Arguably, numbers are just abstractions from past subjective experiences, and so metaphorical themselves. This is the line taken by J.S. Mill. Conside...
Since I grabbed these quotes to share elsewhere anyhow, I figured it might revive the discussion to show the article that inspired it. Mark H. Bickhar...
Strong emergence just means that something is a product of, or somehow ontological dependant on, other things. In this case, if subjectivity does not ...
I don't know if PSR fixes the problem. The question is "do the noumena exist and do the noumena cause appearances?" Not do "appearances have causes?" ...
Up to representing 117,000 people there are 6 short meetings. Do you want people who aren't committed to 12 hours of work choosing your leader? And in...
Oh jeez, that's a tough one. I think so, just considering it now, but it's one of those things where I fear my intuition might get flipped if I begin ...
I would aspire to something greater than simply not having people starving in the street. IMHO, the main purpose of the state is to promote the freedo...
True, but he is able to borrow against the value and spend what he has borrowed. So, it's like he has sold the stock, functionally anyhow, but he does...
For what it's worth, I think that claims that Hegel was a "pantheist," are based on either confused or deflationary reading of Hegel. "God is in every...
Exactly. Truth is incoherent without the concept of falsity. Moreover, without belief in the mix, without subjectivity, why even bother with a concept...
Interestingly, Saint Augustine's semiotics are extremely similar to Peirce's Hegel-inspired semiotics, and his method is De Trinitate is very similar ...
Sure, that's the dominant modern interpretation of Kant today (at least in English), so it's no surprise that Chat GPT spits that out. What I'm pointi...
Indeed. The problem with making up a new vocabulary is that it acts as a barrier to communications. Although, using existing terms in a specialized, t...
But you haven't just grammatically connected them after mixing them up, you've kept the semantic meaning roughly the same, or in your later example, f...
But that's exactly what the noumenal world is, and why some philosophers reject it in the first place. Saying our perceptions are somehow "knowing," t...
Alternatively, the referent of the noumena is simply a thought structure of a person who buys into the idea that phenomena are caused by things we can...
It would have been nice for the Western leadership to figure this out before investing trillions into Chinese high end production facilities and grant...
Yeah, that's true. But seldom does one ever find anyone who actually engages with the actual theory advanced by the book (and updated since) instead o...
An interesting problem here is the fact that a given neuron (or group of neurons) involved in reading a message can alternatively be mapped to any of ...
Yeah, the Gnostic Paul and Gnostic John are sort of her big early theses. I am not surprised that she revised them. Despite being ancient history, gno...
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Plato's type of Platonism is still alive and well in modern philosophy and physics, rather, more reified versions e...
BTW, this topic has made me think, "what do people consider overtly Christian? " I have had two different arguments over whether or not the musical ad...
Sure. We absolutely should be prepared to treat our beliefs to the same rigorous analysis we subject other's beliefs too. My point is simply that your...
I'm less familiar with the Gospel of Mary, but IIRC scholars tend to think it was set down after the Gospel of John and the Pauline epistles due to se...
Interestingly enough, I was reading a book on the "Continental vs Analytical," divide last night and it had a some similar examples to the post that s...
No, I just mean accepting some points for the sake of argument. We do the same things in proofs by double negation; assume x and see where that leads ...
It's also pretty much impossible to discuss ancient and medieval philosophy without reference to the religions of the time. And I'd argue it's impossi...
God and Christianity aren't special, I agree, but probably not in the sense you have in mind. First, I think anyone with an internet connection and en...
I would retract my earlier recs except for Light From Light than. That's a pretty good reader of the whose who in Christian mysticism. It tends to be ...
We have some good evidence that specific areas of the visual cortex develop to identify (or perhaps construct) lines out of visual data coming from th...
I'll have to check him out. Such as? I get that systems theory, cybernetics, etc. aren't anything new, but the big proponents of complexity and inform...
I am familiar with the "it from bit" approach, and was initially quite taken with it. However, it seems to turn "bits" into the new basic ontological ...
Makes sense to me. But this did leave me with one question. Doesn't a curve require a second dimension that a straight line does not require? Can you ...
This itself is contested ground. To be sure, that's the most popular take, but in general I don't think most people spend much time considering mathem...
I somehow missed that there had been replies here. Yes, exactly. And Hegel has a bigger role for the market as a whole as well. He was an early admire...
You might find Kant or Hegel's speculative religion interesting. John Stewart's lecture on Hegel's philosophy of religion is pretty good: https://www....
Yeah, although his philosophy seems a bit to "out there," to get mainstream appeal. What is weird to me is that there hasn't been a movement to replac...
I don't think it's possible to have any lines in nature, straight or curved if one has a reductive view of reality. It's like Mandlebrot with fractal ...
A universe the same size as our visible universe that just happened to form from random fluctuations. The Boltzmann Brain was originally a criticism o...
"Christianity the First 3,000 Years," is a pretty good survey of how Christianity was constructed. Christianity is hard to summarize because it is so ...
Uh huh. https://gdb.voanews.com/01bd0000-0aff-0242-c65b-08d9fd1b1991_w1300_r0.png At best they've managed to avoid outright condemnation, but even tha...
Making inferences from such experiences is only works if: A. You are not yourself a Boltzmann Brain B. We are not inhabitants of a Boltzmann Universe ...
I'm not sure who "we" is supposed to be here. Ukraine opted to ignore Western advice on committing to a maneuver warfare-centric offensive and instead...
Yeah probably. I have been meaning to look into those. Right, empirical evidence is crucial for coming up with and vetting the equations. The Scandal ...
Thank you. Yup, and it is a huge problem precisely because information theory has been so successful across so many fields. You see information invoke...
Yeah that's it. But the move isn't just to assert that the scandal is resolved "because we are finite," but to show how the foundational model in info...
I was agreeing with you, sorry if that wasn't clear. My point was, people turn their arguments into lists of facts because of a widespread perception ...
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