Philosophical Speculations

Some scientists argue that information is equal to consciousness. Would you agree? And what is your definition of information and consciousness? Is subjective experience just information or is phenomenal consciousness unexplainable? These kinds of Information theories (Shannon information etc.) are...

It is a metaphysical position expressed in language, in that sense no. But perhaps that was not what you were really asking?

Is sentience as such dependent from matter and/or sapience? I would suggest not.

It appears to me the Christian 'rule' is that we may never conduct warfare against anyone based on their beliefs, or anything else short of an imminent and serious threat to our own survival. No doubt that rule has been violated by countless people in the name of Christianity, but we do not judge e...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:15 pm There's another thread about this debate as well - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44

It's not the same video.

I enjoyed the contribution of the PoMo guy also very much. Holding the world contains also the possibility to drop it?

I find the “non Platonic” position confusing, as they say that the axioms of maths are just invented by humans. But if the axioms were wrong, we wouldn’t be able to use it so successfully in physics etc. So we were never free to just invent any axioms we fancied. It can be argued that theoretical p...

They can be combined by assuming there is divine mathematics in addition to our own, some of which we have discovered. We can even add formalism, regarding it as just an interesting mathematical exercise, but not fundamental to other mathematical endeavors. Formalism can be considered game theory, ...

Intuitionist school of philosophy of mathematics is idealist. Intuitive aspect is considered primarily ontological, construction of mathematical languages secondary. Nuanced difference between intuitionism and platonism could be that former has more dynamic and evolutionary view of mathematics, part...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:53 pm How can you have a community if some members remain "fierce, untamable and wild"?

Such people are not necessarily members of a community, but outsiders.

Santeri, You are playing word games again. Expanding the citizenship realm and its rules balancing liberty and responsibility is not the same 'scaling up' as in spreading petro chemical agriculture monocrop agriculture to the world. There's a difference between one-size-for-all scaling-up and defen...