...these concepts are actually the respective world we live in and beyond our world-view and in abstraction from it there is definitely nothing left we could talk about – — Pez

And we all hold confirmation biases in terms of this personal, typically implicitly maintained, axis mundi. — javra

By 31Jan24 the Trump Org will be effectively dissolved in NY State by order of Justice Engoron and no less than $300 million USD (re: "ill-gotten gains") will be disgorged as well as Fraudster-1 (maybe Beavis & Butthead too) will be barred for life from the real estate industry in NY State. NB: Liquidations to commence soon in order to put up a $300 million or more cash bond that's required by law to Appeal the civil judgment – Loser-1 clearly isn't that liquid (thanks, Ms. Carroll! :clap: :kiss: :flower: Loser-1 also has to put up a total of $88.3 million in order to Appeal both her judgements too) – otherwise, without that combined half-billion in cash (USD), the collection agencies for NYS will slap enforceable liens on all defendents' personal & real properties asap and savage tf out of them like piranha. :wink: :party: — 180 Proof

we want to use superveniance to explain in some way how the mental is in some way dependant on the physical
— Count Timothy von Icarus

Supervenience isn't an explanation in itself. It's more of a category. It's a way of categorising models, and the MODELS are the things that have the potential to explain. — flannel jesus

'Physical laws' are features of physical models and not the universe itself. Our physical models are stable, therefore 'physical laws' are stable. If in current scientific terms, new observations indicate that aspects of the universe have changed [differ from previous observations], then, in order to account for such changes [differences], we will have to reformulate our current (or conjecture new) physical models which might entail changes to current (or wholly different) "physical laws". E.g. Aristotlean teleology —> Newtonian gravity —> Einsteinian relativity —> — 180 Proof

It is difficult to know to what extent emotions help or hinder in thinking. — Jack Cummins

[T]he only "god" which makes any shred of sense to me – consistent with all human knowledge of nature and lived experience – and does not insult my intelligence or undermine my dignity as a moral agent is the Pandeus. — 180 Proof

I understand him to be making reference to Schrödinger's equation for a superpositionally dead & alive cat. — ucarr

In some ways, anger may be seen as something to be overcome emotionally, or as an idea,or frequency. How does it stand in connection with philosophical ideas and ideals of love and hatred? — Jack Cummins

a kind of metaphysical POV [ ... ] affords us a metaphysics of practice — ucarr

If quantum physicists can learn to become comfortable with the material causal consequences of the superposition of alternate, as-yet-unrealized states of matter [ ... ] the superposition of the present and the absent in our functions, meanings,
experiences, and values [ ... ] a delicate superposition of the present and the absent.

It might be instructive to ask 180 about attitude toward Deacon's "radical" Incomplete Nature, and Absential theories. — Gnomon

Does your negative ontology "eliminate the impossible," or does it simply eliminate "what is impossible given certain unquestioned and taken-for-granted presuppositions?" — Count Timothy von Icarus

Can it only ever say what is impossible from within a given framework and are all frameworks equally valid?

Is it a problem for "impossible" or contradictory claims to be considered equally valid?

... total relativism. And the problems related to relativism seem particularly acute when claims about "how the world is," "how experience is," etc. are brought in ...

... cartoon of Gnomon, as a New Age nut, touting Quantum Mysticism [ ... ] the observing mind plays a role in the results of sub-atomic experiments ... — Gnomon

It is with sadness that every so often I spend a few hours on the internet, reading or listening to the mountain of stupidities dressed up with the word 'quantum'. Quantum medicine; holistic quantum theories of every kind, mental quantum spiritualism – and so on, and on, in an almost unbelievable parade of quantum nonsense. — Carlo Rovelli, Hegoland, pp. 159-60

Is the "elimination of the impossible," or discovery of "ways the world necessarily could not have been or cannot be described," not, broadly speaking, a form of falsification? — Count Timothy von Icarus

Much of metaphysics consists in playing dialectically with language—what if such and such (such and such that is the dialectical opposite of what we actually encounter) is really the case. — Janus

I prefer to think of Metaphysics [ ... ] attempting to gain an omniscient worldview. — Gnomon

Metaphysics is little more than the logical grammar undergirding the conceptual dimensions of science. It's neither beyond nor above science. It's something akin to an emergent property of science. — ucarr

Metaphysics is the opposite of Materialism — Gnomon

PHYSICS vs METAPHYSICS = PART vs WHOLE — Gnomon

Biological determinism?
— 180 Proof

Is a fact of life. — AmadeusD