Philosophical Speculations

I heard story of a pygmi tribe healing and pacifying a violently behaving neighbor tribe of big people with ibogaine.

Changless, "eternal" moment can't be participatorily experienced without changing the inclusive whole. Unless you take some ridiculously weird mechanistic view to deny organic aspect of whole.

There is an infinite variety of ways to make/interconnect transistors on a chip. Most of them are useless or at best just poorly performing, but still some of them are very useful and well-performing. We learn from collective experience in the engineering community which structures are most useful ...

There is a spiritual reason why I'm not a big fan of the Platonic hypothesis. It makes life and progression meaningless. If everything possible already exists, achieved, known and actualized in the eternal realm of ideas, then what's the point of doing anything, making efforts to know, to develop, ...

May be Santeri will explain better :) The idea of the actual infinity is an abstraction, what we know from experience, as well as from computational mathematics, is only endless sequences of phenomena or events. To my knowledge nobody has ever experienced the whole infinity of events. For example, ...

Searching for answers through mathematics has fundamental limitation. To grasp this we must take a step backwards and appreciate the fact that first of all, doing mathematics is really doing thinking . At the moment we imagine that mathematical thoughts tell us in themselves something about reality...

Eugene I wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:35 am The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ture_fails
http://lesliegreen.byethost3.com/articles/false.pdf?i=1

Can you explain more how your relational operators fit in with a wave ontology? Waves are continuous processes that go "up" and "down" relative to each other. Wave "tops" and "bottoms" are both more and less than their middle neither more nor less . From rela...

What is the meaning of instrumenting, having means? What is the meaning of marking? What is the meaning of aiming? Where is the point? Everywhere, or just at the end of a line? With the means of this bow, the arrow it shoots does not hit everywhere. When the arrow flies, the shaft carries the the po...