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Let me give it a try. If I hold two magnets in my hands I imagine them to be elementary particles (the micro world is really not that different from t...

True atoms have no mass like a table. On the fundamental level matter is kinetic only. With a will to reach out. The table is an example of satisfied ...

You fear she won't take care of you?

Just don't take Banno too seriously, and neither me, for that matter. We all have a free and determined will. Hannah wanted other people to take hers ...

Heidegger writes to Hannah (a burning love affair): "Everything should be simple and clear and pure between us. Only then will we be worthy of having ...

No, it shouldn't. If I (A) precipitate you, and I am reborn (B) in a next universe then C is in the middle.

Are not the EM fields generated by electric charges? I don't think the non-local character of these charges gives an explanation. The charges themselv...

You should have visited the last year college at university here... :mask:

Indeed. How else can it be? We are what we eat.

You mean consciousness and self consciousness or classical and quantum mechanics?

I'll just provide a final comment on your theory about knowledge and then leave you alone. Pragmatic epistemology is an unsupported, far-fetched theor...

Then, according to the standard interpretation of QM, there still would be a superposition of macro states, before a conscious observer looks to it. T...

Incoming message: "The father of modern-day bouldering is kindly requested to go hang on one arm on a branch of the closest tree in the neighborhood."...

Tegmark litterally says that there exist collections of particles and surroundings that are identical. A twin that cts, thinks, and feels like you or ...

What then is the point?

The center of a BH is no singularity as the one at the center of the 4d torus. In a bh all matter is compressed to a planck volume. With point particl...

There is only one speed of light. In the vacuum. The smaller speed comes in handy in using glass fibres, but the concept of speed of light in glass is...

Yes, two closed 3d universes moving on the 4d torus. The outside of the torus is open though and extends to infinity. Two 4d spaces connected by a 4d ...

Yes. Behind us, in the fourth spatial dimension. Imagine the 2d case of the torus (the outside is not closed though). From the small mouth, two 1d cir...

Yes, say two halves on the sphere of the balloon. I think that they live parallel, separate, simultaneous lives makes both non-identical. How can a pa...

I assume the singularity to be the Planck-sized mouth on the 4d torus on which two 3d universe inflate from Planck diameter into 10exp11 times the siz...

Well, if two halves on a 2d sphere contain particles that have identical relative positions and velocities , then they will develop identically. From ...

Well, in fact there could be two identical parts in the universe. Imagine the space that banged into existence. It had a diameter already of 10exp11 t...

That's the problem with dark energy. It generates new space, apparently. How can that be? Dark energy doesn't have a related particle. The inflaton? M...

I don't understand your last comment. Suppose we look at a galaxy near the edge. Far away in spacetime. My copy does the same. The galaxies are differ...

What if the magma lies too deep?

But you can see the one living near the edge.

But that's exactly my point. How can they be identical? Imagine a spot near the edge of each bubble. The same spot in both (as you assumed both identi...

Dead or alive...

Non-local hidden variables are not ruled out though. This view doesn't need a conscious observer for collapse. The collapse is an objective collapse. ...

Yes, but it not stays in that state, and two states are necessary for quantum computing. There was a computing done in which about 70 (I don't remembe...

But how can there be two different volumes then? With two copies of you?

But only one is right. Photon absorption and re-emission.

But consider now two volumes incredibly far apart. No information could have traveled between them. Assume the volumes have identical configurations o...

There are infinite superpositions of spin up and spin down, for one electron. After a measurement the state tends to evolve to a state with both up an...

Say you have a conceptual model of a site that uses different concepts as mine, but insofar pragmatics is concerned there is no difference. Your model...

Also these are mutually exclusive.

General relativity and Newtonian gravity are conceptually different. General relativity doesn't consider gravity a force and space and time are relati...

Money once was the substitute for goods and services in barter practice. Instead of giving you a chicken in exchange for 10 dozen of eggs (you could h...

Sovereignty: Supreme power or authority Dominion, supremacy, authority, tyranny, power, hegemony, domination... Do I need to write more? Hannah Arendt...

If two different models are equally accurate then they are both true? There are domains in the world where two or more mutually excluding conceptual m...

Yeah thought that myself too. But surely some knowledge must be true or false. When assessing a site, and another pragmatic epistemogist comes up with...

You forgot "reject". I don't reject this function, as pragmatic epistemology does. I see you are Collingwood's faithful acolyte. The presuppositions, ...

That's exactly why she insisted men had to give up their sovereignty. She insisted Heidi gave up his sovereignty. Only then he could be truly free. By...

If there was no substance behind the appearance reality would be dreamlike. Of course, the nature of this substance will remain a mystery while it's s...

All matter resides in galaxies. The space between galaxies doesn't expand. All that visible matter is matter with internal friction. I'm convinced tha...

It's the theory of black holes. If you look at a collapsing sphere of dust from a distance, the sphere seems to slow down in collapsing. When the sphe...

That's a story also...

Reminds me of the 18 000 000 trees where I live. If every tree has 100 000 leaves, how many trees at least must have an equal number of leaves? I'll c...

Here you are wrong. That is not the function of thought. The function of thought is to give an analogue image of the world, so we can walk in it with ...