And sects of major religions either die or radically transform. The Vatican of 2023 is not the Vatican of 1123; the faith has undergone a dramatic tra...
lol, forgot to ever submit this response from a while ago. The last place I saw such a point being made was Quentin Lauer's "Hegel's Conception of God...
Great point. This seems to be key to popular computational frameworks for investigating AI (e.g. Kowalski's "Computational Logic and Human Thinking or...
I totally buried the lead in my first attempt to answer you and muddled it all. Summary: The big benefit of information theoretic models of nature is ...
Sounds a lot like the student protest movements of the mid-2010s. I was taking some classes at UNC around that time, and I recall reading the list of ...
If light waves are information and patterns of neuronal activation are information, and we can describe both using the same information theoretic fram...
Maybe? At least a lot of people seem to think so. Information theory is arguably the biggest paradigm shift in the sciences in centuries. Quantum mech...
I did come across the term I meant to use if reference to solution sets. It's the replacement set, so for a formula like 1 + x = x + 1 this would be t...
It's something that might be justified under neoliberalism but it isn't uniquely neoliberal. Keynesianism would justify the same move. I think virtual...
For sure. Scientism is definitely a thing. Now, there is a good argument to be made that scientism isn't science, and that science doesn't deal with k...
But when was this not true? Versus from Numbers carved in silver in proto-Hebraic predate the Hebrew language. The story of Noah, include the phrase "...
You could also spend many lifetimes studying just Christian theology and not read a fraction of all that has been written, let alone doing an in depth...
I think you have it right. As a historical moment with a lot of theorists it's always going to be a bit of a fuzzy term. The only part I might watch i...
Thanks for that. I apologize for this whole digression anyhow because I had the realization that the thought I had that kicked this off is irrelevant ...
Yeah, I thought I understood the miscommunication there and I did not. You're correct re: well formed formulas. I had always thought formula = well fo...
Ah, my mistake. This is supposed to say "If 4 + 4 = 8 and 10 - 2 = 8, what does that mean for the instantiation of the computation? " I.e., how is com...
Is that true in all cases? If we took away access to birth control entirely and began allowing child marriages, wealth would still be the only thing t...
You could look at the link I shared about it from SEP. Instantiation = Five apples is an instantiation of the number five, etc. e.g., Plato's Theory o...
I said as much at the outset. Here is the problem, if computation is not reversible. If 4 + 4 = 8 and 10 - 2 = 8, what does that mean for the instanti...
I took the tone from posts starting with: "All aboard the crazy train," "No, only as you are deluded. " "Wrong." Generally in field with multiple subf...
Thank you. That's all I was saying. Now will you allow that, given an alphabet where every real has a unique symbol, those symbols could be used in ar...
We're getting our wires crossed. You are talking about all "well formed formulas," which I didn't use as a term for a reason. These are countable unde...
It might be easy to look at the problem a simpler way. If we had developed a Platonism of processes instead of objects, we might find nothing weird wi...
lol, exactly. But I only suggest it because we already are on a crazy train. When we try to apply formalizations of information quantified as a reduct...
I don't know if indignation is the right word, maybe "mind****." I mean, try to sincerely imagine the following. -You're driving on the highway. It's ...
Also, consider this set of facts that go against the unitary "business party argument." -Republicans, who have been feuding with big tech, particularl...
Yes. If 4 shares an identity with 2+2, 3+1, 5+ -1, 8/2, etc. then the P?NP problem doesn't make sense and we also are left with the "scandal of deduct...
No, I don't think so. It seems like you could be conscious even if your blood had to be circulated by a machine, your blood oxygenated by a machine, e...
This is an excellent point. I think it's easy to miss that a huge amount of the brain's "floating point operations per second," or their rough biologi...
Hume thinks "causation" reduces to "constant conjunction." That is, "A causes B iff whenever A occurs B occurs after." So, for Hume, causation is a co...
I agree that science, as a methodology, does not presuppose monism. However, the modern scientific project begins with an attempt to reduce the "truth...
Exactly. At least the concerns about "indoctrination," in public schools has some basis in a concern for reflexive freedom and self-determination... U...
A rape victim being forced to carry her rapist's child to term is not quantifiable in the degree to which "the poor would be poorer and the rich riche...
I think both can be used to describe the Golden Ratio, just as we can use the English language to describe it. They can describe the ratio to arbitrar...
I honestly have no clue what a GOP dominated US would look like. They had their best showing in over a century in 2016 and the major legislative achie...
I don't think anything like "statistics," for that exists. You'd be hard pressed to get people arming up to protest tyrannical government to fill out ...
I don't think this works. In your link there is a proof of the fact that the Golden Ratio is irrational. As such, how are we going to describe it with...
Sort of. They are accused of pushing woke ideology for a variety of reasons, which in turn makes them a target for "cancellation." It is surprising th...
Not sure what you're referring to. The last thing I wrote ITT was a rejection of the idea that one state somehow controls global economic production. ...
I suppose the other big things feeding into the illusion of a uniparty are: -an independent civil service -federalism with extremely strong regional g...
There is also the primary system that selects candidates. The primaries occur at different times of year in each state, and often there are multiple p...
This seems entirely context dependant. Depending on your culture, level of technological developments, and means of governing I could see very differe...
Yeah, I suppose having a choice over carrying a child to term, or having universal access to child care versus spending about a third of your pre-tax ...
The two parties obviously have serious, substantive differences on policy. This is especially clear at the state level. Massachusetts, which has large...
I do not think this works. If the the world is not such that doing one thing determines/entails another, how can we make meaningful decisions about an...
100% agree. I saw a call for papers recently on "The Limits of Philosophy." The prompt itself was filled with technical jargon that even I, a pretty a...
Saying "brains create color" is like explaining that "batteries produce electrical current" without any reference to a closed circuit, or explaining t...
I'd argue that the dichotomy is false in the first place, even from a scientific point of view. Minds are ostensibly created by, and part of, nature. ...
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