Calling his post an argument is being VERY generous as it is nothing but just a bunch of assertions that he repeats without any reason to logic to exp...
He's still wrong in that sense as well, I wasn't talking about circadian rhythm. It's also funny how he talks about not needing to do stuff when the g...
I did and to be honest I'm surprised it was a best seller. It got a lot of things wrong, one thing being that animals have no sense of time (it's just...
Actually no you can't. I said it is different areas in concert, but you can't point to a network of neurons and say this anymore I can point to a netw...
No because again it's different parts of the brain in concert with each other, even if there is something you can point to you can't point to memory o...
Not usually, it's like the case with memory. You can't really feel or weigh it but you know it's real (well some would debate it), the issue though is...
Like I said, it's complicated. That's all I can say. Not even Buddhism says anything about there not being a self, or ego (a common mistake really as ...
Have they though? I can't see the air and there isn't a way to truly isolate it. The same goes for gravity, where is gravity located? You don't feel g...
Just because you can't identify it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. By that logic air and gravity wouldn't exist either and neither would magnetism or t...
In a sense there is a new you because nothing that makes up you is permanent. You're appealing to some core that doesn't really exist. Because the guy...
Which is the same as defending solipsism. Apparently you aren't your body either. I forget the argument they used but it's similar to the ship of Thes...
Just because you can't zero in on it doesn't mean it doesn't exist or is an illusion. There are lots of phenomenon like that. From what I read about B...
How exactly is the ego an illusion? People say that a lot but is there a way to truly know? Well they are self though in that they are what one "likes...
Well it's also taking average doubt to an absurd conclusion. Just because I can't solidly prove others are conscious doesn't mean they aren't and I'm ...
It's a thought experiment. The point being that we can't prove other people are conscious, not strictly. But some take that to the extreme end and thi...
No...no...just you. Using just one interpretation you agree with, and a fringe one at that. Enough said. I mean...you still think observation has anyt...
It's a bit more complicated than that. Because I can verify a tiger. It's also not a case of absence of evidence but more like reasonable doubt. Like ...
Again it's not hidden variables but I'm getting tired of repeating myself to someone who doesn't get it. Again, because it has been measured. What is ...
Again, not entirely. Also the point of the Schrodinger experiment was to show how it doesn't apply to the macro world. Again, the collapse happens at ...
It's not so-called authority, all the interpretations are is attempts to explain the math. It's not a stretch to call the field purely math based. Int...
The interpretation is just a way to simply the math behind it. It's one of the large problems of quantum physics to be honest, to even understand what...
A measuring device is an observer. No it can't because that isn't what existing in a superposition is. It's not either-or it's something new entirely,...
Except that isn't true. Trust me when I say I have asked people who do this for a living and they say consciousness has nothing to do with it. And unc...
I did ask him about it but all he really said was that my worldview wouldn't allow me to understand his view, which is just a copout for having to act...
That was directly quoted from the matter about observation on quantum systems so it's clear that observer doesn't mean conscious observer. It's just s...
That's not true. Directly quoted from the page on an observer in QM: "The observer has, rather, only the function of registering decisions, i.e., proc...
But that's not really fact though right? That's just one out of MANY interpretations of it. Also if I understand "observer" is misunderstood to mean c...
You might be right. He also did use "naive realism" like some kind of slur or excuse for not explaining it. That is why I invite people to look throug...
That's what it sounds like to me. Because most of his replies were "you just don't get it" and I told him that the inability to explain something usua...
I wouldn't call him a strict follower when he doesn't even use superposition in the way it is meant to. I've google both definitions of it and neither...
Well according to him (and in the long series of replies) he is because we all exist in superposition, to which I said that isn't how superposition is...
I just need someone to tell me if I was in the right with the points that I made against him in the thread because philosophy isn't my strong suit. Li...
Except that isn't what his is putting forth. What you are talking about is subjectivism in which I can admit. But that isn't what he's getting at. IF ...
But what I am trying to get at is this though, is the argument the guy posted right or was I correct in my questioning of it. Philosophy is my weak po...
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