Philosophy Now Forum

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:07 pm

That's odd.

So you make a diagnosis without any symptoms. It's precisely the lack of symptoms that leads to the diagnosis. It seems to be one of your character flaws to think constructive criticism shouldn't cause even a modicum of distress to someone's feelings. You could try my unshakeable belief that far fr...

To communicate the mind must reduce action to a representation, to first transmit it to the brain where it is processed and then to transmit it, via semiotics, to another brain. In fact, I am "acting it out". :twisted: Every part of it is an action. Communicaiton is an action. Thinking is...

The act precedes the words men give them. And the thought precedes the act. The word supersedes the thought and precedes the act. I am going to kick you! Thinking is an act. All is an act. Even abstractions are representations in the mid - neurological matrices. A thought is a neural pulse moving t...

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:14 pm Ah, so you want to help me. Very well, Skepdick. What are these core beliefs I have that even your caring constructive criticism will cause me too much distress to change?

Who knows? Are there any you can change without any distress?

Nothing you say hurts. Yeah, you are impervious to constructive criticism. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: It is a product of one of your character flaws that you think constructive criticism should be hurtful. I'm thinking it's exactly the other way. Re-working one's core beliefs is alwa...

Having given it some thought I'm soon (but not just yet) going to call you a clown. It won't hurt either. Nothing you say hurts. Yeah, you are impervious to constructive criticism. Have you considered giving it some thought before you respond? I thought about it. And the answer is "No".

The act precedes the words men give them. And the thought precedes the act. The word supersedes the thought and precedes the act. I am going to kick you! Don't worry Lorikeet, it won't hurt. Having given it some thought I'm soon (but not just yet) going to call you a clown. It won't hurt either.

Lorikeet wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:33 am The act precedes the words men give them.

And the thought precedes the act.
The word supersedes the thought and precedes the act.

I am going to kick you!

Lorikeet wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:33 am

Goethe wrote: In the beginning there was the action.

...not the word, the act came first.

Could you act this out, instead of telling us?

Also, there's no difference between speech and action through the lens of speech-act theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act

even if each bit of memory represented one number in the infinite chain, there are a finite number of bits -Imp I only need 1 bit. It can represent anything. Say - all numbers. If you don't like that representation, it's probably because you care about something other than representing stuff... Coi...

Does it even matter? Yeah. It does. If all of these symbols are "nothing more than representations" - you can't seem to explain how information moves from A to B. It's funny that you write "You don't know what a Bitcoin transaction is". Is that because you have managed to make m...

How many times do I need to repeat that we can only ever deal with one of the many alternative representations of a piece of information? Repeat it as many times as you want - I don't care. I am asking you WHERE the information is. Maybe you want to change your song, who knows? What is physically s...

Listen, imbecile. zcash, bitcoin, a good old-fashioned relational database; or even just writing to a text file - you have NO idea what a transaction is. Hey stupido, this is an example Bitcoin transaction: { "result": { "txid": "6b029135dcbff2c9bba177b3875542c1a5d0c8ffa6f8...

I understand the Bitcoin protocol like the back of my hand, idiot. Listen, imbecile. The zcash protocol avoids disclosing publicly the information in a zcash transaction which is equivalent to a Bitcoin transaction. The payer instead provides zero knowledge proof that the information exists instead...