It is statistically almost impossible that a random group of matter happens to have zero net rotational inertial. For instance, Andromeda is coming at...
The disk spreads out?? Gravity is pulling it in, not out. You seem to envision the process as something like a ball of pizza dough spreading into a di...
Well I'm one of those, since the interpretation does away with so many problematic things only at the cost of a thing-in-itself corresponding to 'me',...
I went on a different direction, not basing existence on epistemology. The existing thing corresponding to "Jupiter" seems to be the naive realist thi...
I hate to butt in on a comment not directed at me, especially a comment not directly related to the reincarnation subject, but this one hit me. I, pre...
Trying to figure out how you got that from what I posted. I acknowledged your altered definition and still find the planets not coming from it. I call...
If there is a point of the beginning of the what is the sun, it would seem to be the moment of ignition. The change is quite abrupt and it isn't a sta...
Yes, I did say that. Nobody here has so far agree that the planets formed from the sun. The disk is not the sun. It didn't emit from the star. That's ...
The identity of the baby is so the government can give benefits. No identity, no benefits. The kid would die in a day or two without some form of iden...
Incomplete I'd say. You can say that clocks run slow in frames in which they are not stationary. That's almost the same thing. Sans frame, a clock has...
Then the answer provided is wrong. Quickest was is to not do this perpendicular sidetrack. Blow all 5 ejections immediately straight towards home, whi...
Thought of all that, but wouldn't you want to stop once you arrived at base? Absolutely no way to do that by these rules. So you just blast on by at s...
By being distinct from all the other passers-by that did nothing. If anybody would have helped, it would just be what people do, and not notably 'good...
The sun is not the origin of Earth or other planets. They're all from a different star, which is what it means to be a second generation system. The p...
That's a weak advantage. It takes more instructions (calculator key presses) to code with FPN. RPN 3,15+ (where comma is <enter>) FPN +3,15, <-- extra...
Either one requires a stack, but an operation consumes less space than a number, so the FPN stack takes fewer resources to implement the worst case st...
This is one of those areas where the philosophy of mind matters. Your example that choice-making is programmable only works under physical monism. A d...
You seem to be under the impression that I'm asserting something. I'm just putting out a set of premises that I think works. If you disagree, tell me ...
Again, you are describing human will. I have no way of applying that elsewhere. If humans are special, then that's a premise, and you have to tell me ...
Only if you use inconsistent definitions. If going to line 10 is the right thing to do in this case, and there is no inhibition to the PC going there ...
Not really asking how it makes you feel. That road leads to solipsism since even I don't have choice since I don't make you feel that way when I pick ...
In two worlds with the only difference being the butterfly flap or not, the weather in these two worlds after some months will bear no resemblance to ...
OK, I think you might not ascribe choice to the thermostat because the purpose it serves is that of it's installer (the house occupant), not its own. ...
No, I may set the threshold but don't actually tell the thermostat when to turn on the heat. I simply design the thing to make its own choice based on...
Excellent way to approach it. I feel as if the free will problem is nonexistent because I take this approach. First of all, various philosophy of the ...
Much better. The difference has no lower limit of triviality. One atom doing a radioactive decay or not is such a difference. The butterfly is an exam...
An eye blink is a small difference from a not-blink. That difference (there is no change here) amplifies. and in the two divergent paths, the weather ...
Well in the golden rule tradition that is supposedly the core of what are purported to be objective (not just for humans) morals, "do unto others as y...
Wouldn't be fate if you could. You are part of the causal chain of local events, blink of eye or not. What you are labeling 'change' is not change by ...
Superstition would assert that the magic words get to choose the desired weather. Butterfly effect helps you not at all on that account. You are indee...
Those things have more effect on the rotation of Earth (nonchaotic and more predictable) and not so much the orbit, and all of them are negligible com...
A lot of the examples being given are not the 'butterfly effect', a popular term for chaotic systems. Gene mutations, spread of disease, a flame in a ...
Orbital mechanics are unstable beyond two objects. Look up three-body problem. The sun is massive enough to dominate our solar system, and the planets...
I've never seen a viable suggestion. All the treaties seem to attempt to slow it, but none will admit to what needs to be done to reverse it. The Holo...
Chaos theory was developed to study such dynamic systems. Not so for chaotic functions, and weather is very much such a function. It is meant literall...
Don't think you'll keep it to 60 lines. Is multiple calls to isPrime(x) function cheating? Side note: The language requires the empty else { } clauses...
Best prime finding program I ever saw was an algorithm that would solve your problem above (10001st prime) with instant runtime. The code included its...
int makeChocolate(int small, int big, int goal) { if (goal < big*5) big = goal / 5; goal -= big * 5; return goal > small ? -1 : goal; } C code. Only t...
Mirrors do reverse things, else the image would not be left handed. It reverses front to back. That said, I think my mirror image would be antimatter ...
Maybe being fit was a better survival strategy than being rational. Rational thinking only came about once there was an advantage to it, and it still ...
Photons, yes, and ships often show lights. It is actually sending them out, not just the equivalent. Yes, the first one has 12 light-months distance t...
That conflicts with the meaning of possible. If it must exist, it is necessary, not just possible. I am reviewing my prior thread since this came up a...
This is last-Tuesdayism, and I never understood why the flood geologists didn't just take that stance, that the universe was created with memory of no...
This is why it is such an elegant solution to the cosmological argument, which outside religious answer, argues something on the lines of: "Why is the...
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