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You only need one uncaused event to refute PSR. I happen to disagree with you about the status of knowledge about the big bang, and your apparent asse...

But what if you can prove there is no cause, that there cannot be a cause, and back that up with real world experiments?

What if the only theory we have is non-explanatory, such as the Shut-up-and-Calculat version of quantum mechanics, or the Copenhagen Theory?

But if there are uncaused events, like the big bang and nuclear decay, the PSR is refuted, surely?

It's not a theory, the clue is in the title.

If choice is not possible, then there can be no sense in which there is information on which a choice can be made. As I mentioned earlier, because of ...

And claiming that humans cannot choose what button to press also falsifies the principle.

As I mentioned earlier, I find it strange that people are willing to abandon science to protect a treasured principle. I also mentioned earlier, that ...

Choices are not uncaused. All that is required is that choices exist and that in this particular case, choosing which button to press is possible. As ...

This is refuted by FWT, and therefore by quantum mechanics, which is a theory that adheres to the axioms of FWT. Probabilistic causality is ruled out,...

Your claim that probabilistic causality is compatible with quantum mechanics, how?

Really? The proof given in the FWT for uncaused events, has absolutely nothing to do with virtual particles.

Which pseudo-random number generator do you propose to use? How will you map the output of the number generator to the buttons? The FWT also holds if ...

This is proved false by quantum mechanics. I thought we had given up trying to prove theories true since at least the advent of the scientific method....

It seems odd that someone would give up the ability to chose which button to press, rather than question a cherished principle. The FWT would still ho...

The PSR is refuted because the laws of physics disagree with it. The assumption being that an experimenter possesses sufficient freedom to press one o...

If all they need to assume is "that the experimenter can freely choose to make any one of a small number of observations", what would be the point of ...

I think you can go a little bit further: While the PSR is falsified if we have free will by the Free Will Theorem, if we do not have free will, then I...

It's even stranger than that. Modern biologist who argue against free will would never apply identical arguments against evolution. Darwin wrote about...

The Principle of Sufficient Reason has been falsified by the Free Will and Strong Free Will Theorems of Kochen and Conway.

Well, you claimed, based on no argument, that fatalism isn't true. In which case General Relativity is not going to work for you, you are going to nee...

Now you are jumping the shark. You don't even read the papers you cite, let alone comprehend them. If you did you wouldn't cite them! Allow me to repe...

Or you accept the consequences of General Relativity.

Don't be silly! And by the way Bohmianism is refuted by the Free Will Theorem, and Bell, and Kochen-Specker, and experiment. And, because you weren't ...

For a start, the incompatibility of determinism and causality is an empirical fact, unless we radically alter our conception of the Reality. Secondly,...

Since the discovery of quantum entanglement, you can't have determinism and causality; they are incompatible unless you make a radical change to our c...

If you don't like the fact that numbers are defined in terms of set theory, and further properties deduced from there, I guess you won't like the fact...

At least Frege, Russell, and Whitehead defined what a number is. There are probably several others. Hang on, there's even a Wikipedia page: https://en...

Do you think the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations should ask for their Ellis Island Medal back? It was for services to black inner-city yout...

The entire observable universe is finite. Quantum computation has nothing to do with interpretation. I merely asks new questions that are unanswerable...

Really? What is number theory about? What is Principia Mathematica about? Sorry but you are bullshitting to an extraordinary level. You think numbers ...

Sweden is a shithole. Rape, shooting, grenade exploding, car burning capital of Europe. Zimbabwe is a shithole. Saudi Arabia is a shithole. Yemen is a...

Since the 1930s, we have known that all Turing-complete architectures are EQUIVALENT. i.e. they can all perfectly emulate each other. Because you seem...

Maybe you should re-read my post. I explicitly made the distinction between Turing machines and physical universal computers; one being a mathematical...

We've known that all Turing machines are equivalent since 1930s and that all physical universal computers are equivalent since 1980s and that they are...

Physicalist or not, you can't tell what a computer is doing from its state. I'm not sure "process" helps you either. Why would a sequence of states te...

I'm not sure this could even work for a computer, let alone a human brain. We can, as a matter of fact, identify all possible states of a computer, ye...

I doesn't seem to indicate how entropy maximization either is selected for, nor could be selected for by evolution. Replication seems totally absent, ...

How does one request a "Mute" or "Block" feature on this forum?

Sorry, but GR predicts many things like, the big-bang, time dilation, gravitational waves, and that we inhabit a stationary block universe. The last r...

Classical mechanics is not super-deterministic. Or rather, the completion of quantum mechanics, to render it compatible with classical mechanics would...

That's why 't Hooft, who got the Nobel Prize for instigating and developing the Standard Model is a Superdeterminist. The Copenhagen Interpretation is...

You want some help understanding one of the most important mathematical results of C21? So, you're not really interested are you.

And you have the audacity to complain about "snottiness"? Allow me to rephrase: You misunderstand quantum mechanics and metaphysics. Better?

Superdeterminism is not a religion. It is a consequence of the laws of physics being interpreted in a certain way. But you are right about the inabili...

It is funny that you should mention the "conspiracy" because Reality is indeed a conspiracy under determinism. J.S. Bell coined the term "Superdetermi...

I forgot, you are the only one who understands these things, But for the rest of us, particularly if you read the works of J.S. Bell and others, perha...

Actually, most QM theories don't claim randomness. As far as I'm aware, only GRW does. As I think I mentioned, The Free Will theorem considers actions...

No That would be a pseudo-random number generator.

According to known physics, the brain is a universal computing device. All such devices are equivalent. So, the program running on your brain (or any ...