wonderer1

Brainwaves are patterns in measured voltage. The voltage is not energy and it is the pattern of voltages that sync to the music. Phase locking may not...

Phase locking is not energy. It is something which occurs in physical processes. Are you sure it relates to what you were discussing earlier?

It looks to me like a historical inevitability. Religions tell stories that our relatively uninformed ancestors came up with, to explain the nature of...

It sounds like you are saying that providing remedial physics lessons is part of philosophy. Is that right? No more scientific assertions for you.

:snicker:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health How is what you refer to as "Color-blindness" different from ignorance?

Did you read The Different Drum?

I'm inclined to think gaining better understanding of our own natures would be more beneficial than more accurate understanding of our history, althou...

Whatever.

I think it means, "Until you drop dead while adding 320 to 180 and only manage to say '5' before you keel over." We will all stand around saying, "See...

Isn't that asking a bit much for anyone?

You aren't being consistent. You start by recognizing a distinction between matter and energy, and when shown that you have posed a false dichotomy, y...

So perhaps the answer to understanding chapter 11...

On the topic of fallacies, that is a false dichotomy. Is it energy, or the matter from which your car is constructed, that enables your car to take yo...

Feel free to elaborate.

What do you mean by "put back the subjectivity"?

It has been interesting to read along with this discussion. I get tantalizing hints at what the topic under discussion might be related to, but not en...

Willfully ignore, or be autistically oblivious to?

As my (preacher's wife) mom said after the 2020 election, "Republicans need to get better at election fraud themselves." I suppose that is a sort of h...

Or, perhaps more importantly for some, to appear so.

Definitely selection bias on my part. As modern philosophers go, Nagel is a bit too far to the scientifically naive side, for my taste. Wigner's argum...

It seems that your history of trying to keep scientific understanding from entering your "fortress" has left you with so many misconceptions that it d...

Those who include scientific inquiry within the philosophical mindset are apt to recognize that the immense complexity of the brain very well explains...

It might be, if I hadn't read a lot of Suzuki and such, 40 years ago.

No. However, I don't see what that has to do with the sense in which mathematics can be said to be in the world.

I just googled "Buddhism existence of self" and the first thing that came up was: The Buddha, the first eliminativist?

Sound like you are saying that you aren't rigorous yourself, but you trust that other people are. Is that correct?

Why would I believe you had a yardstick because of poof? Doesn't sound like a particularly rigorous process to me. Let's switch to meters. Why should ...

Well, only somewhat rigorously. With what accuracy can you measure how long something is? What would be the basis of your claim to accuracy? Also, all...

Yes, I would agree with that.

I do want to say more regarding your response. I'd have to say, "Of course mathematics is in the world.", in the sense you communicated so well. Do yo...

Is this still your view? If so, suppose "algorithmic" was replaced with "physical" or "biological". Would that make a difference in your plausibility ...

Thanks for posting that!

:up: I see nothing worth quibbling with. :grin:

We are all born ignorant, and we are all going to die only somewhat less ignorant. But that was funny.

Thanks!

And humans don't actually love or hate as a matter of their own nature? It's God, or the other guy that God created, putting on a puppet show?

It's pretty simple really. You've said stuff, that if taken seriously, could get someone killed. I value fellow TPF members not dying stupidly. So I d...

Want certainly. Need? I find that questionable. In what sense do you mean "need"?

I read through your first two posts. I'm afraid I am skeptical of your account of inductive reasoning, or at least it doesn't seem to fit well with th...

I suppose it would depend on one's job. For a guru, preacher, or used car salesman it might be detrimental to recognize the tentative nature of one's ...

I wish I could talk to Witt about neuroscience and his thinking. From my point of view, the different ways we perceive Necker cubes makes perfect sens...

I didn't mean to suggest that I think mathematics is embedded in the universe. I think that there are regularities to the way things occur in the univ...

What you were doing was making false claims. I don't know why you would consider that to be a valuable contribution to a philosophical discussion. Har...

Must it be that mathematics must be embedded in the universe, or could it be that regularities to the way things occur in the universe result in it be...

No. attributed claims to Dawkins without source or quotes, then when called on it said, "But I'm done debating Dawkins, I shouldn't have brought him u...

No it is not, as the link I provided explains. No it is not. And this is yet another example of your tendency to assert things without knowing what yo...

Well that's an ongoing process with too many details to try to cover in a remotely comprehensive way, but considering the results of experimentation p...

Were the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone still a physical instantiation of a language before the Rosetta stone was found and used to learn to inter...

I'd suggest that language can exist in different physical forms with no need to appeal to Platonic entities. It can exist in the way a proposition is ...