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On 1/1/26 17:54, vallor wrote:
> At Thu, 1 Jan 2026 13:09:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 01/01/2026 03:11, c186282 wrote:
>>> I spoke of re-arranging the arcade of fun-house
>>> mirrors over and over and claiming to see some
>>> Great Truth through the current configuration.
>>> Kant is just one of those re-arrangers, tortures
>>> semantics and perspectives like so many others.
>>
>> The point us that metaphysics does not and never can reveal the Great
>> Truth, in the terms in which the classical Realist wants it revealed,
>> any more than can science.
>>
>> That was Hume's crucial point. The logic of induction or inference is
>> unprovable.
>>
>> Kant thought around it and came up with a possible metaphysic that coped
>> with that defect. (Which by definition, also could not be proved to be
>> true).
>>
>> But, it works *better*.
>>
>> Metaphysics is the study of making (necessary) assumptions about the
>> nature of the world and humanity, and seeing where those assumptions lead.
>>
>> In a sense Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was the prescience of the
>> Problem Of Consciousness, and his remedy was Transcendental Idealism, a
>> possible construction that made the equations balance, so to speak.
>>
>> Now, centuries later, we probably need to look at it again.
>>
>> At that time the major metaphysical shift was to remove God from direct
>> intervention in the world and create the metaphysics of Causality, and
>> Natural Law.
>>
>> That allowed the pursuit of science, so well that it convinced many
>> people that *the assumptions must be true*. The world really *was*
>> 'separate things' connected by 'natural laws' and 'Cause and Effect'.
>>
>> And our pursuit of these 'separate things' and the 'natural laws'
>> governing them led to the absurdity of QM etc.
>>
>> The world apparently is just a big single quantum field, which only
>> appears to resemble classical reality when we attempt to observe it. And
>> so precisely what Kant said we did. Split it up into things and events
>> all dancing in a space time theatre interceded by transforms of the
>> inherent connectivity, that appear as 'causality'
>>
>> The problem is, what are we, doing all this interpretation and observation?
>
> One idea...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI&t=3s
>
> (Kurzgesagt, "The Egg - A Short Story". 8:06 long.)
>
> Summary: "Multi-incarnate solipsism". ;)
> ...
You know terraforming Venus or Mars by getting
oxygen from metal reduced by lasers in a vacuum
was rather interesting a while back.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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