Yea, but that's not a number, so it doesn't answer your question about the largest number we will ever need. They're not 'counts' of things, so the qu...
Late to the party as always. False actually. I cannot think of a single number that is, let alone all of them. That aside ... If that number causes it...
If your definition of one is that it operates the same way a computer would (a pure physical process, no help from an external acausal entity), then y...
OK, that wasn't clear. I retract my attack on the OP since it wasn't a claim, only a proposition. I suppose you can thus make up any answer you like. ...
The point of the OP was apparently to play what-if games given a hypothetical empirical p-zombie test. But I'm addressing the opening assertion that s...
Back to the OP, which seems to have holes. Exactly what evidence was collected to suggest this conclusion? Your implications are that the lack of this...
First of all, an explanation is not a proof. You changed the wording from the title. "God did it" is arguably an explanation, but it isn't presented a...
Agree, but a virtual reality (BIV) only needs to provide one artificial feed of experience to the experiencer in the vat, so to speak. It doesn't requ...
That's a classical intuition, and is loosely a statement of realism, not materialism. I personally don't accept this since I prefer the principle of l...
That would be supernatural interference with the universe. The Wigner interpretation suggests something like that. Maybe try RQM instead. It doesn't i...
We seem to be talking past each other. 'Matter' has mass, and is the Magenta line in the pic I posted a few posts up. A sixth of that matter is Baryon...
Dark energy is detectable, else it would not be part of our theories. It isn't directly detectable, but neither is any other force/energy by that argu...
The numbers, as I know them, is 68% dark energy, 32% matter and a smidge of radiation. Of that 32% matter, about a sixth is normal matter and the rest...
They have a whole subforum for quantum interpretations, and yes, it's all philosophy in there. But they have standards for what constitutes an authori...
It does, but you seem to be on thin ground to be agreeing with a pop site written for the lay public instead of say grad students. Argument from autho...
I'm talking about relativity of simultaneity (RoS). If you don't know what that is, then you don't have the tools to assess the validity of my critici...
This wording suggests that there is a concept of 'instantaneous', or absolute simultaneity, which is an entirely naive wording. What they have is two ...
By 'spooky action', I'm referring to cause and effect events being separated by a space-like manner, in other words, faster than light. If such a thin...
Yes, that's the Einstein I've grown to know. When it came to putting together special relativity, several others were working on similar theories, but...
If this is a quote from the story, it's pop nonsense. Entanglement doesn't mean that you do something to one end and it can be measured at the other. ...
Why is it unacceptable? It doesn't beg the answer desired? I've actually never grasped the problem others have tried to convey since I cannot identify...
Justice being defined in terms of the adjective 'just' does not constitute a circular reference, especially since 'just' doesn't typically reference '...
It’s a definition, not a proposition. In classical mechanics, the components are simply the two systems, the one measuring and the one being measured....
Because he proposes they’re fundamental. If they were made of something, they’d not be fundamental. He makes no mention of precision issues AFAIK. But...
Depends on your definition of 'physical' I suppose. It is very arguably not an object, but if it has a name, it also arguably is an object. The dot ca...
First of all, my mistake. I read your comment from last week to say "Craig believes the past is infinite", which would have contradicted what I've hea...
Just some comments. The rate of expansion is not a speed. It has different units (m/sec/mpc) than speed (m/sec) Speed of light is only c in a vacuum i...
Non-sequitur. A simple counterexample of different physics is Conway's game of life which is entirely deterministic yet not reversible. There's no way...
This thread seems to have died a month ago, just when things were getting interesting. It's apparently online now sufficiently for something like this...
You seem to contradict yourself. Is time something that flows/moves or not? If it is, then it isn't what clocks measure since two clocks can measure d...
I am not promoting MWI, but if I was, I am unaware of it positing ‘branching points’ at all. It is a common misconception that “at certain magic insta...
This discussion started out with a relevant comment about a priori knowledge that 2+2=4 or some such, and while that point is still on the table, thin...
Welcome to TPF! Personally, the first thing I would ask is 'purpose to what?'. A thing might have different purposes to different things. A leaf might...
Well under the relational view, it’s defined as a relation. Pretty sure I spelled that out before. X exists relative to Y. If you want to get down and...
Realists are not the only ones who claim the ability to communicate. Keep in mind that I am expressing a view, not a belief. I'm not asserting that my...
Acquisition of what amounts to a measurement of an unmeasurable thing is of little concern to me. Not being a realist, I don’t give meaning to realist...
Just wanted to say thanks for the dialog. You’re one of the single digit of posters whose feedback I’d not lightly dismiss, even if I’m in total disag...
I'd have said that it was a replacement of everything below the neck, not above it. You didn't get a new head. The head got your body. You're gone. I ...
Philosophy is irrelevant then, so I disagree. It actually matters a lot to me. OK, it being true in this universe is enough for a priori knowledge, bu...
Well, I'm questioning if the sum of two and two is objectively four (a priori truth), and I need to stretch pretty far to do this. The god isn't the p...
Y'all seem to be in a sort of chicken/egg thing with the bridge subject. I assure you that the bridge came before the first one purposefully created b...
Well yea. You brought up the 2+2=4 thing, but I'm confident that a human would never figure that out in the absence of experience. Humans are exceptio...
Intuition is often not about knowledge. As my handle implies, I attempt to question everything that most find 'obvious', and it turns out that most ob...
Creation usually implies an object contained by time being caused to come into existence: The object is nonexistent at an earlier time, and then somet...
Just a side note, since I am perhaps personally involved in that P getting to the screen. The engineering of those tiny computer components needs to g...
Quite a ridiculous assertion. A thrown rock (in space say, no significant forces acting on it) is just beyond the reach of the hand that threw it. A s...
That's just an example of something having a higher priority than eating, straight up cause and effect, not an example of free will. And you're wrong:...
By the law of excluded middle, that's true of anything. A rock will reach for the ciggy or not, every time, just like the human. OK, you probably don'...
The last several posts have indeed be well besides the point. The point I thought concerned free will, and not how decisions are made. Probably less t...
This has little to do with free will though. I've had similar struggles, and have found that I have multiple parts to my mental functions, and the one...
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