Michael Ossipoff

I’d said: . . . …because what’s the simulation supposed to be a mock-up of, if not a real physical world? Sure, and it’s assumed that there’s a genuin...

. You’re making an un-acknowledged and unsupported assumption of an objective physical reality in addition to and different from the hypothetical logi...

. To repeat: . 1, There’s rampant disagreement here. How many people here agree with eachother about metaphysics? . 2. You’re evidently very socially-...

But Michael Faraday did. And Frank Tippler and Max Tegmark partly agree. And the many people here who believe in, or at least consider possible, the S...

1. Strictly speaking, even by the less-broad way I've been using the word "metaphysics", what I've been proposing isn't really a true metaphysics, bec...

Something can be valid, non-speculative, and still debatable--if someone wants to make a losing debate by taking an incorrect position. "Debatabe" nee...

Now that Wayfarer mentioned it, I did once notice a dictionary definition of metaphysics as the discussion of Ultimate Reality. ...much more ambitious...

Anything that we agree on can be used as a premise. And no, my metaphysical proposal didn't include speculation. As I said, there's no place for specu...

...like the ones that I named as premises. Michael Ossipoff

I’d said: . . You replied: . . No. . I sometimes comment on the limitations of words, description, debate, assertion and proof, but I don’t debate it....

Most of metaphysics, yes. But not to the metaphysics that I propose. You're kidding, right? That's a bit over-ambitious for metaphysics, a topic of di...

. Sure, it would be circular if a premise for an argument for a metaphysics depended on something in the metaphysics that was being argued for. . . Ty...

Of course it isn't possible to experimentally distinguish between metaphysicses...largely because many or most of them predict the same observations i...

A few things I forgot to mention: Unless you can say for sure that there's no reason why you're in a life, then, if there is a reason, and, if at the ...

I’m sorry about the critical ad-hominem language. It was because I didn’t think you were expressing a sincere worldview. But maybe you are, and I don’...

Janus must be referring to the fact that, Propositional Logic is (unsurprisingly) about propositions. Propositional logic is about the relations among...

So then, just regard it as an unnecessary play that you, for some reason, started, and now are in, ...and now might as well go with, disregard and qui...

I suggest that Absurdism is some Materialist-Atheists' angst-ridden reaction to heir own beliefs. ...but they're right about the physical universe, an...

Continuation of reply: . …from an age when we didn’t know what was going on, with elder guardians (family & school) with questionable qualification an...

It has been said that only things, objects, elements of metaphysics "exist". It has been said that God isn't any of those things, and isn't a thing at...

Let me start with your last paragraph (and maybe also answer some of the other paragraphs in other than their original order): . . But I clarified, at...

Incorrect. There's such a thing as a propositions whose truth implies another proposition. When it's shown that the truth of one proposition implies t...

Every "fact" in your experience corresponds to, implies, and can be said as, an if-then fact. "There's a traffic roundabout at the corner of 34th & Vi...

The complex system of inter-referring abstract implication-facts that is your life-experience possibility-story is all about your experience.. So, by ...

I’d said: . . . Of course. . The animal that each of us experiences being, is entirely physical. . I agree that there’s more to it than that. Of cours...

...such as the thread in which Janus objected that I was disregarding the necessary distinction between "substantive" and "logical". I asked Janus wha...

I'd like to post a briefer answer to this: I've been saying that your experience is a life-experience possibility-story, consisting of a complex syste...

I’d asked: . . Schpenhauer1 said: . . Translation: . Schopenhauer1 doesn’t know what he means by “absurdity”. . You’re joking, right? What else are yo...

I should say something about the duration of the taper, and what the matter of concluding the taper. How long would the it take for the taper to reach...

...and you know about those things...how? Through experience? :D Of course. Our experience is that of being a physical organism. ...yes, a body. That ...

...especially since "existence" isn't metaphysically-defined. Whatever that means. Empirically, there are abstract facts and abstract objects, in the ...

Right, instead of answering questions about your justification of your claims, or responding to what others say, you just repeat your unsupported doct...

I wasn’t done replying to this thread, or, in general, to Schopenhaur1’s Anti-Natalist and pessimistic comments. Those comments surely speak for other...

Talk of "qualia" is unnecessary. From the point of view of the physical story, as described by the Materialist, consciousness is the property of being...

I don't know about that. Aren't there premises that we all agree on? ...that we're each in a life in a "physical" world...and that there are abstract ...

It's a matter outside of the applicability of logic, proof and words. Michael Ossipoff

This physical universe's physical history and physical mechanism, or even metaphysical origin, have nothing to do with the matter of meta-metaphysical...

By purpose. Among the infinity of systems of inter-referring abstract-facts, and among the infinite subset of those that are life-experience possibili...

I'd like to correct a program-bug in the pseudode-program that I posted. Where I said: "Exit if d < 1" I should have said: Exit if S > -r/k -r/k is th...

There’s no place for speculation in metaphysics. …though, at this forum, such speculation is popular. . I’ve covered metaphysics here. . By “metaphysi...

Agreed. I'd say more than borders on criminal. Is criminal, based on the account of events that I described in my previous post here, and the doctors'...

. Yes, it has infuritated me, and greatly disappointed me too. But it’s reassuring to know that I’m not the only one who notices that high-handed, unc...

Yes, if the taper's halving-time would have to be comparable to your current life-expectancy, then there'd be a case to leave things as they are. Jane...

There's one particularly big conflict of interest: If someone is feeling sick, having convulsions, during the doctor's "taper", they're advised to mak...

Whatever you do, don't even consider cold-turkey, or the kind of fast withdrawal that doctors seem to like so much. If the choice were between staying...

I'd said: No, there was no error. It was right the first time. I've changed it back in another edit. Michael Ossipoff

I'd said: Tom said: There's no computer program for reality unless you're asserting that this physical universe is all of reality. But there's a logic...

. We can mention a hypothetical computer-program. If that hypothetical program that we’re discussing hasn’t been written on paper, is it any less a co...

It goes without saying, as a truism, that any simulation is a simulation of something. An argument against, or criticism of, what I said would need to...

Belief in such a consciousness, separate from body, but somehow "emergent" from it, is Spiritualist delusion. For the purposes of the physical story, ...