isn't cyborg nomade making the same appeal to authority with Physics?
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the authority a physical law yields isn't a credential.
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also like, physical laws aren't real, they're useful generalizations over all the observations that have been made
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they have selective consequences for those that would ignore it. this is about as real as it gets.
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you can pretty much live your entire life believing or disbelieving in physical locality, its really of no consequence to most. whether all the empires are going to collapse is a different question, and far more pertinent. cladistics is many different things..
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Replying to @Junk_lzn @cyborg_nomade and
but the article really started to fall apart when it tried to apply these principles to linguistics, and bootstrap that into outdated ethnoscience. the allegory extends only so far, at which point the overloaded physics-myth behind it loses its meaning.
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sure, there can be counter arguments to the part that deals with more mundane things. I'd like to read those arguments. my initial reaction was just asking if Reza thought his statement about ontology amounted to an argument against the physics in the article.
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did we.. make Reza delete?
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yep
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Yes we did.
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You guys should read Linebarger's treatise on dark psyops: Regularly, deactivate your account so when people feel comfortable to talk shit about you, you get them redhanded.
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