Philosophical Speculations

Simon, You are simply failing to understand the argument. You are failing to see how nothing in the world exists as a mere percept or concept. There is always perceiving-thinking involved in every experience . You changed Piaget's statement to fit your non-participatory (or "weak" partici...

Well we could say it that way, but then we must recognize we are always "observing" the phenomenon in question. Thinking is a form of observation, as I claimed with regards to the inseparability of perceiving-thinking. How do objects gain "continuity and consistency"? It is not ...

Well, if someone feels that he/she is not being felt by any sentient being, that kind of existentially deep loneliness can often lead to withering away from biological existence. That is the difference between feeling lonely, and being socially alone without feeling unfelt, feeling felt in some fie...

To directly answer your question - I have no idea what Oumuamua points to in the underlying ideal foundations of the Cosmos, but I know that it does not point to another physical object limited by spatio-temporal dimensions or a "mental object" that is basically the same except we imagine...

Simon, I think we need to get back to basics. Physicalism is a problem because it treats the visual exterior of objects as the essence of that object, correct? Correct. Clearly it’s not the “visual exterior” as a physicalist would see it, but yes, they treat the way objects interact with things as ...

Palindromic quantum time keeps on (re)writing both history and future. From that perspective it was as we measure from this perspective of our present duration. Also, our temporal math-measurements in quantum time don't expand to eternity-infinity, there are horizons where questions about history b...

"Pseudotranscendental" is not my word, just how the non-computable fairy dust of real numbers is sometimes called. To separate them from "genuine" transcendentals with some proof of a certain quality of very few finite algorithms or algorithm-families referred as pi, e and coupl...

Yes I agree with Bernardo on this. The challenge of course is that when you see matter as fundamental, then what is left when you realise that it’s pure interaction. I’m curious what Ashvin thinks of this; In my view, if the physical world has no standalone reality and is entirely relational, then t...

But there is only ideal content ( meaning ) of love, sadness, etc. through the spiritual activity of Thinking. This is so basic of a principle we fly right past it in thoughtful dialogues such as this one - it is implicit in everything we write but we fail to account for it in our intellectual argu...

Algebraic numbers are a fascinating challenge for a coherent foundational theory. But that's not what real numbers mean. Practically all real numbers are infinite sets of non-demonstrable and non-computable pseudotranscendentals without any finite generative algorithm. If any line segment would con...