Haglund

Then so be it... Better than having a so-called adult take on existence. Which is just another view. Existence exists. But existence is human or creat...

There never was nothing. The gods are eternal. But they created the universe outa nothing. It wasn't there and the next moment it was there. The spoke...

Yes. The Bell tests. Bell invented them as he was an advocate of hidden variables (he couldn't imagine an observer, an experimenter with knowledge of ...

Gods can create a universe out of nothing. They are like magicians pulling things out of a hat. For real, that is. There is no material cause precedin...

Why? Non-local hidden variables exist without any observer

Yes. But not in the scientific cause and effect sense. It's a teleological cause. A "theleo"logical cause. My reasons are the reasons. The existence o...

Superdeterminism seems to include the choices made. Non-local hidden variables don't involve choices made. It are the objective variables and are the ...

If two natural events always turn up together they have a causal relation or a common cause. So if A and B always, either A causes B (in the case of t...

Rocks existing is a mental picture. In reality objective existence is not viewd on, has no perspective, no focus, is without POV, without an angle.

Experiments don't rule out non-local hidden variables. There are even experiments thinkable to decide if there are these things.

What if the effect of cause is unpredictable? Can we still call it a cause? Or the effect the effect? I think for cause and effect to exist, there has...

Gibberish is the only language we can apply if we want to describe what is meant by mind transfer or de- and upload. The way Wikipedia describes it is...

I agree there is no FTL signal. I don't agree that the spin orientations are determined because the spins must be conserved. The spins of two electron...

You just throw the ball back: "But then your claim is culturally dependent too". So what? That doesn't mean that your objective reality lays behind th...

Ah yes. I see what you mean. So only in the case nothing is determined determinism can have impact?

It's us who contain the data and compute. There is no structure in reality that computes the data of the electron behind the scenes. You project an id...

Space shows itself by objects moving in it. This moving involves time. Space and time can be considered separately but space depends on motion and thu...

You and I have absorbed about 2500 years of scientific thought in a half lifetime. Say the current supposed ToE, string theory is it (which I don't th...

That's like saying a machine looks at the world. Which they don't. It's you projecting a perspective on them. Which I'm doing right now too for the sa...

Determinism can have a strong impact on reality though. Determinism can lead to distancing. "Everything is determined. So let it all be". Or, "it's al...

What about the coupling constants? How, at the fundamental level, is your information processed and what's the info about?

You think it's possible to program a mind in a robot body?

I don't believe in it either and consider it total nonsense but then why Wiki puts it that way? Mind upload.

The non-sentient world is not yet viewed at from an angle, focused, or put in perspective. No boundary lines are projected yet. The objective atlas of...

The old Greek paradox of the impossibility of change. If a spoon changes into a knife how can it have changed if its no spoon anymore? The spoon can o...

Fantasies absolutely exist.

The problem with dark matter is that it's dark and probably can't be directly detected. Maybe if sky observation techniques get sufficiently sophistic...

Dark matter is not an imaginary dragon. There is no Vulcan-like stuff discovered, true. But there is still the possibility dark matter is "normal" stu...

It is common today to take the concept religion as a taxon for sets of social practices, a category-concept whose paradigmatic examples are the so-cal...

Okay. A possible answer. Create, locally, a low mind pressure area around the mind to upload. Excite the subject. The person gets out of their mind. A...

Yes Alkis, someone finally did! :smile: Or did you mean all in here are mindless?

If there is anyone in fear of it, it was Nietzsche. Good old Fredrick took hide of himself behind his über-moustache.

Damned! And I always thought why I have such a small penis! I'm a woman! And I finally understand my high-pitched voice now!

Aha! :grin:

Doesn't that depend on the interpretation on QM?

There is such a thing as objective truth. But what that's like depends on the cultural medium it's in, on the story told. To claim that's not the case...

The argument is that the given, the absolute, objective reality, is culture dependent. Claiming it to be not only serves to favor one's own given.

The eternal yet... Sounds great. Like a never ending now. Which is the question.

Dictators do not admit other absolute realities by institutionalized force and try to make everyone part of their objective reality. That's the real d...

Not sure I understand. Why shouldn't determinism be meaningless in such a universe? I understand that from the outside of such a universe all the even...

By changing the definition of absolute, universal, independent reality. Connecting it to our mind. So to me absolute reality holds for me. For you, fo...

This is exactly what's going on around the interpretation of the muon g2 experimental results at CERN. Each time the experiment is pushed further, the...

:lol: Is prayer basically a cultured crave for tit and milk? Gotta remember that one in church! I'll put an extra dime in the basket!

In a post-modernist style of reasoning, we could consider the universals to be universal for the ones applying them.

You can observe something that's impossible but these impossibilities can turn out to be hallucinations, like a fata morgana, or they are just new pos...

Ah, you mean mass! I thought you referred to the mass of people... Yes. Photons don't experience time. They connect stuff instantaneously. Their finit...

I assume you mean formal logic, taught to children with the "Johnny buys 3 apples, an orange...", "if 40 children in a room are... ...then how many......

If logic excludes the middle, the physical reality might follow this or not. It depends on the physics involved. Logic can shape physical reality in a...

Not sure I follow. Only a thing for the mass?

But logical reasoning doesn't necessarily relates to physical cause and effect. A logical cause doesn’t necessarily have a counter weight in the physi...