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Everything means all distinguished patterns.

Those only exist in minds. A Thing is a pattern with a purpose.

The purpose is either danger/avoid or interest/approach.

All knowledge, wisdom, and understanding is for the purpose of actionable certainty toward changing the world in one of those two ways.

All things are a set of attributes and boundary conditions that align with our predictions about how our interactions will cause a change. In other words, we sense the edges, weight, color, likeability.. of things in order to manipulate them.

Advocate wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:01 pm Everything means all distinguished patterns.

Those only exist in minds. A Thing is a pattern with a purpose.

The purpose is either danger/avoid or interest/approach.

All knowledge, wisdom, and understanding is for the purpose of actionable certainty toward changing the world in one of those two ways.

All things are a set of attributes and boundary conditions that align with our predictions about how our interactions will cause a change. In other words, we sense the edges, weight, color, likeability.. of things in order to manipulate them.

No, everything means all-there-is, of which distinguished patterns are the subset that we can know about. Although I guess this depends a lot on whether one takes a more realist or anti-realist basic stance.

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Everything means all distinguished patterns.

Those only exist in minds. A Thing is a pattern with a purpose.

The purpose is either danger/avoid or interest/approach.

All knowledge, wisdom, and understanding is for the purpose of actionable certainty toward changing the world in one of those two ways.

All things are a set of attributes and boundary conditions that align with our predictions about how our interactions will cause a change. In other words, we sense the edges, weight, color, likeability.. of things in order to manipulate them.
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No, everything means all-there-is, of which distinguished patterns are the subset that we can know about. Although I guess this depends a lot on whether one takes a more realist or anti-realist basic stance.
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Every thing refers to all that exists, but we can only know it exists if it comes into our experience, so again that dichotomy is functionally irrelevant.

Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 2:13 pm Every thing refers to all that exists, but we can only know it exists if it comes into our experience, so again that dichotomy is functionally irrelevant.

Exactly, functionally