EugeneW

The distinctions made are quite artificial. Preons collect in quark and lepton structures, behaving according to laws we can find out by isolating the...

There is nothing computed in the brain. This is a common misconception. The brain (be it that of an ant or that of people) resonates selectively with ...

Why should you represent reality into the physics-chemistry-biology-cosmology division in the first place?

But one doesn't need math to see that there are quarks when looking at the variety of hadrons. One doesn't need math ti see the weak force is not fund...

In standard QM, human observers play that special role, and together with the probabilistic interpretation, this leads to strange scenarios (like many...

Fact is that most of the universe can't be mathematically described and a lot of math can't be found in the universe. Because it's non-mathematical.

There are lots of alternatives. But considering the current observations, this model fits the best as far as I know, and offers a dark energy mechanis...

Well, they have unreal properties. Or rather, non-intuitive properties. Like energy (not potential) without momentum and momentum without energy. Off-...

It's the collective that sets the constraints for the parts. The dynamics of the partial structures are constrained so they shape the whole. Like term...

The absolute nothing is absolutely nothing. How can something come to be from absolutely nothing? It can't. So there had to be a physical universe alw...

There remains one last thing I haven't figured out. Why isn't everything moving in opposite direction?

Indeed. And anyone claiming it to be a universal language is unconsciously adoring an absolute god. Which is present for everyone. The universal god.

Let me open the shutter and give you a bright shining vista. A belvedere. Spacetime is curved, and curvature can be quantified, by tensors. Ricci tens...

Descriptions differ from the subject described. Particles connected in the shape of a parabola are no parabole. Says you. I don't think math structure...

Basically it says the beginning in time happens in series. After us a next beginning and thereafter again. And before us. Ad infinitum. On that, etern...

Why shouldn't a system be able to measure itself? If an observer measures Schrödinger's cat, it is said that the whole of the observer and cat is stil...

Virtual particles are as real as real particles. They have space-pervading presence, and are not moving forward nor backward in time. They are just ci...

As usual, when you can see the functioning of something, you say "of course, how else?" I felt puzzle pieces falling in place, after absorbing all kin...

Then you have overlooked me. If all the gaps are closed, the only thing we can logically conclude is gods who clapped in their hands or shouted out, w...

Real particles are just as virtual as virtual particles. Virtual particles are potential in the sense that they can get promoted from fluctuation to e...

Point particles are a myth. A fairy tale image, leading to infinities, regularization, renormalization, and other ghost stories.

A virtual particle just runs around in time with disentangled energy and momentum (off-shell). On all paths at once (or oscillating between all fast)....

The reason is more likely that most of the universe has no mathematical structure. Already three bodies interacting gravitationally do not move on mat...

But what is consciousness? Neuroscientists can't explain. I have a pretty accurate and adequate picture of the workings of the brain. Sound and vision...

A particle doesn't change continuously into other particles. Rather, it couples with the omnipresent field of virtual particles, by means of it charge...

A vacuum fluctuation can be seen as an eternal presence of a particle in the vacuum. It oscillates in time with a non-fixed energy-momentum relation (...

And again you find me on your side! This view is "hammered" into people from early age on. Great value is assigned to IQ, abstract problem solving (wh...

That's it! Right. The art of painting, the images shown, stand to the colors and brushes and techniques used, as neurons, quarks, leptons, or whatever...

To be honest, I think I know. Not because I'm the chosen one or whatever BS, but because I'm interested, gave it a lot of thought, and somehow my subc...

It's a very modest answer. And if you don't know the answer then it's honest. But what if we know?

One more thing though. Please don't see me as a god lover or a preacher of the gospel.

Good question during the drinking: "Is the...hick...universe...hick...hick...masturbating and...hick!...eja-hick!-culating into empty HICK..." Have a ...

I mean, if we are his/her eyes, ears, and arm and hands, they let us create a black hole, an ejaculation into spacetime...

But if Fred needs us to procreate, is Fred just masturbating then?

But if the universe wants to become self aware, wouldn't it be best to show herself to us?

Would be a good new thread. Are all discoveries pigeon shit? Even Maxwell's? It's only when the theory is worked out rationally that it seems invented...

I think I understand your name now. Universeness. We all have it. I think Fred shows itself to everybody. To all creatures. Not only me. What three cl...

Well, and I know it maybe sounds psychotic or cranky, couldn't it be that the universe has somehow showed me its nature? To actually prove it, you'll ...

From the article: You have to be awake... Yes... Of course... But look how the material basis is accentuated. "The important internal factor" and (as?...

That distant future is now. But I don't think it makes me omnipotent.

So you think the universe, via us, has become self aware? If we know certain things about it, is that the universe knowing? No, it's us knowing.

You think we can èxist as photons? Don't think so. We would have no substance and feel no passage of time. Wormholes like in interstellar don't exist....

What's between you and falsifiability? What's the big deal with falsifiability? Sir Karl Popper?

I mentioned smell because that's a part of consciousness we can easily point to. The material aspect, that is. A smell process is embedded in the grea...

Never.

All ion pulses run around in concert. There are 10exp(10exp20) possible paths to travel for parallel bundles of ion pulses. A smell is an integrated b...

Do you have an example of integrated information in the brain?

If you know how the brain works you see that there is no computation at all in the brain. Even when you mentally perform a calculation. Computation an...

Of course these truths exist. They just differ from person to person, group to group, culture to culture. :smile:

You don't know a peep about it. You should go contemplating God. It's obvious he made you for that.