Initial acceleration of an object due to gravity of a primary is mass independent. I mean, F=ma, which if substituted directly into F=GMm/r² gets you ...
That was my point, yes. A computer could for instance simulate a squirrel (and it's environment) in sufficient detail that the simulated thing would k...
Very little prevents that. Such a machine is more capable of self-modification and design of next generation than is any biological creature. Even les...
My mistake I think. I looked at your comment to which I was reacting and thought it said that the neurobiologists say that thoughts do not originate i...
My wait was also in vain. OK, we differ here. A body might continue after life, but I see no better way to interpret 'a life' than 'a body, while it i...
Apologies for responding to stuff sometimes days old, but some of them needed comment. It turned into a long post. Also known as the block universe, o...
Well let's apply the object to something less associated with magic, like 'wet'. 1) Rocks and water are made of particles (electrons and such ...) 2) ...
Totally agree, and the 'angle of head thing' was relevant to the London example. 'Movement of head' came from wiki, as if it's our head velocity that ...
The Andromeda thing is an illustration of spacetime geometry, not relevant to interpretations of quantum mechanics. Sure, the state of affairs at dist...
To suggest anything about these is to confuse coordinate simultaneity (which is what the Andromeda scenario utilizes) with actual simultaneity (certai...
The implication seems to be that the only purpose of suicide is to somehow be a solution to past suffering. The conclusion follows only from this assu...
It does not follow that a system being a purely physical process, that the behavior of the system can necessarily be explained. It may require a great...
A sack of hydrogen and oxygen has no energy? What does more energy do other than increase the rate at which they hit each other hard enough? A sack fu...
No model has been specified, and in cases such as this, the model must precede the establishment of any facts such as the possibility of BBs. It's kin...
Who made that claim? Boltzmann? Carroll? Some poster above? I don't see how it even makes syntactic sense. I think you shouldn't, so I'm probably with...
This is flat out wrong. If BBs are more likely, then you probably are one. Regardless, if we're not one, we do not expect to see one. Far more likely ...
I have found a serious unrelated error in another video of Hossenfelder's, so my trust is broken, and I find myself questioning this dismissal. The tw...
All your examples are from a left point of view. There should be some from both sides. Somewhere in the middle seems to be the abortion issue, where n...
Some (members) are not open to any alternative ideas, be they concerning morals or something else. I try to always be open to anything, as evidenced b...
In the topic of morals, it is usually referred to as moral relativiism. I use the words interchangeably since I take a relational view of almost anyth...
That it is circular like that doesn't result in the conclusion that we're not BBs. It only yields the conclusion that our hypothesis is unjustifiable....
The mathexchange link never says A=B. It says their cardinalities are the same, with which I fully agree. That means that neither can be said to be mo...
Infinity just means essentially 'without bound', or more literally, not finite. "An infinite number" is a contradiction. There is no number that is in...
You seem to be mixing multiple cultural standards in the same statement. If the Nazi culture cooperates to purify the racial mixture of the members of...
I don't know what you mean by 'their number'. Things which occur an unlimited number of times don't have a number to restrict, and thus has no bearing...
That's a horrible wording of the problem. What is 'the void' here? Is it that from which the universe sprang, or is it our universe, mostly nearing in...
Since the universe is infinite in size, it doesn't even take a significant amount of time for extremely unlikely events to occur. I think a comparison...
The answer there says that the cardinalities of two countable infinities are equal. That's very different than the statement that two countable infini...
Tosh If that were true, if I pick a random whole number of at least 10 digits, odds are even that it would be prime because there are countably infini...
The basic test is if SB places a bet each time. She makes money (does not break even) if she bets on tails. This is pretty easy to work out. If the ex...
Sean Carroll put out a paper explaining why Boltzmann brains are bad https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00850.pdf The gist is: "the theories that predict them...
Sorry, but your sentence fragment does not parse. You have an "if (...)" without a "then (...)". If you read my argument above, I show how if somebody...
Thank you all for your continued replies. I had to step back and figure that out myself, and it turns out that I'm directly denying PAP, which apparen...
The OP mentions the 'Strawsonian definition", on which the Stanford article is based: "To be morally responsible is to be the proper object of the “re...
Why 'of course not'? I mean, it seems to be a product of physics, even if all those things are far more complicated than a more human-explainable inte...
You'll need to refine this postulate a bit. I mean, I step out of the door and based on the sky I see, I believe it will rain within the hour. That's ...
Ah, but Pascal picked one of the few options where acts (deeds) don't get you the prize. Jesus paid the price for all that, so true (not feigned) beli...
Thanks for pointing that out, since what I quoted was the normalized version. The square root doesn't really belong there either. The less normalized ...
Ive been trying to figure out if what you describe as a worldline is the same thing that say Minkowski would call a worldline. Yes, with my addition i...
No idea what you're talking about. I made no mention of perceptions, and I have no idea what an 'overwritable event' might be. A point in space is an ...
Yes, exactly that. Same thing, different wording. Spacetime doesn’t cease to exist, so a line traced through it isn’t something that goes away. One fl...
Don't understand. As I said, once existing (as I define it), it can't cease to exist. One cannot unmeasure something. That said, a worldline is a set ...
A million humans do that now, except it takes a long time for the thoughts of one to by conveyed to the others, which is why so much development time ...
Really? Where outside of Earth is there an example of value on the good/bad scale? Sorry, but morality was there as soon as there was anything that fo...
Self-consciousness seems cheap, but maybe I define it differently. The creativity comes with the intelligence. If it lacks in creativity, I would have...
It's a bias if you apply the assumptions of that view to all other view. Not knowing how you distinguish those, I don't see the two ways. I think you'...
Apparently a misinterpretation. You spoke of ‘how purposeless the universe is without ...” like the universe had purpose, but later you corrected this...
I gave no such definition. Just for example, one mass might be larger than the other. That’s a relation that isn’t gravity related. It’s also not the ...
Interesting assertions. But the universe is not alive any more than is a school bus. Also interesting that you seem to restrict 'purpose' to things th...
Only because you will not accept how I mean the words. I say ‘measurement’, I mean that to which the ‘measurement problem’ refers. If you think that m...
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