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How is "optimising ways of contributing to the increase of entropy" selected for by evolution?
January 08, 2018 at 20:07
Why, when there is such a straight forward resolution? The mind is a byproduct of brain activity in the same way playing Go is a byproduct of computer...
January 08, 2018 at 19:55
If the mind operates in the manner of evolution (we know epistemology works that way, so why not) then there is no requirement for information, or exp...
January 08, 2018 at 19:52
It does seem utterly wasteful and counter-evolutionary to claim that consciousness and free-will are illusions. For this to work in evolutionary terms...
January 08, 2018 at 19:28
What if the mind is capable of setting its own initial conditions?
January 08, 2018 at 19:06
You can't have determinism and causality. Quantum mechanics has shown them to be incompatible. In the language of entanglement and the Bell inequaliti...
January 08, 2018 at 19:04
According to physics, the answer is YES! I don't particularly like the flavour of quantum mechanics that the Free Will and the Strong Free Will Theore...
January 08, 2018 at 18:58
There are lot of idiots making videos on YouTube.
January 08, 2018 at 11:32
It's absolutely noting to do with time. It is everything to do with the in-principle indistinguishability of identical instances of you, or anyone els...
January 07, 2018 at 17:29
It's absolutely nothing to do with time. And He cannot tell which decision you will make, in principle. All that can be known is what proportion of th...
January 07, 2018 at 17:15
I think science needs to come to the rescue of philosophy, yet again. No, God cannot tell us what we will do in the future, because what we will do is...
January 07, 2018 at 16:05
These are all software features, as is consciousness.
January 07, 2018 at 15:49
We don't use induction, mostly because there is no such logic, or method. Sure, we may generalize, but we do so from data that is already reported in ...
January 07, 2018 at 15:43
So now we need three unjustifiable principles to certify our knowledge as true: Causality, the future will be the same as the past, and that the unexp...
January 07, 2018 at 03:46
Except that view has been falsified: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/quantum-experiment-shows-how-time-emerges-from-entanglement-d5d3dc85093...
January 05, 2018 at 15:15
I think you are using terminology in a non-standard way. While it is easy to follow the nerve impulses to their final destination in the visual cortex...
January 04, 2018 at 14:11
Don't you find that a bit of a leap? Why do people keep assuming living creatures are aware of themselves? I suppose it's "obvious"? We don't however,...
January 04, 2018 at 12:00
So, your argument is that Darwin's words on the matter are irrelevant, and that he is wrong about his own theory. I am suppressing laughter. I could e...
January 03, 2018 at 17:22
You should read some Darwin, particularly the book and chapter I have been referencing. Darwin clearly states that if the variations are determined, t...
January 03, 2018 at 16:47
You mean like local randomness for local people? Who is allowing this?
January 03, 2018 at 16:17
That is pretty nonsensical. Evolution requires ontological chance/randomness. If biodiversity has happened as a deterministic inevitability from the i...
January 03, 2018 at 16:14
It's so easy to see, that it is commonly known as the Hard Problem of Consciousness.
January 03, 2018 at 16:03
You would have to be quite the disingenuous sneak to claim that I anywhere quoted Darwin directly, or claimed those were his exact words. I told you w...
January 03, 2018 at 12:54
Like I said, you know nothing about QM.
January 03, 2018 at 11:15
Except that our deepest theories of reality are deterministic, and have been tested to extraordinary accuracy. No violation of Unitarity has ever been...
January 02, 2018 at 22:58
So, let me repeat myself. The testable theory that was asked for is Quantum Mechanics. The Guiding Principle is the CTD-Principle, which is proved to ...
January 02, 2018 at 22:39
As I mentioned earlier, this type of determinisn - SUPERDETERMINISM - turns Reality into a conspiracy theory. However, the type of determinism that re...
January 02, 2018 at 22:28
Although you don't understand how determinism works in Reality, it doesn't matter, because those who deny Free Will because of determinism, but advoca...
January 02, 2018 at 22:09
OK, let's hope you aren't going to make a fool of yourself. Is that all it means? Causes? OK, given quantum entanglement, how does that work out for y...
January 02, 2018 at 21:56
I find it strange that those who deny free will in the face of determinism, because the two really aren't compatible, baulk at the notion that evoluti...
January 02, 2018 at 19:52
As you know, determinism works both ways. What if the final conditions of the universe require agent freedom to have come into existence? I mention th...
January 02, 2018 at 18:44
You could even use the term SUPERDETERMINISM to emphasize that even quantum mechanics provides no loophole to escape the conspiracy theory that is Rea...
January 02, 2018 at 11:12
The theory is quantum mechanics, which is falsifiable, tested, and long-unfalsified. The principle the theory adheres to is the Church-Turing-Deutsch ...
January 02, 2018 at 11:04
According to science, we can change what we will. Also, it seems apparent that people do this all the time. It's not as if we can be genetically deter...
January 02, 2018 at 00:53
According to science Schopenhauer was wrong.
January 01, 2018 at 19:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZD2VaZHA2g
January 01, 2018 at 18:15
We know this is false. The human brain is a universal computing device, which can be arbitrarily programmed.
January 01, 2018 at 18:12
And you hate them too.
January 01, 2018 at 01:16
The English are almost exclusively the descendants of the Corded Ware Culture. When you call them "mongrels", which you must if you hate them, then yo...
January 01, 2018 at 00:56
I find this channel entertaining and informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iVdy0s8ARE
January 01, 2018 at 00:42
If you are about to measure the spin of a particle, what difference does it make if the particle is entangled with another or not? Alice still measure...
December 31, 2017 at 22:28
Identical and distinguishable, particularly if they are separated by a few Bohr radii.
December 31, 2017 at 15:52
The electrons will be in different locations, with non-overlapping wavefunctions, so you can label them as you wish. Usually they are labeled after th...
December 31, 2017 at 15:51
In: Migration  — view comment
When the Sun goes supernova, of a massive asteroid destroys the Earth, who is going to preserve biodiversity?
December 30, 2017 at 20:43
In: Migration  — view comment
So did Woolly Mammouth migration. What's your point?
December 30, 2017 at 18:20
What logic? No two electrons in the universe can be in the same quantum state - they are fermions, remember.
December 30, 2017 at 18:18
Translation: "I can't find a single scientist who credits Feyerabend with any influence on their work, particularly any Nobel Prize winners"
December 30, 2017 at 11:31
Perhaps you get the idea that the scientific method is an algorithm, because you confuse it with the purported inductive algorithm for obtaining knowl...
December 30, 2017 at 11:27
Examples of Feyereband in action is a distraction?
December 29, 2017 at 23:07
Precisely, he did not understand the Scientific Method. It is not an alogorithm!
December 29, 2017 at 23:06