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You're asking the questions and providing the answers now... Very nice, please carry on this discussion with yourself.

Says who? Moral discoursers? What part of "in philosophy" don't you understand? Of course not. One can often right a wrong.

I would like to point out that the scientific method provides no certainty of being 'right'. All its conclusions are temporary by nature, subject to b...

You're most welcome. You may find my answer banal and you'd be right: it is just plain, banal common sense to not trust oneself too much, and to think...

Okay. Pretty coherent system. Sorry to have misunderstood you. Where can I read more?

We can try and reduce, or otherwise deal with our own ambiguities. Ambiguity is the stuff of philosophy and singularly ethics, and you find it everywh...

Hey, it's just an analogy, not a basis. :-)

So your want to discard concepts or notions that are not based on observation, and only those ones. Seems like a good idea, like a plumber who would d...

Ok. What do you call the ethical field analogous to 'ontology'?

Interesting comparison between epistemology and ethics. There are a priori rules (of thumb) in epistemology, such as reblicability of observations (e....

Because it's hard to do any philosophy without the use of human concepts. Concepts are tools for the mind. They are necessary to understand anything, ...

This particular philosophy you are describing is self-defeating.

On the OP, I don't know what philosophy tries to "strip away human concepts to gain a more accurate understanding of the world", but I know that philo...

My point entirely. Wherever you feel like drawing it. To seek advice or not in a given situation is a personal choice. I'm not trying to arrive at the...

Similarly, the idea that morality and ethics are purely human inventions, as well as the opposite idea, and the whole of philosophy for good measure, ...

Regarding the impossibility of exhaustivity in any 'accounting' of outcomes and motives, and the need for a priori rules of thumbs and values, conside...

Yep, that's the danger. We are ambiguous by nature, we're prone to dishonesty, including with ourselves. Pfhorrest seems to trust our capacity for exh...

That would be impossible to do, because both our sensory observations and our "appetites" are much too numerous to be all accounted for equally. The h...

Interesting, though quite speculative of course. We know little, still. E.g. i suspect panspermia theories would throw a wrench in those math.

True by definition of what a sine is: a projection.

In the gif you shared, the curve is traced by the sine dot going up and down on the vertical axis of the wheel, not by the dot on the circumference. T...

I think he is right. A dot on a circle spinning along a straight line traces a cycloid.

Thanks, that's useful. It confirms my interpretation that when you evoke "a sea of U1 photons", you are talking about the unreachable limits between w...

Ciao Scemo. I'm new here too. I agree that our collective vision may improve in our search for distant turtles. That's the best we can do.

That's true, we must think of time as a complex function of something else rather than a straight line from -inf. to +inf. But in my mind it doesn't f...

Thanks for the detailed explanation, although the technicalities are largely wasted on me, I'm afraid. The way I understand your take, this perfect si...

The begining of time (your X, or t=0) could be another mathematical limit, like what happens when the function 1/x gets close to zero. In this idea, t...

I find it hard to think of time as limitted.

Ah, good point: there is a mathematical limit in terms of mass to infinite spliting, a limit that is equal to 0 mass, just as there is a solution in t...

Given our current technology we can only go so far, but technology can and does evolve. As others have pointed out, I’m talking about atomism, and how...

Meh!

That's exactly the point of the thread: is there a limit to how fine we can "grind" matter?

I'm not saying something is "made of quarks". Only that something can be broken down into quarks. There's a difference.

What reasons do you have to believe that a proper theory of consciousness would unite QM and the rest of physics?

Fair enough, there is a slight difference, but you get the point of the metaphor nevetheless.

Until it proves otherwise, of course. Okay, I get it. But what are the pathways and "steps" from a cosmic sea of U1 photons to, say, a quark, a proton...

I just think that "measurement" is nothing an amoeba can't do. All this talk about human measurement determining wave functions is just pre-Darwinian ...

This doesn't mean consciousness has some magic pan-universe powers. It's only a tool we are using.

Actually, in this mind experiment, Schrodinger sees a box. Not a wavefunction for what could potentially be a box. And Schrodinger only proposed this ...

The cat in the box is an observer too. If one really believes that observers collapse wave functions, then any cat can do so, including Schrodinger's....

Let's agree that a lack of certainty is not a problem. The experiments at CERN and other particle accelerators seem to show that the size of the piece...

It's a meaningful objection to the idea that CERN will find the answer to "could it be particles all the way down?" anytime soon, as Banno seemed to i...

It's not my problem. I am fine with the idea that science will never reach certainty on much.

Why consciouness, of all things?

The good people in CERN haven't reached certainty quite yet.

Okay but until they do, do you think "particles all the way down" is possible?

It should also be reduced in North America and Europe. A few ideas: - ban private funding of election campaigns or cap it to a certain low maximum - g...

It doesn't matter. Something exists that hears voices. By convention this something is called "I" in English. You can call it Tartenpion if you want t...

I think the cat would disagree with that.

The world is one; it's not neatly divided into micro and macro scales. E.g. radioactivity, a quantic phenomenon, is an important cause of genetic muta...