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I do love the fencing analogy, but once again I caution against using physics as a highly reliable guide to practicing metaphysics. "Looking at the cake is lik
by mistermann 2y ago
I do love the fencing analogy, but once again I caution against using physics as a highly reliable guide to practicing metaphysics.
"Looking at the cake is like looking at the future - until you've tasted it what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late."
- 082349872349872 2y ago> using physics as a highly reliable guide to practicing metaphysics. Have the professional metaphysicians done any better? [I also suggest steering well clear of any work in which I paraphrase chapters of the 道德经 as advocating partitioning one's control budget among small neighbourhoods of the inflection points on the manifold in phase space occupied by the 10'000 things.]
- mistermann 2y ago> Have the professional metaphysicians done any better? In my estimation, no, like hilariously not (at least as a function of execution of relative ability). I attribute this to them thinking like children or little babies on the matter, as all people do on an absolute scale in that specific domain. When you see it, you cannot unsee it.