Recent content by sascha

Hi folks, maybe I am some sort of outsider ;-) slightly amused at these scientistic and logicistic ways of approaching the problem of the cognitive biases aka blind spots. Don't forget that anybody who is implicitly following a scientistic line, is prey to a blind spot on principle due to the...

Thanks, phoenixthoth -- and sorry for my long pause. By 'continuous' concepts I mean those which have have absolutely no limit; in mathematics (or more especially geometry) this would for example be those where infinity does not imply a special case. This is not fulfilled in the axioms of the...

When I was about 7 years old, I remember looking down one night at myself lying in the bed. There was no interpretation at that moment, I simply noticed this situation. One day when I was about 21 I was out in the semi-wild nature near a beautiful little waterfall and was deeply contemplating...

Ah, OK. -- BTW it would be sufficient to put the name at the beginning. Quoting is indeed rarely necessary.

What change of belief and what boxes are you talking about?

Sorry for being so slow in answering; I had some technical problems. In fact I meant my post after the one you quoted, the one after selfAdjoint. There I say "Geometry has been engulfed by algebraic analysis", which corresponds to what you tell me about the projective geometry you are...

It is obvious that out of body experiences and astral traveling are closely related to states of the mind. So those who close off their mind with world views that exclude this dimension are of course among those for whom it is impossible. But this limit does not prove anything general at all...

ah, interesting. I was thinking that the point of asking the question "what is mathematics?" is to debate the nature of mathematics; otherwise one can collect definitions anywhere. On the other hand, since in your own opinion defining mathematics is pointless, and that we should discuss its...

Whether reality or illusion is indeed the point here. Incidentally, talking about "out of the mind experiences" when meaning a mind that has "out of the body experiences" is really very revealing. And the question of which is real, a drug-induced experience or one without drugs, is really simple...

Phoenixthoth, why does for you asking a question about the nature of a field or discipline amount to defining a term?

Maybe you remember my posting (09-28-2003 07:14 PM) some hints at the problem of the 'Cartesian split': categoreally looking at the object only 'from outside', i.e. distinguishing, observing, describing, discussing, measuring, etc.. This position inevitably ends in paradoxes that can only be...

Hi Drag! -- maybe you should state the PoE in a precise way so that I can see more clearly just what you see in it. The foundations of the current philosophies and all their constituents is indeed the problem -- also of physics these days, I think. This is what I am trying to get at on this...

The trouble with humans is that when they really think they do not totally fit models like storage or similar (this does not exclude that some never really think, but behave more like intelligent animals, where the storage model correlates indeed to some degree). Just think of the fact that you...

Concerning hope about life, to my sense Mike's concerns are reassuring. Wherever people stop wondering and prefer jumping to conclusions, things go awry -- even if that sometimes takes a long time. In what worries Mike, I am especially disgusted by the work of contemporary economists getting...

The fantasies whereby God is something omnipotent, omniscient, somehow separate and yet also unbiquitous, are themselves quite hilarious. Hopefully some start realizing how much of what is being imagined about God is a mere projection of petty human desires and fears. Now saying this is not very...