Mass and angular momentum, left ambiguous by Einstein, get defined

Re:Mass and angular momentum, left ambiguous by Einstein, ge... by gumby on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:16PM (#32114116)

You might want to read “The Intentional Stance” by Daniel Dennett, a philosophical treatise basically on how we usefully ascribe desire or intention to inanimate objects and phenomena as a mental model (for example, saying that “The thermostat tries to keep the temperature between 20 and 30”).

(This is not a comment on the precession video itself, which haven’t clicked on)

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Re:Mass and angular momentum, left ambiguous by Einstein, ge... by leephillips on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:20PM (#32114135)

I’m well aware of this manner of speaking. Everyone is. If you did look at what I was commenting on (not a video) you might agree that its use in that case doesn’t help, at all. Or not.

I’ll look up the Dennett article, thanks.

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