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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
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Dave:
1. Math is purly relational. Numbers do not really exist except as perfect concepts.....................Numbers are relational to each other as well, being equal interval relations.
2. It follows that Pi is not from this
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Where is this Mathematical Realm ? Full of mathematical entities; independent of the physical world, and the world of human thought? If it exists then there should be corresponding good theory in the realm of magic and spirituality.
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Written by: quiet
So it it a theory of reality or a theory of our experience of reality? I don't think you can have the second without the first. Here's the transcendental argument from B274 of the Critique of Pure Reason [analytic of principles], [Kant, of course]:
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Kant quote..........
So that's my second worry. My third worry is, I think, fatal to your theory.
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3. Let me check that I've got the outline of your argument right before I start to criticise it. You're arguing that the mind is a program; that programs are mathematical entities; and that mathematical entities are necessary beings.
Now here's the problem: your claim that 'the mind is a program' - *even if* I buy the rest of the argument - is incomplete. The mind isn't just a program, it's an *instantiated* program. That is, it's a program running on something. Granted, it doesn't matter what it's running on: it could be a bit of squishy grey matter, a complex computer, or a bit of swiss cheese if you could set the swiss cheese up appropriately. As you put it:
'A functionalist view is that our 'mind' is basically 'software' being run on 'hardware' (the brain).'
Right: it's software _being run on_ hardware. So the reason we're so concerned about being killed, or vaporised, etc, is that even though the software might 'exist' in some 'timeless mathematical realm', it needs to be instantiated on something in order for us to be conscious.
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Granted, it doesn't matter what it's running on: it could be a bit of squishy grey matter, a complex computer, or a bit of swiss cheese if you could set the swiss cheese up appropriately.
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All that your argument shows is that there's a sense in which the software exists in your 'timeless mathematical realm'. I'm not sure that I agree with that claim, but I don't need to dispute it. What your argument fails to show is that the *mind*, as opposed to merely the software, exists in this way.
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