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 · yt0.786

   And they were then, they were not standing out as starkly against what you call the zeitgeist, as they would have been, if they had insisted on normal physics. - Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that famous quote attributed to Steven Weinberg. I think it's actually accurate, where he said something along the lines of, "It's not that we take our mathematical theories..." How did he say it? He's basically saying, "We don't take our mathematical theories seriously enough." It's not that we take them too seriously, it's that we don't take them seriously enough, right? So if you apply that to quantum…

   yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt

2. 02 · blog0.734

   And in the case of space also... 25. Not from non-entity, this not being observed 26. And thus there would be accomplishment on the part of non-active people also 27. Not non-existence, on account of consciousness 28. And on account of difference of nature they are not like dreams 29. The existence is not, on account of the absence of perception 30. And on account of its being unproved in every way 31. Not so, on account of the impossibility in one 33. And likewise non-entireness of the Self 34. Nor also is there non-contradiction... 35. And on account of the endurance of the final size... 36.…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-ved-nt-s-tras.md

3. 03 · blog0.727

   Who, for example, is unable to think … that if something that has a beginning and end is good, then something that has a beginning but never ceases to exist is much better? And that just as the latter is better than the former, so something that has neither beginning nor end is better still, even if it is always moving from the past through the present into the future? And that something that in no way needs or is compelled to change or move is far better even than that, whether any such thing exists in reality or not? Can such a thing not be thought? Can anything greater than this be thought?…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/anselm-of-canterbury.md

4. 04 · yt0.727

   It's either true or it's not true that there's some higher conscious self that is responsible for for some of the order and complexity that we observe and the world around us. Now if you exclude that possibility by saying no we can't invoke any higher intelligence we can't concern ourselves with any non-material substances. Well, fine. You can do that. But then you should be prepared to admit that your science is not dealing with everything that's possibly true about the world that we live in. Right? And actually if you look at the history of science say if you go back a century or more you'll…

   yt/aj8FypyKR3o-jsp-4-michael-cremo-did-man-live-with-dinosaurs-forbidden-ar/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.724

   They do not understand that, and uh anyone who's ever tried to uh converse with physicists about this issue will will, I think, confirm what I'm saying. It's almost impossible. And Alfred North Whitehead was one of these. For decades, he went to all the big universities in England and America, and and uh lectured these people on the uh a, the unfoundedness, and b, the the damage to to to physics itself that this postulate uh causes, and there has been almost zero acceptance in the scientific world of what Whitehead had to say. Mhm. Yeah. It's as though a methodological shortcut, which would al…

   yt/V_ZWBkSNMFg-platonic-physics-in-dialogue-with-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.721

   To say that a possibility exists but does not obtain would be to say that it exists as a possibility that is not actualized; it would be to say that in addition to actual reality there also exists possible reality and that some possible reality is never actualized. If in Descartes’s system God created only actual reality and not in addition any possible reality, then possibilities themselves are not real – they have no ontological status and so are not in fact possibilities, because they are not anything. According to Descartes, God did not create the possibility that we exist with minds that …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descartes-modal-metaphysics.md

7. 07 · blog0.716

   The assertion that there are tigers, for example, is true because reality, in fact, contains tigers; the assertion that someone has free soloed the Dawn Wall or is Prevost’s child is false because reality, in fact, contains no such things. But what accounts for their possibility ? That is, what is it about reality that accounts for the truth of (1) and (2) ? In the case of (1) , the answer is easy: there are, in fact, many people who could free solo the Dawn Wall—notably, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, the two who first free-climbed it. But it is at least logically possible that any human …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-possibilism-actualism-debate.md

8. 08 · blog0.713

   Furthermore, to conceive something under a primary attribute is to conceive it as capable of existence through God’s creative power alone, without requiring unification with any other substance. Clauberg thus arrives at the Cartesian view of substance as a complete, simple subject, independent of all other beings except God. At the heart of Clauberg’s ontology is his theory of attributes, which furnishes an account of substances and their properties insofar as they are conceivable and, therefore, metaphysically possible. Like Descartes, for Clauberg, the conceivability of something consists in…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/johannes-clauberg.md

9. 09 · gutenberg0.713

   I will continue calmly concerning persons with strong nerves who do not understand a certain refinement of enjoyment. Though in certain circumstances these gentlemen bellow their loudest like bulls, though this, let us suppose, does them the greatest credit, yet, as I have said already, confronted with the impossible they subside at once. The impossible means the stone wall! What stone wall? Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics. As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it is no use scowling, accept it f…

   gutenberg/PG-600-notes-from-the-underground/PG-600.txt

10. 10 · yt0.713

    And happened to be an extremely charismatic figure in the physics community. And so while he thought of himself as groping his way towards a new understanding, his colleagues, I hesitate to say acolytes, but his colleagues took that as the essence of the new view. And for example, Bohr, I think, never talked about wave function collapse, that kind of thing, because on the contrary, he insisted that quantum theory was the fullest possible description of the world, which is also exactly what Everett said. But Bohr didn't work it out to its logical conclusion. - Right, right. Now, I slightly wond…

    yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt