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Have you got any examples of an Idealist espousing spiritual ideas?

The view that autonomous and complex entities are real, is isomorphic with realism. Sorry.

You could phrase it differently: A realist holds that, if according to the simplest explanation, an entity is complex and autonomous, then it is real....

Things coming into and out of existence depending on whether they are being perceived by a consciouses or not, is hugely complex. Also, while non-exis...

What do you gain by adding that much complexity, plus the added problem you have of non-observed-therefore-non-existent reality creating records.

Historical revisionism does you no credit. And it is General relativity that curves space-time to the extent that triangle (self-evidently or not) do ...

Which makes it difficult to explain how self-evidently true Euclidean space (as Kant thought) got overturned by General Relativity.

Why does the "outside world" have a history? Why are there fossils?

It seems that solipsism proposes a theory of reality exponentially more complicated than realism without providing an explanatory structure. Solipsism...

Bingo!

Why is it a photograph of a forest, and not a photograph of an ocean?

David Deutsch on twitter and always answers my questions there. I'd at least try to read the paper I linked to though - the one where the CTD Principl...

But if the photograph is of a forest, then does the forest come into existence when you look at the photograph? If not, then why is it a picture of a ...

Then why do cameras work, particularly automatic ones?

Will a camera suffice, or does it need to be a human.

The stick is straight. Looking at a stick does not change its shape.

Do you mean lie was the cosmic microwave background real before we predicted it, planned to look for it, but discovered it by accident anyway?

Try this http://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-content/deutsch85.pdf or Google

You need to study the scientific method. There is no justification, there are no "good reasons", such things are unobtainable and of no use.

Precisely, you will insult me (though you wouldn't dare to do so to my face) but you won't say a word against the Orlando terrorist who targeted homos...

But you don't defend the child-brides, you don't defend the raped, you don't defend the beheaded, you don't defend the genocided, or the genitally mut...

No, it means that physics is a subset of reason. Science is constrained by the fact that it only deals with physical reality. Reason is not constraine...

No aspect of physical reality in non-computable.

Best of luck with that. Could you ask them to prove the Principle of the Conservation of Energy while you're at it? The CTD Principle is proved under ...

I think you reveal yourself here as an amateur Islamic scholar, unaware of the subtleties, nuances and rules of abrogation in that deeply complex reli...

Is Quantum Mechanics true? What has its truth or falsity of quantum mechanics got to do with anybody's mind?

Everett's is the only explanation of quantum mechanics known. It is also the only explanation that is testable and which agrees with quantum mechanics...

Those sorts of machines already exist, and a theorem regarding proofs in mathematics didn't stop that happening! Quantum computers and classical compu...

No, you can't certify any scientific theory as true (for the nth time) and that has been known since at least 1936. Now, what difference does that mak...

The British Muslim who was spared jail because he successfully pleaded ignorance that raping a 13yr old is against the law. http://www.dailymail.co.uk...

You are a fantasist, conspiracy theorist with no evidence.

Nothing in science can be proven true. This isn't news. Godel's theorem is irrelevant. It is logically impossible to certify a physical law as true. T...

Muslims are permitted to rape in Europe. Famously one was let off raping a 10yr old boy in Austria. One was spared jail in UK because his plea of igno...

You don't need to go to Saudi, Rotherham or Molenbeek will do.

ISIS follow the Quran and the Hadith to the letter. Saudi similarly, that is why you can marry a 6yr old there, and why gays, atheists, and sorcerers ...

You should read the Quran then.

Isn't this just a baseless smear from the DNC playbook. The lie about Putin funding UKIP is in the hands of lawyers in US.

What evidence do you have that Putin wants to subjugate Europe? As Putin said, "A nation that cannot protect its own children has no future."

And it was inevitable, that the first exit would be a country that was only half in EU any way - no Euro, no Schengen. What is becoming clearer with e...

But the information content of DNA can't be anything other than a proposition, whose truth content in objectively measured by comparison with variants...

What justification do you have to claim that the DNA encoding does not refer to anything?

It means we can conjecture true laws, but just as in mathematics, they cannot be certified as true by any algorithmic process. Not sure why you think ...

What does "unintelligible" mean? The laws of physics are all computable - that means that any finite physical system may be simulated to arbitrary acc...

What is the difference between the information encoded in DNA and the information encoded in a statement?

It doesn't require mathematics. But even IF it did, what implication does Godel hold for simulating reality, or any part of it?

IF that were the case, then what has Godel have to do with it? But it's not the case.

What is the DNA code a statement about?

How does science prove anything? It doesn't! Goldel showed that the overwhelming majority of mathematical truths can't be proved. Not sure why you thi...

It seems I must establish a sub-category: 1. Everett got it wrong due to my personal incapacity to comprehend. 1.1 Everett got it even more wrong due ...

Do we have to go through Bell's and other associated theorems AGAIN?