General Philosophy

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-atheist-darwinist/ Daniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of Darwinism and one of the most virulent controversialists on the academic circuit. Dennett argued that everything has to be understood in terms of natural processes, and that terms such as “intelligence”, “free will”, “consciousness” “justice”, the “soul” or the “self” describe phenomena which can be explained in terms of physical processes and not the exercise of some disembodied or metaphysical power. How such processes operate he regarded as an em…

Isn't it incredible, that through nature and technology, I can pick out the specific waves that relate directly to me, in the pool that's foaming from the waves of every single particle in the universe. I'm not sure of the point I'm making, just that it relates to every creed of thought with equanimity...

The science now is able to combine the quantum mechanics with the game theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality#CHSH_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_game_theory These refs are wonderful. And if the quantum mechanics can be united with the game theory, this means that our views in the field of philosophy must be reconsidered. I mean, that the game theory now together with ethology gives the answers to the questions about the nature of Good and Evil. Here are these answers in brief: 1) The Good is altruism, the Evil is selfishness. More exactly, the Evil is a behavior t…

Proof of "Axioms" of Propositional Logic: Synopsis. Willem F. Esterhuyse. Abstract. We introduce more basic axioms with which we are able to prove some "axioms" of Propositional Logic. We use the symbols from my other article: "Introduction to Logical Structures". Logical Structures (SrL) are graphs with doubly labelled vertices with edges carrying symbols. The proofs are very mechanical and does not require ingenuity to construct. It is easy to see that in order to transform information, it has to be chopped up. Just look at a kid playing with blocks with letters on them: he has to break up …

....or do we really? What I believe. Does it fall under religion, philosophy or some other discipline of human thought? Here goes as follows: The John Douglas Barrow Faith Canon Drafted in the United States of America, June 10, 2024 A.D. 1. Nothing is higher in all of existence than Mother Nature, the Goddess of the Universe. Mother Nature is a human personification of nature, which might not be a conscious, living person or entity with a free will. 2. Any gods or deities which might exist apart from Mother Nature are only attributed to nature Herself. There is no supernatural or magic. Mother Nature is not above Herself. 3. Life and conscious…

The theory of everything is not a scientific theory. It is a theory of ideas, and it goes as follows: An idea represents that which it represents, in contraposition to the fact of the idea as it is. This IS fact, it will not be disputed, and the implications of this fact are what we call science. The implications of science are not what we call fact. Fact is what exists beyond perception, to be inferred through perception but not wholly perceived given the limits of perception. As Plato put it: "The starry heaven which we behold is wrought upon a visible ground, and therefore, although the fairest and most perfect of visible things, must nece…

How is gravity even possible? How can one body of matter draw another body of matter, separated by a void, toward itself with no apparent material or mechanical connection between the two bodies? If I reel in a fish toward me, the fishing line is the material connection between me and the fish I'm drawing toward myself. There are no apparent strings attached between the moon or the earth but the moon somehow exerts some invisble pulling force upon our oceans to create tides. When an apple falls to the ground from a tree branch, how is the planet earth somehow "reeling in" the apple toward it? How is the existence of matter even possible? Something, logically speakin…

To Quote Micheal Stevens: "How do you rethink- Everything? Who gets to direct the costs and tradeoffs. How do you get collaboration between every local and national government, when what works in one place wont work everywhere. When decisions affect jobs in one place and food in another. When not just things have to be rethought but habits, and traditions, and values. How do you achieve consensus when the solution isn't obvious to the senses, is far away in space and time, requires solutions that affect people in different ways, and as a product of science always carries some uncertainty " - The Future Of Reasoning This is a thread for the discussion of such id…

I have been looking at how to define a system for the longest time and wanted to share it with you all. "A system is a grouping representation of a practical pattern and/or process in which can be used to form new knowledge and fact that can further be actualized into tools and technologies."

Recently i found out that i have ASD (highly functioning) For most of my life i haven't been able to experience embarrassment and thought that if i was able to live and survive without embarrassment for so long then why does it exist at all? Is it a bug? is it a feature? Maybe its beneficial to some and not others? or maybe it was beneficial back when we were drawing paintings on the inside of caves. Personally i think its a pretty much useless feeling, i like being able to use pure logic to make decisions than feel like i shouldnt because "Nooo you cant wear that, everyone will make fun of you!" or "No, not that color; thats for girls!" or "Nooo, you've gotta use t…

This thought came to me while I was reading. If the universe is expanding, then it needs to expand outwards into something. But this means that there needs to be something outside of the universe for it to expand into. The term universe tends to refer towards everything. But if there is something outside of everything then that means that the universe is not everything. Does this therefore mean that the universe is finite?

What did he mean by the Übermensch?

Are they distinct or do they bleed into one another? The thought occurred to me as I was finishing my meal and my plate was almost ,but not quite empty. I have the habit of nearly always finishing what is on the plate and yet ,in this case I had had enough but still did not want to leave the plate unfinished. So ,I plucked up the remaining half of a baked potato and continued remorselessly to put it into my mouth and chew it even though I took no physical pleasure from the action. I could feel with every swallow that I was increasing my over satiety. What,I wonder now was that feeling? I can't remember having had it before. I was k…

What follows is what I believe to be a simple logical mathematical reasoning that explains why time cannot exist in the 'outside world', but that the experience of time is a property of a consciousness interacting with this 'timeless' outside world. The assumption is that if duration actually existed 'out there', you would have to go back infinitely to get to the beginning. Possibly involving multiverses and so on. You would have an infinite past. Because even if there was nothing in the universe, there would still be a duration. That is my assumption. When you do x "minus infinity", you have the idea that you have moved x infinitely downward, towards an…

The brain is nothing more than an electronic device. So, every electronic device with a lot of interconnected wires should be conscious too while switched on. We can use a bunch of steel wool and run electricity through it and we should have recreated a small artificial brain. The question is: how do you ask questions to it.

Informal introduction: I've tried other places of debate and discussion (most notably Reddit and LinkedIn), but they inevitably devolve into hostility. Some are hostile and insulting from the getgo, others descend into it after a few messages. Ars Technica forum locked me even before I could even respond to questions. I'm going to give this a go one last time before giving online discussion forums a rest. Purpose of Discussion: To advance this specific topic through challenge. As of now, avenues of counterargumentation seem to have been exhausted; Additional arguments I've received after the publication of my article all fell into categories that I've alrea…

There is a M Night Shyamalan movie called The Village where there is a village in “19th century” Pennsylvania. It is a remote village and the Elders forbid the residents from going into the woods or leaving the village because there are humanoid creatures that live there that will attack the village if the villagers enter their domain. If the villagers heed the rules, the monsters leave them alone. In reality, the elders dress as the creatures and the isolated village actually exists in the 21st century. A history professor founded this village 2 decades prior with the original intention of it being a grief counseling clinic and people originally started living there to i…

My students still reckon Lande’s 2 motivations for ‘unless’ = ‘if not’ (below) too abstract, formalistic! Thus I need a 3rd simpler, motivation with merely etymology. But I never studied linguistics! How do I 1. use these etymology quotations, to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’? 2. teach why “less than” means 'if not'? Traugott E.C. (1987) “UNLESS and BUT conditionals: a historical perspective.” In A. Athanasiadou and R. Dirven (eds.), On Conditionals Again. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, page 145. Idem, page 156. Id. 157. See also Etymonline. Lande N.P. Classical logic and its rabbit-holes:…

Magister colin leslie dean proves Kants Critique of Pure Reason is shown to be a failure and complete rubbish As stated https://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/papers/kant2.htm “The Critique of Pure Reason is unified by a single line of argument involving just two or three central ideas, which, in spite of a certain complexity and obscurity in its development, can be fairly summed up as follows: Kant poses the question, "How is synthetic, a priori knowledge possible?"” a priori knowledge is https://www.britannica.com/topic/a-priori-knowledge a priori judgments are “Latent…

Are we better off having invented the printing press? I don't want to block the rabbit hole, so I'll leave it there for know and flesh thing's out as and when.

I absolutely detest the question; What is the meaning of life? It's just, really poorly worded when you think about it. So I spent a decade or so, trying to just figure out a better question to ask. This is it; What is the nature of our existence? I could go on I guess, but I'd rather just let people sit with the question. As for why "What is the meaning of life?" Is a pretty shite question; that's a whole other thread!

Hello, I am introducing a work of philosophy in which we propose (and I realize, these might sound absurd claims at first): Susanne Langer and Immanuel Kant philosophies can be linked together, to give us a complete philosophical model for the Human Brain. By applying this model to Darwin’s evolution, we are able to logically prove the Brain has to based on the model we know as Turing machines; By considering how the Brain perceives our reality, and by applying the Turing machine model to empirical physical evidence, we are able to demonstrate the Brain is a solution to link together general relativity and quantum mechanics; And, after all, …

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68221243 "Three students have won a $700,000 prize after using AI to read a 2,000-year-old scroll burnt during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD." This is a great story .A few years back there was talk as to whether these (or similar scrolls) would be legible and now there seems a lot of optimism because of new technology available .

Let's say there was a way to make a duplicate of yourself. Assume it's a perfect copy that is identical to you in every way, except that the copy is legally your slave/servant. It's easy enough to go through the process knowing you would have someone who always does your bidding, but it might be easy to forget that your copy is also you, with the same experiences and memories. The other you had expected to get a servant, only to realize that you had become the servant. A truly narcissistic personality would react very badly to this situation. To properly plan for the event you have to prepare yourself to not just be the master, but also the servant. Because b…

[Caution : Just as CERN is found to be the current method our scientists are coming to develop and learn of things (knowledge and energy from a different dimension), currently veiled to us. This is the type of knowledge that they are learning and seeking to learn without the fear of the potential risks Stephen Hawking had even brought into the awareness of mankind within our firmament of time and space. Since our scientists do as they please with their knowledge and nobody is able to hold them accountable as to where and who is giving them this knowledge. I also have the right to tell you where I have found my conclusions on this topic about The Mind, Consciousness,…