In-Sight Publishing November 27, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: This comes off of the idea that the actual worlds, the universes that could exist that are highly parallel to ours can't be magically different. You can't have a universe in which the South won the Civil War. Unless, you can explain how that …
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In-Sight Publishing November 26, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Rational and irrational, but all rooted in economic and psychological considerations that all, whether there square or not, they can explain why we do what we do. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, what's the separation? Rosner: Drained by biology and sentimentality and economics. But …
Continue reading Ask A Genius 580 – Rational and Irrational, and Evaluation and Garbage
In-Sight Publishing November 26, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So in metaphysical inversion, that’s the idea, continuing from last session, I was in correspondence with a Christian professor friend. He recommended reading “Letters on Humanism” by Heidegger. As I read through some comments and the essay through the day, I wrote an …
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In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, I'm in the tub today. Under lockdown, baths in the tub are still something you can take. My wife takes a lot of baths, and then I use the water before it cools down. I was thinking about how in America we tend …
In-Sight Publishing November 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you think the end point, the eventual end point, is, at some point, going to be the death of theology? Because it seems like we're seeing that in real time. Rick Rosner: The end point of theology, do you think that science …
In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So I think when we left off, it was somewhere around the idea that at least on our planet, the apex, the alpha information processors, the smartest beings dominate the planet with ethical behaviour towards each other, sometimes. But the lack of ethical behaviour …
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In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ok, so, we're talking about values now. Values in the universe. Rick Rosner: We should talk about what things can feel well, which is in the realm of conscious beings. But maybe, there are some areas where things aren't quite conscious, but still …
Continue reading Born To Do Math 198: The Philosophy of Truism, Values in the Universe
In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, the deal is: For the statistical arguments, I agree with you that. I think those can be made based on if you have a moment, then you've got a set of most likely next moments and then that ranges from most likely to …
Continue reading Born To Do Math 197: The Statistical Arguments for Existence, Spacetime, and Agency
In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Along the world line, what is a set of reasonable next possible moments in that universe? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: And so, that would be more building into the assumption of a second layer, that argument, which is you can have single moments, certainly. Which …
Continue reading Born To Do Math 196: Times, Spaces, Minkowskian and Cartesian Coordinates
In-Sight Publishing November 16, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I think one of the basic premises, that I see, would be the idea that the set of null universes is not bigger than the set of things that can exist. I think the set of universes that cannot exist is smaller …
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