Philosophical Speculations

Maybe we can think of it by saying that the positive evolutionary development shouldn't shy away from bringing its fruits to the World arena. Yes, there's by no means guarantee that anyone encountering these fruits would spark an interest in proper evolutionary development. But these are still ...

There is a new presentation by ML on YT. Much of the content is known and there is no inversion of inquiry in the inner direction - all focus is on thought-content. But there are also various promising views for the evolution of scientific thought, and I’ve tried to highlight some points. Thanks F ...

Federica wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 12:39 pm Thanks, Ashvin, I see.
I would like to share a picture of the halo I am seeing right now in the sky above me.
Realizing only now it's probably a halo Cleric has as profile picture

Thanks, great shot
Yes, it's the same in my picture. It's a 22° halo.

Thank you so much Cleric, I see. I am sorry you had to write a long post. It was only my ignorance in these matters. Youtube served me that video, and I thought it fitted nicely as one more illustration of the previous post, but it doesn't. I was misled by the word "chaotic". Now that I've googled ...

I haven't refreshed the pendulum example as a non-conservation-of-energy example . What I meant is that the pendulum shows a case of 'inexplicable' incoming energy . And the second bold implies precisely the first. My point was that in the case of the double pendulum, we observe behavior that seems ...

This double pendulum demonstration comes in handy at this juncture: not only energy is not conserved - "it goes nowhere" in the video just above - but it may also come from nowhere, as it is noticed in this video. At some point the pendulum motion "gets some energy from somewhere" and unfolds in a ...

Hueck, Christoph J.. Evolution in the Double Stream of Time: An Inner Morphology of Organic Thought (pp. 31-32). epubli. Kindle Edition. Ashvin, thanks for bringing this to attention! It seems a very valuable work, I'll have to work through it. I see that it is freely available https://philarchive ...

I really appreciated the Chess example, which is something that I have been thinking about a lot lately, since I started playing. When he presented the board configuration, I was thinking that the GMs would not do as well if the configuration was something that would rarely arise in a chess game ...

Thanks, Cleric. Well, SH says at 13:22: "What we should do instead is focus experiments on areas where we either have an internal inconsistency in the theories, like in quantum gravity, or an existing inconsistency between data and theory, like in astrophysics. Why, for example, do we not have a ...

Sabine gets seriously worked up about the nonsense in the foundations of physics. Hopefully it's the story of the last theoretical storms before the calm of a new cognitive paradigm in science, as MS recently conjectured . Yeah... In SH's case, the downside is that she doesn't really offer any ...