Haglund

Christ being the shadow of God?

You said something about the logical law of the excluded middle. Physical reality not excludes the middle.

Precisely. Logical cause and effect are very different from the physical. Logic contains no physics. It's logical that you fall hard on Earth if you j...

What's the difference between an emulation and a simulation?

Or maybe they show us how not to ruin the planet. But when the final explanation is there?

You can save time, fight against it, waste it, kill it, or collect it. You can measure it and it flies, while at other times time crawls. Time seems s...

It's an ideal dome.

That would just mean the flame died or the gas was obstructed. But indeed, water not boiling in a kettle on a flame is no logical impossibility. Logic...

So is quantum field theory. Abstractions have a point. The Norton dome shows cause and effect aren't that straightforward.

I just mean time could have run backwards. Effects could have come first.

The object is a point particle laying at rest in a vacuum on the apex. What thermal jitter?

But then, from where comes the stuff used in the explanation?

God will show himself. In time... :grin:

"Oh father in heaven, give us our daily bread!"

The Norton dome shows there is no cause of the rolling down. The gas example shows that cause and effect are dependent on the direction of time. It ei...

Chaos theory is about sensitivity to initial conditions. Vary them a tiny bit and you might end up in Bakerstreet instead of Trafalgar Square.

Every time we observe an electron shot through two slits we see a flash of light on a screen placed behind it. Can we logically conclude that if we ob...

I see, but still. Why should psyche, according to functionalists, be absent if the brain is in sleep mode? How can a material process, which according...

Why not? You being unconscious doesn't mean the psyche has left the material.

People just wanna keep their silly jobs in trying to work on something that just can't be explained. Keep up the myth that consciousness can be explai...

It's just the essential unity tying God, the father, Jesus, the sin, and their holy spirit. So the trinity is essentially a unity. What's so difficult...

Don't you think we find ourselves in the middle? I mean, between the environment and our brain? So we are not separated from both? If we truly would b...

Don't think so. The apple can fall to the right or to the left. But it can also stay in balance at the apex of Norton's dome. That being said, a gas i...

It seems pretty clear to me. He says that in order to say anything is given you have to use your brain to say it's given. So the given is always a men...

Causal closure and energy conservation are no problem for mind extraction. If my soul is sucked out of me, my brain and body just move on in darkness....

You take my comment seriously? About being defeated. You do exactly the same as theists. Claiming without evidence.

Like I am with you not believing in god. But where is the evidence of these many worlds?

That's the usual reaction of people who don't like to admit defeat.

The many worlds.

So, can you prove they are there? No.

There are even infinite many worlds in MWI. Right now you should be branching into a multitude of them.

I read that too. The popular press...

Like I said, feel free what you think. There is no evidence that we are a pocket in an eternally inflating fantasy. If you are okay with that, knock y...

Well, aren't there parallel worlds in the MWI?

And that was in relation to the MWI?

Didn't you cite Sean Carroll?

Do you mean you have seen parallel worlds?

Be my guest!

I don't disagree with initial inflation. I disagree with the eternal variant.

Almost. God is true, the models are a fantasy, explaining nothing about the nature of quantum mechanics or inflation. The are metaphysical fantasies t...

Gods are the ultimate metaphysics. The MWI or eternal inflation fantasies pale in comparison, though gods are no fantasy, while eternal inflation and ...

I can see the similarities. The mind uploaders are the cargo cultivists.

Your understanding. Good observation. But people like you don't (can't) really understand because your thinking obeys the imperative.

Your good right! If you want to take a fantasy as explanation, feel free! Thesis: Gods created spacetime and particles. Observation: There are particl...

What you mean by our separation from reality? That we can observe it from a distance, with something between us and reality? Is it our body between th...

Sorry, I didn't mean to say you were wrong, but the reasons you gave are just not my reasons. I just don't think science alone offers meaning or reaso...

The need for such an entity is to give a non scientific reason or meaning to life and the universe it's in. Science can neatly describe the universe a...

What causal relation?

What better proof is there? They won't show themselves. Yet...

You call the universe insufficient proof?