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what does it mean to hand him to me?

in either case, counterfactuals work for a causal view of the world. See, you can view the world as 2 things: the way the world operates, and the fact...

just imagine a universe that started last Thursday. One could also imagine a godlike figure reaching in and changing a couple individual things

Probably, but I think it's pretty intuitive. Most people have some kind of model of causality. Counterfactual statements like mine are just the basic ...

my thoughts are, they could have made a different choice if they counterfactually had wanted to.

is that what your first reply did? It didn't look like it was looking at ANY possible answers

Well, I'm pretty sure if someone asks you a question, they just want to know how YOU look at it, not all the other ways it could be looked at lol.

Lol. I just love the idea of you giving such a useless response every time someone asks you a question. Did you enjoy that movie last night? That can ...

that's how questions work, that's right

Nothing i said would even remotely suggest memory isnt a function of the physical bain. I would hazard a guess that you didnt read much of what i wrot...

Again, what current evidence is that?

I don't think so. I think the mind is more *what the brain does*, the processes it engages in, than just "the physical arrangment that is the brain". ...

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but I like Jo Whelers answer. I would consider myself a "process philosophy" believer when it comes to the eme...

Here's an even better one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC7odtQHoPc Given that you can produce this type of animation using only consumer-available...

Wonderful. Funnily enough, most flat earthers also believe the moon itself is flat. There's actually another stop-motion you can get of the moon to di...

It's actually apparently pretty accessible to prove the world is round. All you need is access to a 600-ft-high view of the sea. They're not exactly E...

I went on a couple flat earth Discord groups and was quite unpleasantly surprised with the state of their community. What I thought would be the case ...

sure, there's no way to be certain of anything if you are very skeptical. But if you're reasonably skeptical, there could still be ways to be justifia...

Recently there was an expedition to the South pole, that cost 35k per head, for flat eathers to go observe the 24 hour sun. It's called The Final Expe...

What does any of this have to do with sexual arousal?

Yeah totally. I came across this response to that type of experiment the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/globeskepticism/comments/1dej3ox/perspect...

Kind of like what you did when you claimed you could just see the curve

this is the image I'm thinking of https://www.google.com/search?q=telephone+poles+over+sea+horizon+curve&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=16501dcb6f6c1178...

Yeah this is a good one. I saw an image with something like telephone poles curving down over the horizon.

It's been calculated to be imperceptibly small. If your view of the horizon from a beach front is x "pixels" wide, so to speak, the curvature of the h...

They actually do write it off that way, funnily enough.

Well none of those words relate to visibly seeing the horizon curving. You could tell me, "yes, I understand that you can't visibly see the horizon cu...

Flat earthers don't often like to prove anything. They don't even tend to make clear claims. I saw a flat earther recently claim they can triangulate ...

Here's a write-up on why the curvature of the earth is not visible to the naked eye when looking at, say, the horizon of the sea at a beach. https://f...

I watched that second video and cannot see anything like that.

No worries, at least we can agree - this is within the grasp of most people to figure out! Most flat earthers believe that the earth is also 6000 year...

I would love to, it looks like a really interesting video. It was linked in a very specific context though - the context was, someone claimed that the...

Judging by how you cut off my quoted post, and your subsequent response, I think you missed the part where I explicitly said that THIS question is wit...

so he does disprove that the horizon looks visibly flat to the naked eye in that video? So... where's the time-stamp for that?

Ah okay, the context you quoted made it seem like there was some specific claim in the video about the (un)flatness of the horizon. This isn't that, t...

that is over an hour long. I assume I don't have to watch over an hour of content to find out if the horizon of the sea visually looks flat or not. Do...

Indeed! There's just a bit of a trap around the hole 'seeing stuff beyond the curve' question because of this. If you went in not knowing about refrac...

definitely less expensive. I don't think sailing around the world is easy!

Absolutely. It's just interesting that, if the earth were the size oficially claimed, you would actually expect to see less than you do - that's somet...

Tourist rockets? Like the one jeff bezos went up in? Is there something affordable for a normal person?

That's not my experience. Go to the beach, look out to sea, it looks pretty flat to me. Take a photo, I'm pretty sure it's not visibly curved. Does th...

The weird thing I've discovered with this is that there's actually a bit of an unexpected result here (at least, unexpected to me) -- you can actually...

great idea! What's your preferred method of guaranteeing you're travelling the same direction? Even a slight angle off from 'straight' could lead you ...

based on what?

It did occur to me that superdeterminism is possibly compatible with some indeterminism, but i couldn't find any confirmation of that online.

I'm saying it's not *ordinary* determinism. There's nothing ordinary about it. It is a TYPE of determinism, but not an ordinary one, not if you unders...

Right, so you *really* think all these scientists are talking about it like it's a unique propsoition clearly distinct from determinism, because physi...

It's not.

Something can be rational and untrue, and something can be irrational and true, in general. Rationality's goal is (often) truth, but it doesn't have d...

I think the Copenhagen interpretation also rejects locality, no? -edit, i guess i've always misinterpreted what the copenhagen interpretation is.