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Quite! There is no reason to attribute qualia to birds. My argument was that birds (and all non-human animals) don't create knowledge and thus don't c...

How do you think the knowledge that the other bird is happy gets into the bird's brain? Do you think it requires concepts of the self, other and happi...

How do birds "share these sensations, these feelings"?

So, why might it not be possible to transfer dog knowledge to a bird? If a bird can know something, then what stops it knowing anything?

You claimed that dog knowledge and bird knowledge are different. Why do you not attempt to defend your claim, rather than pretending yu did not make i...

Do you think it possible to transfer dog knowledge to a bird?

What is the difference between "bird knowledge" and "dog knowledge"?

I see, you claim "bird knowledge" is different from knowledge, and now demand that I defend your claim?

In what way is "bird knowledge" any different from knowledge? How do birds create this "bird knowledge"? Funny! Qualia and knowledge are intimately re...

I refer you to "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" by Karl Popper. In that book you will discover why science is precisely a method, and what that met...

The quale of red is the knowledge of what it is like to experience red. Consider a physicist and a robot, neither of which can see red, due to a genet...

Sore, you decree this from above, with no explanation. Why not, explanations are totally subjective. Meanwhile in reality, explanations of a certain b...

I'm sorry, but there are objective criteria regarding what makes a good explanation, and what makes one explanation better than the other. In fact, we...

Actually it's the other way round. Superpositions are pure states, mixed states are statistical mixtures.

Here's Tegmark being as explicit in one of his papers as in his book: "In particular there are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not ...

This is simply false. In Inflationary cosmology, no assumptions about randomness, or all initial states being instantiated, or probability distributio...

To test their theories. I was doing some dimensional analysis for you. The fundamental units are arbitrary. Then why were gravitational waves known ab...

And, this is also true for Hubble Volumes in the Level 2 Multiverse. Indistinguishable Hubble Volumes will have different histories due to different l...

I've quoted from Vilenkin's book. Nerither he not Tegmark were speaking informally. It's nothing to do with probability, or our interpretation of prob...

Perhaps consciousness is on a spectrum, but why would you think birds have any of it? Also, if consciousness is on a spectrum, what restrains the cons...

I can see no reason, beyond morbidly sentimental anthropomorphism, to attribute consciousness of any degree to a bird.

In half your futures you are married to Jane. In the other half, you are married to Mary. Are you suggesting I have ever promoted polygamy? Of course ...

If you perform a quantum measurement - e.g. a measurement of z-spin of a particle prepared in x-spin-up configuration, and choose your spouse based on...

Bit of a self inflicted injury there. Perhaps "discovers" should be replaced with "studies" or "discovers and may discover". The implication is that p...

No it doesn't. You can't count your clones. Physics tells us that the cardinality of your clones is Aleph_0. If you think it is possible to count your...

How about: Physics is the science of the fundamental constituents of reality and their interactions. Physical is everything that is subject to the law...

I don't have a problem with the purported circularity of physicalism, it is a metaphysical stance after all. If it were in fact the case that physics ...

This is truly weird. You think you know better than Garriga and Vilenkin what they actually mean? In Vilenkin's book, which he published 6yrs later, h...

I didn't say you could count them. You can't count them.

One of my favourite fallacies! With some rudimentary algebra, s = sqrt(m/g). So, we really can derive the second from other units if we wish, which is...

Could you just read the quotes again, slowly, and out loud? Or, try swapping the parts in bold: There are a countable infinity of INDISTINGUISHABLE Hu...

Umm, did I ever claim incomprehension? Umm, no. There are uncountably many Hubble Volumes instantiating countably many initial states, at least that i...

What? It's a toy example! If you need a reference, you need your head examining. Seriously, I am feeling vicariously embarrassed and ashamed, and some...

What? Are you joking? You need a derivation and a reference? You are giving me a headache.

I repeat. All possible initial states are instantiated over a Gaussian distribution due to the nature of the Inflaton. There is no member of the initi...

Do we have to go back to Kindergarten? If we do, I'm feeling like the much anticipated demolition of Cosmic Inflation has a somewhat uninspiring proba...

This is really depressing. There are no measure zero events, as explained multiple times in this thread. Still waiting for your demolition of Cosmic I...

Mutual effects, which aren't causal? What is that?

In addition to the two previously mentioned, you would probably need to include at least Thermodynamics. Is the notion that certain systems may be sub...

This strikes me as verging on a Straw-Man. Does anyone really claim that everything can be explained by GR and QM (+ other branches of physics)? That ...

I look forward to your refutation of our best Cosological theory, right here, on this forum, by a true expert.

You mean maybe the six numbers are magical? And of course the usual slur. How predictable!

When you have calmed down from your hissy fit, consider this: An ergodic random field whose harmonic oscillator coefficients span {1,2,3,4,5,6} with a...

Being unaware is not an argument.

Perhaps you would like to get in touch with Max Tegmark and give him the bad news?

Science is about formulating problems and seeking solutions for them in terms of explanations, i.e. accounts of what exists in reality, how it behaves...

The Level 2 Multiverse solves the Fine-Tuning Problem.

Will you inform the Nobel Prize Committee?

Are they probabilistic? Perhaps you could show what you mean by that, and which points comply with your meaning? Infinite realms? Loss of certainty? I...

Quite!