Zompist Bboard Again

i agree that pi is a concept from physics. because it is a concept, it was conceived. i also agree that "something in the material universe must be causing it" leads obviously to the question "okay what", which man, i don't know. I can tell you the thing with parallels has to do ...

it's true that paper only goes so far, but also there's functionally already such a system in place for the wealthy: if you have enough money you can get into any country you want and be treated as well or better than a full citizen of it, possibly with the exception of like north korea or yemen. an...

does that apply to all things that function more or less independently of substrate? for example, doom, which can run on -in principle- a computer made out of anything? is there a Doom that exists independently of material reality? now if we found a Doom that can run on no material substrate, then t...

That's just a special case of what we've been saying all along! what is, the "since pi is the same for circles of any materiality, there must be a Pi that exists independently of material reality" or the "pi is what is it because of some feature of spacetime or of what we mean by pi ...

I'm not convinced of that. settler colonialism does not amount to foreigners coming to live here [wherever here is], it also involves a regime of social and legal superiority of the settler group over the natives, as was the case in the past in colonial latin america, or north america, or africa, or...

What you call solipsism is what I'd call philosophy, or neuroscience... you can't get a much grimmer view of the brain than by reading people who study it. For everyday life, sure, we all ignore philosophy. But we're not indulging in everyday life here, we're talking about the nature of reality, an...

i live under a civil law system, and tbh i wouldn't be opposed to juries. precedent is something all legal systems have, though it's slightly less important in civil law regimes than in common law ones, Is that so? Wikipedia made it sound like precedent is the biggest difference between common law ...

Admittedly the common law system of the US has always sounded rather janky to me, at least as Wikipedia and such describe it. The whole concept of precedent, where law derives from continuity with past judicial rulings, sounds remarkably pre-modern like tribal custom or something. The civil law app...

Well, it looks like my mum has (early stage) breast cancer. It seems there is not a year where misfortune does not befall those I love. maan, that sucks, sorry to hear it. at least it's early stage, and breast cancers tend to have better prognosis than other sorts. an aunt got it a few years ago an...

It goes beyond this, though, because in many cases there are mathematical concepts that were dreamed up by mathematicians simply because they thought the concepts were cute, and then later they were pressed into the service of hypotheses of physics, and then later than that these hypotheses, based ...

this is exactly what i mean when i say dualism depends on an inversion: math is a thing people do, and does change: what doesn't change is what math is describing, namely the motions of planets etcetera etcetera, that is to say, reality qua such. the planets don't move around the way they do becaus...

this is exactly what i mean when i say dualism depends on an inversion: math is a thing people do, and does change: what doesn't change is what math is describing, namely the motions of planets etcetera etcetera, that is to say, reality qua such. the planets don't move around the way they do because...

I highlighted various places where you attempt to name your blargzard. You seem to be struggling to name it in a way I don't get, but I am reassured that you do have a blargzard, you just refuse to call it the truth. yup, cause i think truth is a predicate of utterances, as i've said. "the tru...

oops, pressed reply too quick. i'm surprised at how much rotting's take matches my own. If an agent is judging something... what are they judging? What condition obtains such that they spit out "true"? i don't know, i haven't solved epistemology. but yeah, what rotting says is not far from...

Wow, can't agree with you there. Truth is not a feature of utterance; it's a concept, or a feature of states of affairs. It's what makes something a fact and what allows us to talk about anything at all. i think it's the other way around, no? it's facts, or reality itself and its characteristics, t...

Math is an abstraction which has an identity and rules independent of the physical substrate; things like 2 + 2 = 4 are not tied to any particular physical representation , whether it is electric charges and currents or grains of sand or thoughts in our heads. Generalizations over physical laws app...

You're using a lot of heavy words here-- "objective", "reality", "actually existing", "transcendental realm"-- without any apparent definition, or any recognition that these are philosophical minefields. It feels like you're saying something but you're really...

often there exist some definitions of victory at least, such that it is the case that they are in fact not achievable. feudalism lasted for a long while until it didn't, and eventually the same should happen to liberalism or any other social system. I'm not thrilled about what might come next, if we...

The key thing is that math is an abstraction divorced from any particular thing in the physical world . One can express math countless different ways in the physical substrate, yet the math remains the same regardless. By your logic, math itself is inseparable from the physical world, and hence the...

Again, sure it can. Did you know programs can be hand-emulated, using pen and paper? The program doesn't know that it's laboriously hand-modeled. You could do it writing on toast with butter. lmao fair enough on waves, but not on toast or notepaper, i think: in the notebook example, it's you who is...