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Is this poem not a more verbose way of saying: "No news is good news" I would have said a more poetic way, but I find the above proverb poetic in it's...

You are unnecessarily confusing yourself. 0.9... IS a rational number. It is not that I think it is, rather it is. Any number that infinitely repeats ...

I agree with this post. Recently I have been leaning towards the view that it is not immorality or amorality that causes the greatest harm, rather it ...

But that is not what is happening here. Using finite intuition would not lead to thinking 0.9... = 1. So the maths that demonstrates 0.9... = 1 is not...

I was just reading this thread, but it seems you have solved your own conundrum. In the infinite hotel the two are equivalent, as you yourself point o...

Some of your points do a good job comparing a scientific mentality with a non-scientific one. In particular your points on: - The past - The future - ...

Coming form an entirely mechanistic perspective (I know, I know, this is a philosophy forum sorry!) Isn't antinatalism an evolutionary dead end strate...

Oh I agree. Hence my use of "fact" in quotation marks in my original post, to mean people who use the term "facts" whether or not what they then utter...

What I see wrong is that a fact is not correct just because it supports someone's values. Facts about whether you are more likely to die if you take a...

Quantum mechanics is very robust mathematically. But once you get into interpretations of what it actually "means," then it is as much about how good ...

Yes! But I will add to that people also profess views for values driven preferences over factual truth. Any claimed "facts" that support their values ...

I would say science is the least biased (but not devoid of bias) of the lot. Then again as someone with a science background, that could be influenced...

I think this is spot on. I would say that science at its purest is a method we use, to the best of our current ability, to create theories that match ...

I am not sure I understand your assertion that Britain has what other nations lack - role models. Are only royalty held up as role models? Can not a s...

I see it more imply as a net positive and negative equation. Your opening post only tallies up the negatives, but what of the positives? By not having...

I find the two different methods of comparing observation to laws interesting. On the one had you have the stance that if there is a violation of what...

This non-local waveform you postulate needs to be able to transfer information from one local particle to another, if it is to explain Bell's test res...

As per your quote (I don't know where you got that from), the laws of physics also have to be non-local. You can't simply have non-local hidden variab...

That won't explain the Bell's test results. In your above example, Bell's inequality should hold.

What you are postulating is the transfer of information between two different localities through the means of non-local hidden variable. Despite you a...

If space itself is the connection, then either: - It (space) is transferring information between entangled particles at faster than the speed of light...

That's not a hidden variable theory though. You are in effect hypothesizing wormholes between entangled electron pairs.

That would violate special relativity.

As i said in my post in the rest of the sentence you posted: Or our understanding of locality is incomplete, or our understanding of the limitation of...

Like I said in my post, the test rules out non local hidden variables, except if the experimenter is included in the determinism (superdeterminism) or...

Read about the Bell tests. They are a somewhat complicated but brilliant set of experiments done in reply to the hypothesis of hidden variables. You c...

I don't think there is a non-local, non-experimenter hidden variable theory that is consistent with the results of the Bell tests. Those experiments r...

Yes, which is what superdeterminism is. It could be a global hidden variable that includes the experimenter. In which case the standard scientific met...

Yes, in any useful sense.

The spin orientation of both particles are not locally determined when the particles are created. That is the whole point of the Bell tests. The parti...

On top of my previous two posts, I should add that a lot of quantum mechanics is consistent with even local hidden variables. That was only discredite...

This is innate local indeterminism. Not global indeterminism (or universal indeterminism may be a better term). Read about superdeterminism, here is a...

If the experimenter and experiment are both determined in such a way as they are correlated, current quantum mechanics is consistent with determinism....

Local determinism is incompatible with quantum theory. Global determinism can be consistent with quantum theory - if the experimenter is also being de...

Yes, though if one really subscribes to determinism it is even more fundamental that that. Take your example of someone thinking: "Everything is deter...

Determinism is perhaps the most useless philosophy. Does not mean it is wrong, but useless. And with my science hat on, it is untestable.

But language conventions change over time, in particular English language conventions. And what you are seeing is not the eschewing of language conven...

To me, you have to first ask why we are categorising men/women in each case. In the case of what third person pronoun to use, I see no fundamental rea...

This is my current view. There exists something (whatever it is, something exists). That something is more than just me - I am rejecting the possibili...

This is the position I am closest to. I would go further and say actions and concepts are also languages that have meaning, like words.

Interesting. Aside from art, I would consider actions to also have meaning. Take body language. I guess you would say that body language has no meanin...

I question this. If I write down all my concepts, ideas, other information in a book, is that book now my mind? Is not the information processor also ...

Can not actions, visuals, concepts have meaning even when not put into words? Does art have meaning?

There are a few thing going on here, as far as I can see. If I accept that a person in the scenario being discussed is sacrificing the truth to protec...

And what if I come to a different conclusion to you, on what is good? My previous question could be re-written as I think X optimises goodness You thi...

And what is goodness? What is a favourable outcome? And what are your justifications for saying we are supposed to think of optimising goodness? Why a...

Yes this is true. And this biology that "cares" about its well being and forces us to take actions results in friendships and murder, among many other...

You use " relation of change" a few times, do you mind expanding that term as I'm not sure exactly what you mean. In particular how you think consciou...

I dispute this. I suggest the greatest horrors of history were performed by people who believed in the objective righteousness of their actions. It is...

You can definitely scientifically study behaviour resulting from consciousness. You can also scientifically study the neural correlates of consciousne...