I got to the paper finally with the new link you provided. The term Leggett-like model is new to me. I don't see a description of before/before. I see...
Both chrome and IE show no page, just the download. OK, but your thoughts were only that it doesn't have collapse. It does. I might say I support this...
Neither of those interpretations require the observer to be a living thing. As I said, a rock will do. It wouldn't be there if you had never looked at...
A good habit to hunt down critique. Helps point out which parts on which focus should be placed. I do it myself for papers whether or not I agree with...
I didn't even see that there were other answers. Yes, the first one. I got that myself from Tegmarks book The Mathematical Universe which spends about...
I said I wasn't arguing for it. Just comparing mostly. I interpreted the comment wrong. I see what you're saying now. The representation as a dimensio...
A terminology note. The A/B this is more correctly known as A-series and B-series, and they're not a philosophical stance, just a relative vs. more ab...
Much better. I came to the same conclusion, but then after a while even that seemed presumptuous to me, but that's just me. I find an excellent model ...
Technically this doesn't follow. You would have to additionally posit that all causes are an effect of something else. It probably isn't unreasonable ...
Well, the simulated brain could be kept in sync with the vatted one, which works most of the time. An aneurysm in the vat could be reflected in the bo...
It is pretty easy to disprove a literal brain (a pink biological thing like in the pictures) in a vat scenario. Everybody would have two brains, one i...
They do have grounds. They have their empirical evidence. Problem is, you not given any clue as to the nature of the false reality being fed to this a...
Global warming is a nice example of the prisoner's dilemma, where cooperation gives the best outcome, but with a better personal outcome for ratting o...
Is there any valid interpretation of QM that asserts that the nature of the photon as it is emitted from the source is affected by the measurement tha...
I wouldn't call all of them metaphysicians since most people have no idea that some of their assumptions fall under the category of metaphysics. I lik...
Fine. The total energy and momentum is conserved in the frames of each of the observers, but they're not the same to each other. A rock (as a sole exi...
Since there is no passing of time, the eternalist denies that it is what is experienced. So closer to say that humans interpret their experience as th...
Newton's laws are enough for the acceleration concepts you are describing. Relativity doesn't seem to come into play at all. You are about to accelera...
So your username suggests. To be unaware of this view (or for that matter, the name of the view that you do hold) seems pretty inexcusable for someone...
Yes, agree. Yes, the differences are metaphysical, and the equations are not, so there is no need to perform them the difficult way like that unless y...
Might as well just not even bother looking in the first envelope then, and pick the second one from the start. Looking at the contents seems not to af...
Keep in mind that the absolute frame is not an inertial one, nor accelerated or anything else. All the things you can do with a frame are not valid ev...
And all measurements of time and distance are false as well only if you consider them to describe the 3D metaphysical interpretation. That's right. Th...
Well, those equations describe a 4D model, even if a 3D interpretation is assumed. To do it in 3D, each experiment must adjust for inaccuracies of mea...
I think I replied to most of this in my post 4 days ago. There is no suggested energy conservation in the hypothetical experiment. We have a rocket bl...
There is no 'local speed'. Local means 'inside a limited size box', like one drawn around the galaxy. They've tested small clocks moving at .98c and h...
A principle yes, more than a theory, and a local one at that. You putting a label of 'metaphysical' on everything doesn't make it thus. I think I obje...
Very well then. Your metaphysical view of time is in direct conflict with TOR then. Your theory makes empirical predictions that have been falsified. ...
You seem to be confusing physical time (the thing measured in seconds or years in any physics equation) with metaphysical time (the assertion of a pre...
Well that does seem to be a metaphysical question, and possibly doesn't have a correct answer even if it is unknowable. To me, spacetime seems not to ...
SR is taught as 4D spacetime (one thing, not two separate things), but most of the examples (e.g. the train platform or barn-pole or twins 'paradoxs')...
For example: No, it is just a way of relating two events. SR only says that the ordering of two non-causally related events is frame dependent. That i...
Nope. SR works whether simultaneity is real or not, or if actual simultaneity is objective or relative. SR is an empirical theory, which makes it non-...
Relativity theory IS a non metaphysical theory, so it doesn't render an opinion on say what is real. Like any scientific theory, it makes predictions ...
I thought about this some more, and technically this is incorrect. For any two points (events) in spacetime, there exists one or more inertial referen...
Well, you interpret it that way. You (here at a moment in time) can't see objects that are not here, only the light that reaches you from past objects...
Space is real, so time is real, but things don't 'travel' in spacetime. Take just space: A boat is 100 meters long, so does the boat travel for 100 me...
Under spacetime, time is just another dimension and does not flow. It is exactly as real as space, so it is real if you consider space to be real. As ...
Your title mentions spacetime, not time. Time is the same sort of thing as space, so if space is a measurement of separation, then so it time. It does...
It has been difficult to parse your posts. English seems not to be your native language. Some of the subsequent posts have made some things more clear...
Tegmark does say that time probably does not flow, but he described time as a 4th dimension in addition to the 3 of space (not the same way you are us...
Commenting first on the most recent post, since some parts of the picture are being clarified. I see something like an argument that there is an unfer...
Well, the video is using the word 'dimension' like some fantasy place where you might go, like Narnia. They use it interchangeably with 'universe' so ...
Glad you are still around after the post got no hits for an entire month. I never say it until MiloL bumped it. This bit gives me a clue as to you usa...
The first paragraph seems to describe a sort of eternal 4D block universe, vs. the second case which has a 3D spatial state that is 'the present'. OK,...
Oh good. I thought the OP didn't make this clear. The halvers would have it right if she went into this thing blind. Michael, I see you're still going...
Oh crap. OK then. I really don't know how to read this stuff then. '|' means 'or' in my world, but they have that intersection symbol to mean that her...
As you see, the quote is getting altered. Sorry. I think you are mixing the probabilities that something will occur (or is the case, but unknown) with...
Excuse me if I am new to the notation. I read this as the probability of it being at least one of Monday or Heads is 1, but since it might be Tuesday/...
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