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I am neither mad nor ill-educated. Neither party is lying. For it to be a lie, each being (the zombie using nothing but physics, and the 'human', as y...

But at some point, there'd be a common ancestor, which means that a non-conscious entity bred a conscious one with this new relationship with the exte...

In that case, it's probably the ghost thinking it's not a machine with no ghost, and the ghost is correct. The opinion of the machine is not given.

Well, I've pretty much eliminated the immaterial mind as described by Chalmers, but the stanford page on eliminative materialism describes a 'radical ...

I've always claimed to be the zombie, without lying about it. I don't think I'm conscious, at least not by Chalmers' definition, so no, they don't nec...

OK, I see what you're saying. Some used to believe that light moved at a fixed speed through a medium, just as does sound. That was eventually shown t...

or falsified by empirical evidence. A belief seems not to require evidence, but evidence nevertheless helps. It isn't? You have an example of somethin...

Doesn't follow. Say I believe in eternalism (block universe, time is a dimension) which is opposed to presentism (that there is a preferred moment in ...

Truth seems to not be something relative to a person or a belief, so despite the fact that I hold what I would label as 'beliefs', I'm not so naive to...

Yes to all of these. Much of human nature (and certainly not limited to humans) is the preference to rationalize the truth we find convenient rather t...

Prove to who/what? Would not you need to know that I exist in order to prove your knowledge of something to me?

Sorry for long delay. I guess I sometimes go for quite some time without visiting the site. Not claiming to be one, so I'll let them answer that. I ma...

It goes a bit beyond my expertise, but density affects overall gravitational effect to the extent that sufficient density suffices to overcome the eff...

Unsatisfied in the case of uniform distribution everywhere. The level of compression has nothing to do with it. The current density of the universe (a...

I do have one example against a 'bang from a location in otherwise empty space' which is that if such a thing occurred, all the mass of the universe w...

The rate of increase in proper separation of a sufficiently distant (and visible) galaxy does indeed increase at a rate greater than c, but this still...

Again, the expansion rate is expressed in different units and thus is not a speed and cannot be meaningfully compared using a word like 'superluminal'...

To the OP The big bang theory does not posit an explosion into space from some point in that space. Any simple description on the web will tell you th...

The title question assumes there is something. While I don't assume the opposite, I don't take it as an axiom that there is something. Thus I don't ha...

Been too busy to deal with this fairly unproductive line of discussion. What light can or cannot do is irrelevant to my point. It is similar in other ...

I do not think this any more than I think the distance to a black hole EH is infinite because light from it will never reach an orbiting object. Pilot...

That's the same as the wiki picture, but with far less detail. Yes, in an arbitrary inertial reference frame as depicted in all these drawings, that e...

The accelerating observer goes off the right side at about t=1.25, where proper distance to the horizon is still exactly x=1 behind him, unchanged. In...

Nonsense. Show me the definition that says this. It is not. It, like any other event horizon, is a boundary in spacetime separating events that can ha...

What?? The body is accelerating away from the Rindler horizon. It's not approaching it. That's why I call the direction of it 'down'. Thus I don't kno...

Not sure what worldlines have to do with this. Yes, the (constant) proper distance to the Rindler horizon of a small object undergoing continuous prop...

Let me put it this way: P1 Time is absolute. There is an absolute ordering of all events in all of spacetime. C1: For any event in spacetime and a giv...

We can remove GR from consideration by application of the equivalence principle to remove all mass and gravity from consideration, and then use this t...

No such transformation exists since the astronaut never crosses the event horizon, so there can be no transformation of events beyond that from either...

A coordinate system doesn't propagate. You mean light propagates at c in a coordinate system. This is more or less true for an intertial coordinate sy...

I need your opinion then. OK a foliation based on the perspective some outside observer cannot account for events beyond the event horizon, and thus s...

There are at least six kinds of multiverses discussed. Tegmark enumerated them as Level 1 (other Hubble spheres), Level 2 (other bubbles in eternal in...

GN-z11 is about 2/3 of the way to the edge of the visible universe. Immediately after inflation, the size of the visible universe was anywhere from a ...

You don't comprehend my explanation, so I'll try to comprehend your vision. Perhaps you can explain a distant galaxy then using this coordinate system...

I said it is a psychological choice when I decide what components comprise a system or not. The physics of the relationalism has zero to do with this ...

Time slows (is more dilated) when deep in a gravity well, So clocks on Earth for instance run objectively slower than say GPS clocks (which are very h...

Thanks for your initial responses. I've been in discussion about this on physics sites, but they don't care so much there about the metaphysical impli...

None perceived. I agree with your comment that there is a general aversion to solipsism among philosophers, and I was just pointing out that the avers...

Just because it's distasteful doesn't mean it's wrong. But I think there are serious logical problems with the solipsistic view, coupled with a person...

Under RQM, experiencing something has nothing to do with it being real. There simply needs to be a relation, especially a measurement. So the apple ex...

I don't do polls, but I'm a relationist is probably far more ways than the one you describe. Yes, time has no meaning without regular change to define...

I think I read your post wrong, because upon re-reading it, I agree.

OK, then it works the same way that my thermostat turns on the heat in the winter despite the fact that it's warm in mid-May. I'm very sorry that you ...

The same way my thermostat turns on the heat in the winter despite the fact that it's warm in mid-May. No need for a 'measurment' spotlight to crawl u...

If that's how it works, it is still a form of presentism, with the consciousness (not part of the block) acting as the spotlight and defining a presen...

Ouch. Under eternalism, we beings are worldlines, and experience every moment along that worldline. So iff I define 'me' to be my worldline, then I am...

Moving spotlight (and pretty much the rest of your list) has a preferred moment. Eternalism does not. I implied no such thing. I said there is movemen...

I smell a begging argument coming on. You did this fairly large post, but then never actually get around to this point until the last couple sentences...

I don't think there's anything 'being' me, so does that mean I shouldn't consider myself conscious?

It's 300,000 km/sec. It's a speed, not a velocity. The postulate of SR is that that speed will be measured regardless the reference frame used. It doe...