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Hi prothero,

Thanks for that, it was just the sort of thing I was looking for.

Let me chew on what you have said and get back to you.

I took this thread to be about the power of imagination rather than Albert Einstein specifically.

Thanks again,

M.

Hi Hobbes, Thanks for your reply, Idealism does not create an illusion of a brain,... I see my idealism is a paradigm rather than the cause of anything other than the way I think about my illusions. ...And reminds you that you can only know a brain through the idea of it. For me that is not my ideal...

Hi FlashDangerpants, It somewhat undermines any big claim to have knowledge about all the truths of the universe, if that knowledge doesn't include that there is a universe. Kant suggests that the universe as a thing in itself is unknowable, does that mean that a non-solipsist is mistaken? To be unk...

Hi FlashDangerpants, Thanks for your succinct reply. I guess I misread your post as suggesting that solipsism somehow undermined Berkeley's idealism rather than dualism. As an idealist, my challenge is to see why my mind creates the illusion of a brain. Not that it will entirely banish solipsism but...

... That Berkeley guy you never heard of... his idealism was in part a response to a problem that this other guy called Descartes couldn't answer regarding how an immaterial brain could causally interact with a physical brain. Your own dualism is not going to have the answer to that problem either,...

Where it says 'view your posts' you can't actually view your posts. All you get is pretty much the same as the 'active topics' page. Hi vegetariantaxidermy, It looks like it displays all the threads that you have posted in. If you want just your posts try a search: Like this. ______________ I like ...

Hi Phil, You mean like:- x=x²+c¹ Just pull up you favorite character viewer and copy and paste, they are just Unicode characters. If you are using Microsoft then run charmap.exe, choose the font Lucida Sans Unicode, and look there. You can have that warning symbol that mathematicians kindly place be...

Hi Phil, A clear and direct answer. That took me by suprise, thanks. I have been lurking here too long. Out in interest and ignorance, being a mathematical numpty, how would I prove that there were no transcendental numbers between 0.1010010001000010' and 0.1010010001000010000010'? (Which is a sizea...

Hi Phil, The example I gave is defined so if, e.g., you count up to the third one, then you know by definition that it has three zeros immediately following that one, etc. A counterexample to what you were talking about before.PhilX :? I see that as an example of what I said, not a counterexample. T...

Hi Phil, Only one question. :shock: :wink: How do you know the next digit is "entirely" random? I don't, that was not my point. My point is that you can't know that it isn't. I took your question to be: Can I deduce the rule behind a partial sequence to be certain of the next digit in that...

Any sequence of digits follows this rule:-

'The next digit is entirely random'.

So you can never know for sure.




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Any arbitrarily long sequence of digits will eventually contain the sequence 'Hitler'.

Metazoan wrote:Today? At least one.

I do now.

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Ambiguity is the spice of life.

Today? At least one.

Arising_uk wrote:Today? None.

I guess that means you have committed to be either a saint or a liar.

Gary Childress wrote:Suppose I say, "I am a human being"? Would that be a "lie"?

I am a smart ape.

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One more than I would have told if I hadn't posted this.


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I intended this post to only look like a paradox.

Hi Blaggard, It's an odd question one that acknowledges that one day we all must die. I don't think it is an odd question, no odder than 'how would I choose to pay my taxes?' anyway. But have you thought about it, have you acknowledged your fate and in doing so what way would you chose to die? Yes, ...