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Well the OP is saying that non-physical is "within" the physical, and that's going to be hard to justify. But I think OP really means that somehow the...

What are neuron contained non physicals? Is this some sort of dualist position? Neurons are electrically excitable cells made up of well whatever they...

I advocate a skeptical stance toward all government-induced hysterias and promotion of narratives that make no sense yet allow no dissent. You're sayi...

Sorry I don't know what this was in reference to. I wrote several posts late last night and I'm just checking my mentions. What did I say? I think it'...

I did not say his explanation is wrong. I said his BELIEF that he knows the ultimate origin of the universe is wrong. His account of the universe aris...

Did you read my caterpillar story? Caterpillar on a leaf on a branch on a tree in a forest knows what to eat and what wants to eat it. It knows night ...

My only point was that when people say Bell's theorem disproves hidden variables, what I've heard is that it only disproves LOCAL hidden variables. Le...

I am not an expert, and for whatever reason, Bell's theorem makes my eyes glaze over every time I try to make a run at it. At some level it's just som...

But one doesn't have the time to get a Ph.D. in physics and a Ph.D in climate science and a Ph.D in epidemiology in order to have an opinion on these ...

I seem to recall seeing this vid a few weeks ago and it annoyed me. I don't remember the details and no need to re-trigger myself :-)

@"tim wood" I just watched the Nima Arkani-Hamed video it was awesome. Thank you! Just amazing stuff. Now I know what an amplituhedron is! It's a simp...

I agree that the present phase of our ongoing convo has reached an impasse. I just wanted to close the loop on a couple of things you said. What does ...

Thanks! I'm a big fan of hers.

Ok. Suppose I phrased it somewhat differently: I've been reading some books and articles, and watching some videos, in which professional physicists c...

I totally agree. Bertrand Russell nailed it: Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether w...

Did I say something that bothered you? By way of conversation, I'm wondering why you think the public is entitled to a voice in which highways to buil...

I can't speak for you. But I'm entitled to (and do in fact have) an informed opinion on the matter. I can refer you to some recent books by physicists...

What explains the recent (past several decades) of bad physics from the hard-working professional physicists?

Yes. That is my position. * First, it's absurd that there's a Causeless Cause (CC) that created everything; let alone that the CC has a beard, a white...

You mean here, or on the Internet in general? Personally I'm much more interested in bad physics than in bad theology. And in bad math most of all. It...

I am in agreement with this. Whatever it is that physicists mean by infinity, they surely don't mean mathematical infinity. The set of positive intege...

See recent thread here. And call me God. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10727/pronouns

Provisionally yes, meaning yes but I could probably think of counterexamples if I tried. I guess I didn't understand your post. ps -- Did @"Banno"'s r...

That's far from true. Numerous experiments show how unreliable our memories are.

This makes no sense. A gunpowder explosion is a chemical reaction that's perfectly well understood. You might as well say that fire violates the law o...

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Since I already confessed to that crime you can't prosecute me for it a second time. Isn't that double jeopardy? Or is this a state prosecution follow...

You just said you fundamentally agree with me, and now you want to pick a fight about Fox News? I don't watch cable news and certainly not broadcast n...

You may be right. I only grabbed that one sentence of yours out of context and haven't read most of the thread. FWIW, intellectuals have a terrible tr...

Can you give an example of the ones over whom you are entitled to rule? Name names and justify your claim to be among the gatekeepers. On a broader th...

I didn't watch the vid but I know the argument. I have three comments. * Everything that "begins" to exist has a cause. So the conclusion that there m...

I have a quibble about that. You say 2 + 2 = 4 has meaning even though you assert that neither 2 + 2 nor 4 refer to anything. And you've said that gre...

That's why they call it virtue signaling. The worst people spend the most time telling you how good they are.

Perhaps we can convince everyone to let the government run the schools, and then have the federal government to use financial incentives to exert top-...

No, this is the new generation of young adults in the US. They are deadly serious. A couple of people did mention that "it" is a slur against transgen...

For the first time I understand what you're saying. If you've been explaining this all along and I didn't understand, that's on me. But you haven't be...

Yes but could you just tell me specifically how your day to day life would change? That's weird. My response posted before your question. Maybe God di...

Yes. What else can I do? Can you please give me a specific example of how you think my life would change? I'm not a criminal nor a violent person. I d...

Not in the slightest. I'm asking you to explain how it would make any difference in my life. Explain this so I can understand what you mean. I do thin...

Name one. If I'm a brain in a vat or God made me or the great programmer in the sky made me or I'm a Boltzmann brain, exactly what will I do different...

Hasn't that been the basis of too many violent religious wars over the centuries? That's one of the New Atheist arguments against religion: that it's ...

It's not helpful as a scientific theory. It doesn't help us make predictions or develop deeper understanding. I'm probably not the best person to offe...

Darn good questions. My Youtube feed has lately been serving me up a lot of creationist-oriented critiques of science, so this subject is on my mind. ...

I was listening to a podcast on Frege, and the speaker mentioned his insight into sense and reference. She (Patricia Blanchette) said that Frege noted...

Dark matter fits the bill. It doesn't interact electromagnetically at any frequency, it's only detectable as extra gravitational attraction. https://e...

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That's what I thought you were talking about. I don't know the diff between that and whatever Leibniz thought about the subject. I glanced at the SEP ...

We can have no possible information about the part of the universe we can't observe. For all we know, in the unobservable universe, bowling balls fall...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_realism I'm afraid I don't know anything about Leibniz's views on the matter except that he said that we live in t...

David Lewis claims possible worlds are real. That, I find clinically insane. But you didn't address my question about non-Euclidean geometry. Is there...