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Actually, that is false. That "only my mind exists" is logically coherent and unfalsifiable, in principle.

Really? How about the Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle (please don't confuse it with the Church-Turing Thesis) which is proved to apply under known phy...

OK, so let's examine two claims, which are actually competing theories, which utilise identical equations: 1. Underlying reality does not exist. The e...

No, it is not possible for non-falsifiable objects or phenomena to exist. Falsifiability applies only to theories: explanations that account for objec...

No. Science is defined by the Principle of Demarcation. Not everything we are interested in is falsifiable or testable.

Except that science tells us that we can know anything we want to know about reality. There can be no epistemological barrier to our understanding.

How does the Principle of Conservation of Energy help you in measuring the energy of an isolated system? I misread your post, because one does not exp...

Hint: That's WHY conservation of energy is a Principle.

What is an immaterial phenomenon, given that only mater and energy exist?

I see, you pretend that somehow Schrödinger's desire to express quantum mechanics in differential equation form, has somehow infected the mathematical...

"metaphyicses" is almost a Google-Whack. Well done! Funny, I get lots of results. You are not a serious person. Thanks for clearing that up.

Metaphysics is defined by the Principle of Demarcation, so yes Metaphysics is defined precisely by physical law.

You are kidding me, right? What has "forces and fields" got to do with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

Isn't that what you just did? Anyway, I find their denial of certain consequences of evolution, such as the existence of races and racial differences ...

They're a pretty shallow and toxic bunch though, don't you think?

I think that is basically repeating what I typed, but replacing a full-stop with a question-mark, so yes! You could transpose that statement into some...

Morality, or perhaps better Moral Philosophy, leaves physical traces of the moral (and aesthetic) reasoning that determined what sort of problems the ...

Presumably they think relativism is objectively better than the alternatives.

OK, what or where is the intent in the Schrödinger equation, the law of motion for all particles? No idea what you are on about. The Principles of Phy...

Meh. The word "law" implies no such thing. The Principles of physics are laws about laws. The Principle of the conservation of energy, for example, te...

Not sure it does. You could replace time with literally anything, or any number of things and get the same result. If f is a constant, it is not a fun...

You forgot the cosmos! I think you are jumping the shark here. You claimed the brain is not a device, now it's not an object! How about an organ? If y...

If an object is computationally universal, in what sense is it not a computer? And human brains are programmed by natural selection and culture. The l...

The human brain is a computationally universal device. If the laws of physics are not physical, then why are you obeying them?

A language without semantics is not a language. There are robots that can interpret human language already. One is even a citizen of Saudi Arabia, tho...

That is simply false. The universal computer first evolved through natural selection. That's a Straw Man. That everything that exists is subject to th...

"Just classical mechanics"? Hamilton was within a whisker of discovering quantum mechanics, if he had only taken his equations seriously.

If you think that is what the mind does, then computers are capable of that now, and in many tasks easily defeat minds. You CLAIM that physical proces...

OK, so you refuse to answer my questions about the optimum temperature and CO2 levels. At least we have established that you are wrong in describing m...

I think a line in the sand has to be drawn. Physicalists can't constantly retreat into yet to be discovered physics. Of course, new physics has to be ...

What is your reason for proposing that the optimum CO2 "range" is lower than it is today? Plants disagree: https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/...

Physical things are those things that obey the laws of physics. Which laws? Certainly the conservation laws and principles.

I think that's a very good idea. Unfortunately it would require someone to read some philosophy. Not going to happen I suspect.

What is the best temperature for the earth? What is the optimum level of CO2 for life?

My Haskell metaphorical description seems to run though. It's not metaphor. Computationally universal machines can emulate each other.

Have you ever visited a university library? You would need many tonnes of haulage to carry the evidence.

There are literally libraries worth of evidence, research, clinical findings. Go to one!

Actual software is not made by an actual agency according to actual Darwinism.

I started a thread where I pointed out that everyone seems to accept the Cosmological Multiverse despite the total absence of evidence for it, whereas...

There is a vast body of scientific research that establishes the fact that consciousness is a feature of the functioning brain. It is even possible to...

Quantum mechanics is a globally deterministic theory - it is completely unitary. General relativity is also deterministic. Combining the two has produ...

I've encountered ID fanatics who have said the same. The difference is that they adhere to known physics, and do not need to invoke "randomness" as a ...

There are many eminent scientists who attribute their success to applying Popper's method when they really needed to think deeply to solve a problem. ...

Energy and entropy - remember the 1st and 2nd Laws!

Ironically, I think the theory of Evolution might just provide an example of this. I don't mention it often, because the fits of emotional apoplexy it...

It occurs to me that the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics are also evidence that science can cope with property dualism.

It would seem that every single statement there is questionable if not downright false: A great deal of progress was made in the early 20C by scientis...

Admittedly it would be more difficult to make progress in science if that were not the case, but the scientific method, as expounded by Popper, makes ...

Scientific theories require no justification nor foundation, as if any such thing were possible. They are the last idea standing after they have withs...

That is a very strange "think" given that science can take us back to before the big-bang and answers the question "why"? Science does not provide its...