In the afterlife, there will be no marriage. We'll all be well-rounded self-pleasuring hermaphrodites. Or Hamlet jokes something along those lines. I ...
What you are missing (I think?) is that I count myself among them. Socrates is an excellent mention. Lately I'm fascinated with radicalizing his image...
It seems to me that what you are really getting at is a socially established notion of the real. Thinkers have made a strong case that perception is n...
It's more like f(part) = f(whole). The sets aren't equal. They are just have the same cardinality. Like Jefferson and Washington were both presidents....
I'm rusty at this stuff, but basically let's consider the set N* = N-union-{x}. That's the set of natural numbers (let's exclude 0 and say 1,2,3,...) ...
Even Cantor's work was hugely controversial. What's strange is that the infinite does compute, within certain systems that give it a formal meaning. T...
I don't assume that we are different in the same ways, but I think that critical writers (Lacan, Freud, whoever) appeal to creeps and weirdos. I use t...
I can relate to this chase. The thing is always around the corner or hidden in the thicket. The nymph is most alluring when not quite nude. There's no...
I know this is for @"fishfry", but I'm caffeinated and here, so I'll play too. Here's what you seem to be talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
It is a fascinating issue. It is concentrated or purified romanticism. Both Christ and Socrates are individual heroes. But with artists it's even more...
Yup. As I think I stated or strongly implied. It's just a game with rules that a group of humans agree on well enough to keep playing. Those without t...
I note that you appeal to us using arithmetic and logic, our shared cultural heritage. I note also that you appeal to us at all, in the first place, f...
I think I know what you mean and agree with you, but perhaps 'physical' is not the ideal word here. There are lots of noncontroversial aspects of real...
That's some of it, but don't forget all the attempts to prove things that people really want to believe. Proofs of God, proofs of free will, proofs th...
It's much simpler to show that there are uncomputable numbers in (neglecting some techincal issues with your proof.) The measure of the computable sub...
Well, I like dualism more the monism in this case. Perhaps we can even talk of a spectrum and not a sharp distinction. Basically we have both words in...
Yes, I think I understand the argument, and it's a fascinating point. An noncomputable real number contains an infinite amount of information. Fair en...
I like your spiritual math here. Clearly there's something in us humans (or most of us) that thirsts for the 'real.' The first matrix was a 'utopia,' ...
Hi. I think that some people do have rare experiences that they can't communicate. If they try, they don't enjoy a sense of being believed and/or unde...
Perhaps this is a cop out, but I think it's good one: Haven't we (or hasn't philosophy) already been through the mess of this mental/physical game? It...
Hi. I like the topic you've picked. I have two responses. The first is Cipher's response. To me it doesn't much matter if my everyday reality is calle...
That seems right, and maybe we never completely understand. Science is humanity being a little less stupid than we usually are? By actually keeping tr...
Hi. A's view is reasonable, and it points at what tempts us to try to wring some kind of purified mind-stuff and its by-product matter-stuff from effe...
Nietzsche was arguably a Christian in some unorthodox sense. Consider his seductive portrait of the Nazarene in The Antichrist. Half-remembered quote ...
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