It may be a total illusion, and maybe that feeling is just a more complex emotion working unconsciously. — Noble Dust

Now, I wonder if these feelings are a mental representation, too; so, when I imagine myself feeling nostalgic — Daniel

Pie charts are much easier to understand, because the are based 100% and split into parts equivalent to the percentages. Have you ever tried to create a pie where subgroups appear in several places in the chart? — Sir2u

The sense data of the ocean, a turntable, or an ice cream shop may contribute to the feeling of nostalgia, which may be better described as a socially constructed emotion concept than a mental representation. Mental representation like the smell of the ocean are independent of emotion concepts and any sort of social consensus. — praxis

So, I'd like to ask you, what do you feel when you think of nostalgia? What is it represented by? — Daniel

↪SophistiCat I am not great at math nor statistics, but I don't think there are 222% of users here in the forum. :smirk: — Sir2u

↪praxis and is every mental representation in the form of images or "sounds" made by my inner voice? or am I missing some other type of mental representation? — Daniel

Did that answer what you were looking for? — Philosophim

Af far as I can see, you're the only one that don't understand typical use of "value" (e.g., as in variables that may take values, like some/any proposition p in non-contradiction ¬(p ∧ ¬p)). I suppose, if you don't even (want to) try, then so be it. — jorndoe

Call it "being a troll" if you like. I look at it as a trivial matter. The problem is that the difference needed to be pointed out, because fishfry kept insisting that the very same thing is represented on the left side as the right side of the equation. — Metaphysician Undercover

AFAIK the Schrodinger equation's time evolution is deterministic, but that doesn't make the states deterministic. — fdrake

But which came first: the idea or the visualization? — frank

I don't think we have anything either. Or, to put it more precisely, if we have alien stuff, then I think the zoo hypothesis solution to the Fermi Paradox is right, to the point that we're being deceived about the universe on a massive scale. — RogueAI

Nobody as of yet have proven core moral claims using provable (and proved), descriptive claims. — MadWorld1

What? I wasn't suggesting a conspiracy... — Banno

Suppose the the market is not in a state of equilibrium, but has been treated as if it were... would the resulting instability look like a series of booms, followed by busts? — Banno

Is boom and bust the issue, or inequity? — Banno

Economic growth comes from innovation and increased complexity, not the quantity of money. — Banno

What if?.....We use science to find the cause of a harmful action and dismiss highly subjective claims in favour of objective facts? — Bert Newton

Neoliberal assumptions that are false:
the market is an efficient equilibrium system
the price of something is always equal to its value
we are all perfectly selfish, perfectly rational and relentlessly self-maximizing. — Banno

So where are all the dimming stars we should be seeing from all the alien civs building all these solar collector swarms and habitats? — RogueAI

Should we accept less evidence (e.g. weaker research studies) if they support what we already believe? Or is this just giving in to confirmation bias? — Ed Davis

Suppose I muster the courage to say, "My mind is absolutely unreliable". How would I proceed from there? Perhaps I can rely on someone else's mind. — Wheatley

So if balance seems like the guiding hand in the universe, is it something to believe in? — DanielP

Mill was disparaging of the crowd - he was no friend of social thought and he was as much as intellectual progenitor to the atomization and destitution of society as any other liberal thinker. — StreetlightX

What do you think? Is this argument flawed? — Matias

physics would still fail to comprehend human purpose and hence would provide a causally incomplete description of the real world around us. This situation is characterized by the self-referential incompleteness of physics: there is no theory or experiment that can determine what will be the next experiment to be undertaken by the experimenter or theory to be created by the theorist." — Matias

"In that density, where there is scarcely any space between, and body presses against body, each man is as near the other as he is to himself, and an immense feeling of relief ensues. It is for the sake of this blessed moment, when no-one is greater or better than another, that people become a crowd". — StreetlightX

Is this what you mean by asking of opinions? Rather I have presented opinion as action. Is this along the same lines of your thinking ? — Fruitless

Is this an accurate description? — Fruitless

What more can we ask in addition to the seven basic question of what, why, who, where, when, which and how? — Fruitless

No, philosophers were unable to refute Hume's claim that the external world cannot be demonstrated. — Ron Cram

I think you are trying to draw too fine a distinction here. When you see motion, you are looking at kinetic energy. — Ron Cram

Yes, it did freak out a bunch of philosophers and no one knew how to refute him. — Ron Cram

But Hume's idea was still completely irrational. He did not add to our philosophical knowledge because he was wrong and I can prove it. — Ron Cram

I've read it very closely and can find absolutely nothing of value in it. His idea that our observations are just in our mind and that we cannot know if objects external to our mind exist or if they exist when we are not looking at them is completely irrational and leads to absurdities. — Ron Cram

What do you mean when you say we can observe kinetic energy being transferred? We can observe the first ball strike the second ball followed by the second ball moving. But you'd observe the same thing if you were watching an animation of pool balls. We can only observe phenomena, but not the reasons behind phenomena. Reasons are not available to our senses, only to our intellects. So I think proving that one pool ball causes the second to move would require a logical proof and not just an appeal to experience. — Dusty of Sky

What is the scale of anything without anything relative to it. Is there absolute scale? — schopenhauer1

To this God replied, "I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?

The what? — Maw

I find references to the Matrix like it mattered to be extremely irritating. — Bitter Crank

If I wrote something, and you don't understand it - does the responsibility of understanding not ultimately rest with you? — Shamshir