Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.739

   If the opponent denies that they straddle the boundaries, then he owes us an answer as to why they do not. Certainly the two atoms can be moved in the manner described; for the only thing that could prevent the motion would be the presence of an obstacle, and yet the adjacent space into which the atoms are moved is supposedly empty. Although this last argument offered a serious challenge to the notion of discrete space, most of the later theologians were in fact inclined to make all magnitudes discrete, whether that magnitude was corporeal, spatial or even, as we shall see, temporal. The secon…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/arabic-and-islamic-natural-philosophy-and-natural-science.md

2. 02 · yt0.716

   But uh until these observations, it wasn't clear where these unlikes might come from, but I've demonstrated where they come from. And the principle, like likes like because of an intermediate of unlike, is very old. And the principle actually starts from the Tale of Genji, which uh I think the year 1200 or 1300 uh from Japan. And the tale talks of warring clans. Uh the clans would be at war, they would never ever get together uh without the intermediate that could draw them together, you see? So, So, like likes like because of an uh um intermediate of unlike charges. So, they come together, co…

   yt/NnRMRGsAHfA-gerald-pollack-the-fourth-phase-of-water-snc-2018/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.713

   So So we were looking experimentally for experimental preparation where where we could see that that particles or solutes were kicked out in in some kind of water-based experiment. So we took a gel and and we added water and particles. The particles were little spheres called microspheres. And we looked in the microscope and adjacent to the gel in the water we could see a region where there were no microspheres. Very substantial region. Plenty of microspheres beyond that but not inside of it. And so as we studied this more and more we found that the properties of this we called it initially ex…

   yt/EWthpbsfMJI-dr-gerald-pollack-the-importance-of-water-for-energy-heart-h/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.712

   Um so um so we thought maybe possibly uh this is a region here of ordered water right next to the gel. Of course, we had no evidence for that, but we surmised that it's possible that that's that's the case. Um and uh somebody suggested to us because we began seeing this time and time again that we give it a name, and an Australian colleague came and said, "Well, why don't you call it exclusion zone because it excludes, you know, it makes sense. And also, it has the advantage that it can be abbreviated EZ, which is easy to remember." So, so we wind up with EZ water um over here. And that stuck.…

   yt/NnRMRGsAHfA-gerald-pollack-the-fourth-phase-of-water-snc-2018/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.712

   When one considers the method in skeptical contexts, however, this combination of views is puzzling. The puzzle arises because the method enables us to describe, for each of us, any number of subjectively equivalent worlds in which our sensory surfaces are affected in the same way, we express our beliefs and thoughts by using sentence tokens with the same syntactic shapes, but the beliefs and thoughts we thereby express differ from our actual beliefs and thoughts (Ebbs 1996: 510; see also Blackburn 1984: 312, on “spinning the possible worlds”). Our descriptions of these worlds appear to imply …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/content-externalism-and-skepticism.md

6. 06 · blog0.711

   But ordinary material objects — it might be observed — are not truly continuous and speaking of an object’s boundary is like speaking of the “flat top” of a fakir’s bed of nails (Simons 1991: 91). On closer inspection, the spatial boundaries of physical objects are imaginary entities surrounding swarms of subatomic particles, and their exact shape and location involve the same degree of idealization of a drawing obtained by “connecting the dots”, the same degree of arbitrariness as any mathematical graph smoothed out of scattered and inexact data, the same degree of abstraction as the figures’…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/boundary.md

7. 07 · yt0.710

   But if you call a certain shape of the ripple one particle and another shape another particle, then particles decay in in such a way, the first particle disappears and the other one pops out of nothing. But that's a wrong understanding of what's going on. There are no particles. Particles are just a metaphor for particular patterns of excitations of quantum field. But to help you go down this line of thought before we go to particles, let's talk about this chair. Is this chair conscious? Okay. Is there a chair to begin with? That's the question you have to ask before you ask is the thing consc…

   yt/DyzHYnOqIoU-10k-subscribers-a-q-a-with-bernardo-kastrup/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.710

   Yes, that to me is is the foundational question in the sense that it's really kind of naive and simple like a kid can ask it but it's also like the most profound philosophical question that you come back to regardless of how much study you do. I am suspicious about the extent to which science can inform a question like that. An analogy that I've given before is a bit like discovering a book. There are some books on the table uh which are also available on Amazon.com and reputable book sellers everywhere. Um but suppose it were a a book of poetry on the table. I use the example of a Shakespeare…

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.709

   And he sent me this electron micrograph, and I regret I I don't know which species. I can't can't recall, but what he did was he put particles, and the particles you can see the particles in in the xylem vessel, and he pointed out that they congregate in the middle, and along the edges, where you might expect to find the EZ, there are no particles. So, his conclusion is same thing that happens in with polymers and gels also happens um in vessels. So, what I want to do is get to the basis uh of this phenomenon. And I want to answer five questions. Is the phenomenon general? Um or just those few…

   yt/NnRMRGsAHfA-gerald-pollack-the-fourth-phase-of-water-snc-2018/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.709

    If I see a blue entity that creates a certain impression on me and somebody else looks at the blue thing and does that person have anything that you could say is the same as my experience? I would just say, we don’t know. It could well be that there is something indeed to tell, which isn’t to say. We certainly don't know enough about that. I find very curious things like synesthesia, where you have parts of the brain, if they get mixed up, then one sensation gets sort of confused with another sensation. It does seem to be there was something different between one kind of sensation and another …

    yt/0nOtLj8UYCw-quantum-consciousness-debate-does-the-wave-function-actually/transcript.txt