Is this your honest argument? The first cause is a copy of that which already existed? You are surely smart enough to see how that makes no sense and ...
To be flat is simply to have zero curvature. That’s where we started. Draw a triangle and see if it indeed adds up to 180 degrees. Are you using the r...
Great. So step two. Could your divine creating intelligences have chosen the maths of symmetry to have been different? Could they have arranged things...
In what way did we invent the symmetry? That’s like saying we invented circles. SU(3) wasn’t constructed to fit the strong force. The structure of the...
So perfect intelligence creates imperfect dumbness in order to create … some kind of half-arsed intelligence that exists to entropify. You’re really s...
Pattee's clarity on these gritty matters always makes my soul sing. It also helps that we talked about them most days for five or six years. :grin: Co...
Yup. I see it as biosemiotics-lite. You will probably like it because it indeed wants to regain a numinous notion of meaning, when Pattee has already ...
You are confusing the numbering system with the more fundamental relation. The flatness of space is defined by the constancy of the ratio between a ra...
I'm lost as to what you think you are arguing about. You must agree that a cube does a good job of representing the basic geometry of the universe at ...
If the angles of triangles didn’t add up to 180 degrees, we would know the universe wasn’t flat. If knots didn’t stay knotted, we would know the unive...
Did you mean to disagree with me. This sounds like agreement. Yes, a die is an example of exact mechanical constraint. To be a fair die, with no side ...
The usual conception of causality is that of mechanical necessity. Some system of interactions is so constrained that its outcomes could never have be...
But at least He is regressed to an infinite distance. :razz: Seriously, the problem with bounce cosmologies and eternally branching cosmologies is the...
Yep. A mathematical abstraction. But again, how does it argue against my point - which was that our notions about logical implication and material cau...
Even if you cooled such a system to near absolute zero, you could only constrain the thermal jitter. Just as if you could polish the dome to be near f...
Nope. It shows that Newtonian idealism fails the reality test. The model doesn’t take into account the fact that the world of material objects also ha...
The ball on Norton’s dome is either resting as it was left or it has fallen off. It is kind of binary like that - and hence why it is used as good tes...
But it is still confusing epistemology with ontology, Kant and Hume were talking about what we could know. And that clarified that we only model reali...
Classical certainty is quantum uncertainty suitably constrained. :up: The quantum state is described by its exact symmetry. The PNC fails to apply and...
That's fine for you. But what if one thinks karma is illogical and unphysical? Some other answer is going to have to be found. Sure, Newtonian mechani...
I've always seen the two as connected. But also, it is hard to frame that connection precisely. However, focus on counterfactuality. The laws of thoug...
Are you relying on some source you can reference here? My understanding was that writing arose in agrarian empires that had the need for records and w...
But I was very specific in my use of the term "constraint" - defn: "something that controls what you do by keeping you within particular limits". If y...
Sure. You see what you want to see. Words are flexible like that. You can misrepresent my words and convince yourself that was specifically what I was...
Or rather … no view anywhere. Case solved. What I would say was that a perspective is a modelling relation with reality. A nervous system encodes habi...
“Our” intuition? From Anaximander on, that doesn’t seem to have been the standard metaphysical position. It is a distinctly Christian mythos. Well you...
So you don’t really subscribe to his naturalistic view of a developmental cosmos and thus not really to Peirceanism at all? Ah, well. Subjective ideal...
Sure. Out of the monism of unconstrained potential (Firstness) comes the mutually constraining reciprocity of the dichotomy (secondness). And from the...
Sure, you can choose oblivion I guess. But that would be a different thread - the absurdity of non-existence (as a “choice”, when all you have to do i...
Yep. There is something. And so that is a fairly severe constraint on talk about “absolute nothingness”. We can already rule that out, leaving us just...
Err, extracting the qualitative simplicity of existence would be the entire point of metaphysics. Some folk just reduce it to unmeasurable momisms - g...
You must mean instrumentalism, or Jamesian pragmatism at a pinch. The proper answer to the chicken and egg riddle, as any Peircean knows, is first cam...
You keep mentioning maths and then just as fast dismissing it. Couldn’t the cosmos have mathematical necessity and thus corporeal inevitability? There...
But I was saying that both levels of response are levels of self-world modelling. What is volitional in your neuroscientific understanding? In mine, t...
I can recognise a lot of BS gloss of the quantum maths coupled to a claim so spurious that it cannot affect the maths at all. Why haven’t you added yo...
I like the idea of that challenge. Could I create a sockpuppet so convincing that it could never read as me? But practically speaking, I waste too muc...
Do you mean to say that it is intrinsically affective as the body's physiology - ruled by the reciprocal economy of the sympathetic and parasympatheti...
But I've always said that I am indeed my own anti-particle in that regard. My view sits beyond the dualism of the holism vs reductionism debate in met...
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