Nonexistent Objects & Imaginary Worlds: Crash Course Philosophy #29
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Jem
I thought about it extensively in the shower, and I have concluded that a zombie and a ghost CAN arise from the same person, so that-s nice.
The -rules- of most ghost stories agree that a ghost is created at the point of death, when a persons soul/spirit/consciousness both becomes seperate from the body and is unable to -pass on- to whatever comes after.
Thus, at the point of death, the physical body of the person and their consciousness are separated, meaning that the fate of the body is no longer tied to the fate of the consciousness. Thus, the body can be reanimated, becoming a zombie, and the consciousness can be -stuck- in the earthly realm, becoming a ghost.
What-s interesting to me is that in this scenario, the person-s sense of self, identity and memory of their life will reside exclusively with the ghost (because that-s what became of the consciousness/soul) not the zombie.
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I thought about it extensively in the shower, and I have concluded that a zombie and a ghost CAN arise from the same person, so that-s nice.
The -rules- of most ghost stories agree that a ghost is created at the point of death, when a persons soul/spirit/consciousness both becomes seperate from the body and is unable to -pass on- to whatever comes after.
Thus, at the point of death, the physical body of the person and their consciousness are separated, meaning that the fate of the body is no longer tied to the fate of the consciousness. Thus, the body can be reanimated, becoming a zombie, and the consciousness can be -stuck- in the earthly realm, becoming a ghost.
What-s interesting to me is that in this scenario, the person-s sense of self, identity and memory of their life will reside exclusively with the ghost (because that-s what became of the consciousness/soul) not the zombie.
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Trey5S5S
Uh. There's a pretty damn big difference between factual assertions made about the conceptual realm of Harry Potter and that of a round square.
Harry Potter is a wizard who goes to school and learns magic, makes wizard friends, battles a noseless murder, and flies around on a broom like a witch. While all of this is fictional, none of it is inconsistent. It all makes logical sense, given the circumstances of the fictional realm he lives in. As such, -facts- can be asserted about the circumstances of that fictional realm, in its own context.
A round square, on the other hand, is a logical contradiction. A square, by definition, has four equadistant sides and corners, and therefore cannot be round. In no context can -facts- ever be asserted about a round square, since the very concept of one is not logically consistent in any way.
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Uh. There's a pretty damn big difference between factual assertions made about the conceptual realm of Harry Potter and that of a round square.
Harry Potter is a wizard who goes to school and learns magic, makes wizard friends, battles a noseless murder, and flies around on a broom like a witch. While all of this is fictional, none of it is inconsistent. It all makes logical sense, given the circumstances of the fictional realm he lives in. As such, -facts- can be asserted about the circumstances of that fictional realm, in its own context.
A round square, on the other hand, is a logical contradiction. A square, by definition, has four equadistant sides and corners, and therefore cannot be round. In no context can -facts- ever be asserted about a round square, since the very concept of one is not logically consistent in any way.
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Mark
I feel really cold right now, which is dichotomous to heat/warmth
Young people who are uneducated will tell PhDs that they are -crazy- because their terms and ideas do not reference familiar or real to the listener.
Absistence - anything that can be defined (Dungeons and Dragons characters)
Leonard Nimoy told the story of his touring universities and scientists/researches would loose their composure and in a very excited manner, tell him all about their research.
They were confusing the actor for the character Spock - which was an absistence character and not a existence person
Nimoy's pat answer was, 'I see you are on the right course'
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I feel really cold right now, which is dichotomous to heat/warmth
Young people who are uneducated will tell PhDs that they are -crazy- because their terms and ideas do not reference familiar or real to the listener.
Absistence - anything that can be defined (Dungeons and Dragons characters)
Leonard Nimoy told the story of his touring universities and scientists/researches would loose their composure and in a very excited manner, tell him all about their research.
They were confusing the actor for the character Spock - which was an absistence character and not a existence person
Nimoy's pat answer was, 'I see you are on the right course'
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Ali
hard working graphics? CGI? CAD? CAM? RPT? 3D Modeling? other modelling tools? analogical modeling? simplifying complex problems through justifiable assumptions, aimed at generalizing the processes involved in order to render the problem solvable? through the application of governmening equations, accompanied by characteristic assumptions, inorder to obtain identical results, for similar problems?
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hard working graphics? CGI? CAD? CAM? RPT? 3D Modeling? other modelling tools? analogical modeling? simplifying complex problems through justifiable assumptions, aimed at generalizing the processes involved in order to render the problem solvable? through the application of governmening equations, accompanied by characteristic assumptions, inorder to obtain identical results, for similar problems?
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Emrys
I have a paracosm which I started almost 3 years ago at age 12 due to trauma and PTSD. Always been a maladaptive daydreamer and had a nightmare disorder and overactive imagination, though. I also have High Functioning Autism. I wonder if it's linked?
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I have a paracosm which I started almost 3 years ago at age 12 due to trauma and PTSD. Always been a maladaptive daydreamer and had a nightmare disorder and overactive imagination, though. I also have High Functioning Autism. I wonder if it's linked?
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kaerblover
-So, treating nonexistent things as if they-re real? -Nonsense- probably isn-t the right word for it. Being able to create and conceptualize a universe is a pretty amazing skill. -
- Crash Course Philosophy #29
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-So, treating nonexistent things as if they-re real? -Nonsense- probably isn-t the right word for it. Being able to create and conceptualize a universe is a pretty amazing skill. -
- Crash Course Philosophy #29
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zpolukuchka
why does internal consistency not come into this?
if a word has constraints it should stick to them
otherwise it does not stay in its realm and undermines its own principals
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why does internal consistency not come into this?
if a word has constraints it should stick to them
otherwise it does not stay in its realm and undermines its own principals
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Andrew
He said Obama is the president and I got bummed. Then he said Kevin Spacey is the president and I was like. .. .hmm, I think I'd still take that sick fxck over our current orange idiot.
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He said Obama is the president and I got bummed. Then he said Kevin Spacey is the president and I was like. .. .hmm, I think I'd still take that sick fxck over our current orange idiot.
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Billy
Wait, how do we know these -imaginary worlds- aren't actually real worlds being conveyed or spilling out on to us from other dimensions on frequencies best accessible via the human mind?
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Wait, how do we know these -imaginary worlds- aren't actually real worlds being conveyed or spilling out on to us from other dimensions on frequencies best accessible via the human mind?
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Abril
I don-t think that-s true (Without language the only thing we could talk about would be real objects) What about drawing imaginary things? We don-t need language to do it.
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I don-t think that-s true (Without language the only thing we could talk about would be real objects) What about drawing imaginary things? We don-t need language to do it.
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