Why stop at atoms? Atoms consist of electrons, protons and neutrons, and protons and neutrons consist of quarks... In my view, the new phenomenon is t...
I am not sure what you mean by unitary identity, but I think my consciousness was switched off during general anesthesia because I don't remember any ...
Do you think that the atoms of a dead human body have these experiences? Such experiences probably exist on the level of neural structures, not atoms,...
A never-ending life does not necessarily entail repetition. Moreover, more complex bodies or mental structures may hold qualia we can't even imagine y...
Well, I'm curious about general aspects of reality and existence. I also think it would suck if I bit the dust at the end of this life and that was it...
Survival instinct must arise somewhere at the start of evolution, unless you assume an intelligent creator who can create living beings without a surv...
Hate seems to be a quale that accompanies a behavior where we resist something (it is also closely related to qualia like pain and fear). On the other...
Nicely put. Unfortunately, delights are sometimes replaced by horrors. My comforting hope is that the horrors as a learning experience will facilitate...
In a sense, everything is permanent, because its existence is logical consistency and logical consistency is timeless; a logically consistent object c...
I used to be amazed by the question of why there exists something rather than nothing. I am still amazed by it but I experienced some resolution when ...
I said that energy is mathematically related to the acceleration that the space point imparts to another space point during an interaction. It means t...
The kind of existence of an abstract object (property) is such that the object has instances. And the kind of existence of a concrete object is such t...
If you are trying to imagine where objectively existing abstract objects would exist, one answer could be: nowhere. Just as the universe exists nowher...
Yes, I think they exist independently of being thought because they are properties that different objects have in common; they are ways in which diffe...
No, an object has properties even if no one assigns them to it. Planet Earth is round no matter whether someone assigns roundness to it. It was also r...
Curvature is a geometric property of spacetime and is related by Einstein's field equation to energy. Spacetime curvature and energy determine each ot...
Object is something that has properties. Yes. That's the most general idea of mathematics. Is there any difference between object and subject? We don'...
Maybe we could say that energy density is a mapping (defined by Einstein's field equation) from spacetime curvature to real numbers at a given point i...
In mathematics, existence is logical consistency, so everything that is consistent exists, and exists necessarily (because it cannot be inconsistent) ...
Energy density is a quantity (number) that is related via Einstein's mathematical equation to spacetime curvature. Pure mathematics. Maybe G can be de...
Abstract objects and their particular representations are inseparable. There cannot be one without the other. Representations cannot exist without tha...
Spaces are indeed traditionally studied mathematical objects and time is treated in theory of relativity as a special kind of spatial dimension, compl...
Your comparison isn't completely right. Finite mathematical objects exist both like the uncarved material and the carved material. I suppose you compa...
The relation between such an unconstrained world of math and a limited finite world is that the limited finite world is a part of the unconstrained wo...
If they are only perceptible by a rational mind it doesn't necessarily mean that they are inside the rational mind. They may be perceptible only by a ...
Only consistently defined objects can be part of the mathematical world. Axioms are properties of an object (also called axiomatic system). Axioms lik...
No, it defines all those orders you mentioned. But the group of points that define a line is contained in the group of all possible groups of points, ...
Objects that can be sensed are parts of spacetime. But what is spacetime? Theory of relativity treats spacetime as a mathematical structure, a kind of...
Then I infer that even objects that I can't sense together as a collection, in fact constitute a collection. I infer it from what collections have in ...
I should note though that by "set theory" I don't necessarily mean ZFC. As I clarified here, by set theory I mean all consistent versions of pure set ...
Too technical for me, I am no mathematician. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says: "The axioms of set theory imply the existence of a set-theoreti...
I don't understand. Are there mathematical objects that cannot be expressed in set theory? I heard that set theory can express all mathematical object...
Yes. This is how I understand it: more general (more abstract) mathematical objects are instantiated in more specific mathematical objects (e.g. "geom...
Yes, most of it might not be beautiful or useful but we are talking about metaphysics, which I don't think depends on subjective notions of beauty or ...
Yes, there are various approaches to the study of relational structures. Maybe some are less comprehensive than others. Set theory seems to be the mos...
Mathematics is a feature of the external world, a consequence of the fact that there are differences and thus more than one object in the external wor...
As long as there are any objects in the external reality, there are also relations between them, in the external reality. Relations and the objects be...
Relations are objects that hold between other objects (those other objects may be relations or non-relations). Relations are inseparable from the obje...
Why not? I experience any collection of objects as a collection. You mean sensed? Why would the objective existence of anything depend on whether some...
So his argument is that the Platonic world of math doesn't exist because it is... uninteresting? :lol: The most general definition of mathematics I kn...
My experience is that collections exist even when they are loosely connected. I don't feel the need to deny their objective existence. And I am far fr...
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