If there were any connection, it would be the other way around. Philosophical empiricism arose in response to the challenge presented by theoretical m...
I am amazed that a grand master can stroll around in a hall and play simultaneous games against say 50 opponents. She seldom pauses to think and hardl...
No doubt, mathematical models are projections built upon other numbers, data which originally had reasonable connection to the real world at the time ...
Statistically, perhaps. 50% of one, 30% of another, and 20% more undiscovered. We have lots of black birds, some years more of one kind then in other ...
This ambiguity of the word information needs to be emphasized in trying to grasp what Shannon's theory says and what it does not say. Shannon was talk...
We would have to assume that I am real so is my experience in flowing continuous time. But I am not so sure about other people whose experience is obv...
But for the majority of cases the mind uses a different model more like pictograms, rather than letters and rules of grammar for the minority of ratio...
Since you seem to agree with the aviary model for long-term memory with very old birds sitting on their perches, you will need a positive explanation ...
If the brain was a philosophical aviary then that argument would hold for any number of birds. But the brain is a biological organ with cells that die...
That's partially the point, a simple crap analogy is the place to start. A car and a plane are extremely similar from a systems perspective, cut off t...
I'll take it from the top, I agree with you that 'nothing' can only be discussed sensibly in philosophy. Something like the vacuum is not properly par...
You have it backwards. Science doesn't work your way. Citations can always be cherry picked from diverse sources to support just about anything, which...
Firstly, These are legitimate concerns but that's not how the process works. Effectiveness is established in the labs in thousands of test tubes by ma...
Mathematical patterns are hypothetical after the fact descriptions. How could they organize anything else but other numbers? Similarly, physical patte...
Antirealism is not a competing religion. There are different types realism each of which can be affirmed by that type of realist and denied by the cor...
When someone takes you seriously enough to critique what you say you should not just flippantly repeat what you're trying to say. Assume that the crit...
The best introduction available online might be Daniel Chandler's Semiotics for Beginners From my own perspective, I am intrigued by the philosophical...
Hollywood movies are usually written to evoke emotional responses from viewers, the stronger the better. Visual effects such as scenery, action as par...
I take it that Pfizer has claimed that they have already tested 12-17 year olds? I understand that medical-pharmaceutical research is complex and prob...
Those charts are US figures. The US is geographically more spread out, the population is more diverse, and the economic gap between the haves and the ...
Maybe not. The charts are too complicated to be simply summarized like that. The data included is hidden from view, and the statistics are not uniform...
Science has become more and more compartmentalized and specialized to a degree that the language of science is not easily accessible or comprehensible...
I'm a metaphysical pluralist in the strongest sense. And I don't mean the usual metaontology confused synonymously with metaphysics, where the debate ...
Philosophy of philosophy is meta-philosophy which could branch out to the topics of meta-metaphysics meta-ontology meta-epistemology meta-ethics meta-...
Physics, matter, physicalism, and materialism belong to entirely distinct logical universes that do not intersect. Obsolete is a value judgment coming...
And also the other way around. Kant have either one without the other. A 2-month old is a different animal from an 18-24 month old. Adding another cir...
I would agree that all of nature is more or less balanced for conditions to be dynamically stable under the circumstances within some limits. The deer...
Actually it took about 3.8 billion years, which is about a third of the age of the universe, for intelligent life to appear here. But even then, a sup...
Science doesn't put anything aside. Science, not some of the people who are doing it, does not have anything to say about reality as such because that...
There is no contradiction here because the universe is likely full of simple bacterial life which comprises over 99% of life right here on Earth. Bact...
... and of that 4%, almost all physical matter is in the form of pure radiation and plasma (protons, electrons, helium), leaving only a trace amount f...
But then you betray your cause. You 'used' your fingers means you do not believe that your fingers independently act of their own accord but are comma...
Did your fingers write that? The brain is the medium that carries information that it does not understand. Think of printed symbols in a book. Do the ...
Qualia are not physical and the term qualia does not refer to anything physical either. Physicalists presuppose that only physical things exist and re...
And, in science such common presuppositions can be called working hypotheses that need not be believed by any scientist involved. The argument is made...
OK, let me say it another way, Consciousness can always be defined more or less stringently either to be included in or to be excluded from any finite...
Searle's experimental conditions can always be tightened to meet specific objections. Also, words like consciousness, biological, and computer can be ...
Isn't that overly simplistic in that the point of intentional action just triggers a whole range of prearranged links in the machine and unknown and a...
Good point. Some thought would have to communicate between two entirely foreign processes that operate at distinct modes and speeds. Kind of like havi...
Thinking and focused rational thinking are not the same, they aren't even done by the same mental facilities. Thinking is an ongoing unstoppable act o...
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