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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

...which is most likely, you're stunting your progress. Learning is the process of closing your mind; discovering necessary truths and relying on them as a foundation for higher understanding. The default belief for any contention ought to be disbelief until theres something to validate.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Y'all are trying really hard to convince yourselves that the unproven and to all appearances unprovable are playable and ought to be taken seriously. That is the Cult of Open-mindedness and it's epistemologically bankrupt. As long as you keep your mind open to every possibility instead of that...

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So the Chinese government isn't serious about philosophy. More the shame.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Until there's replicable evidence, all ideas are indistinguishable from fiction and ought to be treated as such. Otherwise you're picking and choosing based on feelings rather than evidence. x might exist. That's irrelevant for all intents and purposes.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Some people like to call the totality of evidence an assumption. I can't even.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Actuality - the universe as it is beyond the perception of a mind Reality - a filtered version in a mind

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A simulation with no replicable evidence of underlying computational machinery is indistinguishable from not a simulation. There must be at least one real world in which a simulation can occur, but there's no such default necessity of a simulation.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In which more or less civilised country in the world are you most likely to be left alone and how much does it cost to move there?

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Science is rigor. Logic is a sub-set of science; rigorous relationships that always replicate. Math is a sub-set of logic; relationships exclusively of quantity. Quantity is dividing something into equivalent parts and giving them ordered symbols.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The simulation hypothesis is a non-starter. The only question that can be asked is, "If this was a simulation, what could we expect it to be like? And the only answer is, "Anything at all." There's no There there.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Epistemology is how we know what we know, trivial realism is the general Bayesian prior. I see no incompatibility there. Empirical knowledge is statistical probability; a measure of the upper limit of uncertainty. As for Gödel's theorum, i believe it deconstructs to "the universe is infinite".

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Gnosis an epistemological category error. There are two basic forms of intuition. The mundane is a mere feeling, which contains no evidence about reality. The other is expertise so practiced as to be subconscious. The latter provides knowledge and wisdom. The former cannot.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you're in easy driving distance i'll bring you a few things for smashing.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Woo is untestable forces claimed to have real effects. Until they can be replicated they're indistinguishable from fiction. Replication is the foundation of both kinds of justification for a belief; empirical probability and logical necessity.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Truth in any ultimate sense and what we can know to be true are separate questions. Knowledge is justified belief sufficient to accept a particular fact or take a particular action. Science is rigor. Logic is relationships that always replicate, and as close to Truth as we can get. #epistemology

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Even fiction isn't creative in the sense of something actually new, it's always just a remix.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tumblr for philosophy? srs? We're at about Substack?

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Truth is whatever continuously replicates. What you call assumption is literally that which best explains All available evidence. #TrivialRealism

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Requiring credentials eliminates my coherent set of answers to everything in metaphysics and thereby proves ( evidence sufficient to convince a rational skeptic ) they aren't serious about philosophy. kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/metaphysic...

kaiserbasileus.substack.com

Metaphysics in a Nutshell

how to understand everything

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There are actually easy answers when you get the framing right. Here's most of them: kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/metaphysic...

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

( eight ). I'm absolutely sure of it!

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I forget Eckhart Tolle. He's actually c.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

All experiences are real but not all experiences are of something real. For external use an idea must be externally verifiable and that requires replication as a minimum.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A far as i know, no such thing is possible, much less plausible, much less likely, much less actual, just like god, so the evidence falls along those lines; it's only hypothetical and has no basis in reality at all. We may as well discuss how many nose hairs a unicorn has.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"I'm sorry I messed up your Black Panther Party, Jenny."

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Whatever our external experience is of is what the word reality refers to. If it's a simulation or solipcism or an evil genie, replicable evidence is required before it's rational to take the idea seriously, and none is available. All such ideas are indistinguishable from fiction. #TrivialRealism

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/11/2024

Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Your three most valuable assets are time, attention, and peace of mind. #PracticalWisdom

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Your three most valuable assets are time, attention, and peace of mind.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Every meaningful philosophical idea has been independently derived many times. Originality is not necessary for good philosophy.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here's most of the answers ( in an easy to digest format ): kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/metaphysic...

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

IDK, she looks more like a Dudist to me.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I could run circles around your department but i have no degrees. Your loss.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Au contraire. Learning is the process of closing your mind by discovering necessary truths and thereafter taking them for granted in order to reach a higher understanding.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

for you: kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/some-exist...

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Wittgenstein could have been a philosophical genius but he got too wrapped up in Russell's academia.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I recommend it. IDK what your approach or level is but from kindergarten philosophy on up, i'd recommend Atlas Shrugged, Demon-Haunted World, Critique of Pure Reason, and one other, i think i want to say Being and Time, but i might be thinking of the wrong one, not Sartre.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here's the answers to most of philosophy: kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/metaphysic...

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I was too high when i saw it so i put it aside to watch again soon.

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Kaiser Basileus @kaiserbasileus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Maybe Popper could squeeze in there at the end.

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