Which is at the same intellectual level as almost all criticism of Trump you will encounter in the media. But then again, when you factor in that 95% ...
It does not even begin to "prove" that the brain is quantum mechanical, let alone that even incidental quantum processes exist. http://www.sciencedire...
That certainly is not induction, which Popper showed to be a myth. Deducing singular statements from an existing theory for the purpose of testing has...
I think it means that abstractions are real, autonomous, causal, and as much a part of reality as anything else. Mostly, however, we gain knowledge of...
Some entities are purely abstract, like the set of prime numbers, but many abstractions are physically instantiated, and we are immersed in those. Eve...
We are "surrounded" by abstractions. It is impossible to explain reality without appeal to abstractions. E.g. we can't explain evolution without refer...
Well, you cant account for numbers that way. What you can account for, is what we are able to discover about numbers, which is determined by the laws ...
As I said, hypothetical alien monkeys aren't as well understood as numbers. But you refuse to discuss the odd and even numbers. The laws of physics ta...
Actually, you are not discussing an hypothetical situation, you are discussing a meaningless, impossible, unphysical, imaginary situation, in a differ...
There is absolutely no way an infinite number of anything of any size can occupy a finite space. Reality takes place in the continuum, which is Aleph1...
The set of all grains of sand, whatever colour is finite. The total number of particles in the visible universe is only 10^80! You appeared to be disc...
I think that's a really good idea. Why not actually perform the experiment to prove your point? Once you have demonstrated it, mathematicians will hav...
That is a (trivial) example of the mathematician's fallacy. Even in a reality that is only "comprised" of "0"s and "1"s, what exists in such a world a...
"The Cosmic Atom" was an essay published in 1957. 1927 is 30 years prior to 1957. I don't recall anyone claiming that Einstein developed all the solut...
Your misrepresentation of the history of quantum mechanics is utterly woeful. So much so that it is difficult to summon the enthusiasm to correct you....
OK, taking you at your word, what phenomena and their "causes" does quantum mechanics describe? How did we discover quantum entanglement, superpositio...
New theories not only provide better explanations of reality, they explain why previous theories were successful or otherwise. Newton's gravity explai...
That is a common (mis)conception about the nature of science, but there is another conception - the conception developed by Karl Popper, which I prefe...
What is "scientific causation"? When you look at the fundamental laws of nature (the ones whose constants you claim we can't inquire about scientifica...
Those are experimental loopholes to ensure that Axiom 3. is maintained. You can't claim that locality is being tested if there are conceivable ways in...
OK, let's take the Copenhagen Interpretation and Quantum Field Theory in turn. We can then move onto String theory if you like. The CI is a local anti...
Feels a bit like going round in circles, but no experiment ever performed closes the "freedom loophole", so single-world realist theories that are abs...
That's why I gave the axioms I listed earlier their proper name - axioms! Unfortunately the term "loophole" is used in two ways - to refer to the axio...
Quantum field theory is explicitly local. Copenhagen is local. Many Worlds is local. As a matter of fact it has been proved that QM is a local theory....
There is a contradiction produced by accepting the 4 axioms. The solutions are: 1 Axiom 4 is wrong, leading to Copenhagen or Many Worlds. 2. Axiom 3 i...
As I have pointed out more than once, the free will axiom is implicit in all of science, and is made explicit in quantum mechanics, particularly Bell'...
Since you refuse to provide the axioms of Bell's theorem, allow me: 1. Freedom of choice. The freedom to choose which experiment to perform independen...
Doe it take time to experience, or can you experience in the absence of time? If so, i.e. if time is an unnecessary component of experience, then how ...
In Bell's ow words: Often the Free Will Axiom is called the "free will loophole", or the "free choice of detector orientations". I think you are missi...
I didn't say I don't know what it it is, I'm just not interested in arguing about what it is. Anyway, despite the accusations to the contrary, I have ...
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