#philosophyofscience — Public Fediverse posts
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“Reality is a very subjective affair”*…
As Nathan Gardels reports, the Berggruen Institute recently gathered religious scholars, philosophers, quantum physicists, AI technologists, neuroscientists and science fiction novelists at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice to ponder the nature of consciousness. Noting that “it is fascinating to see how their ideas correspond to the long-ago musings of Medieval mystics and even the “pagan masters” of antiquity'” Gardels observes that “the great question then, as now, and probably forever, is whether there is a metaphysical gap between the body and the soul, or if they are made of the same substance, symbiotic aspects of a singular reality that entail each other.” He concludes…
…The quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli argues that the much-discussed metaphysical gap between body and soul, subjective and objective, doesn’t exist.
As he has written in Noema, “We, subjects of knowledge and understanding, are not outside the world. We are part of it. Our theories and knowledge are embodied tools to help us navigate the real world, not disembodied views on reality from the outside. They are themselves aspects of the very world they describe. Our understanding, like our feelings, perceptions and experience, is a natural phenomenon.”
For Rovelli, the notion of a metaphysical gap “contradicts everything we have learned about nature in the last centuries. The mind is the behavior of the brain, properly described in a high-level language. Neither my own experience of myself nor an external experience of me is primary: They are two distinct perspectives on the same events. We do not need to assume that the circle between epistemology (how we get knowledge) and ontology (what exists) requires a starting point. There is nothing wrong with its circularity: The world I access is the information I have about it, and I am part of that world.
“Nor do we need to require that there is any ultimate or fundamental account of reality. Any account is approximate, has blind spots and is realized within reality, so it is embodied in a part of that same reality.
“If we do not fall into the error of dualism upfront, we can safely speak of soul and emotions just as we speak of a kitchen table, even if the table is also a collection of atoms. It is time to give up the pernicious dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness and embrace the reality that our soul, or our spiritual life, is consistent with our fundamental physics.
“Earth is not metaphysically different from the heavens, living beings are not metaphysically different from inanimate matter, humans are not metaphysically different from other animals. The soul is not metaphysically different from the body. We are all parts of nature.”
Rovelli’s scientific case that we humans are not outside the world of reality, but constitutive participants in it and constructors of it, tracks with the intuition of Medieval thinkers like the 14th-century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.
For Eckhart, consciousness was being aware we are not apart from, but both inhabit and are inhabited by, the mind of God — that is, “objective reality.”
As stated in the New Testament’s Gospel of John, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” In biblical terms, the Word, or Logos, is divine reason. Eckhart interpreted this passage as meaning that the incarnation of the divine in man was not a one-time event of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, but takes place through continuous human participation in the unfolding Logos of the Word, making us part of and conjoining with the mind of God; co-essences, so to speak.” If God is the pure thought of divine reason, then, as Sloterdijk has put it, ‘To think is to give birth to God.’”
That Medieval insight is another way of saying, in Rovelli’s words, that “objectivity without a subject is an abstract construct, of little relevance — it is the illusion of a science now belonging to the past.”
Consciousness, then, can be said to be the perspective of the aware self in a world where there is no outside. The “I” is not detached from some order of objective reality, but in all the diversity of personal experience, part of what makes it “everywhere whole.” Not only is “the universe disclosed by a knowing subject;” the knowing subject is its co-creator from within…
Eminently worth reading in full.
Striving to understand the nature of consciousness: “Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’,” from @noemamag.com.
Pair with: “Everything is not itself.”
* Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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As we muse on our minds, we might spare a thought for a man who wrestled with these same issues, Auguste Comte; he died on this date in 1857. A philosopher (and mathematician), he is remembered as the father of the doctrine of positivism. He developed the Law of Three Stages to describe the historical evolution of human thought and consciousness, arguing that the human mind, in its search for understanding, progresses through three distinct intellectual phases (the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive (or scientific), each with a different method of explaining reality.
Comte is widely regarded as the first “philosopher of science” in the modern sense, and as the forebearer of sociology (the name of which he coined, as he did the word “altruism”). He had a major impact on 19th-century thought, influencing the work of social thinkers like John Stuart Mill and George Eliot. His concepts of “sociology” and social evolutionism set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists including Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology (a la Émile Durkheim) as practical and objective social research.
#AugusteComte #CarloRovelli #consciousness #culture #history #philosophy #philosophyOfScience #Science #sociology -
“Reality is a very subjective affair”*…
As Nathan Gardels reports, the Berggruen Institute recently gathered religious scholars, philosophers, quantum physicists, AI technologists, neuroscientists and science fiction novelists at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice to ponder the nature of consciousness. Noting that “it is fascinating to see how their ideas correspond to the long-ago musings of Medieval mystics and even the “pagan masters” of antiquity'” Gardels observes that “the great question then, as now, and probably forever, is whether there is a metaphysical gap between the body and the soul, or if they are made of the same substance, symbiotic aspects of a singular reality that entail each other.” He concludes…
…The quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli argues that the much-discussed metaphysical gap between body and soul, subjective and objective, doesn’t exist.
As he has written in Noema, “We, subjects of knowledge and understanding, are not outside the world. We are part of it. Our theories and knowledge are embodied tools to help us navigate the real world, not disembodied views on reality from the outside. They are themselves aspects of the very world they describe. Our understanding, like our feelings, perceptions and experience, is a natural phenomenon.”
For Rovelli, the notion of a metaphysical gap “contradicts everything we have learned about nature in the last centuries. The mind is the behavior of the brain, properly described in a high-level language. Neither my own experience of myself nor an external experience of me is primary: They are two distinct perspectives on the same events. We do not need to assume that the circle between epistemology (how we get knowledge) and ontology (what exists) requires a starting point. There is nothing wrong with its circularity: The world I access is the information I have about it, and I am part of that world.
“Nor do we need to require that there is any ultimate or fundamental account of reality. Any account is approximate, has blind spots and is realized within reality, so it is embodied in a part of that same reality.
“If we do not fall into the error of dualism upfront, we can safely speak of soul and emotions just as we speak of a kitchen table, even if the table is also a collection of atoms. It is time to give up the pernicious dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness and embrace the reality that our soul, or our spiritual life, is consistent with our fundamental physics.
“Earth is not metaphysically different from the heavens, living beings are not metaphysically different from inanimate matter, humans are not metaphysically different from other animals. The soul is not metaphysically different from the body. We are all parts of nature.”
Rovelli’s scientific case that we humans are not outside the world of reality, but constitutive participants in it and constructors of it, tracks with the intuition of Medieval thinkers like the 14th-century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.
For Eckhart, consciousness was being aware we are not apart from, but both inhabit and are inhabited by, the mind of God — that is, “objective reality.”
As stated in the New Testament’s Gospel of John, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” In biblical terms, the Word, or Logos, is divine reason. Eckhart interpreted this passage as meaning that the incarnation of the divine in man was not a one-time event of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, but takes place through continuous human participation in the unfolding Logos of the Word, making us part of and conjoining with the mind of God; co-essences, so to speak.” If God is the pure thought of divine reason, then, as Sloterdijk has put it, ‘To think is to give birth to God.’”
That Medieval insight is another way of saying, in Rovelli’s words, that “objectivity without a subject is an abstract construct, of little relevance — it is the illusion of a science now belonging to the past.”
Consciousness, then, can be said to be the perspective of the aware self in a world where there is no outside. The “I” is not detached from some order of objective reality, but in all the diversity of personal experience, part of what makes it “everywhere whole.” Not only is “the universe disclosed by a knowing subject;” the knowing subject is its co-creator from within…
Eminently worth reading in full.
Striving to understand the nature of consciousness: “Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’,” from @noemamag.com.
Pair with: “Everything is not itself.”
* Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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As we muse on our minds, we might spare a thought for a man who wrestled with these same issues, Auguste Comte; he died on this date in 1857. A philosopher (and mathematician), he is remembered as the father of the doctrine of positivism. He developed the Law of Three Stages to describe the historical evolution of human thought and consciousness, arguing that the human mind, in its search for understanding, progresses through three distinct intellectual phases (the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive (or scientific), each with a different method of explaining reality.
Comte is widely regarded as the first “philosopher of science” in the modern sense, and as the forebearer of sociology (the name of which he coined, as he did the word “altruism”). He had a major impact on 19th-century thought, influencing the work of social thinkers like John Stuart Mill and George Eliot. His concepts of “sociology” and social evolutionism set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists including Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology (a la Émile Durkheim) as practical and objective social research.
#AugusteComte #CarloRovelli #consciousness #culture #history #philosophy #philosophyOfScience #Science #sociology -
“Reality is a very subjective affair”*…
As Nathan Gardels reports, the Berggruen Institute recently gathered religious scholars, philosophers, quantum physicists, AI technologists, neuroscientists and science fiction novelists at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice to ponder the nature of consciousness. Noting that “it is fascinating to see how their ideas correspond to the long-ago musings of Medieval mystics and even the “pagan masters” of antiquity'” Gardels observes that “the great question then, as now, and probably forever, is whether there is a metaphysical gap between the body and the soul, or if they are made of the same substance, symbiotic aspects of a singular reality that entail each other.” He concludes…
…The quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli argues that the much-discussed metaphysical gap between body and soul, subjective and objective, doesn’t exist.
As he has written in Noema, “We, subjects of knowledge and understanding, are not outside the world. We are part of it. Our theories and knowledge are embodied tools to help us navigate the real world, not disembodied views on reality from the outside. They are themselves aspects of the very world they describe. Our understanding, like our feelings, perceptions and experience, is a natural phenomenon.”
For Rovelli, the notion of a metaphysical gap “contradicts everything we have learned about nature in the last centuries. The mind is the behavior of the brain, properly described in a high-level language. Neither my own experience of myself nor an external experience of me is primary: They are two distinct perspectives on the same events. We do not need to assume that the circle between epistemology (how we get knowledge) and ontology (what exists) requires a starting point. There is nothing wrong with its circularity: The world I access is the information I have about it, and I am part of that world.
“Nor do we need to require that there is any ultimate or fundamental account of reality. Any account is approximate, has blind spots and is realized within reality, so it is embodied in a part of that same reality.
“If we do not fall into the error of dualism upfront, we can safely speak of soul and emotions just as we speak of a kitchen table, even if the table is also a collection of atoms. It is time to give up the pernicious dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness and embrace the reality that our soul, or our spiritual life, is consistent with our fundamental physics.
“Earth is not metaphysically different from the heavens, living beings are not metaphysically different from inanimate matter, humans are not metaphysically different from other animals. The soul is not metaphysically different from the body. We are all parts of nature.”
Rovelli’s scientific case that we humans are not outside the world of reality, but constitutive participants in it and constructors of it, tracks with the intuition of Medieval thinkers like the 14th-century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.
For Eckhart, consciousness was being aware we are not apart from, but both inhabit and are inhabited by, the mind of God — that is, “objective reality.”
As stated in the New Testament’s Gospel of John, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” In biblical terms, the Word, or Logos, is divine reason. Eckhart interpreted this passage as meaning that the incarnation of the divine in man was not a one-time event of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, but takes place through continuous human participation in the unfolding Logos of the Word, making us part of and conjoining with the mind of God; co-essences, so to speak.” If God is the pure thought of divine reason, then, as Sloterdijk has put it, ‘To think is to give birth to God.’”
That Medieval insight is another way of saying, in Rovelli’s words, that “objectivity without a subject is an abstract construct, of little relevance — it is the illusion of a science now belonging to the past.”
Consciousness, then, can be said to be the perspective of the aware self in a world where there is no outside. The “I” is not detached from some order of objective reality, but in all the diversity of personal experience, part of what makes it “everywhere whole.” Not only is “the universe disclosed by a knowing subject;” the knowing subject is its co-creator from within…
Eminently worth reading in full.
Striving to understand the nature of consciousness: “Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’,” from @noemamag.com.
Pair with: “Everything is not itself.”
* Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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As we muse on our minds, we might spare a thought for a man who wrestled with these same issues, Auguste Comte; he died on this date in 1857. A philosopher (and mathematician), he is remembered as the father of the doctrine of positivism. He developed the Law of Three Stages to describe the historical evolution of human thought and consciousness, arguing that the human mind, in its search for understanding, progresses through three distinct intellectual phases (the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive (or scientific), each with a different method of explaining reality.
Comte is widely regarded as the first “philosopher of science” in the modern sense, and as the forebearer of sociology (the name of which he coined, as he did the word “altruism”). He had a major impact on 19th-century thought, influencing the work of social thinkers like John Stuart Mill and George Eliot. His concepts of “sociology” and social evolutionism set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists including Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology (a la Émile Durkheim) as practical and objective social research.
#AugusteComte #CarloRovelli #consciousness #culture #history #philosophy #philosophyOfScience #Science #sociology -
Die Leere, die zur Zeit viele Jugendliche zu empfinden scheinen, ist eine Art Verkümmerung aus Einsamkeit und zu wenig Austausch von Ladungen.
Keine Bewegung. Keine Energie.
Mittlerweile im Kollektiv. Einer epidemischen Ausbreitung gleich.https://czastka.de/public/news/view.html?request_locale=de&news=1&picture=&page=1
#materie #naturphilosophie #entwicklung #null #symmetrie
#theoreticalPhysics
#philosophy
#philosophyofscience #Detektor #Mensch -
Ein Projekt einer Matrix -
Such-Ansatz: Das menschliche Verhalten als der feinfühligste biologische Detektor des Universumshttps://www.czastka.de/public/matrixproject/index.html
#materie #naturphilosophie #entwicklung #null #symmetrie
#theoreticalPhysics
#philosophy
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🌌⏳ #Einstein's #Theory of Relativity – #Absolute or #Arbitrary?
#Einstein was stubborn. In some respects, the theory of relativity isn't a pure theory of relativity at all, but rather a “theory of absoluteness.”
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/
📺 https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0
#UnansweredQuestionsInPhysics #TheoryOfRelativity #Einstein #Physics #Cosmology #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #StringTheory #CERN #DESY #TheMysteriousUniverse #NaturalSciences #Zoomposium #IljaBohnet #ThomasNaumann
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“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…
Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.
The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”
Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…
… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.
In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse.
We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.
This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.
Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)
See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)
And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.
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As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902. One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)
Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).
#archives #culture #history #InternetArchive #KarlPopper #memory #OpenSociety #philosophy #philosophyOfScience #politics #publishing #society #Technology -
All new in SEP, Philosophy of Psychotherapy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychotherapy/
#terapia #psykoterapia #psychotherapy #filosofia #philosophy #mentalhealth #wellbeing #therapy #psychology #harm #epistemicInjustice #biomedicine #cognitiveScience #disability #self #medicine #psykiatria #psychiatry #mentalDisorder #mieli #mielenhäiriö #tieteenfilosofia #philosophyOfScience #sep
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Tommaso Piazza reviews Gabriele Contessa's book Science Denial in SERRC, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/06/12/a-review-of-gabriele-contessas-science-denial-tommaso-piazza/
An eralier review was by Maya Goldenberg, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/04/29/science-denial-post-trust-and-epistemic-blame-a-review-of-contessas-science-denial-maya-goldenberg/
#science #tiede #denial #scienceDenial #epistemology #socialScience #climateDenial #pseudoscience #postTruth #truth #misinformation #trust #motivatedInquiry #evidence #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #harm #egoism #collectiveResponsibility #society #futures #planetEarth #resistance #belief #ideology #epistemicSecurity #psychology #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #filosofia
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☀️📐 #SolarIntensity & #SolarConstant: The power of the cosmos, calculated using third-grade math
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/
📺 https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0
#Zoomposium #ThomasNaumann #IljaBohnet #SolarConstant #SolarIntensity #SolarTechnology #Physics #TheMysteriousUniverse #NaturalConstants #Cosmology #Fine-Tuning # StringTheory #Metaphysics #KarlPopper #PhilosophyOfScience #CERN #DESY #DarkMatter #Astronomy #RenewableEnergy #Research #Science #Physicists #philosophies_de
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🌞#Sun – The billion-year energy scandal!⚡
The #Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #ThomasNaumann and Dr. #IljaBohnet focuses precisely on such fundamental #unansweredquestions in #science:
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/
#NuclearFusion #Physics #Cosmology #Energy #Einstein #TheoryOfRelativity #OpenQuestions #DarkMatter #StringTheory #Metaphysics #DESY #PhilosophyOfScience #Universe #Cosmos #FineTuning #Research #Science #Philosophy #Astrophysics #NuclearPhysics
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Paaljon onneeaa vaan! 🎵 🤗 🍀
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Niiniluoto
#juhla #80 #niiniluoto #filosofia #philosophy #philosophyOfScience #philosophyOfTechnology #university #yliopisto #professor #valistus #sivistys #tiede #culture #anniversary #science #mathematics #logic #reasoning #criticalThinking #teaching #learning #oppiminen #opetus #happy #ajattelu #thinking #pseudo_science
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To The Erudite In Mathematics Who Wish To Remove Infinity (∞)
An axiom of which we are all conscious: the acknowledgement of the unknown.
The symbol of Infinity is the mathematical constant that, through its own logic and reason, grants us the ability to formulate useful formulae. It demarcates a value that is unknown, yet undeniably present.
#Infinity #Mathematics #Maths #Axiom #PhilosophyOfScience #Logic #Reason #TheUnknown #Calculus #Academic #MathChat
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#RobertLawrenceKuhn - on the #Origin and #Significance of #Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPbf6-2s6Sk
#JohnLeslie #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Math #Maths #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Nothing #Nothingness #Existence #Physics #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Emergence #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Existence #Universe #Infinity #Mind #God #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#DeanZimmerman - The #Mystery of #PersonalIdentity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFgduebjxo
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Identity #Personhood #Time #TemporalParts #Persistence #Soul #Dualism #Materialism #Metaphysics #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#BarryLoewer - #Philosophy of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WdiDzZPrEg
#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Astrophysics #Physics #Multiverse #Measurement #MeasurementProblem #Probability #Goldilocks #Constants #BigBang #Inflation #CosmologicalConstant #SelectorLaw #Parfit #God #Designer #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#RobertStickgold - Why did #Consciousness #Emerge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Lm4s7vqHc
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Evolution #Qualia #Subjectivity #Awareness #Language #Communication #Attention #Thinking #Dreams #Dreaming #Sleep #Sleeping #Memory #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#StephenWolfram - Is #Mathematics #Invented or #Discovered?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlMMeqO7wOI
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Math #Maths #Logic #Metaphysics #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Abstraction #Geometry #Arithmetic #Theorem #Theorems #Axiom #Axioms #Axiomatic #AxiomSystem #AxiomSystems #Computation #Irreducibility #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#SeanCarroll - Why #FineTuning Seems #Designed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvrORNrLH_M
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Universe #Multiverse #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Physics #ConstantsOfNature #Nomology #AnthropicPrinciple #Life #Evolution #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#SethLloyd - What is #Complexity in the #Cosmos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REAGfJcrjxk
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Information #Phase Transition #PhaseTransitions #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Nature #Physics #Probability #Chance #AlgorithmicComplexity #AlgorithmicComplexityTheory #Life #DNA #Monkeys #Shakespeare #Entropy #Maxwell #JamesClerkMaxwell #Boltzmann #LudwigBoltzmann #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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CW: shameless self promotion 😂
my current (still draft) paper is about
object references in purportedly truth value definite sentences
think there's something good in it ...
😅 #nontology#PhilosophyOfLogic
#AppliedLogic
#PhilMath
#PhilSci
#PhilosophyOfMathematics
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#DeanRickles - Is #Time #Fundamental?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TkPn-QNYtk
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfTime #Logic #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Emergence #Physics #Entropy #StatisticalMechanics #GR #GeneralRelativity #SpecialRelativity #Newton #Einstein #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumTheory #FieldTheory #Space #SpaceTime #QuantumFieldTheory #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#GregoryChaitin - Is #Mathematics #Eternal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEuylDsONxo
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Science #Math #Maths #Cantor #Ramanujan #SetTheory #God #Spirituality #Beauty #Transcendence #Numbers #Contradiction #Logic #Poincaré #Poincare #Euler #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#GeoffreyWest - Why Do #PowerLaws Work So Widely?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gw07lDU8-Y&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Physics #UniversalLaws #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Systems #ComplexAdaptiveSystems #Biology #Metabolism #Ageing #Aging #Emergence #ScalingLaw #ScalingLaws #PowerLaw #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#ArvinAsh - Why Does #Light Exist? What is Its #Purpose?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT-6YVrecro&ab_channel=ArvinAsh
#PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Optics #ElectromagneticSpectrum #ElectromagneticWaves #Electromagnetism #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics #QM #Senses #Sight #Photon #Photons #Duality #Einstein #AlbertEinstein #SpecialRelativity #Electrodynamics #QuantumElectrodynamics #QED
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Could One #Physics #Theory Unlock the #Mysteries of the #Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGFp7lMi9A&ab_channel=QuantaMagazine
#PerBak #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Neuroscience #Biology #MolecularBiology #Thermodynamics #SellfSimilar #ScaleInvariance #Fractal #Fractals #CriticalPoint #Criticality #Ising #IsingModel #PhaseState #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Homeostasis #QuasiCrticality
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#SethLloyd - Gap Between #NonLife and #Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyLwMXz5ES8&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfLife #Biology #Information #Entropy #Thermodynamics #2ndLaw #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Reproduction #Inheritance #DNA #RNA #Order #Disorder #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#RebeccaNewbergerGoldstein - Why Is There #Anything At All?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwxJrPzwgA&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Cosmology #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #NatureOfReality #Fundamentalism #FundamentalReality #Causation #Contingency #Idealism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#FredAlanWolf - Imagining #Immortality and #EternalLife ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW67lN-pLWM&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QM #QuantumMechanics #Metaphysics #Phenomenology #Belief #BeliefSystem #BeliefSystems #Buddhism #Buddhist #CloserToTruth #RobertKhun