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Ep. 30 - Relevance Realization Meets Dynamical Systems Theory

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Is Money Real?

Many objects have properties that are not intrinsic to the object, but come from the object's relationship to us. This being a bottle is attributed because what it means to call it a bottle is the way it is relating to me and my usage of it. If there had never been human beings, and this popped into existence because of some quantum event near a black hole or something, it isn't a bottle. I've just shown you that you can't do science unless the members of your property are homogeneous, stable, intrinsic, or at least inherent. That's what you need to have powerful, inductive generalization.

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