Metaphysician Undercover

That's exactly why these theories are deficient, they are not consistent with empirical observation. Empirical observation provides us with a unidirec...

The so-called states you talk about here, are not actual states, they are probabilistic. This is the difference I've been telling you about, between a...

Ok, I'm fine with this. Now, if the electron "is always a wave", can you explain the principles which allow you to refer to the electron as a particle...

This is similar to Kant's phenomena/noumena distinction. Sensing the world (observing) is not a simple passive arrangement where the sentient being re...

Yes, Kenosha is very clear and descriptive, as I said in my first post in the thread. Nevertheless, there is waffling back and forth as to whether KK ...

Do you recognize the difference between a mathematical statement of probability, and a description? If so, let's move away from the idea that the wave...

Told! By the way, why do you present this stuff on a philosophy forum when you are completely uninterested in philosophical discussion of it? Why leav...

This assessment, that my objection to your theory is not consistent with QM, is simply a product of your misinterpretation of QM. Clearly, wavefunctio...

I already showed you how your thesis, which is a turning away from the vast array of evidence that energy is transmitted as waves, towards a theory wh...

Actually, they fit together with the way that reality is perceived by us. And our perceptions of reality are produced by our living systems, just like...

I will never reveal such a thing, because it is not understood by anyone. But I can often tell when a theory takes us in the wrong direction.

He sold his soul to some Russian oligarchs, and they got him elected. He has no political talents. And contrary to what you say, that's not so smart.

In case you haven't noticed, TPF is full of them. So you may feel right at home here with your far fetched idealism.

Sure, the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises, but that's because you haven't provided the appropriate premises. The problem is that you haven...

Like the flock of sparrows sitting on your fence, the peanut gallery has no interest in the true nature of space and time. The truth about reality is ...

A circle with an infinite radius is an incoherency. This is exactly the problem I am talking about, the faulty attempts by mathematicians to make circ...

Of course he's serious. Otherwise he'll spend the rest of his life fighting to stay out of jail, if not spending a significant part of that time in ja...

I think you are misinterpreting the evidence. The reason why it is impossible to create a determinate language is that language is inherently somethin...

i think what is at issue here is the geometrical shape of a fundamental unit of space. If we propose a fundamental unit of space, as an infinitesimal,...

Kenosha seems undecided on this. On the one hand Kenosha seems to insist that the wave function represents real waves. On the other, Kenosha asserts t...

Speak the obvious.

But this does not address the issue. The issue is that what causes language to be semantically indeterminate is that the creators of language have fre...

Human beings represent the laws of nature with mathematics and this means that these representations are mathematical. But this does not mean that the...

This is doubtful. The universe is orderly, and we represent that order with mathematics. But as we know, human representations are fallible, so we can...

I think I'd be with Taylor here.. Isn't semantic indeterminism dependent on free will? The reason why SI exists is that we are free to use words how w...

I'd say more likely he's going to announce "a miracle!"

My guess is that KK is an engineer.

The second quote you have taken out of context, and the reference link does not link to the context. Notice that I have "feels" in quotation marks, be...

That's nonsense, to say that a particle knows where it's going. Are you suggesting that the particle has a mind of its own? And it's really no differe...

Do you think that a hot object knows that the cooler object is cooler when it radiates heat? Of course you do not, because you know that thermodynamic...

OK, so the question is, if language is an indeterminate part of the mind, and the mind is a part of the world, why do you believe that the world is de...

More precisely, Wittgenstein pointed out that what we think is a jigsaw puzzle is not really a jigsaw puzzle. So we shouldn't call it a jigsaw puzzle,...

The source of novelty need not be randomness, it only needs to be possibility. Possibility means that there are options, but possibilities might exist...

Your false claim that emission/absorption is reversible is obviously what is inconsistent with quantum physics. And your refusal to accept the empiric...

I see, avoid the issue you claim to be addressing by asserting that the OP has already addressed it. I call that lying. You propose a complete misrepr...

Since you believe that linguistic meaning is "ultimately indeterminate", then don't you find the idea of a new language whose meaning is determinate, ...

Obviously, this is a location of the highest quality, making it extremely desirable. And, they love you fdrake, desiring more and more of your authori...

Yes you described emission as the reversal of radiation. And I explained how this is an unjustified assumption. Your reply was "Oh crikey!". And then ...

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There is a problem with this approach, and that is that you have outlined specific problems with quantum theory itself, and how these problems lead to...

Yes, I think you have answered the question in the next post. Chance is not actually a cause at all, in evolution, natural selection is the cause. It ...

I believe that most of the problems which you point to here, are a product of the means of conceptualization. I will try not to be offensive or insult...

This is contradiction, plain and simple. There's no point in trying to figure out contradictions. Give it up! It's simply wrong.

I'm not arguing that it's deterministic. Nor am I arguing that it is not random. I'm arguing that chance cannot be a cause. If there is such a thing a...

Hi Kenosha Kid, I appreciate the well thought out, explicit and thorough description of your thesis. I will reread this a couple times and perhaps mak...

Clearly each ticket has an equal chance to win. It doesn't cause one to win rather than another, because each has the same chance. What causes one to ...

Again, I think you are conflating categories, making category errors. Let's make two categories, as you propose, artificial (intentional), and natural...

Such decisions are made by God, as master, and human attempts to understand these decisions using conceptions like fairness and equity are fruitless, ...

I see your definition, but as I explained, philosophically it doesn't refer to anything real. Intention is a cause, and chance is not a cause. So chan...

Despite what its often called, it's not science, it's art.