, but I already sai...

Really love this.

I don't have an opinion, but the idea is no more preposterous than the virgin birth of Jesus or the big bang theory.

Seriously - have you ever tried that on this forum? Anyway, if I "insist that if something isn't verifiable by the senses then it is either a useful p...

Given your desire to do good, it is unlikely you will be able to afford anything extravagant, so I'll continue to picture you in the cottage with the ...

I don't think we disagree. When I say "choice" I mean we get to choose what works best.

Red is only for markups on drawings when I'm reviewing them. I sometimes use it on text too, but more often these days I use the comment function on A...

Words of the day. Tuesday 3/20/18. Some words from foreign languages. Sui generis - from Latin - In a class by itself. I always use this word when I w...

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Thanks for the link. Keep in mind that there is Taoist philosophy and Taoist religion. The religion sometimes interprets the Tao Te Ching literally so...

The Tao Te Ching was written about -600 BCE. I looked on the web and there are a long list of Chinese gods. I've always thought Lao Tzu wasn't referri...

Here's a quote from the Tao Te Ching I use as often as I can: The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with...

A couple of weeks ago I started a discussion - "An attempt to clarify my thoughts about metaphysics." I wanted to lay out my thoughts about the differ...

Here's a link to a discussion on gene expression that SLX started a few months ago. It really opened my eyes: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Isn't it more than just philosophical ontology? I've tried to pay attention to discussions over the past months that you and Apokrisis participated in...

My brother and I visited Europe together in 2014. We started out in Amsterdam, drove south into Germany, then along the Mosel River into Alsace-Lorrai...

It doesn't seem as though this would be controversial, so how can any smart, competent physicist claim that physics can be reduced to particles spinni...

Don't the processes discussed in the paper you referenced take all the mystery out of QM? Don't they explain how quantum behavior at atomic scale can ...

Serious. As I said, QM is just the way things are. I don't feel any ontological agita. Why would you expect things to behave the same at atomic scale ...

New York is my favorite city. My mother grew up there and we visited often. Such beautiful buildings. Tell me one thing. Why did they change the name ...

After your story about iron mining in the third grade, I'm reluctant to believe anything you write.

Did you read "Leiningen Versus the Ants?" It was standard fare for high school students in the US. It's a short story about a plantation owner's fight...

I love arch bridges. You can feel the forces from the trains pushing down and being distributed by the arches onto the supports and onto the piles und...

And what's with the goat?

These are great. I assume that's a termite mound. What is glowing?

I don't see an emoji in your post. Did you really have to go in the mines? I do love the towns. And every town I've lived in or even spent time in had...

Read it. Knocked my socks off. I only understood about 1/3 of it. Need to read it again. This changes everything. It puts words to things I've felt, b...

I love towns. Maybe it's because I grew up in a small town in Delaware: /uploads/resized/files/nw/wnzthpazi8juowz3.jpg That's Mt. Olivet Methodist Chu...