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What? We can use the James Webb, land on the moon, calculate the age of the universe and the distance of galaxies all on the basis of the little we do...
January 23, 2023 at 13:25
That's true, we don't know what 95% of the universe is made of, "only" 5% of it - which, given the species we are, is still a tremendous achievement. ...
January 23, 2023 at 03:53
I have in mind post-Newtonian physics. They weren't proved wrong, they were shown to be inadequate to explain certain phenomena: the orbit of Neptune ...
January 23, 2023 at 02:07
So you think the stuff physics describes wouldn't exist if we were absent? That is, there would be no such thing as an age of the universe, nor would ...
January 23, 2023 at 01:44
Sure, I do think something existed prior to us. We know a few facts about it - not too too much, but not trivial information either. Ok, so we have th...
January 23, 2023 at 00:55
The alternative would be to say that the only intelligent species that could develop, must be like us in almost all respects - that seems to me quite ...
January 23, 2023 at 00:45
I don't understand. What is extra mental, when we look at the world? No, culture has nothing to do with my view.
January 23, 2023 at 00:34
I mean, there are many, many versions of realism. The realism I think holds up is something akin to Russell's "epistemic structural realism": the noti...
January 22, 2023 at 00:44
I don't know. I think that identity makes sense as does similarity and of course, number, but materiality or form are a bit more dubious. I don't see ...
January 21, 2023 at 22:14
What the god(s) command may be quite different, say requiring sacrifice of some kind, maybe even murder in certain cults or we can metaphorically spea...
January 21, 2023 at 22:00
Between human beings? Maybe, but the differences are superficial. Like some tribes may believe in an extreme form of animism, while another tribe beli...
January 21, 2023 at 19:18
With a sample of one, it's hard to say. Some things may be the same, others not. The identity we ascribe say, to bodies of water, or trees, could be q...
January 21, 2023 at 14:13
Let's take a few examples. Take a dog for instance, most of the time, they don't pass the "mirror test" of self-awareness, which implies (but does not...
January 21, 2023 at 03:35
Sure - to the extent you describe it, I think that's on track. But I think we should be cautious in thinking that because they share these similaritie...
January 21, 2023 at 01:42
I'm not getting notifications for your posts. Weird. I mean, you are speaking about objects, things in the world. Mathematics is rather different, I w...
January 21, 2023 at 00:53
I'll check that article out, thanks for sharing. Empiricism goes out the window if empiricism is construed as implying "publicly observable phenomena"...
January 20, 2023 at 04:51
But math doesn't depend on objects.
January 20, 2023 at 00:41
Absolutely. And that it doesn't seem to depend on the universe, somehow. Utterly baffling.
January 20, 2023 at 00:30
It's hard to imagine a possible world in which this wouldn't be the case, we can change the symbol "2" to "II" or something else, but it's still a mat...
January 19, 2023 at 23:42
Hey James, nice to see you around again! :victory:
January 19, 2023 at 19:58
It's tricky. I mean we can say that Newton and Leibniz were wrong in terms of specifics, though oddly now physics may be giving Leibniz the edge in te...
January 19, 2023 at 18:42
Existence is just a fact of life - reasons why don't apply, in terms of looking for a justification for it. According to the evidence we have - which ...
January 19, 2023 at 02:20
Yes, I think the topic of humility is one that should be re-visited again, especially in philosophy. It's really quite remarkable he could draw such a...
January 18, 2023 at 15:18
It is well worth the effort, there is a treasure trove of useful and insightful stuff in it. And even in areas in which one might disagree with him, t...
January 18, 2023 at 14:53
That took. a. long. time. Should've been finished much sooner, but attention issues and all. Just finished Locke's Essay for a second time. Majestic a...
January 17, 2023 at 22:36
Wrong thread.
January 17, 2023 at 22:27
Ahh, Dennett. I'm not a fan of his views at all and in fact, seem to rather distort very elementary experience, so let's use someone else, if you don'...
January 17, 2023 at 19:09
In so far as you believe than enactivism is the correct approach to these issues, can it be said that it is "a fair distance" from it. But if one take...
January 17, 2023 at 17:06
To be fair, there are important differences between say, Kant, Hoffman and Kastrup. Sure, they could be called "idealists", but that's a bit like sayi...
January 17, 2023 at 14:30
No, I read your OP and skimmed a bit from others, but little - I prefer to go in "new", as it were. Now you've added plenty of context and renders the...
January 16, 2023 at 18:18
I'd guess that it depends on how hard-wired the pessimism is on that particular person. If it's not too deep, then surely Sisyphus could simply go up ...
January 16, 2023 at 03:34
That was a bit dense, read it twice and only have a vague idea of what you may be talking about - you certainly put a lot of thought behind it, that I...
January 16, 2023 at 03:21
You'd probably blow a fuse. End up in psych ward, heavily medicated. We assume crazy things like ending up with a prostitute or bungie jumping off a h...
January 16, 2023 at 02:51
I mean, I agree. But as you well know, some people aren't born with "reality-agreeing" lenses and choose the "rosy-picture" one instead and remain wit...
January 16, 2023 at 02:15
I think these kinds of things are context-dependent. I mean, one thing is to have a website like this, in which you want to keep trolling and bad atti...
January 16, 2023 at 02:09
:up: Religion. Cults. Some types of nationalism. Politics. It's a long list. We should try and get people to pay attention to the evidence on these is...
January 16, 2023 at 00:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSgGCgpeN0&list=RDMM&index=10
January 14, 2023 at 19:02
Gorgeous song.
January 14, 2023 at 19:02
:fire: Truer words, never spoken.
January 13, 2023 at 22:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpB9kzVkH4&list=RDYBpB9kzVkH4&start_radio=1 Breathe, breathe in the air Don't be afraid to care Leave, but don't leav...
January 13, 2023 at 13:11
Pigs are overrated. Hotdogs are better.
January 12, 2023 at 18:34
I suspect that part of it has to do with dwindling economic conditions for the vast majority of the population. Instead of looking for the actual culp...
January 12, 2023 at 15:36
I've read that the attempted coup in Brazil was considerably larger than the one in the US, and also that the Brazilian Supreme Court was also targete...
January 12, 2023 at 14:55
Thanks, will do. Yes, I should've added that that's what I found interesting in my reading of the Critique. But the point you mention is quite true an...
January 12, 2023 at 00:02
It took me a good 4 to 5 months to read the Critique, and mind you, I've read a decent amount of secondary literature. I won't deny that Kant has some...
January 11, 2023 at 21:48
And your observations do? Given that all Ukrainians share the same motivation? Because surely they all want to die to defeat the Russians.
January 11, 2023 at 16:51
You're speaking about pieces on a board game from me? Who are the ones giving Ukrainians arms with no echo of a though given about what the costs are ...
January 11, 2023 at 15:58
It seems your reasons for your views stand on a better foundation than mine, given the apparently curious comment that you know that those who are dyi...
January 11, 2023 at 15:47
There is honor in fighting even for a cause that cannot be won. The issue is the continued cost of doing so, in terms of lives at stake, not to mentio...
January 11, 2023 at 15:22
It's all irrationality to the highest degree. Nationalism is poison, be it Russian, Ukrainian, American or whatever. Combine that with modern weaponry...
January 11, 2023 at 14:08