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ah I didn't realise you were including language issues in that. The way you phrased the question made it sound like you thought there was a difference...

This one is rather trivial. Of course someone with that knowledge could in principle learn anything about the book someone who physically had the book...

I think he wants debates within panpsychism. Which is valid. "If we start with the assumption that pansychism is true, where does that lead us?" I thi...

are you the guy who listened to the Annika Harris audio thing with me?

there's a big difference between not having convinced anyone at all, and not having convinced you in particular

maybe there are lawless universes. And if there are, interesting stuff doesn't happen there and there aren't conscious beings there to wonder why it's...

that seems like an assumption, not a fact

Disappointing opening paragraph. Why does it "cease to exist"? Just because some person isn't perceiving it, that means it "ceases to exist"? Hmmm... ...

Nah, it has to involve belief. It's not "knowledge" unless someone knows it, there's already a word for truth without belief and that's called "fact".

Novelty is relative. As long as you couldn't predict it, it's novel - and you can't predict reality perfectly no matter how deterministic it is. You c...

You put those words in quotes as if I literally said them, but I didn't say them. Order. In a deterministic system, every event has its place in the s...

I think a surprising amount of physics is based on abstract, apparently-subjective judgements of physicists. What would be a beautiful way for the wor...

there are multiple deterministic interpretations of qm too so we can keep the beauty of determinism anyway.

Because it's beautiful (in a mathematical sense). There's something hideous about random spontaneous things with no ontological explanation just poppi...

to me, the most disappointing part of the audiobook is her reason for cutting her conversation with Sean Carroll short. It seemed like she was saying ...

she says herself that she's a physicalist multiple times in the audio book. She also says it here. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4uUFfDc8HYTsdbTeng...

"emergence" is merely a category of explanation, not an explanation in itself. The other category is "it's fundamental" - and some physicalists like A...

glad you liked it. I thought it was thought provoking but lacking in actual arguments. I did buy it for the thought provocation though, so it did its ...

that's what rejecting democracy means...

it's only as much a performative contradiction as someone who is anti violence using violence to protect themselves from other violence, it seems to m...

In a free nation, long posts without paragraph breaks shouldn't be allowed

right, with the Copenhagen interpretation the indeterminism comes AFTER the deterministic Schrödinger equation. The Schrödinger equation deterministic...

there's not a "possible interpretation". It's an equation that is by definition deterministic. Indeterminism in various interpretations of quantum mec...

this conservation isn't about if its true. You expressed confusion about why people think many worlds is deterministic. Regardless of if it's true or ...

In many worlds you can - what happens is all of it. That's why many worlds is deterministic. It takes the output of a deterministic function and says ...

my bad, someone claimed that? People are just chopping off their willies to look like Allen Rickman in Dogma?

a deterministic function is a function that gives the same output given the same input. The Schrödinger equation outputs probability clouds of configu...

what is "it"? The "it" that you understand isn't deterministic.

I don't think it is. I think it's just fine that one of us is me and one of us is you, and I don't think it makes sense to ask "why am I me and not yo...

Idk what exactly you mean by "standard", but it should be noted that that kind of surgery is actually on the rare side.

Yeah Well of course they'd take it, but they can't spend their lives just daydreaming about a miracle

and how would someone detect that difference? How could WE detect that difference? How do you know this isn't our second time through these lives, and...

Are you sure that's the answer? Doesn't that pre suppose that you have some kind of pre-existent identity with which to flip heads? The universe in wh...

That's an indexical problem. The answer to that is not a problem for many worlds, it's a problem for ANY multi-consciouness existence, even if many wo...

we're not talking about if many worlds is true or not, just what the consequences of it would be and why it's considered deterministic. Right? You can...

I have no idea what you're trying to say with this. You asked me how many worlds is deterministic, I tried to give you a visualization to help you see...

If I had a computer program where you press a button, and it rolls a dice, and you see a random number between 1 and 6 afterward, that would be indete...

That's the same as asking "why am I me and not you?" What do you think of that question?

I wasn't making a statement about our universe, you asked me for a scenario in which something would be true. It's a hypothetical to answer your quest...

someone with a chronic illness may spend a lot of their time envying people with health, may spend hours each day in maladaptive daydreams imagining t...

Without looking into the deep deep library of philosophical writings, I would say "want" is something kinda passive, and "will" is when you have a wan...

yeah maybe it's particularly rare to entirely destroy the want just through will. Doesn't mean you can't want not to want something, can't will not to...

you started with "seems to me that's not willing not to want the addiction". I don't think I agree with that opening sentence. You are willing not to ...

choosing them over the other want, to the point that you.. maybe... want to destroy the want? And then act to destroy the want? And then sometimes suc...

The universe we live in happens to evolve deterministically, but there's no particular reason for, say, the physical constants or the starting conditi...

Yes Because ironically, in the many worlds there's a single state of affairs in the end with a complete explanation. "Single state of affairs? In many...

My current view is, PSR -> determinism But not the other way around necessarily But neither the PSR nor determinism are necessarily true.

I guess I can't get over the idea that it seems fundamentally reasonable to ask "but why this result in particular?" Electron can be spin up or spin d...

interesting

the singular nature of the end result. I want to know why one thing happened, if your explanation doesn't tell me exactly why this one thing happened,...