@GabrielDuquette @nydwracu Because they work so hard to cast it as just another poor little oppressed group, victims of colonialism etc.
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@St_Rev ah, well, thinking of cellular automata will at least get yr intuitions pointing in roughly the right direction -
@schakalsynthetc I probably know what you're talking about, I just can't parse this context. -
@St_Rev this situation is probably mutual -
@St_Rev there is no sequence of transitions between world states such that I'll have a tiny pink elephant in my hand three minutes from now -
@St_Rev so (not (pink elephant in hand)) is modally a necessarily true proposition -
@St_Rev (I have a glass of orange juice in my hand) is modally possible, ie there is a sequence such that it is true three minutes from now -
@St_Rev temporality (past, present, future) is a specific type of modality -
@St_Rev "teleology" is really just an argument about exactly how many possible future states-of-the-world can be reached from here - 3 more replies
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