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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Depends. Sometimes interchangeably, sometimes not. Conciousness is often defined more basically. Something is concious if it is "something for which t...
An optical illusion might be the better analogy. Thinking you observe an objective reality is a persistent, seemingly inherited habit of thought. It t...
Maybe I wasn't being clear. I was thinking of entities that are necessarily unthinkable, not contingently so. For example, a theoretical particle that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
You keep setting up these fake contradictions for yourself. "Biological weapons are not particularly good as military weapons," and "biological weapon...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This was sort of John Bell's problem with the information theories his work helped spawn. What additionally does everything being information tell us?...
You can fully describe DNA transcription and neurotransmitter binding in mechanical terms too (granted there is some loss of fine detail in these mode...
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...
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...
Because Nuland is not a CBRN expert either. Obviously, the Russian messaging on chemical and biological weapons resulted in some DoD analyst having to...
Here is a good example of the information - thermodynamic entropy connection that would allow for meaning in physical systems. It's an incomplete but ...
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...
The only organisms useful as bioweapons are spore formers that will survive without extreme cold and isolation from the enviornment outside tissue, fo...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Most denominations do not insist on a fully literalist interpretation of scripture. Many Christians interpret the Bible allegorically or even as conta...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The bioweapons thing is comical. The public profoundly misunderstands CBRN, what weapons actually exist, why and under what circumstances they would b...
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...
There are some versions where conciousness does cause wave function collapse, or there is Quantum Bayesianism, which shifts the ground to conciousness...
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