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by socrattus
Thu Jun 26, 2025 5:22 am
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists ontology from grammar -Imp Any discussion can be drowned in phraseology and emotions. --- a discussion without phraseology is like mathematics without equations... -Imp Mathematics is a scientific language, phraseology is an empty tautology. ---
by socrattus
Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

Impenitent wrote: Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:23 pm subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists

ontology from grammar

-Imp
Any discussion can be drowned in phraseology and emotions.
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by socrattus
Tue Jun 24, 2025 8:31 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

Yes,identification with thought, is likened to a dream. The dream of separation, the illusory nature of reality. (Maya) Advaita Vedanta is the end of knowledge, the return to innocence. “The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a gre...
by socrattus
Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:27 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

Age wrote: Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:18 pm As 'Life' is an already irrefutably proved Thing.
What is the source of this irrefutably proven essence of Life?
by socrattus
Tue Jun 24, 2025 11:48 am
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

You’re a thought. What is a thought but the addiction to an illusory fabricated narrative. Thoughts in the brain computer are mixed with real and abstract topics. Maybe that is why my life is an illusion (Maya according to Vedanta) 'Life', Itself, would only be 'an illusion' if 'Life' could not be ...
by socrattus
Tue Jun 24, 2025 11:40 am
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am" ... Who am I? My stomach is a meat grinder, my heart is a blood pump, my kidneys are filters, my brain is a computer, etc. Where am I? --- 'I' am what some call and refer to as the Spirit, Allah, God, Enlightenment, and the omniscient, omnipotent, omnip...
by socrattus
Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:42 am
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

Fairy wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 6:15 am You’re a thought.

What is a thought but the addiction to an illusory fabricated narrative.
Thoughts in the brain computer are mixed with real and abstract topics.
Maybe that is why my life is an illusion (Maya according to Vedanta)
by socrattus
Mon Jun 23, 2025 5:35 am
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Replies: 39
Views: 1812

Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"

Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am" ... Who am I? My stomach is a meat grinder,
my heart is a blood pump, my kidneys are filters, my brain is a computer, etc. Where am I?
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by socrattus
Tue Jun 17, 2025 5:41 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: What is spacetime?
Replies: 65
Views: 2355

Re: What is spacetime?

Time is the dimension of space expanding or contracting relative to another space. .... That is one of many ways of looking at it. "The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. H...
by socrattus
Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:46 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: What is spacetime?
Replies: 65
Views: 2355

Re: What is spacetime?

by socrattus
Mon Jun 16, 2025 12:42 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: What is spacetime?
Replies: 65
Views: 2355

Re: What is spacetime?

my favorite Einstein quote: "Who took my comb?" -Imp My favorite quote about Einstein: ''During our crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced he understood it.'' / Chaim Weizmann, 1921, after he escorted Einstein to the Unite...
by socrattus
Mon Jun 16, 2025 2:30 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: What is spacetime?
Replies: 65
Views: 2355

What is spacetime?

What is spacetime? Everything in SRT, GRT and quantum mechanics is done in so-called "space-time", which is a kind of virtual 4D geometry. But if SRT is correct and if QM is the basis for successful modern technology, then space-time cannot be a virtual, abstract structure. Space-time must...
by socrattus
Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:52 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: 4 March 2025. Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?
Replies: 20
Views: 1288

Re: 4 March 2025. Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

The weirdness of quantum theory is largely self-imposed. The EPR paper demonstrates that if you believe the wave function is a complete description of the physical system, it leads to absurdities. Ever since Bell's theorem, people just accepted that maybe quantum mechanics is absurd, and so they st...
by socrattus
Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:25 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Ghost Particles
Replies: 5
Views: 599

Re: Ghost Particles

When the Higgs boson appeared at the LHC in 2012, where did it come from? Then, when it disappeared, where did it go? I wonder the same thing for all of these hard to isolate and figure out particles. The Higgs boson is indeed associated with the Higgs field, which is responsible for giving mass to...
by socrattus
Fri May 02, 2025 5:49 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Apr 22, 2025 . Some Version of You Always Beats Death,
Replies: 20
Views: 302

Re: Apr 22, 2025 . Some Version of You Always Beats Death,

Phil8659 wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 6:20 pm Oh really? Read Plato, he is called the Father of Formal Grammar. That is what he taught, 2400 years ago.

Hell, you even find that remark on an old X File episode.
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