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That's a cognitive imperative, isn't it? Sometimes called the law of explanation.

Yes, I know you were playing devil's advocate. Your devil should have thrown some Hayek at me.

Another good one: https://youtu.be/v-aP1J-BdvE

I don't see that it has anything to do with QM.

I think that means you're wrong. :nerd:

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There is no absolute space and time, so no, we don't live there.

Do we really need to sort metaphysics out to talk about QM and reality? When we discovered that the sky is not a rigid dome, we discovered that heaven...

It's not that QM is supposed to make you second guess your first hand experiences. It's the assumptions we use to contextualize those experiences whic...

It's what's happening to Schrodinger's cat when he's not being observed that's the problem. :razz:

I know it's prevalent. I was asking if it's declining in popularity.

The Fifty Year Wound I don't have a connection. It sounds fascinating though.

Yep. It's an excellent book. He also explains the lengths the CIA went to to kill Castro. It's worth the read just for that. You grew up in HK?

The challenge QM gives us, at least with the Copenhagen interpretation, is nature of a system that's in superposition. The problem is that it has no p...

Wigner's friend is one of the problems associated with wave function collapse. It may be that there is no "collapse."

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Most people in the US govt thought the British and French Empires were going to come back after WW2. It took a while for it to sink in that they weren...

No doubt. That mission was the fallout of the demise of the British Empire, which had the job of securing the infrastructure of global trade prior to ...

Nah, the One is not conscious on its own, and creation spreads out, further and further from intellect into the darkness of matter. Then starts a retu...

So a human is a tiny god?

Also you misspelled emanation.

The human mind is supposed to be a dim reflection of the divine mind. How do you pull solipsism out of that?

The Nous is the first emanation of the One. It's along the lines of the divine mind. There's no solipsism in there.

I don't think events are always determined by lone individuals, but sometimes they are. I remember being a little shocked to learn how the whims of po...

Think about what would have happened if Trump was president when Putin invaded. The US wouldn't have supported Ukraine. But we have Biden, so the US d...

As Banno would say, you're unavailable for learning. :sad:

Arms dealers and elites profit off every military action since Noah's dog was a pup. They grease the tracks for war. Wars can't be distinguished from ...

If someone claims we don't presently have the means to test theories, that's just an observation, and a correct one. If someone wants to claim that no...

So it was now or never. Makes sense.

I don't think it has in the long run. It's demonstrated Russia's military weakness and economic vulnerability. That's bad for the region in terms of s...

Why running out?

It comes down to Biden, I think. Biden led the sanctions drive. I think if Trump was the president, the EU would have had a more muted response with t...

Do you think the idea of a collapse is on the way out?

There's no way yet. It hasn't been established that there's no way in principle.

That's not true.

There aren't any quantum theories that assert solipsism afaik.

That's exactly right! What do I have to do to convince you that there's nobody here but me?!

Oh. Think about Schrodinger's cat. That about sums up what the Copenhagen interpretation says about unmeasured entities. Today we say measurement does...

Could you explain what that means?

Kant suggested we're creating that which we call reality. John von Neumann (I think more so than Bohr or Heisenberg) believed something similar. The r...

Didn't exactly demonstrate that, did it?

Yeah?

I'm a hypocrite. Shoot me.

I don't think the law dictates how society prioritizes its resources (although I'm not sure that's what you meant). Economic policy is usually formed ...

That quote isn't saying that Bohr was influenced by Kant. It's just saying people have noticed parallels. Wherever those parallels may be, the fact re...

True. My point was that if we want to answer the OP successfully, we should tune into what he or she is thinking of as reality. I don't think so. The ...

Why?

It's in line with embedded liberalism. The main practical argument for it is that it should protect a capitalist economy from breakdowns like the Grea...

Raw nihilism trying to blot out what is perceived as hope, because it hurts too much to see hope killed one more time. gulp

I think we're lucky we live in a time when physicists agree that physics has a philosophical dimension. I don't think that was true a few decades back...