Wayfarer

Agree in general but of note the Australian legislation to put age restrictions on social media use exempted youtube.

You’re reducing Wittgenstein to a slogan. Meaning is not just “use” in the reductive physical sense of mechanical interaction or behavioral output. Wi...

Again, not so. Information content can be measured physically - that is where Landauer comes in - but that is only because there are agreed convention...

Not. We’ve established the difference cannot be discerned by physical principles alone.

And how would you measure the total entropy, if not with reference to the information? What constitutes “data” or “information” isn’t determined by th...

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" "quc hye vko jum tfb lrx dog wna zie ped ohr" The difference is, obviously, that the first is a meaning...

Shorts are a subset of YouTube content. So are we to presume that this doesn't apply to the remaining YT content?

Another myth! Trump has no interest in balancing the budget, and none of what Congress is proposing will achieve that end. Trump's proposal to cut tax...

It does. It is illegal. And no evidence of the alleged waste and fraud is ever presented beyond wild internet memes about millions of condoms for Gaza...

Musk's actions speak louder than words. He knows how to come across in interviews. As for 'ironed out in Court', Trump and Musk have already crashed t...

As far as 'substance dualism' is concerned, for Descartes, mind (res cogitans) and matter (res extensa) are of completely different kinds. The soul, r...

You can pursue physics without any commitment to physicalism. You can be an instrumentalist, for example, and hold no view as to whether the objects o...

Because of what they are doing. It's not hate - that subjectivizes and trivialises the issue. It is an objection to the way that they are subverting c...

I watched that election from a friend's place. Very dissappointing, but Shorten's Labor was too complacent by far, they were certain they had it in th...

Oh, and Zali Steggel. She’s effective. Besides she disposed of the Mad Monk

I would vote for the likes of Pocock or one or two of the others, but collectively, independents are pretty useless, as a matter of definition. My loc...

These two character strings all comprise identical elements. As far as physics is concerned, there's no discernable difference between them as they bo...

:clap: Quite.

Bandt is a bit too left for my liking. The Greens are a party of protest and are too immured to green-left ideology. I might have mentioned I once han...

I'm not going to do your homework. Trump has zero interest in balancing the budget, by all projections the national debt will balloon under his propos...

I’m disappointed with these cheap vote-buying gambits from both sides (tax and excise giveaways). There’s no vision being offered. I think Albanese a ...

I don't see Musk as acting purely for personal gain or benefit. He has complex motivations, one of which is his often-stated aim of colonizing Mars. A...

Indeed. I think it’s about power. And ideology.

My question also. Subject of experience. Not simply human subjects, but sentient beings, generally.

Crash-testing the Justice and Congressional Oversight Subversion plan. Holding so far. Musk looks after the bribery side of the operation. Trump handl...

Sure, I get that. And I'm not trying to be contrary or antagonistic, generally speaking I find in you a kindred spirit. But the vocabulary of 'ontic' ...

Perhaps you might elaborate on what ‘ontic reality’ means?

So, you think the Signal cock up couldn’t get worse? Now, Der Speigel reports: Where’s that popcorn emoji when we need it?

‘The same as’ is problematical. They may appear the same to us, but (for example) Buddhists and Brahmins have spent millenia debating their difference...

Musk's activities have been elbowed out of the news for a few days by the Signal leak scandal. Coverage will resume when the chainsaw comes back into ...

Quite. Kant did, after all, adopt Aristotle's Table of Categories practically unchanged. But the main point I am trying to draw out, is the nature of ...

The term nearest to 'consciousness' in the Greek lexicon (incidentally I'm not schooled in Greek, but this passes as general knowledge) is 'psuche', w...

beats me why there are so many replies. They're pretty easy to starve.

You're anthropomorphising, projecting human emtions on to a device. A signal is not being sent, due to the conditions for its transmission not being p...

Freud's depiction of 'the mystical' was as 'a feeling of oceanic bliss', which he characteristically described as an unconscious memory of existence i...

'Tries' here is clearly metaphorical. What actually happens is, nothing. The events do not trigger the response. Nothing has 'tried' to do anything.

But that's the whole point of 'intentionality'. Minds of all kinds - organisms of all kinds - display attributes which are *not* reducible to physical...

Which is why I took the trouble of explaining it (not that I expect the explanation to be understood by the poster to whom it was addressed, but you m...

As for the 'bottom-feeding' Atlantic magazine, and it's 'scumbag' Editor Jeffrey Goldberg, here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on The Atlantic ...

Obviously you wrote that before you read my remarks above my response to you, which explicitly describes the flaw with the idea of the 'ghost in the m...

I think I can see what you're trying to prove here, but it's very garbled. The first three terms, 'experience, subject, conscious event' are all very ...

I was responding to: That’s what caused me to mention Franklin Merrell-Wolff, as he has written on the theme of ‘consciousness without an object’. I c...

During this report, you can hear Pete Hegseth waxing furious about the so-called Clinton Private Server scandal a few years back (at around 2:26): htt...

A philosophical point: not every story has two sides. The current political situation in America has ostensibly two sides, Republican and Democrat. Bu...

Sure - many of those who have been selected for immediate dismissal across all these Departments were probationary employees with a year or less on th...

There's an interesting character, rather obscure, called Franklin Merrell Wolff. He was a Harvard and Yale-educated maths prodigy who underwent a prof...

So, typical of MAGA world, Clinton's private email use was an outrage to national security, she should have been jailed. But when Trump's own National...

I was tentatively interested but too much reading required. Pincock and his ilk are pretty heavy hitters.

A couple of significant current articles: Hard to see how anything Trump does is in 'the interests of everyday Americans', when it seems obvious that ...