Nothing wrong with disagreement. Unless you disagree? If you mean what I think you mean, I'd say not. A model is not an exact description of an object...
Understood, but an extrapolation from actual mental and cultural content still isn't independent of mind and culture. It does not contain identical co...
So just to refine the names of these different classes if models, we have: deterministic (billiards), statistical (gases), probabilistic (quantum). In...
Can you unpack this? The Rindler horizon can be reached one of two ways. As the worldline of a body undergoing acceleration, it is reached as that acc...
That is correct; the mathematics itself guarantees no generality. But modelling is something people do with mathematics, not something mathematics doe...
Yes, that's true. But when we gaze at a galaxy 13.4B LY away, we are not seeing the material and energy that would later form that galaxy, we are seei...
That is not what is left in the Standard Model, though. I think what you've got here is an exclusive definition of "model" that only applies to whatev...
That doesn't seem right to me either. The Standard Model, for instance, is not focused "only on the variables under consideration": it is a reference ...
But it isn't that person's authentic meaning, it's an off-the-shelf, prepackaged meaning that someone else thought up. To that extent, it is philosoph...
I disagree with that. The putative reality is put in by hand in the act of modelling. What is a model a model of if not a putative reality? That is no...
I'm not particularly an expert on GR (my field was QM), so you oughtn't to assume an overriding authority from me. However I know enough to have lectu...
My experience is that slicing is not precluded. It depends on the origin of reference frame. If it's outside the event horizon, you can still slice, b...
That is a limitation of inertial frames, not of the physical universe. Also, you seem to think that if we see light from a star 13.4B LY away, there m...
As per my quote, my issue was with that statement that "no actual progress on how non-conscious stuff can produce consciousness". I do not argue that ...
I did think this was your idea of objective reality; you've said as much before, although also said things that caused me to doubt it. It doesn't seem...
You mean the workers owning the means of production? Yeah, that's so Capitalism. Socialism WISHES it had thought of that. Japan aside, the populations...
Or Bush Jr's "alternative facts" era. Or the Anglican church's "Teach the controversy!" I think the conservative post-truth MO was learned from the af...
Hi 3017. That might be more on-topic here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8635/dark-matter-possibly-preceded-the-big-bang-by-3-billion-year...
Yes, I think that's fine. I don't think the original movers and shakers of postmodernism were attempting to undermine the practise of science, which i...
Right. So, first, there was a supposed stupendous inflation period in the early universe that cannot be described by any inertial frame. Second, it is...
It's weird that I voted relationism pretty much on instinct. GR is obviously a theory that compels a substantive picture of spacetime... the stuff ben...
Nice potted history! It made me smile, and it sounds right to me. With the caveat that Russia was never not an authoritarian state. Different politica...
I got lost at: It's not clear what frame of reference we're in here. From the perspective of an observer outside the event horizon (with some magic bl...
I'm not so sure. The Russian Empire was already at the start of recession when the Revolution began; indeed, poverty was part of the momentum. It got ...
It's perfectly appropriate for that: that's just light further outside the light cone. It being further away just means its further away. Minkowski sp...
The brain has a general reward system with both innate and conditional capacities. For most compulsions, there is some feelgood chemical released by t...
I expect that the starting conditions might be similar, even the importance of water habitats for complex life. And obviously the rules of natural sel...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/World_line.svg/1200px-World_line.svg.png As you can see, any event can be located in an iner...
Yeah he hated the post-truth fallacy. He did not agree with the view that, since science is cultural, it's truths are no better than ideological ones ...
That is not a reason why octoped descendants can't have freed-up arms. That's just saying that evolutionary pathway wasn't explored here on Earth. Evo...
Then this is not kinematic motion e.g. dx/dt which merely requires a gradient of position wrt time. I'm done. You have a fundamental contradiction in ...
I'm talking about the fact that you cannot have capitalism without some kind of wage labour, and you cannot have wage labour without economic inequali...
You've made this point a few times now and I addressed it already. I have never said this. What I stated was that it depends on economic inequality be...
Can you pin down where you think the inconsistency is? These are not contradictory statements. The first says that it doesn't matter for motion whethe...
The Simpsons is a great example. I've never really given Seinfeld or the US The Office much of a shot. The UK Office is very embedded in realism, but ...
In modern science, mental phenomena are not considered non-physical. Irrespective of what it's for, if it adds no understanding to moral behaviour, i....
In Eternalism, a 3D sphere becomes a D hypersphere which is a geometric object. That geometric shape has a well-defined dx/dt. That dx/dt is called mo...
Yeah kinda. Companies don't outsource production because they want to spread the wealth. They do it because poorer countries have low production costs...
So really you're political ideology is: not socialism! Okay we can agree we're not likely to solve the problem with socialism. Although for your sever...
Yes, so from belief to knowledge. The theorising, the methodology, the prediction, the measurement, the recording, the conclusion, and the publishing-...
The objective reality I was referring to is that which the theoretical model seeks to represent, rather than the objective reality of particular measu...
That's true, you can reject the theory of evolution in a similar way that you can reject a human right. The distinction is that, for those who investi...
Apparently not. Would any of those meet the definition of the Goldilocks zone I gave of "uniform prosperity"? It's not confusing at all. Your ideal vi...
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