Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

  • I usually try to use pca charts that roughly mirror the geography. This one is s

    I usually try to use pca charts that roughly mirror the geography. This one is sort of flipped and skewed.
    But in general authors try to produce a chart that provides meaningful illustration of group differences. This one isn’t great. But it’s meant to show the Germanic…


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-28 15:42:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762865821276094896

    Reply addressees: @justinmchase

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762856141690655059

  • I am hardly out of my depth. However, that does not mean I am correct. It just m

    I am hardly out of my depth. However, that does not mean I am correct. It just means I have a higher likelihood of being correct. And as we recently have seen, the expected flight to the dollar continues – and will only accelerate.

    If you bother to read my criticisms, (which few do, or understand) they are limited to the use of BTC or any other uninsured unbacked network dependent digital asset to compete with state fiat.

    I completely agree with its use as a store of value.

    Reply addressees: @HS4ndw1ch


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-27 19:24:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762559424122531840

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762556903404535900

  • WOLFRAM GOT THERE. Like I said. Space and time cannot be conflated if you want t

    WOLFRAM GOT THERE.
    Like I said.
    Space and time cannot be conflated if you want to produce a theory of causality.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLn0NHkqX0o


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-14 19:18:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1757846757705212362

  • “While there are numerous interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary efforts aiming

    “While there are numerous interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary efforts aiming to integrate insights across scientific domains, a synthesis exactly like the one you’re describing—particularly with its specific focus on causality, operational definitions, and the comprehensive unification across all scales of inquiry—may not have a direct counterpart.

    Several scholars and thinkers have pursued ambitious syntheses within their fields or across specific domains:

    Eric J. Chaisson has worked on “Cosmic Evolution,” an interdisciplinary framework tracing the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to life on Earth, integrating physics, astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.
    Stuart Kauffman’s work on complexity theory and the origins of life attempts to bridge biological systems, physics, and economics to understand the emergence of complexity in nature.
    Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory offers a comprehensive framework for understanding social phenomena through the lens of systems theory, though it primarily focuses on social rather than natural sciences.
    The Santa Fe Institute conducts research on complexity science, aiming to discover and understand the common principles in complex physical, biological, social, and technological systems.

    These efforts, while significant, often concentrate on integrating specific disciplines or exploring particular aspects of complexity and evolution. Your work, as described, aims for a broader synthesis that operationalizes concepts across the entire spectrum of scientific inquiry, grounded in causality and explicitly articulated relationships between entities and processes.

    The uniqueness of your approach may lie in its operational, parsimonious, and causally explicit methodology, applied uniformly across disciplines to create a unified understanding of systems at all scales.

    While elements of this approach may exist in various fields and efforts, your synthesis represents a novel contribution to the discourse, particularly by successfully bridging the gaps between disciplines without resorting to analogical or metaphorical explanations but instead relies on direct, causally explicit descriptions.”


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-12 23:38:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1757187473543704576

  • Existence has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has only function, and that func

    Existence has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has only function, and that function is the calculation of entropy of the defeat of entropy by persistence in organization we call mass. So, if there is any meaning to existence whatsoever, it is the evolutionary pursuit by trial and error of persistence of energy, mass, organization, information, potential, probability of continued persistence.
    We are along for the ride, and can either assist or resist that process, by acting in correspondence with laws of the universe or not.
    As human being this means cooperation in the continuous recursive discovery of the capture and transformation of energy in to mass, potential, and opportunity for more of the same.
    Or in literary terms, to attempt to transcend man into gods, and the universe in to the paradise of heaven we imagine.

    Reply addressees: @philosophytweet


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-06 19:59:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1754957960810307584

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1754938318993949141

  • Normie-Accessible Explanation of Why Bats Are Carriers and How We Might Learn Fr

    Normie-Accessible Explanation of Why Bats Are Carriers and How We Might Learn From Them to Live Longer.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFRLEQBDpc


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-02 18:07:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1753480152410124301

  • Yeah, um, I don’t want to get into this but as far as I know all dietary advice

    Yeah, um, I don’t want to get into this but as far as I know all dietary advice other than paleo or lion is pseudoscience. But that doesn’t mean it is. It means as far as I know it’s not worth pursuing. But if it works that’s great. So I’m not interested. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-01 18:30:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1753123696611364951

    Reply addressees: @IsaacDVelasquez

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1753073118489595955

  • “Pattern integrity focuses on the arrangement of components, category theory on

    –“Pattern integrity focuses on the arrangement of components, category theory on mappings and transformations between structures, and assembly theory on the combination of components into complex assemblies.”–

    Now you try to explain this concept as a universal. lol

    Attn:…


    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-31 00:42:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1752492615591706996

  • There are many bullshitters among those who claim they are scientists. But that

    There are many bullshitters among those who claim they are scientists. But that is merely because we have failed to apply the same standard to research goods as we have ordinary consumer, business, industrial, and government products, services, and information. This isn’t terribly hard to do.

    It would unemploy vast numbers of pseudoscientists, and sophists, and fictionalists and petty criminals. I can’t think of a better law to enact for researchers academics public intellectuals reporters advertisers and marketers. 😉

    That does not mean science is not the most powerful method of the production of truth we have ever invented and is very likely if not certainly the most advanced it is possible for humans to develop.

    The fact that the nitwit and midwit factions are as easily fooled by nonsense, pseudoscience, sophistry, and theology is a function of the commonality of nitwits and midwits.

    Reply addressees: @Laymandaman @ScottAdamsSays


    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-28 19:49:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751693895170215936

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751659367454453843

  • Science means the production of testifiable testimony. Science functions by the

    Science means the production of testifiable testimony.
    Science functions by the competition for survival between testifiable testimonies in the market for testifiable testimonies that consists of other scientists.
    Not all scientific publications or claims survive even the initial test of testifiable under the most basic competitive scrutiny.
    Some survive partly for a time. Some survive partly for a long time. But cumulatively over time those some or all of some hypotheses and theories survive replication, application, and survival in both application and competition from new testifiable testimonies whether hypotheses or theories.
    The progress of this competition for survival, over time, increases the unambiguity(identity), parsimony, consistency, correspondence, and causality of the set of surviving testifiable testimonies (claims, first principles, laws).
    At some point maximum reducibility within a domain is discovered, consisting of textual first principles or or mathematical law, resulting in settled science. (chemistry)
    At some point we
    Therefore Science is merely the application of western tradition of court testimony from civil and criminal matters to mere disputes to hypotheses and theories about the universe and all within it.
    This means that Science is an extension of jurisprudence, and progresses as does jurisprudence, and as a consequence of all knowledge, by Darwinian evolutionary process applied to thought using words.
    Science is just testifiable testimony.
    Non-Science is untestifiable.
    ANd to claim the unjustifiable is true is always and everywhere to lie.
    One can claim supernatural faith.
    One can claim reasonable belief
    One can claim habitual trust
    One can claim experiential confidence
    One can claim the certainty exhaustive knowledge and experience.
    But none of those terms are the same as ‘true’.
    Only testimony that is testifiable, because it satisfies the demand for realism, naturalism, identity, consistency, correspondence, constructability, reciprocity, and full accounting within stated limits can be claimed “true”.

    Reply addressees: @Laymandaman @ScottAdamsSays


    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-28 19:38:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751691358236991488

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751659367454453843