Michele Pasin / Quotes

Multiversa

While the universum is the ultimate reference cited for the validity of any statement in the transcendental path, the Multiversa is entailed by the parenthetic path, and implies that a multiplicity of realities can be brought forth depending only on the distinctions of the observer.

Saved 29 June 2014 / www.oikos.org ↗

#validity #statements #reference #observer #distinction

Context of a topic

Assignments of topic characteristics are always made within a specific context, which may or may not be explicit. For example, if I (yet again) mention…

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Color doesn't exist outside the brain

As mentioned earlier, color is a well-known example of something that does not exist outside of our brains. There are no colors in the observer-independent…

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How can subjective observers know the world?

how can subjective observers know anything about the observer-independent world? And as we saw in Chapter 6, we cannot assume that we can know anything about…

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Infinitely many goals explain any behavior

The problem arises because we know that we are intentional systems—our goals are somehow real because we feel like we have goals. Other people might attribute…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #intentionality #behavior #privileged-access #observer

Information is like lift

The concept of information is useful; so is the concept of lift for flight. This does not mean that lift is real. Importantly, we do not include lift in…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #information #computation #metaphor #physics #observer