Yeah. The historical view is a good way to get at it. There was a reason why the Greeks were so horrified by the notion of an irrational number. That ...
And why not? That would be perfectly reasonable. Freewill is a debate that comes up every week here. Just last week I gave this general account that i...
I get a bad attitude pretty fast when someone like you plays cute with a quote. If you leave off the important part of what my sentence said, that is ...
Unbunch your panties a little. If you are going to talk about this "you" who decides to push the button, you have to have a proper theory of what cons...
Don’t be a dick and misquote me. I said you seem to think that a definition would be in terms of the mathematical objects involved, and not the struct...
Just the tiniest bit of research would show you that you talk bollocks. From HBR... While I'm at it, there was this good Economist article on US lawye...
Wasn't that my point. You can still be a numerical object even if you don't qualify for the full checklist of arithmetic properties. So the octonions ...
So you favour the stability of the swamp over the instability that Trump promised? Interesting. Somehow I don't think you are up to date with how a fi...
Well you were replying to the point that I made about freewill being problematic because of the LaPlacean implications of Newtonian determinism. So if...
Does China need more people? The question more relevant to Trump supporters is why is it that capital and jobs want to head the other way. Shitholes. ...
To use the computer analogy, does the hardware determine its own next physical state or is it the software that determines that? Yep. So now we have t...
If you think so, then make your case properly. Don't waste my time with ill-written rambles. Well in comparison to the light cone of our visible unive...
But the freewill deal is the fear that our decisions might be physically deterministic. So as soon as you view the brain in information processing ter...
I’ve not heard of sleepwalkers doing anything novel or useful. So no. It is just being awake enough to react automatically to familiar cues. And to sl...
Yes. I’ve been following this story since the 1980s. The important thing is that the subjects are always fully conscious of the experiment’s demand to...
My goodness. Is that what it is about? Hilarious. Who mentioned singularities? I didn’t. And what is the relevance of a length scale 100,000x the Plan...
In sleep, you don’t form long term memories. And also there is a dissociation, or lack of integration, more generally. That is why in dreaming sleep, ...
Huh? You do write weird. I asked what difference did your comment make. I did not say your comment was no different. So I was saying your comment was ...
You will have to explain why your comment makes any difference to my comment. Observation says the geometry is almost perfectly flat with just enough ...
Inflation definitely does. But then inflation is hardly a proven story. And also inflation can produce as big a common starting point as you like. Jus...
It would be both. For those arguing for an actually infinite extent, it would be just as unexpanded at every point, and so just as maximally dense and...
Or maybe I'm just pointing out that the idea of "numbers" speaks to a family resemblance. No single definition could hope to pin down "numbers" in som...
It was not from a point but a volume of points. Or rather a volume of points changed their scale. They always had a size (and an energy density) from ...
And continuous? That was the issue. The observable universe is finite due to the constraint of there being a lightcone limited observer. So its a spec...
No it's not. It's defining something in terms of its relational qualities rather than in terms of its supposed essences. The whole point is that "numb...
Finite might be an important qualification don't you think? Deutsch certainly believes so.... Of course I realise that you take as unarguable that the...
You can quit with the apologetics. The context was... So it is not about whether shithole is a factual description of the countries. It is about wheth...
You seem to be adopting a self-servingly narrow definition of colonisation. There really isn’t much point debating further unless you can make some ac...
We are talking about failed states and their reasons. So only an idiot or moral simpleton would attempt to judge an indigenous culture according to th...
You need to decide if this is your story or not. If it is, then structuralism accounts for how deep “truths” are “pragmatically” emergent rather than ...
These are racist views to the extent to which they deny colonial history. Calling a country a shit-hole is implying its own people have shat in it. Th...
Probably worth mentioning that category theory and structuralism have moved past this good old set theoretic view.... So if it looks like algebra - it...
OK, which of these two Wiki positions do you align with? Intuitionism.... Structuralism.... So you claim to be an intuitionist, yet argue like a struc...
Correct. But it also privileges the fully self actualising self over that self’s social milieu. So as a moral stance, it is tied to a modern abstract ...
Oh shit. No wonder I couldn't make sense of your position if you subscribe to that. If you were saying that the intuitions are rooted in our biology -...
It is worth noting the details. First the task set-up... From: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.520.2204&rep=rep1&type=pdf Not...
Of course it is incoherent. Either the basis of morality is transcendent of society or it is simply whatever society does in terms of what works for i...
Or normal social behaviour. What you call manipulation is merely rational social strategy surely? Again, either morality has some socially-transcenden...
But I wasn't. I was pointing out that you look to be claiming that the personally subjective has an objective basis here. I say the nearest to any obj...
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