Wayfarer

What could possibly go wrong?

I agree but it should be called for what it is, ‘denialism’. Scepticism is the withholding of judgement concerning what is not evident, whereas denial...

‘Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with m...

Underlining declarations doesn’t make them valid arguments.

I don’t understand your reasoning. What you said was Why must there be ‘ontological continuity’ between the clock mechanism and the movement of the cl...

Thems were the days….

In memory….

Never! Who would have thought?

If understand that and did not say otherwise. I didn’t say anything about ‘collapse’ by which I presume you’re referring to so-called ‘wave function c...

The observer is the engineer or builder who makes the clock and decides on the units of measurement. The interaction is between the object of measurem...

Vance says in an interview that America could put boots on the ground in Ukraine if Putin doesn’t negotiate in good faith. And also impose further san...

Deductively, from the nature of knowledge.

But we all share a perspective! Time passes independently of a particular perspective, but it is common to all of us, because we live on a planet that...

The clock was built by an observer to make a measurement which both you and the maker of it will be able to understand. Your statements about the 'the...

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I don’t agree. The clock is the instrument by which we measure, but the act of measurement is carried out by the measurer. As that passage I quoted sa...

See this post for a rebuttal. ‘ A physical clock measures a succession of moments, but only experiencing duration allows us to recognise these seeming...

Citing sources in support of argument is perfectly legitimate.

‘Clocks don’t measure time. We do.’

Are you aware of any form of consciousness that is not the attribute of an observer? Is it like something free-floating in the ether? You’re the maste...

Well that’s cool. It’s said that 9/10 of the law is possession, I sometimes think 9/10 of philosophy is disagreement. (Although I will add, a great de...

What it is illustrating is the fact that science has had to start taking into account ‘the act of measurement’ instead of only ‘what is being measured...

Folks are never hesitant to appeal to the implications of science when it seems to support realism. But when anti-realism enters the picture, woo beti...

They’re going into the actual offices where the metaphorical ‘cheques are being written’ and saying ‘stop writing that cheque.’ This is what all of th...

It's already been demonstrated in this very thread, that there is a scientific argument for the indispensability of the observer in cosmological physi...

Because they have been vetted by nobody. Musk and Trump will trot out these claims that U.S.A.I.D. is a 'criminal organisation' and roll their eyes ab...

Measuring is what is significant. Give us a dissertation on the nature of unmeasured time. That should clear things up for once and for all.

The point about DOGE's activities is that NOBODY knows on what basis all of these wild claims about 'fraud and corruption' are being made. Musk is sho...

Legal challenges to Trump administration actions Trump never campained on immediately shuttering U.S.A.I.D. or freezing foreign aid, medical research ...

Human minds? I would prefer 'the observer' or just 'mind'. To say 'human minds' is already in some basic way to objectify, to stand outside. Have anot...

You will recall the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden. In the story, the tree from which it is forbidden to eat is the ‘tree of the knowledge of go...

He was indeed an empiricist, as well as idealist. Hume was an empiricist, but I don't believe he was an idealist. Indeed Berkeley is often said to hav...

That's what I mean.

No, because instruments, such as magnets, extend the human senses. That is much more Berkeley than Hume. True, Berkeley called himself empiricist, but...

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks Conflict of interest? Me?

Plato was many things, but post-modern was not one of them. Thanks I’ll look into that book. Have you run across Matt Segal? He’s written some interes...

Having never gone through any kind of vetting or Congressional scrutiny let alone approval. With no published mandate or actual warrant. Deleting prog...

The warrant is ‘don’t you know who I am?’ :brow: Those resisting are threatened with arrest by Federal marshalls.

Well, sure, now that you've provided that background. :up:

Give me an example of what you would describe as a mainstream intepretation? You came in with this: which I for one have never encountered elsewhere.

Trump suspending all foreign aid and dissolving U.S.A.I.D. is hardly a demonstration of strength. The America that I used to look up to was deeply com...

Nothing you've said in the brief exchange we've had about 'the allegory of the Cave' would indicate that you interpret it accurately :brow:

I get it, and respect your readings. But at any given time I'm sorrounded by books I ought to read, not to mention my late-in-life attempt to generate...

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I studied it in anthropology. I could google it, but you can do your own research. And besides, this is not a thread about the human condition, but ab...

Rousseau: 'Man is born free but everywhere is in chains'. But it's basically the 'myth of the noble savage', that the human condition in the natural s...

Generally you’re a very courteous poster, yes. (Although I would gently distance myself from the word ‘spiritualism’, it always reminds me of Victoria...

Because nobody gets it. Symbolic language is being used to convey profound and difficult insights.