creativesoul

Our criteria for what counts as "sensation" differs. Mine excludes all things informed by language. All meaning is attributed. All attribution of mean...

The OP presupposes an utterly impossible entity. It would have ended rather abruptly had it's author noticed this fatal flaw.

What is already meaningful?

I do not understand the relevance of this question. All language is meaningful.

How about a philosophy which gets thought and belief right?

Psychology is philosophy of the mind...

Hmmm... Sounds eerily similar to Zeno. It may be that the solution lies in what's being neglected by the problem itself(how it's being framed is the p...

And this is solely as a result of the shape of the dome?

I'm not seeing the need for an initial perturbation either. The system of molecular decay can change the net force causing the bearing to begin being ...

This part in particular. The sine of the slope changes with molecular decay(in the 'right' places), right?

Doesn't the net force change alongside molecular decay?

Is it? Gravity is never zero. Accompanied by a significant enough amount of molecular decay of either the bearing or the dome, and it will fall... Rig...

I suppose my simple mind is struggling to see the relevant difference between being pushed or falling... I mean, when taking gravity into consideratio...

Newtonian gravity then...

All interpretation is of that which is already meaningful. Sensations aren't meaningful. It makes no sense at all to say "the interpretations of our s...

You're trying to pack too much into language... Meaning is prior to language. There are no negative/positive values prior to language. Those require a...

Gotta love it...

Where's it being accounted for here?

Such a question wasn't posed. I answered the one that was. Asserting that meaning and purpose coincide carries a much larger burden than your personal...

Gravity.

If and only if positive and negative values are not existentially dependent upon language.

Well, strictly speaking one can find knowledge if it exists in it's entirety prior to it's being found. To talk of "creating" knowledge seems fraught....

Even the experts aren't experts... We have no idea about the nature of light(in terms of what it is, what it consists in/of).

Oh, the irony... Ad homs won't do here Meta. Your position is based upon a gross misconception of "sensation". Sensations aren't meaningful. All inter...

The idea of "the purpose of existence" makes no sense on my view... unless a thing is created with the sole intention to serve a specific purpose. A c...

Direct perception is unmediated. Any notion of "perception" which allows, admits, and/or requires that it be informed by language cannot be direct per...

Existence is necessarily presupposed within all thought and belief formation.

Physiological sensory perception - all by itself - in utterly incapable of presenting meaning. It is a necessary but insufficient part thereof. Sensor...

The question works from dubious presuppositions... All interpretation is of something already meaningful. The meaning is precisely what is being inter...

I wanna tell ya a story 'bout Texas radio and the big beat... RIP Jim

Any dichotomy which juxtaposes the physical/material against everything other than physical/material objects/particles is inherently incapable of taki...

Whose poetry? The beginning was well written.

All the more reason to appoint someone like him... Legitimized oligarchy. It's already been accepted throughout American culture.

The GOP is looking to overturn Roe vs. Wade...

Double standards...

Gods were/are inventions of the imagination. They fill in all the gaps of our knowledge. God did it.

This would be a devastating reply, if it wasn't based upon something other than what I've been arguing. Then, it could even be true. But alas, it was ...

There it is yet again!

There's the conflation... full faced!

Yes, some models work better than others. Some models - and this is what I'm pointing out - are of that which exists in it's entirety prior to the mod...

:wink: Hey, we agree upon something!

In those ways... Causality is not a description. QM is. Where is the distinction between your report of causality and causality drawn and maintained? ...

No doubt. Math is language. Language is powerful.

Nice essay. I sped read but was left with distinct impression. I like the notion he skirted around throughout the paper... How our framework will larg...

How many options are there given the context? It has no ability - in and of itself - to do anything. I haven't. Math is effective as a result of it's ...

Incoherency... Next? You want to claim that you're not... then draw and maintain the distinction between causality and a report thereof. Then, do the ...

I can understand how that could be a statement hard to agree with. It's true though. In the context, it was a direct reply to apo claiming "with quant...

The point is clear, and not at all confusing or confused... Pots and kettles... I'm pointing out the inherent conflation in your position, namely that...

For all these reasons and more, I think it is utter nonsense to talk about effects/influences happening before their cause. Probability presupposes ca...

Quantum mechanics is math. Math is language. Quantum mechanics is the language used as a means to describe specific observational results. Quantum mec...