Necessary memes for introducing possible worlds

Introductions

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Intro by Victor Gijsbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRLe5t0Fng

Notes:

From the Comment-Section: ‘Possible Worlds are the Philosophers Paradise’

• ‘Originally Set-Theory: as the Mathematicians Paradise (Hilbert?)’
• ‘The Plurality of Worlds: Everything could have been’
• ‘We cannot travel to possible worlds’, [they are islands of the mind]

Gordon Petitt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s796Zj7DhNY

• ‘Lewis’ theory for set-theory – avoiding Plato’s abstracta’
• ‘class nominalist’
• “p is the set of all ‘p-ish worlds'”
• “necessary propositions include all PWs members”
• Makes formal talk about PW possible
• “Concepts of modality, properties, and propositions are reduced to set theory and concrete”
• “The term ‘actual’ is an indexical (like ‘now’ or ‘here’) and refers to different worlds according to its use.”
• “There is favored status for our actual world. Thus people in other PWs use ‘actual’ to refer to a different world than we do.”
• ‘PW diverge over branch’
• “Plantinga” ‘Modality cannot be reduced to sets of concrete things’

Questions

How to deal with formulations like “Everything is Possible”

Other Continental Philosophers Struggling:

Comment: It sooths my mind that not only me had problems understanding this.

Discussions

Stanford Dictionary: “The chief question Lewis faces in this regard is whether there are enough worlds to do the job. The truth condition (20) for the intuitively true (16) says that there exists a possible world in which a counterpart of Algol is no one’s pet. By virtue of what in Lewis’s theory does such a world exist? The ideal answer for Lewis would be that some principle in his theory guarantees a plenitude of worlds, a maximally abundant array of worlds that leaves “no gaps in logical space; no vacancies where a world might have been, but isn’t” (Lewis 1986, 86). From this it would follow that the worlds required by the concretist truth condition for any intuitive modal truth exist. Toward this end, Lewis initially considers the evocative principle:”

Reflections by Me

Modal realism is very different. It means that possible worlds are real so that they are part of the logical space. Basically they idea is that when we think: every statement is the opposite of a multitude of logically possible worlds. To say it more lyrically I believe that we test in our mind what is impossible with fantasies that we then meditate about as possibilities which we then convert into actions. From the impossible to the possible to the actual

• Islands of possibilities in our mind, logical dreams of other worlds
• We could have lived, fantasies, novels, dreams, movies, plays
• Super-powers in these intimate possible realities
• Impossible worlds (non-stop none-sense)
• Our mind moves: from the impossible to the possible to the actual
• Thinking means to go from the Impossible to the Possible to the Actual

• A Theory is a commitment
• A belief is a commitment
• A Commitment is an Action
• An Action means to act upon something that we perceive as mind-external reality

Is a Theory a necessary part of seeing?
Is a Theory an action?

Another Intro

1. How to live a meaningful life?
2. What is Death?
3. Will mankind survive itself?
4. Will we radically transform?
5. Is the Singularity near?
6. What is my place in the future of technology?
7. Are there objective Ethics?
8. Does God exist and care?
9. Who am I?
10. Where am I when I am.

Ich habe mal aus Rezos Videos seine angeblich verständlichere Sprache rausgeschrieben. Er verlangt ja häufiger, dass Politikern klarer reden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ya7pEDndgE

Also es geht Rezo darum, das absolut “shady level” der “easy Korruption” “ever” aufzuspüren. Also “buckle up”, es wird “crazy”. Die meisten “Parts” sind über seine “Favourite-Möglichkeiten” wie “tricky” “Guys” ihre “lokale Lieblingspartei supporten”. “Komm mon” , dieser “Dude” hier, “son Richkid” ist “cool mit Hitler” und hat natürlich eine “shady Spendenaffären”. Das ist auf deutsch gesagt “full on Breaking Bad Shit”. Aber sein “Move” ist auch so “super-easy”. “What the fuck” this bullshit”! Dabei sind diese “easy Wege” keine “random Beispiele”. Es geht generell um “easy tricks” wie Politiker ihre “payroll” auf “100k” pro Jahr pimpen. “Maybe” sind die Volksvertreter einfach nur dumm, denn, “I shit you not”, “eine clean ausgeführte Korruption nachzuweisen” geht nicht. Deswegen “shout out” an die guten Journalisten weil das gibt es “fucking-mal” zu oft. “Obviously” sind in der Politik zu viele “professionelle Beeinflusser” am Werk (womöglich meint Rezo hier das Englische Wort ‘Influencer’). “Obviously” ist es notwendig, dass dieser “abuse gesneaked” wird, denn “basically” gesagt, “imagine” deren “dermaßen abgefucktes Weltbild”.

Noch eine Frage: Wer “am meisten Shit abzieht”? “Komm mon” unsere “fucking Volksvertreter”, die für ihre “Deals eincashen”, die sind doch alle “ganz obviously” “broken”. Das “muss gefixed werden”. “Peace”.

1. Can Truth have a history?
2. Can Historical Beings know History? 
3. Tragedy is the conflict between two rights 
4. Is Truth Related to Individual Conviction?
5. The Multiplicity of Philosophies and Skepticism
6. Is Relativism Self-contradictory?
7. Relativism and the Philosophy’s Aim of One Truth
8. Why Everything Develops – The Principle of Change
9. Hegel’s Concept of the Concrete
10. Philosophy as the Apprehension of the Concrete 
11. Does Nature express Logical Laws?
12. Know Thyself, What does it mean to have a Mind?
13. The End of the Historical Development?
14. The Application of the Concrete to Philosophy
15. History is about the living Present 
16. How Hegel is about Radical Freedom

• 1 Dialectical Thesis: Social Media destroys and enhances our relationship [[Future]]
  • Social media amplifies
  • Control it instead of dismissing it
  • Psychologists will be trained in [[Social Media Management]]
  • 2 Social Media enhances and destroys our knowledge
  • 3 Social Media intensifies our connection to the world and separates us from it
    • Social media supports the shift from the physical into a psychological life-form
    • Our environment becomes more and more human and less natural, but this human environment becomes another form of nature
    • Everyone lives with and against something as his species and as the individual
    • humans make a new nature
  • Social Media is a glimpse of the future life in a virtual world where
  • Social Media is about a self-infusion with meaning
  • Our informational exchange was limited to our fingers and thumbs, on social media it is enhanced by click-functions that make memes, pictures and videos sharable.
  • The flow of information increases.
  • Social media is a lot of noise
  • Social Media can let us connect to Being but also separates us from Being
• Social Media is a task to learn stoic kynism, it means to transform anger into bitter irony. But the problem is this might be only a form of sublime anger.