But just not at the metaphysics of being apparently. So why hang around these threads to tell folk that? It’s not like I would join a cake making site...
But your body and brain depend on being able to harness quantum chemistry. Life and mind start at the quasi-classical nanoscale of molecular machines ...
Or indeed, to move us even more towards a general theory of organisms, we aren’t even just structures of information. Life and mind are dissipative st...
Definitely not. As I’ve said in other threads, thermal decoherence is a robust explanation for how a wavefunction can be so contextually constrained t...
Another illogical reply. Just bomb it if you need to deny its use. And what future use do you now have in mind? And long would a gang of paratroopers ...
Thanks. So you, Banno, and others come crowding on to these kinds of threads to show that you don’t take deep and interesting questions seriously. You...
Yeah. I had viewed it as a low probability we would even see a tactical nuke. But that has shifted a lot in a few weeks. The US seems to have good ins...
Where folk are opining about classical and quantum models of reality. If you want to participate productively in such a thread, then leave your lumpen...
It is the flat contradictions in the causality that creates the angst. Sure, you can take the epistemic or modelling perspective that says we simply c...
There is an argument to be had there. We can build the subjective anthropomorphic view into our metaphysics. But how is that to be done in a way that ...
So no actual science. Just "ordinary language reality". The view suitably constrained to make predicate logic seem the philosophical theory of everyth...
What, really real or emergently real? What ontological commitment are you wanting to make in terms of “reality”. How much inconvenient metaphysics did...
Sure, that is true. It was once enough for a population simply to hear their leaders stand up and make the promises. Embedded journalists with camera ...
Right. None of which makes any sense of his desire to participate in some random political thread on some random philosophy website. But he does make ...
To nit-pick, that would have been different – a forerunner model in terms of fleets and bases, but focused on protecting sea routes connecting the UK'...
Unfortunately this is instead in line with the standard practice of deflecting the blame away from Putin and towards all those who let the glorious le...
How does this insight apply to the three body problem of Newtonian physics? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem Just going from two to ...
I’d like to see the analysis for military expenditure when your mission is to be the peace keeper rather than the war winner. A huge investment in a g...
Only “obvious” to you for some reason. I wonder what that reason is? Meanwhile back in the real world where one would want to apply logic in navigatin...
I think that is an exaggeration. The counterfactual is that without some international checks and balances, like the Geneva Convention, their behaviou...
Self consciousness is the language-scaffolded skill of applying a socially constructed lens to one’s own behaviour and existence as a creature. And wh...
All this complaining is a bit rich when it is you who invokes the physical concepts of information theory and quantum theory is every post I’ve seen f...
So there is a world where geometry exist and another where physics exists? There is no material access but there is a relation? You mean you were talk...
Where’s the contradiction? The cruise missiles were supposed to have done a large part of the job even before the paratrooper first wave. The second w...
The lack of working memory formation tells you there wasn’t full attention of the kind needed to underwrite aperception of the perception. Like a drea...
Jeez. You really don’t do good at argument. Russian aviation soon discovered just how bad they were at SEAD and had to stop sacrificing planes. But I ...
Just produce evidence to back your speculation. No one suggested that. So strawman. Step 1 was suppress air defence and secure the runway and its surr...
My choice is between understanding what I can glean from named public sources or believing some random internet “military expert” pushing apologist ta...
I was going to leave it there but then thought worth dealing with this from the epistemological angle that speaks to the need for ontological commitme...
So a triangle as something free of all possible ontological commitments? That is itself another ontological commitment even if you believe you have sa...
This is correct. Which is why we have to be clear about what we are fighting for. I believe we ought to be fighting for a global order that accepts so...
The most vivid research is from reaction time studies in sports psychology. You film folk as they have to react to the bad bounce of a cricket ball. T...
The homunculus exists if you treat the brain as being about Cartesian representation - the neural display of information. But a predictive and enactiv...
To be prosaic, it is just noticing and fixing a sensory-motor pattern in memory so you can recognise or execute it again. The brain works on predictio...
Sure. We can act out of habit or we can act via attention. And indeed, every act is a balance of both in fact. The way the brain is wired means that a...
So there is a reasonable conclusion that this risky mission was warranted to secure an airbridge as part of a lightning attack and you can’t come up w...
So your theory is Russia helicoptered its crack troops to secure a cargo airfield that was a top priority despite being well aware it would be impossi...
You make it sound like this hasn’t been the universal response of all informed military experts watching events unfold. Now the whole of the West may ...
And yet 30 helicopters made the initial assault. How was that possible? Were they supersonic or stealth or something? The Russians also fired off 160 ...
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