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I'm looking at the Democratic field of candidates and I'm getting a bad feeling that Trump is going to be re-elected. The only joy I can extract from ...

The victim's experience of remembering what the criminal looked like is a subjective one. Though the victim does report on this experience verbally, I...

An artist who works for the police draws a portrait of a criminal based on the memories of a victim. After the image is broadcast on T.V., a woman cal...

An objective point of view is like a map or a schematic. The viewer seems to be stationed outside if the world that's being observed. A subjective vie...

Chalmers is famous for hoping that one day we'll have a theory of consciousness that would allow us to predict the experience of a bee. That would all...

Rape culture? What is that?

OK. But it appears the OP's first language is Russian, so maybe it was a translation problem. Arabs were tribal people who did a lot of trading, which...

The fact that Christian clergymen identified Islam as Antichrist 1000 years ago indicates that there is a long tradition of judging Islam wholesale. Y...

Christians first identified Islam as evil about 1000 years ago. It was mostly fear of the unknown, which is a primal thing. Isn't there an interfaith ...

Yep. As Judaka mentioned earlier, the OP is boring and meaningless. No one supported it including the opening poster. What was interesting was the par...

Sunnis are dependent on secular authority to outlaw child marriage, slavery, and domestic abuse. It just means that an imam can only sort of indirectl...

An important element of understanding speech is the ability to couple with the speaker's frame of reference. This is what many autistic people lack an...

But the community is schizophrenic and prone to Trumping and Brexiting. I wouldn't leave anybody's career in the community's hands. Also, I dont think...

2019 is the Chinese year of the pig.

:yum:

Are you saying that Banno, StreetlightX, and Maw all live in the same basement? Or separate ones?

:up: I agree with you.

Yes, although I didn't realize Banno does it too. What's odd is that it's a heavily emotional thing, but robotic at the same time. I don't think the p...

Western and Islamic civilizations have much in common. They both have their cultural roots in Mediterranean Iron Age. They both remember Abraham, Jesu...

We often think of ad hominem as countering an argument with insults, but there's another meaning that's along the lines of "well, you would say that."...

So we're picking on fat people now? Is that what it is? But yeah, the USA is a large stupid beast.

This has been the premise of more than one movie. Signs appear to the protagonist that something is wrong. Finally the dream collapses. But the idea o...

People everywhere do this because it hurts to admit that your own culture sucks. But I believe the pile-on we see with this thread has to do with the ...

That's not very likely.

But if this view were to be accepted by Muslims, wouldn't that mean the death of Islam? Is that what you want? Or do you want reform? I hear you. What...

This emphasizes the fact that what's commonly thought of as objective is a psychic construction which happens to be mostly wrong. Taking QM into accou...

In QFT, everything is described in terms of fields. A particle is a disturbance in the field, and it's always the field. There's only one electromagne...

field, n.: something that has a value everywhere in space

I still don't quite understand why your head exploded there, but I think it's quite possible that you aren't sexist so much as unaware of some stereot...

Very helpful. Thanks!

Could you explain what a Higgs field is?

So you do know that grown-ups take responsibility for their own words and actions?

Why so angry? Was it the "loser" part?

That sounded sexist. Stop being a loser.

Of course it's an issue. Arizona isn't Florida. It will run out of resources quicker. But one thing to consider is that Trump purposefully delayed hir...

I think we still use it that way. The 3rd person, objective voice is the world's voice. On analysis, we note that this has to be a construction of the...

On both sides, isn't it? What decadent force threatens our values and traditions? The West.

Quantum physics doesn't give a subjective idealist any leverage. It might have seemed so early on, but not anymore.

So you aren't suggesting that measurement creates something ex nihilo, You're just saying it creates the type of thing we usually think of as a physic...

Yeah, that's true. So your point was that measurement doesn't create anything. It just brings about an alteration. Therefore we shouldn't think of qua...

We may be having a translation problem, but it sounds like you're saying that superposition can be understood as a classical physical state, the parti...

Well, but we weren't talking about common sense. We were talking about quantum theory.

Honestly no one should care if other people care about this story

You're making the same mistake Benkei did. The Copenhagen interpretation says that prior to measurement, stuff doesnt have the properties we associate...

I think he was trying to exploit the attention that violent bigotry does draw. In the process he made fools of the people who wanted to support him.

To himself. He was looking for publicity. He got it.

There are a lot of quantum theories. Some involve a wave function collapse, some don't. The ones that do usually say that it's not appropriate to talk...

What is an indeterminate state from an epistemilogical point of view? What does that mean?

Lynching was used to create terror. Staging an attack is used to draw attention. It's attentionism. And it will undermine confidence in the testimonie...

What do you mean "from an epistomological point up to when it's observed"? Are you saying the particles have location and momentum and so forth prior ...