A different word could have been chosen - how about "integer-like" or "zahlen", but that would change nothing. The non-zahlen infinities are vastly bi...
Why don't you just look it up, or Google it? Plenty of stuff on cardinalities, countable and uncountable infinities, the diagonalization argument, Can...
OK, so you can count integers, but you cannot count the real numbers, even in a tiny subset. There is an uncountable infinity of reals within any subs...
Countable and uncountable infinities are different. You said you couldn't count a subset of the reals. Do you think you might be able to count a subse...
Countable infinities are precisely those which can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the integers. This is a definition, and no, no one expec...
An alternative view is to accept Zeno's paradoxes as lessons of the impossibility to deduce how reality behaves a priori, from mathematics or any othe...
If you are going to quote, then the name is "Consistent Histories" or "Decoherent Histories". The first is explicitly epistemic, the second equivocate...
Then why do you care about Everettian quantum mechanics? Tegmark did not invent the Level I multiverse, he just gave it a catchy name. If our consensu...
Wikipedia, the font of all that is true. Well, try this Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse Pay particular attention to "Level III" mu...
If you resist the temptation to invoke "collapse", QM is a fully deterministic theory. Copenhagen is not a theory of reality, so has nothing to say ab...
Truth cannot be established by the method of science. Errors can be detected and corrected with imagination. The purpose of argument is not to support...
Not so! The Boltzmann brain, or rather a Boltzmann person, would simply have false memories, and the words "vat" and "brain" would refer to the real t...
Except of course, it is the very theory that reveals the block-universe to us - i.e. that the B-Theory of time is true - that explains the formation o...
Criticism of propositions. Most scientific theories die that way. e.g. no observations have ever been made which contradicts either the Standard Model...
Another problem with the principle of induction - the future shall resemble the past - is that it's false in general. The Sun may rise every day, but ...
Well, that's a small step in the right direction at least. Of course theories are speculative - to be more precise conjectural. But for that precise r...
Then explain how our theories can tell us stories about things we will have to wait 50 to 100 years to observe? If you look at any scientific theory, ...
You are in a state of irrational denial. The Earth really does orbit the Sun, and the Earth really is not flat and it's not turtles all the way down, ...
I forgot, gravitational waves were revealed by theory 100 years before they could be measured. It only took ~50years to observe the other features of ...
The distinction I am drawing is between the physics and the abstraction. At the risk of repeating myself, it has been proved that all real universal c...
The brain is computationally universal, but the mind certainly is not. There are many operations a mind will not perform, for reasons as diverse as mo...
According to known physics, our descendants will be able to simultaneously simulate many trillions (surely an underestimate) of universes simultaneous...
Denial is always an option I suppose, but history will not be on your side. Of course, if you managed to formulate an argument that the brain is not c...
And "everyone" touts Libets 1980s experiments as evidence of the absence of free will, and ignores his 1990s experiments, where he demonstrated a mech...
That all computationally universal hardware is equivalent is not an analogy. The human brain has to be computationally universal. That's not an analog...
The probability that you were born a human and not any other animal is the same as the probability that you were born with a human mind and not an ani...
What! Have you heard of George Soros? The top donors to the Democrats at the election were: University of California $1,945,782 Alphabet Inc $1,576,06...
I think the idea is that there is one universe and it is the inhabitants of the future that are simulating the past, and they are doing it an enormous...
No, I mean the mind IS software. According to known physics, it can't be anything else. Consciousness is a software feature, and the software programs...
Is that not analogous to the claim that the chess program is the computer? Software needs hardware to run on, and if you disturb the hardware with ana...
It would go something like this: The abstract mind, instantiated on the computationally universal brain, decides to move an arm. It does not know the ...
In that case, the mathematics is perfect - its use however is not. As systems become more complicated, in order to make them tractable, it is inevitab...
No Most mathematical truths cannot be proved. The overwhelming majority of mathematical relations cannot be known. The overwhelming majority of number...
And despite this, we aren't exactly overwhelmed by competing scientific theories are we? It is trivial to write down endless ad-hoc modifications to o...
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