For the will not to be free, in the academic sense of determism determining free will, you have to know what happens exactly. This is only possible fo...
If you feel like that, then yes. But where is this principle situated, and how does it determine? Is there some mad Principle Puppeteer directing proc...
Ain't it the matter on which zeroes and ones are formed that occupies space? You can use different stuff to push in a form of ones and zeroes, referri...
A process unfolding, with or without possible consequences on processes somewhere around it. The fact that these processes are determined doesn't rend...
It's the constriction of the will that should be part of ethics. The will is not "determined" by physical processes, it is just part of them, and they...
If I act contrary to the principle, which I do, by every action I perform. My will is nor free, nor tied to determinism or any other abstract principl...
What I meant, can one literally be under the influence of a principle we invented? I think it is the user of the principle projecting his will to powe...
We could give a mosaic of essential features, without being myopic, blind or deaf, or analyzing through a microscope. But who determines what parts of...
But the question is: Is she subject to the principle, or is this so only in the mind uttering the principle? After the launch friction will influence ...
I posted the song, the album, because the title was appropiate: (re)"Construction time again". How to reconstruct that? What you mean by medium specif...
"So, what’s the answer? Does it make sense to hold people accountable for their actions given that there is no free will?" The premise (the given) is ...
The principle of least action, applying to inanimate, conservative stuff, determines the unconscious will and action of mindless, conservative being. ...
As a matter of fact, you made me turn on some music! It looks like a soundscape to be discovered. Still... What should an objective conceptual reconst...
Don't tell me you don't know that in abstract painting most trees stand vertical and their leaves are convex. Same for realistic work. Vertical, up-do...
That's a nice approach. I think I even use it myself, when listening to music. Beside the emotions and crazy dances I sometimes dance, I discover new ...
I see. That's clear. But how to determine the concepts? Suppose I look at the New York Boogie Woogie painting, by Mondriaan? What would be the concept...
It's objective if we both agree to reconstruct the piece in the language of "motives", "contrapoints", or other terms of classical music. Isn't the re...
I wonder how you can reconstruct a work. Reconstructing means pulling a work out of its context and give it a new, seemingly objective new context of ...
Technology is just material stuff shaped in an artificial way. Nothing mysterious about that. In modern society it is sexy and even a sign that societ...
Of course viruses are alive. They are nast little blobs, though very altruistic in a way: they want new nasty blobs to come into existence, while they...
The problem with the radiation SETI tries to use for establishing first contact, is that it's feebleadatious. But their are enough photons left to obs...
You seem to imply that field are space. I'm inclined to the view that fields describe the simultaneous histories of almost pointlike particles. Quantu...
I'm sure the universe is teeming with life. If it produces structured radiation it should be observable. On a planet around Proxima Centauri 2015 on E...
Or like my grandmother said, "God keeps us decent, civilized, humble, and submissive, a welcome quality for the tyrant." Indeed. For some folks it see...
The quantum vacuum might even be negatively curved, thereby offering, when matter is confined to three spatial dimensions, a negatively curved spatial...
Exactly. He sees his way of being and his superposition states as reality. We are not only superpositions though. I think he is a very strict follower...
Virtual particles are a weird ingredient of empty space. One might even argue that it's the source of dark energy. For sure it has a different effect ...
As I understand it, at every point in spacetime operator valued distributions are assigned and these operators excite states in a Fock space of partic...
Catastrophe theory makes it perfectly clear: the Heavenly Holiness should be worshipped with every divinely created bone in our submissive and humble ...
I'm not sure I understand. Why isn't the number 20? Shouldn't there be just two massless base matter fields, one electromagnetic field, sixteen color ...
It's more reasonable there 20 massless basic fields, which gather mass by interaction. This insight will get clear when higher energy experiments are ...
Seem to be, indeed. But they are not. They principle of maximal economy applies to nature. You can construct all with two, the absolute minimum. Natur...
Basically, yes! It is us who have constructed clocks, and the periodic processes accompanying them, like pendulums and metronomes, atomic vibrations, ...
Maybe it's a scary thought that behind all stuff we use there are other people having some divine knowledge about them. We send our children to school...
https://youtu.be/9_gaK2KmVcA The reason for making: most people don't know the workings of, say, a remote control, but they use it. Here you explicitl...
Omniscience is a logical impossibility if interaction is involved, for interacting with that what the knowledge is about will destroy the knowledge yo...
Being not damned only if you do and don't at the same time: I'll be damned if I think I know nothing or everything and know or don't know that! Salvat...
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