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As I said, I only repeated standard wisdom about Russian national identity and how that stems pretty obviously from the problems of defending a sprawl...
September 22, 2022 at 10:06
Blah, blah, blah. Wake me up when you have sources to back up your opinions.
September 22, 2022 at 06:13
I provided sources. If you want to posture on the issue, then provide the sources that argue against these sources. Kindly put up or shut up Where hav...
September 22, 2022 at 05:14
But QM sets it all up. It says there are two questions that could be asked that would fully dichotomise your coordinate system – your basis of measure...
September 22, 2022 at 03:28
Any bird, bumblebee or dragonfly? Perhaps maths, like logic and computation, is a view of nature that is accurate if nature were a machine. And perhap...
September 21, 2022 at 20:22
I’m merely pointing out the widely reported view that FSB corruption saw funds diverted from creating a network of stooges. That was one more proof th...
September 21, 2022 at 20:11
:yawn:
September 21, 2022 at 11:01
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September 21, 2022 at 10:58
You are imagining you are talking to some unsophisticated soul. I’ve no illusions about how the world really works. I’ve seen how it works up close. I...
September 21, 2022 at 10:35
Hyperbole seems the appropriate response for this low grade thread. :blush:
September 21, 2022 at 10:20
Or instead, the FSB’s expensive network of political stooges were meant to ensure a swift and easy win. But - irony - corruption saw the money going i...
September 21, 2022 at 10:14
Philip Short’s biography might be the place to start your education.
September 21, 2022 at 09:36
Maybe you just haven’t bothered to read up on the subject?
September 21, 2022 at 09:23
I’m talking about Russian identity. Every country has one. Putin could be just taping into national mythology for cynical advantage. But more worrying...
September 21, 2022 at 09:11
What a dull and confused reply. Nothing to see here. :yawn:
September 21, 2022 at 09:07
Don’t be a dope. Every analysis of Putin tells the same story.
September 21, 2022 at 08:58
Thanks for the expression of your feelings. I’m sure the argument is in the post.
September 21, 2022 at 06:21
It’s not “my” theory. And likewise, your feelings are irrelevant to the argument it makes. So whatever. :cool:
September 21, 2022 at 01:30
It’s certainly a social construct. :razz:
September 21, 2022 at 01:15
I was talking about the basic Newtonian conception of space as the context that gives location to objects. Of course relativity then shows space ain’t...
September 21, 2022 at 01:13
So you accept it is nature and nurture – biology and sociology? Well then it comes down to the degree these do or should go hand in hand as two levels...
September 20, 2022 at 22:53
So the truth is that Putin is doing a good job executing a rational plan. Sounds legit. :lol: Ziehan's analysis – that the real ambition is to push al...
September 20, 2022 at 22:23
Precisely. There couldn’t be in a sense except that - like the Heat Death de Sitter state - it might mark the effective end of measurable change or di...
September 20, 2022 at 21:04
My systems view says you have to go still further into true holism. You are simply replacing one kind of constructive action - gluing - with an opposi...
September 20, 2022 at 02:07
Putin’s escalation plan of infrastructure destruction has now begun in earnest. Will Ukraine be armed with enough air defence to protect its civilian ...
September 20, 2022 at 00:56
No. It is a process manifesting temporality. You are just then projecting your object-oriented ontology on to that. Time and space are emergent proper...
September 19, 2022 at 21:38
The lack of a satisfactory answer to this challenge is why I had to abandon such realism. So is your claim that there is no why, and so that leads you...
September 19, 2022 at 11:25
My focus is systems science. Which means all of the above really. But neuroscience in particular. The point was that the processing removes vagueness ...
September 18, 2022 at 20:38
From the point of view of Aristotelean hylomorphism, Peicean semiotics, ontic structural realism, etc, the Cosmos is not an object, but a process. It ...
September 18, 2022 at 20:02
Where is it being said in relativity – as a theory of spacetime coordinates – that time doesn't exist or that time adjusts the speed of light? You are...
September 18, 2022 at 00:01
This is Russell's argument. This photograph of Keystone's face might be blurred, but Keystone's face itself is not. Therefore vagueness is merely epis...
September 17, 2022 at 23:26
Time is the measure of material change just as space is the measure of the lack of material change. So yes, they are measures - the coordinate system....
September 17, 2022 at 23:03
To have reasons but no purposes is incoherent. As humans, we are constrained by meanings. Our worlds are constructed to have preferences and intention...
September 17, 2022 at 22:31
That is another way of saying you were strawmanning me. :up:
September 17, 2022 at 21:01
Still strawmanning. My point is that existence is a hierarchy of constraints. And that constraints indeed define the freedoms at each stage. You are t...
September 17, 2022 at 20:04
I did do a fuller post on how the body and brain do rely on quantum biology…. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/105999
September 16, 2022 at 21:31
What predictions does the “theory” make that are testable? The arguments have so many free parameters that they evade specific criticism. As I say, Ha...
September 16, 2022 at 20:56
The idea itself is easy to debunk. My particular reason for calling Hameroff a charlatan was the transparency with which when he saw I wasn’t buying h...
September 16, 2022 at 11:22
Talking of which, I was browsing this on structural chaos - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279265558_Structural_Chaos (Undercooked, but an i...
September 16, 2022 at 05:20
Give Heraclitus a bell. Let him know the bad news. :chin:
September 16, 2022 at 05:16
Or rather the exact opposite. Or how deeply you misunderstand it. Argh! Hameroff is a charlatan. I don't say that lightly. Neurobiology certainly is q...
September 16, 2022 at 03:21
I'm a fan of semiotics – the modelling relation. So that is a formal theory of how observers and their realities relate by acts of measurement. I'm wo...
September 16, 2022 at 03:04
That isn't my argument. Maths can be treated as its own abstract game with its own generating axioms. That game generates a bunch of abstract nonsense...
September 16, 2022 at 02:44
You reject vagueness then. That is certainly the usual thing to do. :wink: And how do you know there is a rule unless you have ever seen some exceptio...
September 16, 2022 at 02:23
:up: As I've argued, science is founded on the pragmatism of the semiotic modelling relation. That changes the view of the situation. Axiomatic deduct...
September 16, 2022 at 01:34
This guy has been consistently the best at analysing the frontline situation. Here he gives reasons for new concerns.... https://youtu.be/jKKkx7kI6D0
September 16, 2022 at 01:09
You’ve got it back to front. It has been shown there is a generator that can produce an arbitrarily large number. You’ve accepted that. Now what needs...
September 15, 2022 at 06:27
Neural networks? It's a constraint not an algorithm. Different thing. See neural networks. But it places the intentionality or finality outside the sy...
September 15, 2022 at 01:04
Hah! Replace the "real object" with the abstract object and thus reveal the semiotic game being played. If you can't see a difference, there never was...
September 15, 2022 at 00:43
To correct myself, e and phi are different in that e is transcendental and phi is algebraic. That's something I need to dig into further. My argument ...
September 14, 2022 at 22:45