T_Clark

I don't think this argument holds water. Or maybe it's nihilistic. To start, I don't think science is the only valid way of understanding the world. I...

I think there are a lot of people out there, probably mostly physical scientists, who do think psychology, sociology, and economics are nothing but ph...

I first came to this realization through the Tao Te Ching. "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." It has become a central part of my und...

I don't remember participating in the discussion five years ago. This time I read the essay you linked. I was disappointed to see it was the same argu...

That's why I mentioned reductionism. For many in the physical sciences, the disciplines you listed can ultimately be reduced to physics. That's not ho...

Method will get you only so far. Once we've collected it we have to process it, validate it, interpret it, and fit it into existing or new theories. D...

The Azores' main crops include: Pineapples: The most popular fruit grown in the Azores, with the islands exporting over 2 million pineapples per year....

Please don’t reopen the old US Department of Agriculture “ketchup is a vegetable” controversy circa 1981.

Guilty as charged.

Good question Mr. Hume. I'm not sure where it comes from. I'm not sure if it's something we figure out from seeing that certain things seem to recur i...

I'm ashamed of myself.

The bright red crappiness is the most important part.

Nuff said.

On the rare occasion where we went out to a nice restaurant, if I ordered a steak, my father would say "If you want ketchup, you can get a hamburger."...

That's what justification means in this context - empirical evidence. You're just playing with words. Sorry, no, that's not how it works. It's clear y...

I find referring to past posts and making me go looking elsewhere for the comment annoying. I'm more likely to copy some text from the other post. I'm...

Hey, I repeat the same things over and over and it's helped me become one of the most respected and envied members of the forum.

Of course my consciousness is an aspect of the real world that I know by observation. I see two ways of looking at this. First, arithmetic is directly...

Yes. Haven't I seen your picture on billboards on I-75. "Accident? Injury? Hanover, Loblaw, and T Clark (no relation) stand up for the little guy."

All non-trivial logical premises ultimately involve empirical inferences made from observations of the real world. Given the obvious uncertainty assoc...

In our previous exchange, you claimed your initial premise is justified "...by distinguishing events and observing entities..." How many of those ((10...

Ok, so there are maybe (10^80)^80 sequences all interacting with each other. Or maybe ((10^80)^80)^80. And there is no one except maybe a hypothetical...

It goes straight to the Bermuda triangle and from there it’s teleported directly to Australia.

Besides the destruction, Florida is already having an insurance crisis. Lots of companies leaving the state. It's about to get worse.

Even with my amateur's understanding of Einstein's physics, this is clearly wrong. The whole point of the relativity theories is that there is no obje...

To vastly oversimplify... According to the internet, there are something like 10^80 particles in the universe. Starting from zero, they've been moving...

This is one of the songs I sing incessantly and off key in my posts - define your terms at the beginning of the discussion. There is a lot of resistan...

I think you're right. We see some of them here on the forum - people who think that all thinking is reasoning, which does require language. Don't thin...

Welcome to the forum. Here's how I think about it, based on introspection. As I experience it, my self - my identity, I, me, my soul, my spirit - is m...

I believe describing existence as a series of entities and events is inaccurate. That is based on my own observations and my understanding of physics.

That is an assumption - an unsupported supposition. You seem to be claiming, without stating explicitly or providing support, that existence in a seri...

The point of my post, and Gould's quote, is that you're applying an inappropriate standard of what is required for something to be a fact. There will ...

No, you are confusing anecdotal personal impressions with knowledge of how the brain and mind work. I have a friend who has, as she says, no minds eye...

I just posted this in the Quote Cabinet, but it hit me so hard I wanted to bring it out where more people will see it.

You don’t seem to have read what I wrote.

I like and respect you and I’m tired of barking at you. So I’ll leave it at that.

Because his posts and discussions are within the bounds that are usually allowed here on the forum. Even if they are low quality, which I don't think ...

Agreed, but it wasn't beyond the pale here on the forum.

I don't agree. Beyond that, the forum is full of opiniated fluff and vague assertions. I don't know why @"Carlo Roosen" is being singled out. Carlo Ro...

Ethology is the study of animal behavior. I took a quick look at your linked articles. Most of them talk about quantum biology in general with only a ...

If you take that powder and reconstitute it with a little bit of motor oil, then you get Velveeta.

Cognitive science and psychology say no.

Hey @"Baden" and @"fdrake”, I find @"Carlo Roosen"’s posts and discussions interesting and worthwhile.

If you’re interested in knowing more, I highly recommend a book – “The Feeling of What Happens,” by Antonio Damasio. He goes into a discussion of thes...

If I cared, I would try it and see, but…

I don’t think this is true. Do you have a reference I can take a look at?

One word - Velveeta

Translation - cheese store By the way, ever since our discussion a couple of years ago, I found I am using the dash much more. Yes I know that’s not a...

I met an attorney from Atlanta the other day. I thought you might know him - Bob Loblaw