“All laws are contingent” is probably my minimalist Hume++ epistemology.
But inventions can be absolute.
Therefore engineers are higher status than mathematicians or scientists.
QED
This is Rao’s law and theorem
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The most conservative position I’ve been able to define is that events, change, and perspectives are real. All else is Trumpism.
Causation isn’t a well posed idea once you go quantum. Only entanglements rippling across perspectives.
I have a selfish interest in identifying and adopting the most conservative view of what’s real because my project is to maximize the canvas for structured solipsism
Yes but what level of non-belief does something have to tolerate — if I stop believing in cars I can still be hit by them, but that doesn’t make cars fundamental, nor the atoms they’re made of
I have several thousand draft words on that very question. It’s the exact right starting point for defining temporality, escapism, etc. Think in terms of the half-life of delusions and you go down a very deep rabbit hole.