apokrisis

I’m not sure how you are understanding Smolin. I agree with him about the reality of time. The fundamental laws as they are framed are purely bottom u...

Or it simply lifts things into an importantly different register. At the animal level, we are embedded and embodied in our habits of understanding. La...

So when you go to watch the cricket, you complain that all the bloody chaps on the field are not playing rugby? Really, could this thread have less po...

Doubt is so important to belief that we must manufacture it. :up:

It depends what you want to believe about time before it got going. It sounds like you want to start the counting of the Planckian moments from zero r...

That makes sense. And this kind of thread only goes 1000 posts as it is designed not to accept that kind of sense. :)

Language takes belief and doubt to another (semiotic) level. It is personal and unvoiced in animals. It may be there as part of cognition, but it not ...

Hah no. Just a flashback to undergrad cognitive science. Even then it was astounding that Fodorian language of thought nonsense was such a bandwagon. ...

On the general issue of how to view laws, John Wheeler was articulating a quantum information approach very nicely back in the 1980s. This is a good s...

Again you go too far and try to assimilate philosophy of science to a social agenda. Let the facts speak for themselves here. The fundamental laws are...

So either nothing is mindful or everything is mindful. And those two options exhaust the choices? Well nope. If instead you are saying panpsychism and...

So do you reject panpsychism as not even a coherent theory? Can we be clear on that.

Good lord! The 1970s just flashed before my eyes.

Still an attention getting move more than a reasonable stance. But then outside of philosophy of science, many might think science tells the transcend...

Yes. So pain that is "meaningless" as a spur to action as you are adding that there is no means of escaping its source. But doesn't that shift the "ev...

What make a pain an evil exactly? I agree pain ain't nice. It could be the most unpleasant thing ever. But why an evil? I presume you aren't just bein...

I'm not sure you've got the psychology of it quite right. The point made to me when I was meeting some of Taiwan's top China watchers - who really nee...

Sure, you talked about dichotomies in terms of both epistemology and ontology. So there is the dichotomy between the model and the reality. And the mo...

Sure. "Truth" falls out of the picture as we realise there is only actually belief and its justification. We've established that already. But then jus...

But that is not a dichotomy as it is one thing with two mutually exclusive properties. A dichotomy would be like location~momentum complementarity whe...

Which circles the issue back around to defining this "one" that might ought to be doing anything at all. Truth is a point of view. So that requires th...

Well it can't be because we ourselves show that nature has its "psyche" bit. So the real problem for any pan-istic story is to actually enshrine a dic...

Fundamental laws abstract away all initial conditions. They are absolutely general because they carry no history and you get to plug that into the equ...

Well yes. Of course in fact logic is not one thing. A variety of approaches have been tried. So there is both something it all seems to boil down towa...

The justification is going to be ultimately informal and circular. We make our best guess and find that it seems to work out. But then also, we do fin...

So where would that leave you and your true and honest subjective convictions? How could you deny them theirs? Define God. Define love. Definitions wi...

I come across people who are passionately convinced about all sorts of things all the time - UFOs, gun ownership, Hollywood bearding conspiracies, you...

Does the science support that view? For a human newborn, everything is pretty indeterminate in a phenomenological sense. Even to smile takes a few mon...

It comes back to our different metaphysical pictures of causality. For me, there is "nothing" until the everythingness, the vagueness, of a potential ...

Hostile? You know I don't take it personally. I'm just arguing for my point of view. I don't see you as attacking me either. You are making as strong ...

Well I quoted what it is not - not differentiated and yet still a state of being. And I would point out how that resembles the Western tradition of a ...

So you seem to be mischaracterising the Heat Death? The Heat Death, as a final eternal state of being, would lack differentiation or duality. There wo...

A nice post. My argument would be that consciousness boils down to there being "a point of view". We model the world in terms some "I" that stands at ...

Again, I’m not saying that there is no biology to our feelings. Without neurobiology, there would be nothing to work with at all. But neurobiologicall...

But perhaps the bigger gaps lie in just how much science now knows compared to how much the general population understands? So you keep saying the gla...

Good job I'm not arguing for exhaustion then. But any feeling given any kind of name is being socially constructed - even if that name is naming its s...

You are still relying on the hypothesis that feeling is unanalysable and beyond reasoned communal inquiry. And that isn't a strong position given that...

Well exactly. That is what I'm pointing out. I am basing my view on what we can definitely know by way of reasoned inquiry. Wayfarer would be doing so...

Well, yes. And what is that underlying order then? Are you denying that physics has found thermodynamics to be fundamental? So wouldn't we then unders...

OK. What difference does it make - cosmically?

But I agreed. How they self actualise - as philosopher or physicist - makes no real difference. So long as a developed nation level of entropy product...

Precisely. Hence those count as free choices. Essentially meaningless as far as Mother Nature is concerned. What matters to Her is that you are living...

Hmm. If you checked, what would would be your daily kilojoule production? https://cncf.com.au/carbon-calculator/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIubWR-dzP2QIV0o6PCh3...

This is straying from the topic, but it seems a contradiction that Aristotle starts by defining flourishing in terms of self actualisation and buildin...

Speaking personally, I’m only interested in philosophy in the sense of the Western tradition of critical thinking. So it is all about de-subjectivisin...

Huh? My pragmatic approach is open to revision. All it says is that to be meaningful, it has to make a difference. So if you want to talk about what l...

Well great. But then why shouldn't natural philosophy be the default position? If supernaturalism is not a real theory in that you agree it has no par...

Yep. People asking you to be reasonable and account for certainty in terms of a pragmatic limit on doubting? Well fuck that. You are here to preach, n...

But there's your problem. If it ain't your Heaven and Hell version of a Biblical creator, then which of the umpteen varieties of speculative supernatu...

Is a good bet one that is reasonable, or did you have some other definition of a good bet?