Wayfarer & MysticMonist— . (I wrote this in Word, and I didn’t want to post it till I got it the way I wanted it. But I don’t know if I’ve really neat...
Anyway, when I said that we never experience Nothing, I wasn't talking about experiencing the fact of some little bit of nothing somewhere (even if th...
For one thing, you'd have air in your hands. Anyway: Strictly speaking, "empty" space isn't really empty, and isn't nothing. It's full of virtual part...
That's true. I was a bit careless with my words. What I meant is that Nothing is the subject of a concept. Of course, as you said, a concept is someth...
I've already discussed Materialism's brute-fact problem. When there's a metaphysics that doesn't have an assumption or a brute-fact, then a brute-fact...
Sure, I only meant complete skepticism with regard to metaphysics. ...complete skepticism about metaphysical assumptions, and any notion that metaphys...
I have to admit that I don't know what he said about that matter. But it probably doesn't refute the statement that no one ever experiences Nothing. N...
Yes. But I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm only saying that we're talking about different subjects. I don't know, Philosophy allows so much verbal...
I must admit that i don't know what the matter of whether Socrates was anyone has to do with the matter of whether Nothing is a concept or is ever any...
Maybe metaphysical disagreement is often about believing different premises. But I don't think that fully explains it. My metaphysics, (at least a ver...
You may be sure that, when AI is well developed and used for military use, and for control of a population, that AI won't be designed for compassion, ...
Romer didn't initially know or assume that light takes time to reach us. That was his conclusion when he found that the duration between successive ec...
What else is it? It isn't ever anyone's experience. But the if-then facts that I'm talking about are concepts too, meaning that each universe, such as...
Wait, I think I might know what Hachem's objection is. If I'm right, the Hachem was saying something that was true, though he wasn't right about Roeme...
You mean "Too good to be true"? Sometimes something that's too good to be true is true anyway. Do you not agree that my proposal doesn't make any assu...
A baseball breaks a window because the ball has enough kinetic energy to push/bend the glass far enough to separate its silicon-dioxide molecules enou...
Of course, from the point-of-view of your survivors. From your own point of view, of course there's no such thing as "oblivion". You never reach or ex...
Oh, the discussion is most definitely about the validity of Roemmer's method for determinig the speed of light. That's what Roemer's "argumentation" w...
You haven't given a an alternative interpretation of Roemer's results. ...at least not one with a decipherable meaning. I didn't call you names. I jus...
No, Roemer didn't necessarily assume that light had a finite speed. His experiment depended on no such assumption and implied no such assumption. Roem...
Abstract objects were always there, and didn't at some time appear to occupy what was once nothing. An inter-referring systems of abstract facts doesn...
Roemer's main source of inaccuracy was the clocks of his day. I've said that several times already. No one's claiming that Roemer's determination was ...
There couldn't have been nothing, because there inevitably are abstract objects, including abstract facts. Someone could say that there are only abstr...
I don't mean to imply that non-worldly consequences are only a possible deterrent. I think they're real. Of course our rulers know what they're doing,...
I somehow lost the last paragraph of your post. The fear of Hell, or goal of Heaven might deter some people from their worst. If so, then it's doing s...
Like Dubya? Or Dan Quayle? Maybe it just helps to be born in a rich family. But yes, of course there's an evolutionarily-hereditary sheep-class, and a...
Obviously, as we all know, there are people who live in exactly that way. They tend to rise to the top, of course. Why shouldn't you be like that? Wel...
I guess if one theory is a little simpler than another theory, and needs just a few fewer assumptions, then that makes it a little more acceptable mor...
As I've said before, each life-experience possibility-story, as a logical system of inter-referring if-then facts about hypotheticals, is real in its ...
I've never understood that problem about "other minds". I can't speak for Materialism, which has other, prohibitively serious, problems anyway. But,as...
I did my best. I'll just suggest that you re-read my description of Roemer's determination method, from a fresh perspective, instead of in terms of be...
By his clock and calendar, and Newton's solution for planetary orbits, Roemer could calculate the Earth's position, and Jupiter's position, at each of...
The Earth's speed in orbit is about 18.5 miles per second. At Denmark's latitude, the speed of the ground's movement with respect to the Earth's cente...
One advantage of using the duration between two disappearances, instead of between a disappearance and a re-appearance is that a you'd have observatio...
For accuracy, it would be good to measure one eclipse duration when the Earth is moving rapidly toward Jupiter, and measure another eclipse duration w...
The duration of the observed time during which a Jovian moon is eclipsed depends on the difference in the distance between Earth and Jupiter. at the t...
You're misunderstanding Roemer's observation. At any constant distance between the Earth and Jupiter, the observed time between a Jovian moon's disapp...
That should be e^(2*pi*i*theta) for the left side of the equation. (writing out the Greek letters' names,and using " * " to indicate multiplication, f...
There's a popular misconception that, after death, we reach "oblivion". The time after your death, after the complete shutdown and dissolution of your...
Eternity isn't an infinite amount of time. Eternity is Timelessness. At the end of lives (or the end of this life if there isn't reincarnation), just ...
You wrote: . . Different philosophies proposed by different people drastically differ, regarding what’s real and what isn’t. . I don’t think that “rea...
I want to emphasize that the moderation at this forum-website is the best that I've encountered anywhere. I've been to a lot of forum-websites, most o...
I’d asked: . — Michael Ossipoff . You answered: . . So you’re saying that a word can carry the “baggage” of dogma based on very little evidence or anc...
Yes. Life-experience possibility-stories, inevitably, timelessly "there", just like any "abstract object.". ...and consisting of a system of inevitabl...
As for the objective reality of NDEs and their contents-- I should add that I don't believe that our physical world is objectively real anyway. ...bec...
But what does that mean? NDE is an abbreviation for Near-Death Experience. The reports are, by definition, reports of experiences. As you said, that's...
I don't think so. ...unless you mean very short-term memory, from one subjective moment to the next. I don't deny that there's that latter very short-...
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