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It's only not inconceivable by a technicality. It's more than astronomically unlikely.

Absolutely. I just have no idea why the government is choosing to give this person an audience.

I agree with all your points. The genetic stuff is a complete red flag. Why should alien life have 70% genetic similarity to life on earth? Seems impl...

do you have any links to support these claims? Energy is, believe it or not, considered part of the material world. Materialists believe in physics. P...

Really? Why not?

Can you give some examples? "Transcend the physical" could be interpreted in at least 2 ways. You could be talking about stuff that is completely not ...

after all your clarifications, I'm still thinking you're talking about plain ol' emergence. A lot of emergence is substrate independent too.

Examples from cellular automata, like the ol classic Glider, are just plain ol emergence in my book. I'm not really sure how that differs from "classi...

Sounds like you're just talking about emergence

you illustrated his point with that link very nicely. I appreciate that. I personally wouldn't word it as "energy is material", but I'm not prepared t...

find me a materialist who would agree and you might have something there lol.

I have the same question. "Not truth apt" is an interesting phrase. It's like he's not saying it's false or wrong, it's like he's saying it's not even...

It's not obvious to me that he's disagreeing with Einstein at all. Einstein at times seems to provide quotes suggesting he himself believes in an aeth...

This is the second time in my life that I've seen someone suggest materialists don't believe in energy lmao. How is that supposed to work? All materia...

Sure. I think there's two big flavours of that at play (or two sides of a spectrum, maybe?): 1. The offensive: My ism is clearly correct, and anyone w...

We probably don't have an Einstein on the site. What in particular in this thread do you think oversteps the bounds here? Who is making too bold bets ...

Why? It seems not only natural but beneficial that people would do that - on the condition that they do it in a moderate and unzealous way. I think di...

If quantum field theory is correct, then that would mean light does in fact propagate via a quantum field. Right? That's the idea. It seems to be the ...

my beliefs aren't relevant. I'm just exploring the topic. Even though my beliefs aren't relevant here, I'll answer the question honestly: I'm complete...

quantum field theory has EVERYTHING to do with the propagation of light.

if "world" means the literal planet, then I see how higher energy prices might be good for the literal planet, sure

I feel like there's some deep irony in this. Anybody else notice that? "What's best for the *world*" could be interpreted as, the health of the planet...

The idea he's presenting here is that of quantum field theory if I understand him correctly - he did bring that up before. Quantum field theory is, by...

I thought you were going with some sort of acausal view, or at least alternative-causality view, when you were saying it doesn't matter if a causes b ...

The question, I guess, is what sort of mechanism allows the universe to guarantee that their measurements are opposite? That's the casual explanation ...

He's championing a particular interpretation, or class of interpretations here - pilot wave theory, which some argue has evolved since its invention i...

Really interesting read.

Being many light seconds apart is exactly an example of what it means to be space-like separated, no? They are... separated in space. Thank you for th...

are you eschewing a casual explanation altogether? If not, how does the casual narrative look? I also want to take the opportunity again to clarify th...

I appreciate your feedback. However, the post you're replying to is purely about why Copenhagen family of interpretations require non local casualty.

Do you believe you're not doing this?

Thank you, I'll try to make it brief. It's truly just a differently-detailed example from before, but hopefully the new details are illuminating. If y...

it would really be wonderful if you were. If there's a petition going around to grant you omniscience, I'll sign it.

if my above explanation isn't sufficient to make it clear why single-world Copenhagen type interpretations require faster than speed of light communic...

Fair enough. I find the definition unsatisfying because it looks to me like randomness fits the bill. That's just my take.

so randomness might actually fit the bill for your definition then, right?

if it happens at the speed of causality in your interpretation, then you're left with explaining what's happening on Alice's side when she measures DO...

what constraint is randomness subject to?

I never said randomness exists. You've asked that question multiple times now. That's not what I said

yes, world splitting is not a global event. World splitting in MWI actually happens at the speed of causality.

Do you not agree that randomness fits the description "free from determinants and constraints"? There's no context for this question. I never suggeste...

Yes, neither did lucky R's, and yet randomness fit the bill all the same. I think randomness also fits the bill for your definition. Randomness seems ...

Okay. I might be incorrect but my intuition says, your definition allows for "randomness" to meet the criteria given as well. "My definition of free w...

great, you and I agree. Free will is contrary to determinism, AND it is contrary to free will. So, the definition on offer which just says "define det...

But you would agree randomness is contrary to determinism, right?

And is there any possible world where they share it with that person, that person rejects the evidence for rational reasons, Biden wins the election a...

who is they? Mike pence? Share it with whom?

and you're sure all of these propaganda driven knaves, Mike pence in particular, didn't look at the reports and determine with a team of experts that ...

They're propaganda driven knaves for NOT overturning an election?

You got me interested, so I googled this up: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/308413/ether-vs-quantum-field-theory Just posting it here bec...