Crazy. It does that a lot - some notorious stories out there. I was wondering if it did that about Fock spaces. I haven't gone into the math but from ...
Very interesting and useful. It has implications for the ontology known as "wave function realism" as well. That talks about the universe as being a 1...
You asked about sources I use for information theory. Actually this is becoming an almost mainstream approach for trying to unify gravity and quantum ...
A lot here but very interesting. It does remind of Hume's argument that we do not observe causation, just a sequence of events, but we impose it on to...
I'm not sure about the universe as a whole, but physics is giving up on causation in the physical sense - a lot now is more like logical causation. In...
We use math to model the universe but all those models are open to further investigation, some of which is going on. For instance, the universe of Gal...
Thanks. Fun to have found this. True about the logic but natural language sentences do not have to be true or false. Of course "meaningless" is one al...
It can be problematic to apply formal logic to a natural-language statement. In formal logic you have rules of sentence formation, and these try to ex...
Indeed. It is famous for making things up. If you ask it about it, it says its task is to provide plausible responses. I asked if that makes it a con ...
Maybe so. That's sort of a popularity contest. ChatGPT didn't give any data to support that either, but I meant conceptual support was not provided. S...
Philosophy has become a classifying system for concepts and lines of reasoning, and all the branches the definitions and arguments could take. For ins...
You and Janus bring up a good point about "all models are wrong." Statisticians also objected to this and were offended. When I talk about Boxian Skep...
It is very confusing. Walking down a hill is easier than going up and it sure feels like a force pulling at you. When experts try to explain that they...
It used to be that forces obeyed certain laws but we didn't know why. But given that, the forces enforced those laws, pushing everything around accord...
There is no reason to believe in the existence of the world even if you are seeing it. First of all, there is no reason to believe in any scientific t...
The axioms of mathematics do have a subjective element. Math now all derives from set theory, so those are the axioms of math in general. When Paul Co...
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