Physical mind? Knowledge of anything can be causal. The laws of nature don't communicate with us, neither do the truths of mathematics, but we can cre...
The probability of winning, when you choose 2 doors is 2/3. That is all there is to it. The fact that one of these doors is open is irrelevant. One do...
If you were given the choice of 1 or 2 doors, which would you choose? I hope you would choose 2. What about the extra information that bears sh*t in t...
These were theoretical discoveries made 50years and 100years respectively prior to a successful experiments. There were decades of quote experimental ...
And how likely or not someone is to die from all causes. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616302331 And rates of mental illne...
Well, it certainly seems like you are being given information, but you're not. The host, because he has total knowledge of the situation, can always o...
I think it's jumping the shark to entertain the idea that a CCD possesses qualia. Asking the conscious mind attached to the CCD would be no more usefu...
The host does not, that's the trick. Not as the problem was described at the top of the thread. No information is given to Sleeping Beauty beyond what...
There is still a bit of "magic", we have no theory of the psychology of conjecture. Putting that to one side, we have a fully developed method for dea...
Platonic forms, necessary truths, laws of nature. None of them communicate with us. We gain knowledge of these things in the same way - conjecture and...
Right, we can't calculate the amount of energy using the Principle of conservation of energy, because it does not tell us how to do this. We need to e...
It's not a philosophical criterion, it's a methodological criterion, pertaining to the Scientific Method. Don't upset mathematicians or logicians by c...
Maybe you could turn that around a bit: p(Heads) = 1/2 p(Tails) = 1/2 p(Awake|Heads) = 1/3 p(Awake|Tails) = 2/3 Which strikes me as just a restatement...
OMFG! Given the economic importance of chemical processes involving catalysis, do you not think that a great deal of time, effort and money has been p...
Your: Is a keeper though, you know whenever I want a laugh. Oh, and by the way, QM has told us a great deal about the structure of reality, but I don'...
What we have discovered about reality cannot be undone by future knowledge. Quantum mechanics will always work as well as it does, and nothing it has ...
Remind me, when was the last time the Schrödinger equation changed? You think chemicals don't obey the laws of physics? Because they aren't. How do yo...
I can see no issue with defining as physical, everything that is subject to the laws of physics. And no, that isn't circular, because we know what the...
There seem to be several countries that are nationalistic, but not authoritarian. Iceland springs to mind, as does Japan, and certain Eastern European...
But since we know that completely different and unrelated physical states give rise to identical mental states, then cataloging human physical states ...
But at least we now know there is nothing particular about the neural nature of the activity that causes consciousness. It can be other types of activ...
It might not be a contradiction, but it probably is a mistake. There appears to be no sense in which any particular physical state is necessarily asso...
I was tempted to go a bit further into the global determinism of our fundamental theories, but decided not to, because the point was made, that our "c...
So acceleration is not one of the initial conditions, and is captured in the Hamiltonian or whatever you like to call the force and potential terms th...
You think there is a fundamental difference? In Newtonian mechanics, the "accelleration" is captured by the "Hamiltonian" as well - the forces acting ...
If that is the case, then why image the brain? Also, why ignore the fact that tells us there is nothing particular about the brain. Any computationall...
Then why does everyone ignore the discovery that all universal computing machines are equivalent, which means that consciousness cannot be caused by n...
Far better that one offers an argument, and the other offers criticism, don't you think? Anyway, the important thing is that Popper solves Hume's "Pro...
Nope, you only need initial conditions, which can be given at any time. Differential equations are by their very nature time-symmetric, deterministic....
An acceptance of an assertion? I don't mean to be pedantic, but have you really read Hume? To repeat myself: "There is no such thing as evidence for a...
Why do you want to know if I have read Hume? Have you? If you have, then perhaps you could point out anything in my post that contradicts, or disagree...
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