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Count Timothy von Icarus

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Sorry, I just meant "your metaphysics,".in the broad, second person sense, as in "if you don't change your oil, your car will break," isn't about an i...
March 22, 2022 at 16:57
Not including it opens your metaphysics up to a broad side of attacks that show your theory can't account for numerically different entities with iden...
March 22, 2022 at 15:33
That's fine. It just means you're supposing the truth of something whose truth or falsity is necissarily always and forever in question, and whose tru...
March 22, 2022 at 15:19
Did Feuerbach ever give an example of such being without thought? Obviously he didn't, because anything he set down would obviously have been an objec...
March 22, 2022 at 14:25
Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make. Such a particle is thinkable, but unverifiable. It still has being in some sense in that it can be posi...
March 22, 2022 at 13:42
Seems to me that there being anything at all is plenty mysterious. It's the central question of philosophy and science, and answers have not been fort...
March 22, 2022 at 13:20
I always find it interesting to think of what happens if you flip the process. Thermodynamics is the ground for time. Without the thermodynamic arrow ...
March 22, 2022 at 12:48
Depends on who "we" are. If we're Russians, the answer is something along the lines of the mass protests that chased Mubarak out of office in Egypt. T...
March 22, 2022 at 12:00
This might explain the success of physicalism. It gets a full treatment in science classes. And while these classes don't get into ontology, the abstr...
March 21, 2022 at 22:36
Depends. Sometimes interchangeably, sometimes not. Conciousness is often defined more basically. Something is concious if it is "something for which t...
March 21, 2022 at 16:18
An optical illusion might be the better analogy. Thinking you observe an objective reality is a persistent, seemingly inherited habit of thought. It t...
March 21, 2022 at 15:45
Maybe I wasn't being clear. I was thinking of entities that are necessarily unthinkable, not contingently so. For example, a theoretical particle that...
March 21, 2022 at 14:58
This is sort of all aside the point, because my comment was specifically about the reference to things that can never be thought of, not things that w...
March 21, 2022 at 04:32
I think you are mixing up your concepts here. Things that are observed are not in superposition, they have distinct values. Superposition is pre- obse...
March 21, 2022 at 04:07
I don't think this is a correct interpretation. The Phenomenology and Greater and Lesser Logics serve in defining Absolute Knowing, and indeed it's ar...
March 20, 2022 at 22:33
I'm not sure this is really a fair assessment. Hegel was writing before Darwin's theory of evolution, but his theories are certainly applicable to bio...
March 20, 2022 at 18:40
I've come to a similar conclusion, but you've stayed in two paragraphs what had always taken me two pages, so I very much appreciate it. This is an ex...
March 20, 2022 at 18:16
Wouldn't viruses be non-living things that store genetic history? (Supposing they don't fall under the definition of living things). It is an amazing ...
March 18, 2022 at 13:44
I can't speak for The Information since I've only read a short bit of it, but his other book Chaos, is pretty good. He keeps the narrative hopping alo...
March 17, 2022 at 02:15
It would certainly be philosophy. I think people have come around more on the idea that philosophy is still essential for science. Paradigm shifts in ...
March 16, 2022 at 13:05
I don't have time to go into all the responses right away, but I think the point is particularly relevant. What the passage seemed to be suggesting is...
March 16, 2022 at 12:45
You keep setting up these fake contradictions for yourself. "Biological weapons are not particularly good as military weapons," and "biological weapon...
March 16, 2022 at 00:35
Ha, sorry, that should read: "That is, they lack an essential thisness of identity unique to them." They fail the criteria of Leibnitz Law for indisce...
March 15, 2022 at 21:51
It's a hard concept to wrap your mind around. These theories look at information as the ontological basis for reality. Information is more real than e...
March 15, 2022 at 20:48
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/november/thetake-podcast-hologram.html The problem is that, like Many Worlds, the idea seems nuts initially. Like ph...
March 15, 2022 at 17:41
I believe they can. In Behemist views of God, God creates the world as a necissary condition for Its existence. A thing can not be without something t...
March 15, 2022 at 17:29
This was sort of John Bell's problem with the information theories his work helped spawn. What additionally does everything being information tell us?...
March 15, 2022 at 14:52
You can fully describe DNA transcription and neurotransmitter binding in mechanical terms too (granted there is some loss of fine detail in these mode...
March 15, 2022 at 13:51
I don't know if anyone can say what "physics" thinks things are. There are too many perspectives, from the logical positivist influenced, Machian Cope...
March 14, 2022 at 22:22
Yeah. I was thinking the question of pansemiosis versus life-specific emergence of semiosis should be its own thread, but didn't have time to write it...
March 14, 2022 at 22:08
Because Nuland is not a CBRN expert either. Obviously, the Russian messaging on chemical and biological weapons resulted in some DoD analyst having to...
March 14, 2022 at 19:13
Here is a good example of the information - thermodynamic entropy connection that would allow for meaning in physical systems. It's an incomplete but ...
March 14, 2022 at 16:42
The paper lays out and important area of research, but unfortunately it's not what I was hoping for, which is an explanation of why meaning can't be p...
March 14, 2022 at 15:30
The only organisms useful as bioweapons are spore formers that will survive without extreme cold and isolation from the enviornment outside tissue, fo...
March 14, 2022 at 14:06
If you think that's bad, you'll be shocked to learn the US government "stockpiles" dangerous pathogens all over the United States, including the last ...
March 13, 2022 at 23:34
These figures look even worse I'd you include Belarus and Moldova. The program was mentioned in public documents, numerous times. Hence all the super ...
March 13, 2022 at 03:57
Because that's how Schrodinger's Equation works. You don't get multiple waves interacting, you get a single wave function describing the system. Objec...
March 12, 2022 at 19:39
See, I always thought the Many Worlds Interpretation sounded bonkers, but have come around on it. I didn't understand the formalism of the Schrodinger...
March 12, 2022 at 16:26
I think that's arguable. Sanctions on forces commiting genocide in the former Yugoslavia (which did escalate to an air war) weren't really about US se...
March 12, 2022 at 15:29
Whoops, posted in the wrong thread.
March 12, 2022 at 15:27
Not sure how you got this. Smaller countries are often under much stricter sanctions, or a full embargo by the US and EU. Think Libya under Qaddafi, S...
March 12, 2022 at 07:25
I'd say no. If you define "terrorism" as every act of aggression or coercion that "doesn't differentiate between civilians and military personnel," yo...
March 12, 2022 at 07:08
Most denominations do not insist on a fully literalist interpretation of scripture. Many Christians interpret the Bible allegorically or even as conta...
March 12, 2022 at 06:45
I'm not sure I see why this would be the case. DNA is a code, it contains symbols that refer to proteins. The interpretant is the transcription RNA du...
March 12, 2022 at 06:18
Most of us, myself included, I imagine are not professional philosophers. Ontology is the thing you're going to think of when you start thinking of me...
March 12, 2022 at 05:40
You really shouldn't estimate the time needed for large military advances through contested territory based on estimates for a car trip without any tr...
March 11, 2022 at 23:33
Also, just lol @ the idea of using a weapons platform that can be effectively countered by a paper mask and washing your hands at this exact moment in...
March 11, 2022 at 21:21
The bioweapons thing is comical. The public profoundly misunderstands CBRN, what weapons actually exist, why and under what circumstances they would b...
March 11, 2022 at 21:10
The "pincer" from the south is two battalions; it's not going to cross hundreds of miles without a significantly larger force/logistic elements moving...
March 11, 2022 at 15:41
There are some versions where conciousness does cause wave function collapse, or there is Quantum Bayesianism, which shifts the ground to conciousness...
March 11, 2022 at 12:30