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by ukj 968 days ago
You seem to be speaking from a place of greatly diminished self-awareness.

Notice how you are constantly appealing to abstract unobservables to make your claims. No shame in that - all science does it. Quantities, numbers, fields, processes etc. etc. etc.

That is precisely the metaphysical woo woo you are busy criticising. Formalism is all about turning that woo-woo into well-defined concepts.

What's a "process"? Show me one.

Only way I know how is to give you more metaphysical woo woo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_calculus

You know all that religious woo-woo about omniscience? We are still talking about it and even using it...

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/principle+of+omniscience

All this religious/devine woo-woo...

  The central dogma of computational trinitarianism holds that Logic, Languages, and Categories are but three manifestations of one divine notion of computation. There is no preferred route to enlightenment: each aspect provides insights that comprise the experience of computation in our lives.
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trilogy
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If you want to believe in fairy tales then enjoy them. I prefer materialism. We will never agree on this. You can't prove a God exists, so I simply don't care about the topic other than how it affects civilization negatively by promoting magical thinking and religious fanaticism/intolerance. I tolerate people who are religious, I don't wish them any harm; the opposite is quite untrue for a large proportion of the religious world for atheists/"infidels".
The deep irony in valuing matter more than valuing values is never wasted on me.

You still haven't figured out that "matter" is yet another man-made concept? An abstract idea. A collective noun. Itself a (very useful) "fairy tale".

A substance which posesses "rest mass" in a universe where nothing is ever at rest sure sounds like magical thinking (to me). And what do you even make of point-like particles in physics? They have no volume - so they are not matter. And what about anitmatter?

You haven't yet come to the self-realization that you are committing the reification fallacy by promoting a man-made concept to a totalizing/generalizing/all-encompassing ontological status.

Matter is your God. It's the abstraction you worship.

You are right in saying that we'll never agree; for if I were to agree with you I too would be wrong.