Even in the inorganic world all that concerns an atom of energy is its immediate neighbourhood: distant forces balance each other. Here is the root of perspectivity, and it explains why a living organism is "egoistic" to the core. — Nietzsche

"YOU" is a falsification in unity forced through the psychology of grammar which is irreducibly Platonic. What you is:

Life" might be defined as a lasting form of force-establishing processes, in which the various contending forces, on their part, grow unequally....

The triumphant concept "energy" with which our physicists created God and the world, needs yet to be completed: it must be given an inner will which I characterise as the "Will to Power"—that is to say, as an insatiable desire to manifest power; or the application and exercise of power as a creative instinct, etc. Physicists cannot get rid of the "actio in distans" in their principles; any more than they can a repelling force (or an attracting one). There is no help for it, all movements, all "appearances," all "laws" must be understood as symptoms of an inner phenomenon, and the analogy of man must be used for this purpose. It is possible to trace all the instincts of an animal to the will to power; as also all the functions of organic life to this one source. — Nietzsche

all "laws" must be understood as symptoms of an inner phenomenon, and the analogy of man must be used for this purpose. — Nietzsche

Yes, I agree with that. However, my concern is why it's one particular inner phenomenon is playing in the Window, how was that selected, if there were multiple Windows, then why am I not them, in fact only one Window is what is "Mine", and if anybody else claimed to possess this "Mineness", they are lying, or there is a contradiction in the nature of things.

Anyway, I think I exhausted what I mean by "You".

I mean, there can be multiple heres and nows, but still the fact is that I'm only seeing one of them, and how come it's this one if they are all here and now, shouldn't I be seeing them all? — bizso09

No. Because, while you are here, experiencing this coordinate zero, other coordinate zeros are everywhere, in all directions, up to about 13.5 BLY from you. How could you experience the coordinate zero that Arcturus experiences?

That's an interesting pivot. At this point, I think the disagreement is no longer about logic or indexicals. You’re explicitly adopting an ontology on which existence itself is defined by relation to a unique Window, and nothing exists independently of it. Given that assumption, symmetry is ruled out by stipulation. But that assumption is precisely what I reject, and nothing in the logical facts about first-person perspective forces it. So the contradiction you describe is conditional on that ontology, not a consequence of logic itself.

However, my concern is why it's one particular inner phenomenon is playing in the Window, how was that selected, if there were multiple Windows, then why am I not them, — bizso09

There is one particular brain, lying behind one particular pair of eyes, which is instantiating you. Other brains behind other pairs of eyes instantiate other people.

Well of course if someone else claims to be someone or something else, its a contradiction.
— Philosophim

Exactly. So my question is, are you claiming to be a "You" right now in the real world? Because if so, it's a contradiction. — bizso09

If by "You" you mean a synonym for "Philosophim", then its not a contradiction. If you mean "You" as a separate entity to "Philosophim" then its defacto a contradiction because you're saying one is actually two. That's impossible.

The only axiom I make use of is the fact that I exist. This existence is what I call Window. The property of this existence is first person perspective, and The World exists linked to it. These facts are all derived from the axiom.

How do I rule out Symmetry? Let's assume the existence of another Window, call it Window2. Since it's not something that is me, that implies that it exists outside of The World, because it cannot be related to me, and it's inaccessible to me. Since this Window2 is also first person perspective, it necessarily exists in TheWorld2.

Now let's introduce an encapsulating world, EWorld, that contains both subworlds TheWorld and TheWorld2. I can do this because the definition of world is everything that exists, this makes EWorld not disjoint. I ask in this EWorld, where is the experience happening in first perspective? Is it in TheWorld2? The answer is no, because if it was yes, then I would be Window2 now. However, the axiom above states that I am Window full stop. Therefore, I know that it's TheWorld that has the Window and that's where I am. Window2 doesn't exist because it's not first person perspective, and it's not me.

This implies that by virtue of I existing as the Window, I can disprove the existence of other Windows, not just in my world, but "The World", which is global and absolute. The existence of a Window precludes the existence of other Windows. Since there is already one Window, me, which I know due to the axiom, I know that for example you cannot be a Window2, unless we permit logical contradiction.

But you haven't derived your conclusion from the axiom “I exist”. You have simply defined existence itself as relation to your Window, and then ruled out other Windows on the basis of that definition. Given that ontology, symmetry is excluded by stipulation. But there is no need to accept this ontology, and there is nothing in the axiom "I exist" that forces it. So the contradiction you describe is conditional on your metaphysical definitions. If those definitions are rejected (and I do reject them), then the contradiction never surfaces.

Well, something can either exist in relation to the Window, or independent of it. In the previous post, I covered the case of independence. This leaves us with existing in relation. I don't see an alternative.

Even though the java programming language can be compiled to run on any computer, it is an additional fact of the world that which specific computer it actually runs on. It is convenient to ignore this fact in order to "avoid inconsistent semantics", but that ignorance is wrong nevertheless, when we talk about the world in its totality. — bizso09

Suppose Alice the realist talks to Bob the irrealist, about an Alice-independent world that she believes to subsume the world of Bob the irrealist. Then should Bob think that Alice is wrong to assert this and correct her for being ignorant of irrealism, or should Bob simply nod on his irrealist understanding that no matter what Alice expresses, she must be expressing facts about her Alice-dependent world?

What truth-criteria should Bob use when interpreting Alice's claims about an Alice-independent world? As an irrealist, Bob presumably would not claim to understand Alice's claims about Alice's world, but presuambly Bob would also not claim that Alice has cognitive access to Bob's world; in which case Bob cannot interpret her as making claims about his world after all, and so can only nod and smile when Alice speaks about an absolute reality.

Here's another way to put it, why there is a contradiction.

We all agree that we live in one world, which is the actual world. In this actual world, there is a property which tells us "What's playing in the current experience that is visible now". Now, depending on which creature we are, we give different answers to this question. But the problem with the question is that it is not dependent on who's asking it. The question is not "Given that I am Esse, what's playing in the current experience that is visible now", but rather it's without the "given" clause. So the question concerns something inherently singular, global and absolute about the world.

The contradiction arises because although the question is absolute, and concerns the real actual world, and not some hypothetical imaginary parallel universe, nor is it dependent on the asker, still in spite of all this, each creature in the world gives different answers to it. If we assume, that each creature is honest and communicates the truth, then this is a logical contradiction about the world.

What truth-criteria should Bob use when interpreting Alice's claims about an Alice-independent world? — sime

The truth criteria should be logical consistency, which is the same in both the realist and irrealist understanding of the world, as well as the assumption that both Alice and Bob report honestly what they understand about the world.

Let's describe a world with four people in it. Alice, Bob, Cecil, Dan. In addition, there is You in this world. — bizso09

Well, that would be a 5th person then. Perhaps you don't really mean 'in addition'.

Now consider two distinct scenarios:

Scenario 1: You are Alice. This means that you have access to Alice's thoughts, feelings, perception, and can see, hear, feel through her body.
Scenario 2: You are Bob. This means that you have access to Bob's experience, etc.
The question is, what is the difference between the two scenarios?

You obviously have a very dualistic & anthropocentric way of thinking, where there is a separate set of experiencers and only human beings to be experienced.
The difference is a different attachment between the pairs, sort of like you choosing to watch one movie instead of a different one across the hall in the cinema. OK, that's pretty epiphenomenal. Perhaps it's more like you choosing to play one character or another in Mario Kart.
Yea, your perception of the world would differ based on your choice of characters to play. So what?


Point is, no contradiction has been identified.

EITHER there's some spirit soul thing, a ghost going around to these bodies inhabiting them, in which case there's no paradox because there is a real difference

OR there are not these spirits and souls, and then there's no "you" that isn't synonymous with Bob, or synonymous with Alice, and there's no paradox. — flannel jesus

This pretty much sums up my thinking as well. No matter the model used, no paradox apparent.

In reply to that you wrote:

You is not meant to be a spirit or soul, but more like a reference point, or pointer, i.e. a window of first person perspective. — bizso09

Call it what you want. Either the pointer is identical with the thing pointed to, or it is separate, and can point to this or that. "You are Alice" is phrased in the latter way of thinking, especially when it is suggested that it instead points elsewhere.

@Joshs takes all this (especially the Gemini log) apart from the Wittgenstein way of thinking.

No. Because, while you are here, experiencing this coordinate zero, other coordinate zeros are everywhere, in all directions, up to about 13.5 BLY from you. How could you experience the coordinate zero that Arcturus experiences? — Patterner

Indeed, a coordinate system is an abstraction and thus can have its origin placed anywhere. My only nit on your post is the 13.5 BLY. Why that? Certainly somebody could place an origin a trillion LY from here without running into problems. Our particular typical assignment of 'here' does not concern any part of the universe that has not dependence on human notice.

I argue that in the world, the You is an absolute global unique fact. — bizso09

and you run into contradictions, which you note in the title. That sort of assertion works only under solipsism, and you don't seem to be suggesting that.

I'm just deriving conclusions starting from the fact that I exist. — bizso09

Depending on your person definition of 'to exist' in that context, I don't necessarily consider it to be fact. OK, it works under most idealistic definitions (like cogito ergo sum), where existence is founded on experience.

So here you attempt to spell out a contradiction, which perhaps is a contradiction only in your assertions, meaning you need a better model.

Here's another way to put it, why there is a contradiction.

We all agree that we live in one world, which is the actual world. In this actual world, there is a property which tells us "What's playing in the current experience that is visible now". — bizso09

Pretty bold assertion with that 'we all agree that ...' bit. I for one agree with less than a quarter of all that. Irrelevant since you have a classical dualistic model going on here, so my opinion of non-classical and monistic matters not.



Now, depending on which creature we are, we give different answers to this question.[/quote]There's your problem. Your asking an objective question and suggesting that the answer is subjective. It can't be. The answer is either that there is one experience of some universal experiencer, or that the question is ill formed. Regardless of the model you choose, everybody's answer should be the same ('everything' and 'category error' respectively). If anybody gives a different answer, then they're wrong. So there's no contradiction.

But the problem with the question is that it is not dependent on who's asking it. The question is not "Given that I am Esse, what's playing in the current experience that is visible now", but rather it's without the "given" clause.

Exactly. So the answer is not what Esse 'has playing' (as you put it), since that's not what's asked. Surely the answer, whatever it is, should be the same answer despite who answers it. How do you not see this?

If we assume, that each creature is honest and communicates the truth, then this is a logical contradiction about the world.

No, them saying different answer is giving an answer to a different question, so them all giving wrong answers does not result in a contradiction, it just means nobody understood the question.