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Hah, no. Not Bergson. The more general structuralist notion of a hierarchy of scales of spatiotemporal integration. So what Stan Salthe would call cog...

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My argument is that this is a historically recent thing. And predicated on the "unlimited" energetic resources unleashed by the Industrial Revolution....

That is my hypothesis. The evidence continues to mount. Of course. We are not worthy of you. That makes your pointless asterisking of "dangerous disin...

One could always be clearer. But then there is also the issue of how much you are equipped to understand. I can't be held responsible for all the work...

Hey. Now you are on a site where you get the chance to learn! Don't waste it. Your strength is deductive rigour. Pragmatic philosophy stresses that ra...

Have you noticed how much you assert the negative so as to avoid having to support the positive? What is life without some form of ontological commitm...

Oh come on. You yourself have said you have no philosophy to defend on this forum, just a self-appointed need to police it for its mathematical though...

I was teasing. If you gatecrash a comment, you could at least have the courtesy to set out your reasons for your assertions. So you reveal yourself as...

You might believe it, but can you supply a formal proof of that claim?

That's a list of features, not bugs. It's long past time to drive the Platonists out of maths. Pragmatism makes for a sounder metaphysics when it come...

If there is a conversion, it is to spacetime warp and hence gravitational potential. So the matter - as one kind of structured energy - is being conve...

I wish life were an endlessly fascinating riddle to be solved. Oh wait. It is!

Do you believe that being an airatarian is conceivable dietary choice? Why do you persist with this strawman? I simply point out that there are constr...

I've already raised this point, asking if sqrt(2) is the exception or the rule. Higher dimensional generators could produce generators of some number ...

Hah! In the spirit of the infinite fractal coastline paradox. Nice paper. No, I think it is significant and general. To relate it to my own interests ...

I'm thinking of something more irreducibly complex. A dimensionality that is "completely" void can't help but have some residual degree of local fluct...

I hope this is a prelude to you making an attempt to explain then. :meh: So abstractions are banned from a metaphysical discussion. :up: Nope. As usua...

I am talking about how the spectrum that allows your 50 shades of grey arises. This is confusing for sure. But after the separation of the potential, ...

Your “argument” offers no evidence. Just makes rash and unreasonable claims. For example, are you as free to be an airatarian as a vegetarian or carni...

It’s the logic of a reciprocal or inverse operation. How do we recognise the discrete except to the degree in lacks continuity. How do we recognise co...

That does have some sense if you wanted to play with it as a conjecture. What would be the best rebuttal? Would we start by saying we couldn’t limit t...

If you believe @"Agent Smith" was being that cunning and conspiratorial in framing his OP. What would be the point?

Huh? Weren’t we about talking about how we “picture” the continuum just as much any other mathematical object like a sphere? Non sequitur here. Can yo...

I couldn’t find an argument to reply to here. Sorry.

All of the above. :grin: His position is vague. But one can develop it in a fruitful direction - like ultrafinitism.

I did reply half-seriously to what was the actual OP. Cosmology does recognise that the visible universe is a bounded region with a maximum entropy co...

My metaphysics is constraints-based. And a constraint is inherently permissive. What is not prevented is free to happen. Or indeed, must happen eventu...

Your notion of “mentioning” is as disingenuous as your definition of “being constructive”. We can leave it there.

So you made a pointless point as if you were adding some significant and necessary correction to the discussion. Of course I do get why you felt it wo...

A point of logic. How is the statement that Wildberger may be a finitist rendered untrue by him being also some subset of that set? I’m sure that is a...

I think you can even be rude if you are funny with it. And hammering a crackpot could be constructive if you explain yourself well enough that others ...

No, it is about the interaction between a self and its society that is meant to be the rational relation. It is the rationality of this two-way street...

I'm questioning your definition of "constructive". Now reading further back in the thread, your excuses seem even thinner. Don't you realise that the ...

Sure. But again, this is you now setting your self-appointed standards for the site. And there are moderators who actually are responsible for decidin...

But you are on a philosophy site. And one that is far from rigorous in its willlingness to allow all types of speculative thought. So no need to conti...

Sounds like you can remember Texas calculators and Polish notation too. :up:

Stop it. Nothing makes me doubt what I just wrote more than someone's apparent agreement. :grin: But I was thinking of you and rock climbing mathemati...

Out of curiosity, do you have citations on this point? I would argue something somewhat different. But I'm interested if there are discussions that su...

But what is there left to move when the Cosmos arrives at its de Sitter heat death condition where all its degrees of freedom are embedded in its even...

The problem here is that the real number line is the mathematical object that was in question, surely? So as a construction, it hosts both the rationa...

If you want to argue for potential infinities over actual infinities, then the real world is surely the better place to test your case. Arguing agains...

You mean the continuum is everything. That is the opposite of nothing. Then what you call continua are the line segments that are fall inbetween these...

The fundamental forces run their couplings. They are all fractured and very different in the cold/large universe of today. But all their strengths and...

Yep. I am thinking particularly of Catherine Lutz studies of self-regulation in Ifaluk islanders and how they frame right and wrong not as personal bu...

Sure. But reality scales. It “runs its couplings” in physics-speak. The maths that best describes reality has to do the same. So the everyday folk con...

The Planck length emerges out of the triad of dimensional constants, c,G and h. Which happen to be reciprocally yoked. So zoom in on the Planck scale ...

Think of how the speed of light is an absolute limit on the velocity of a mass. The mass can be accelerated to some arbitrary speed approaching light ...

Pi is a ratio. Diameter~circumference. So it is actually an algorithm. And it can vary between 1 and infinity as it is measured in a background space ...