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Are you saying that there are maybe no collections in reality or that it is not clear what a collection is?
July 20, 2022 at 21:04
Sets are collections. An apple is a collection of atoms. So apples "subsist"?
July 20, 2022 at 18:36
The only thing that is indeterminate is what you choose to call a "dune". If instead of baggage words like "dune" you use the mathematically precise w...
July 20, 2022 at 11:29
By the "naive realist view" you mean modal realism? There is a modal realist interpretation of quantum mechanics where all quantum possibilities are r...
July 20, 2022 at 11:15
What does it mean for something to "exist"? How does "being logically possible (consistent)" differ from "existing"? I don't know what the difference ...
July 16, 2022 at 21:12
What do you mean by A and not-A? If A is an object and not-A are all objects other than A, I don't see necessarily any contradiction in the simultaneo...
July 16, 2022 at 21:02
We directly experience the brain, which is a concrete object in space and time.
July 04, 2022 at 15:37
But if the mind is identical to the brain (or to some parts of the brain), then the mind, and everything in it, is spatiotemporal and therefore not ab...
July 04, 2022 at 08:37
Any object is either a collection of objects or it is a non-composite object (empty collection). There seem to be no other possibilities. And we have ...
July 03, 2022 at 14:54
As soon as there are ANY differences in the world, you have a structure describable by mathematics. You can count the differences, you can make combin...
May 28, 2022 at 08:30
Pure sets are collections built up from non-composite objects called empty sets. Collections can be concrete or general (Platonic), same difference as...
May 23, 2022 at 20:05
And yet those fields and processes have a mathematical description and all mathematical descriptions are reducible to pure sets.
May 22, 2022 at 21:51
If they reject the principle of identity (or non-contradiction, or excluded middle) then I don't know what they are talking about. A circle that is no...
May 22, 2022 at 12:26
Non-deterministic traditionally means involving absence or incompleteness of causal relations, meaning that future events cannot be logically derived ...
May 21, 2022 at 23:07
Probability is reducible to well-defined pure sets too, so there is nothing undefined ontologically. Something either exists exactly as it is or it do...
May 21, 2022 at 22:02
Except such a difference is undefined and therefore doesn't exist. Its supposed definition refers to other definitions that refer to other definitions...
May 21, 2022 at 21:23
Relations between what?
May 21, 2022 at 20:22
It just seems that both non-relations and the qualia of experience are unstructured stuffs. And who is to say which unstructured stuffs are qualia of ...
May 21, 2022 at 19:27
It just seems like an incoherent position to me that there could be relations without non-relations (stuffs, or "inner aspects", as you call them).
May 21, 2022 at 18:25
Yes, from the "inside" it is the stuff it is, and from the "outside" it has relations to other stuffs. (some of the other stuffs can be regarded as "c...
May 21, 2022 at 18:01
P-zombies would be like relations without stuffs, which seems inconceivable to me. Relations alone would be relations between what? Between nothings? ...
May 21, 2022 at 17:55
In general, I see stuffs (non-relations) and relations between them as inconceivable without each other, complementary to each other, and neither one ...
May 21, 2022 at 17:31
By "stuff" I mean something that is not a relation. Are you saying that only relations exist? Or what exists?
May 21, 2022 at 17:15
Why? It actually seems consistent with what you wrote here:
May 21, 2022 at 17:12
In pure set theory (a foundational theory of mathematics) every stuff is structurally a set whose identity is completely defined by its composition, t...
May 21, 2022 at 14:52
Actually, I would say that the root of the hard problem of consciousness/qualia is an ontology that focuses on relations inspired by the success of ma...
May 21, 2022 at 14:33
Maybe we could rephrase the question this way: "Why are there non-structured stuffs associated with structures of (causal) relations?" And then the an...
May 21, 2022 at 12:57
Basically, to trust logic means to trust that a thing is what it is and is not what it is not. Logic is just an elaboration of the principle of identi...
May 15, 2022 at 17:19
On the one hand, the idea of collections is as non-mysterious as it gets. On the other hand, it fascinates me that a collection is something different...
April 15, 2022 at 19:28
Mass/energy is the property of having causal relations to other objects, and causal relations are a special case of mathematical relations in spacetim...
April 14, 2022 at 13:10
Are there collections in reality? If so, then reality is mathematical because all mathematics can be expressed in collections. That's what pure set th...
April 13, 2022 at 21:45
As I said, a space is a special kind of collection that has a continuity between its parts. There is a rigorous definition of it in mathematics. A spa...
April 13, 2022 at 09:30
Yes, it would be a contradiction for unicorns to exist here and now because they don't exist here and now. If there is an object such as a spacetime w...
April 12, 2022 at 19:48
If the particles are spread out in space then they obviously have a spatial structure.
April 12, 2022 at 19:39
Apparently, qualities of our consciousness are qualities of spatiotemporal objects with causal relations. Energy in physics is generally defined as th...
April 12, 2022 at 19:31
It would be a contradiction for unicorns to exist here and now.
April 11, 2022 at 12:48
How do you know that they don't exist? They may exist on a different planet or in a different universe. They may also exist on Earth in the future. Bu...
April 11, 2022 at 11:49
Apparently consciousness consists of unstructured "stuffs" or qualities. For example the sensation of red color doesn't seem to be decomposable, altho...
April 11, 2022 at 08:59
But as I said, without definition there is nothing, so in order for an object to be logically consistent it must have a definition. I don't mean a hum...
April 10, 2022 at 23:32
Right, I think it never was. Right. But still, you could do what you wanted to do, so in this sense you did a freely willed (wanted/desired) action. H...
April 09, 2022 at 20:18
If free will is possible (logically consistent) then it exists. But how is free will defined? Without definition there is nothing. If free will means ...
April 09, 2022 at 18:20
I think this is equivalent to asking "What caused logical possibility (consistency) to be, and why?" Like, why is A identical to A (and not identical ...
April 09, 2022 at 13:31
What is a "good" property? Is positive electrical charge a "good" property?
February 21, 2022 at 15:30
Qualia have been posited as qualities of consciousness, as opposed to relations. They stand in relations and thus ground a structure of relations but ...
January 03, 2022 at 19:41
But even in the non-representationalist view we don't perceive a tree (an external object) directly but only as "marks" left by incoming photons in ou...
January 03, 2022 at 09:23
I mean programmed like learning machines. But initially the wouldbe organism has no goals (blind nature doesn't program any particular goal in it), it...
January 03, 2022 at 00:39
Programmed but not necessarily consciously, just blindly smashing simple things into aggregates and those that happen to have the properties needed to...
January 02, 2022 at 23:29
But they have intelligent behavior like object recognition and logical operations which is realized by physical interactions. The intelligent behavior...
January 02, 2022 at 23:12
Why not? We already have electronic devices that can recognize faces or other objects and act on that recognition. Or perform complicated logical oper...
January 02, 2022 at 22:57
In our modern age, the idea of a soul as a conscious entity that can incarnate in a physical body and survive the physical body's death faces this dil...
January 02, 2022 at 22:11