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because it's written in Italian.

On the same theme: It rains, hear how it raining Madonna! How it rains Feel how it's coming down Did you see that it's raining? Hear how it comes down...

Water falls from the sky Powerful rain Wash my mind with cold water And take the pain out of my memory Take me down to the river Take away all the anx...

But the argument is NOT about what language SAYS but about how it WORKS. Human language uses elements such as phonemes or letters to forge words. The ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmjtUVaageg ...The songs without an ending Where do they go? Silence Who can know?

Del cielo cae agua Lluvia poderosa Lávame la mente con agua fria Y saca la pena de mi memoria Llévame hacia el rio Sácame toda la ansiedad No me dejes...

Personally, I don't buy the distinction between weak and strong emergence. I see the latter as a sum of many small (weak) emergence events. It's a qua...

No. It's like saying: if consciousness happens in humans, it must have a precursor in the animal kingdom. It cannot stem from nothing. But language is...

Thanks :-) I remember we had plans for the Earth For people as well as nature Break down the barriers, the walls Old parapets from the time of Arthur ...

But if strong emergence happens in language, it can happen outside of it too. Otherwise, when did strong emergence emerge? :-)

Hard to come after Patti.

Where's the love song To set us free? Too many people down Everything turning The wrong way around And I don't know What love will be But if we start ...

Show up = emerge. Note that one can make several different houses with the same material, so the structure of the house is additional to the material....

It's interesting to compare our colour categories with those of other cultures. You might like this but I read recently:

Thought you'd like it. :smile:

Khaki is another example of a composite color that does not feature in the light spectrum, something the OP seems to call an imaginary colour if I und...

It all boils down to what kind of aggregation one is talking about then. Aggregation: the formation of a number of things into a cluster. "a single do...

That distinction between strong and weak emergence is unclear to me and I suspect it is spurious. Either some new property or behavior emerges when el...

That is how a nazi would read it, no doubt.

Un fact it is more complicated than that, but I see what you mean. The concept of emergence does not imply that magic things happen between elements w...

So at every branching, the total energy of the universe is divided by 2? And likewise with its mass, I suppose. Since there is a gigamongous number of...

Ok, so a photon still behaves as a wave when it is reflected by a mirror. Fair enough. That doesn't make for an infinite number of universes, though.

That is not saying they should leave Germany. I suggest you go back to hate sites and leave philosophy alone.

It has no meaning at their level.

Where did Fitche call for Jews to leave Germany?

I repeat: atoms cannot reproduce.

You are talking of dictionaries. I am talking of philosophy books. The possibility of a steam engine is something very different from a real steam eng...

I would dispute that with three counter examples. 1. A philosophical book is just an arrangement of words. If there is nothing new in philosophical bo...

Not the photons passing the slits.

Van der Waals forces are inter molecular. Gravity does not affect light.

I am referring to this brilliant book by Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. The idea is that one can interpret dreams through a specific procedure b...

Oooops.

Sade was more than just the author of a few porn novels, by the way. He wrote a full philosophical travelogue, titled Aline et Valcour, complete with ...

Indeed, it's the banality of evil.

Really? More like a do-nothing Nazi. Here is the story of a truly good Nazi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

Not really, no. I couldn't care less. I am just going to take his 'thinking' with a ton of salt. Judging from his politics, he was easy to fool.

Because you did?

He's dead and only Gott can help him now. But a guy who fell in love with Hitler can't be that smart. His philosophy can't be any good. A great Jewish...

A bit too easy in my view. I would think a good philosopher would know better.

What Dirac is talking about is the superpositions of wavefunctions. Waves can add to one another, as in sound1 + sound2 = sound3. I would assume that ...

To the OP: no, Sade didn't condone these crimes. But in an era which cancels Woody Allen, you can safely consider Sade as cancelled too.

That is not what a scientific theory ever does. Science is not religion. He could not figure out e.g. how come the star Syrius would exert a physical ...

Why the average and not the sum? What is the argument here?

The question is not which people killed the most. The question is: do you want to live in a Nazi society? If yes, you are welcome to read from Nazi ph...

I don't think superposition of states is a good way to think about QM.

He did not, not any more that some biblical prophet understood your particular predicament when you happen to read his verses and find them useful. Th...

There's just one world in most QM interpretations.

Because reading a book involves a certain amount of self projection, of interpretation. Some people get their insight from reading the bible, others f...

I never said that it didn't. Well yes, I guess that's the point.

I think the difference between infinite and gigumongous is rather technical. Interestingly, the conservation of mass and energy would seem gigumongous...