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L says the relations between the parts are dependent in the observer. So how does this apply to a glove? It fits for you but not for me?

Not so sure. The distance between objects varies, according to L?

How, according to Leibniz, are the relations of the parts of a goive, damned, a glove! different for you and me?

What did he mean by that?

This is a western, science-based forum, my friend... Accurate as your panopticon vision is, it will be met with fierce resistance, as the above commen...

Leibniz didn't use relativity as Einstein did. The relation between objects stays the same fir every observer in Leibniz' view, contrary to Einstein's...

It is trivial. But it was used to show Leibniz was wrong. All relational properties of a left hand and a right hand are the same. Still they are diffe...

Yes. He considered space as the relation between objects only. Which would make a left glove the same as a right glove. Which the aren't. Left and rig...

How so? Only because it can't be proved?

One can stay Kantian, obviously. Kant had a wrong view on spacetime though. You could incorporate all scientific progress, spacetime being relative an...

Between the "should be" and "how it is" there lays the unbridgeable gap of reality.

The whole point being of course if your "Universe", and the means investigating it, is a fantasy just as well. If people wanna base their lives on a "...

Religion could actually play a role here. I we teach the children nature is a divine gift, a divine creation, they think twice before engaging against...

Still... There are about 10 000 active nuclear warheads scattered over the world. Whatever MAD entails, the laws of chance are such that they will one...

He's right though! For sure the radioactivity will induce mutations!

Her life would be f***ed! :lol: "Quark, have you seen Uni?" "Yes mum, he sat crying in the washing machine, so I closed the door. The program must be ...

@"universeness" and me already have had the pleasure of meeting. We have a MAD relation! Without the D!

A reasonable future view! Let's hope Putin and the west dont go MAD. Jezus, that guy Putin sounds like he actually wanna use nukes!

More than one!

Yeah! Great song! "That's not my name!" What's in a name! "They call me Feynmann, they call me Feynman, they call me names..." "You're surely joking R...

Pleased to meet you, hoped you guessed my name! :naughty:

Well, partly. We can investigate the stuff made. And describe how it evolved into life. Thats what's usually called an explanation for the origin of t...

I think so too! :naughty:

Ha! Already here WW3 is immanent! Word War10.

Well, this is a philosophy forum, not a computer science one. I could talk about Bloch spheres but that wouldn't be very enlightening for the philosop...

Yes! And technology will help us in reaching transhuman status!

All part of the cos play you perform. Well, being a troll makes you see trolls everywhere. I get it now. Calling me a troll before you can be called o...

Then where came that spark from? What parallel worlds and bounces are you speaking of? And it clear it's all just alien-produced? If quantum computing...

This was meant for Vincent... I doubt there hides a poet in you... Though they generally are paranoid!

Well, that's the theory I cling to. Before the big bang there could have been another, and another. An infinite succession of bangs maybe. From where ...

Damned! You should have become a poet! :up:

You wrote: "Yes I am, but not based on attempts to BAIT people by stealth as I suspect you do"

The big bang.

:up:

Bait people? What for? I just state what I think is the case and what will happen in the future. What would be my motives. People telling me that what...

Science is absolutely true. It gives us an explanation why the universe is there. Love permeates the universe. The driving force. If we want to shed o...

You do it again! Yes, of course I'm interested what response I get. Aren't you?

This sounds suspicious.There is a definite theistic smell surrounding this statement. Is this an attempt to become like God, whose existence you secre...

Did they do it for us?

Why? All wars have shown an incredible speed-up of technology. Just look at WW2. Radar, the ENIGMA machine of Türing, etc.Imagine the speed up during ...

I believe we are simulations of that intelligence. For some reason they created us. Sounds like believe in God but it's actually rooted in the materia...

It's my guess you had some bad experiences with religion. So your paranoia might just be a defend mechanism. Which is understandable.

The new developments in biological computing, quantum computing, and CRISPR, offer a strong cocktail trio for extending life beyond humans and within ...

I just repeated your claim that it is me using theist tactics. Who says it's not you using theist tactics? Why you accused me of it? Where did I give ...

As @Vincent pointed out, when WW3 arrives this year, technology development will be accelerated and the quest for immortality and omniscience will be ...

An event is a zero-dimensional structure, a point. Cause and effect are defined for infinitesimals only. An infinitesimal is not a point. From which w...

@universeness seems to be playing a very refined cos play here. Peddling atheism and transhumanism while actually advocating for God. It's a well-know...

Basically, there are two causes. Mental causes and physical causes. Mental causes obey different laws than physical causes. Action resulting from ment...

Thanks! You're incredible. A bit paranoid, but still incredible...

To address the question asked, the answer is a firm-sounding yes. It's expected that minds gradually appear in robots, which already today can perform...