That makes no sense. You're not logically consistent with a UoD of a two-spatial dimension universe, so since there's something with which you're not ...
I think that's gross profit. I mean, I worked for a software joint, so almost all the revenue was gross profit since it the cost of manufacturing is n...
You really don't seem to like your own definition, litewave. You said 'exists' means 'logically consistent', not 'logically consistent with the univer...
They wouldn't be profits if they did. They remain owned by the company, and said owners only get money in their pockets if they sell their portion of ...
I meant them both the way I said. The 'should' part is a statement of how things ought to be. The latter statement was one about how things (correctly...
Profits increase the value of the company. Yes, it can be used to pay off debts or fuel investments for growth. But it belongs to the company, which i...
First of all (read disclaimer in OP), I'm not talking about the concept of a unicorn, which is what any fictional story character is, fairy tale or ot...
I do believe I read your definition incorrectly the first time, taking it for 'is a member of a universe of discourse'. But no, you said essentially '...
QM theory says nothing of the sort. BM maybe does. A statement concerning "something actually happening in the spacetime vacuum" is a counterfactual, ...
Replies are a bit slower from me now since I have some good feedback to digest, and somebody has thrown a short notice wedding at me (not mine) which ...
That sounds about right, except in our temporal structure, I'm defining the 'universe of discourse' to be what is measured by a given system state, wh...
The hypothesis that the rules and equations are prior to and give rise to the world. I didn't claim that I could, not. That's why it is a hypothesis. ...
Sure, but that's just an interface between our perception and what's actually going on. The paper you linked only makes mention of that interface laye...
Thank you for your replies. I will respond, but getting time on a shared device sometimes leaves me away for long periods. This reply was started some...
Oh it's still plenty weird, enough to have Everett need to change his thesis to something wrong, but more believable, like 'splitting' happens only oc...
Careful. Everett does not posit multiple universes, despite that imagery made popular by DeWitt. Superposition is different than p & ~p. It requires t...
She doesn't ever say its fiction, just not science, which is probably why if you take a university course in quantum mechanics, they might spend at be...
I know it has been two years, but I am retracting my 'proof'. I have become aware of the fairly recent Schmelzer model, a generalization of Lorentz Et...
Fairly aligned with my definition, but even a roomba has this. This seems to be the classic wording, but it is self-contradictory as worded. It is in ...
Yes, for the reasons posted above. Two coordinates is not enough to identify a location in space, but is enough to locate something on an image. Three...
I gave a few examles (paint peeling, radioactive substance, etc) in my prior post. I can think of only a few things (objects) that don't change over t...
It would probably help if you gave the definition of FW with which you're working here. It seems to vary considerably depending on one's biases. I for...
There are three macroscopic dimensions of space. If you include time as a spatial dimension, there are four, but most don't include it as a spatial di...
The preservation of the human race Raising the maturity of the human race to a point where we're fit to encounter extraterrestrial life. Preservation ...
Can't answer that since it seems to be dependent on a selected goal. Being human, I'm apparently too stupid to select a better goal. I'm intelligent e...
Human ethics are based on human stupidity. I’d not let ‘anything the humans want’ to be part of its programming. Dangerous enough to just make it gene...
Perhaps, but then they're also incredibly stupid, driven by short term goals seemingly designed for rapid demise of the species. So maybe the robots c...
I'm think more big, long-term decisions, not knee-jerk decisions like pulling somebody out of danger. Consulting the humans is probably the worst thin...
What if the (entirely benevolent) robot decides there are better goals? The Asimov laws are hardly ideal, and quickly lead to internal conflict. Human...
A glass half-empty kind of guy, eh? A life without unpleasantness is a life without meaning. It reduces one to being doped up on Heroin without end. T...
If it's imaginary, it's probably not much of a comfort. You seem to confuse meaning with comfort in your reply. Family gives meaning. Maybe leaving so...
Who have you been talking to? I don't find it leads to emptiness, and I don't think there is a particular moment on which to focus. I will have an aft...
That’s true of the cards the other poker player holds. The cat goes beyond just not knowing what’s in the box. All that can be done without the box. T...
Depends on your definition of 'living in a simulation'. One view is that we are simulated. Somewhere there is an entity that drives the mechanics of a...
Not only possible, but it's been here for quite some time already, unless you presume a definition of 'consciousness/ sentience' of 'is human' like so...
It's not actually, since makes several incorrect assumptions. 1) In an interpretation where time doesn't flow, the concept of an event having 'happene...
Which is relative... The political parties of the USA are not united for the benefit of the USA. The wheels on my car are not united since they turn a...
This sounds like a request for things about which there cannot be doubt, which leaves me with nothing. One of my base axioms is that my sensory input ...
Sure. This is the basis for the Wigner interpretation, which Wigner himself abandoned because it necessarily leads to solipsism. If you read my entire...
Or maybe not. I might question some of it. This has never been demonstrated. No experiment behaves differently with a human observer than the same exp...
Speaking of the most distant galaxy. This topic apparently referenced GN-z11, which held the most-distant record for a long time, with a redshift of 1...
Slow is not even zero. Nothing is stable at L2, so nothing accumulates there. JWST, once its fuel runs out, will eventually drift away. So the thing t...
The furthest object ever seen had been GN-z11 for a long time, but that record had been broken last April or so, finding something at z=13.7 after rev...
It suggests it, but it isn’t any kind of deduction. You seem to be coming at this from an epistemological approach (which you’re calling discernibilit...
The sheer size of the post seems to intimidate any quick reply. It isn’t clear from either the top or bottom what the general point is. For what are y...
I accepted it because the magic wasn't essential to the point asked by the OP. One could just put fuel tanks en-route and at speed, waiting for the ro...
Sure, but what if there are not differences, since you bring up electrons? Two electrons Bill and Ted enter from opposite directions a shared space an...
c is a scalar, the so called speed of light, which, given the postulates of relativity, is constant regardless of inertial frame. Velocity is a vector...
You need a physics forum that allows speculations. A philosophy site isn't really going to have a lot of members that know their physics. Same speed l...
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