apokrisis

Yep, so you are making some confused epistemic point about our models of reality. Now of course we can presume that reality exists as whatever it is, ...

Yes. QM means no local realism. As a matter of interpretation, you can then explain that in various ways. On circularity, there is obviously plenty of...

In your own little world on this one.

Look up Cramer's transactional interpretation or the Wheeler/Feynman absorber theory. But I tried to make clear that I am talking about retrocausality...

It is a witnessed fact that the quantum account beats the classical one in terms of its predictive accuracy. I think it is only you who find it questi...

I'm still none the clearer about the distinction you wish to uphold. What you said was.... And my reply is that we did invent a classical model of cau...

Continuing a bit, I take the view that existence, and thus causality, is fundamentally probabilistic. Atomism is emergent. And we have two formal stat...

Right. So what I am arguing is that there are two models of causality here - the conventional atomistic/mechanical one, and a holistic constraints-bas...

Is association logical or illogical? So maybe the basis of imagination doesn't crisply fall into either category. Maybe logic itself is a little mad i...

How do you mean?

But with quantum mechanics, what is witnessed is violations of this simple classical model of causality "over and over and over again". Why did the ne...

But that is taking the position that to be meaningful, it would have to come from within in some strong sense. And naturalism would instead see the in...

Maybe there is truth in both views given that we humans are both biologically and culturally evolving animals. So yes. The naturalistic lens applies o...

Indeed. We are neither meat machines nor ensouled creations but the third thing of socially-constructed and biologically embodied agents.

Yep. Surely it is Newtonian determinism that sustains the now neurological-level debate? Science's mechanical view of nature is what has been at issue...

You miss the point. Sure, you have the theistic willing agent coming eventually into hard opposition with scientific determinism during the Enlightenm...

Do words have inessential meanings then? Curious how we manage to communicate ideas and concepts with such alacrity.

So is taking something as absolutely certain the same as believing it to be minimally uncertain? The essence of pragmatism is a willingness to act on ...

And QM can in turn quantify that actual uncertainty about the battleship’s location to many decimal places. So as I said early on, uncertainty is noth...

Surely his beliefs are those of the majority with whom he mixes? That's why compartmentalisation hasn't been much needed as a psychic defence.

Not sure that you got my point. People don't build a city if they only mean to camp the night. Was your OP describing someone who had systematically c...

Meanings are too slippery, too inherently viewpoint-dependent, to be concretely defined. So words are just ways to limit the scope of possible underst...

Does one build the compartments or does one merely fail to build the generalised coherence? The white nationalist would seem to be the standard thing ...

Yes, to emphasise that there is a brain involved. So we know experience of the world is indirect in that it involves the kind of cognitive processing ...

You have the problem that this is reducing rational behaviour to its lowest atomistic common denominator. So you are in fact creating a social system ...

My argument is triadic. So it incorporates all three things of the self, its world, and then the world. There is no "we" apart from as an emergent asp...

The Chinese Communist Party? What are you smoking today. Again, you are just wanting to wheel out your standard attack on Scientism. And if a Pragmati...

Whatever floats your boat. Is there? Maybe you just define pragmatism in terms of actual selfishness rather than a collective self-interest. I say tha...

What would be key to the Peircean semiotic view I'm expressing is that interpretations actually have to live in the world. So they are not free creati...

What did you mean by space being "actually infinite" then? The OP might not have been perfectly expressed but it did seem to be arguing from the famou...

Yes. So what I am saying is you really want to be able to build "infinities" into your models, and you really want to avoid getting "infinities" back ...

And you have been reminded a few times that these solid theories in fact depend on working around the infinities they might otherwise produce. So it a...

Continuing on the "resolution limit" approach now being taken, this would be modelled relativistically in terms of holographic event horizons. So you ...

Physicists can give a very different answer to the binary question of whether spacetime is "fundamentally discrete" or "fundamentally continuous". The...

No. An empty space is simply a matter field in its lowest possible energy state. This is now a central fact of cosmological thinking. It is what the h...

There is a big difference adopting the maths because it is a useful model and accepting it as the actual metaphysics. And it should be telling that th...

Thanks Tim. Nice to hear.

I think “nonsense” is too strong. But there is certainly a real metaphysical question here. Our mathematical models lead to rather glib beliefs about ...

Still don’t get it? My point was about physical limitations on logically inspired notions. An infinite string has the problem it can’t actually be sai...

So you want to commit to the position that 0.999.... and 1 pick out two different proper names here? Cool.

Studiously missing the point as usual.

Like I said then.

In what sense would they have ever taken the action? The point here is that predication needs to name the name to make some definite claim. Monkey wit...

I missed out a few key words. I meant that individual names would have infinite length and so you would have to wait an infinite time to discover whet...

An infinite number would be names of infinite length and thus require an infinite time to be actually said. So there’s that problem.

It's not a failure if what you require - semiotically - is a machinery of infinite potential reference coupled to constraint of semantic indifference....

This points the conversation in the right direction - towards an immanent, emergent, process view - but it doesn't really deal with the ontological is...

The article doesn't mention it but the link is now even stronger with the recent discoveries about the microbiome and gut-brain axis. In short, your d...

OK. I'm no therapist. But let's take this as the core complaint you are presenting with. And it is certainly a recognisable condition. Some of us are ...