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And you can always trust PBS Space Time, because PBS Space Time is, although slightly popular science, in the more serious business of popular science. It explains what actually happens, it is non-fiction, serious and trustworthy. If it says what you say here in this post, it is doing metaphysics, ...

Thanks, Noax, for seeing my point. We believe there would be no structure; much like there is no structure in the overwhelming majority of our universe that we know of, that results in movement forms based on the complexity of chemical structures. What? There is structure everywhere in this univers...

Second of all, even if the Sommerfeld's Constant was not played out like in our universe, the reality would still go on. We don't know how that universe would be structured. Sentient beings could evolve there too, in a form of biology of a strange, strange way to us. Maybe electromagnetism would tr...

Pressumption 1: If the mind/consciousness is a state of matter we should be able to ressurrect the dead, teleport our minds etc. - at least theoretically, simply by replicating the same set of mathematical equations that make up our minds just in different entities in different times and different ...

Pressumption 1: If the mind/consciousness is a state of matter we should be able to ressurrect the dead, teleport our minds etc. - at least theoretically, simply by replicating the same set of mathematical equations that make up our minds just in different entities in different times and different ...

Well, I always felt bad for poor old #144,001, just missing on the cut. Harsh. I'm actually thinking of #144000, who is getting in only because I purposefully didn't make the cut. Greater love hath no man than he gives his spot in heaven for another. This is the exact same reasoning that causes a C...

Note there is no absolute meaning to any word other than reasonable consensus, e.g. it was commonly accepted 'gay = joy' in the past, but now it is 'gay = homosexual[ity].' ... You have lots of knowledge gaps re philosophical elements. They are Kant elements, not general philosophical ones, so I ne...

The cup you are holding is not a transcendental idea, thus not a transcendental illusion. I didn't think any idea was transcendental under the view. Maybe I don't know what is meant by 'transcendental idea'. Yes, it is a term used, perhaps as a distinction between a round circle and a square circle...

There are various meaning of 'idea'. In the Kantian sense, 'idea' refer to philosophical ideas [in contrast to concepts] which are very specific. The claim 'God exists as real' is a philosophical idea. In the most real sense this resulting claim is illusory, i.e. God is a transcendental idea and a ...

Remarkable. An unknown radius of orbiting distance and unknown spin rate are inferior to the present. I said different, not inferior. Our environment would be inferior to whatever evolved in that different environment. You are making an invalid inference, by saying that the UNKNOWN would have preve...

I am very familiar with Kant's overall theme and principles but there is no way I am in a tip-top state to know every detail since 4 years ago and kept up to date with refreshers on main principles. It seemed to be a very basic point, not an obscure detail. I had to look it up because I'm no expert...

"There would be no moles at all were it not for the moon." Prove this. "(the Moon) It is a big thing that has a huge effect on Earth like the weather," please prove this also. To my knowledge the Moon's presence by its gravitational force affects tidal waves, nothing more. The m...

Kant argued very extensively and deeply why the philosophical realist is also a transcendental realist. You have to read Kant to understand [not necessary to agree with] his point re a thing-in-itself is an illusion. Note - one need 3 years full time [.. I have done this] or 5 years part time to gr...

To a blind mole (a mammal living mainly under the atmosphere in the dirt) the moon does not exist. The moon does not affect the mole, and the mole has no knowledge of the moon. No knowledge sure, but to say the moon has no effect on the blind mole is nonsense. There would be no moles at all were it...

Yes, there regardless of any conceptualization, but not 'there' regardless of interaction. If X does not affect Y, then X does not exist to Y. The moon is not in fact there (in relation to nothing). That's what I mean when I say the relational view denies objective existence: existence independent ...