Heh. The normally reserved New York Times has dropped all pretense of impartiality: I browse NYT regularly (usually just morning briefing Europe), and...
My early prediction (from before the pandemic) was that Trump would win reelection with a bigger margin (winning the popular vote as well). The sad th...
Yeah, we don't even know all that much about how animal eyes work - color resolution, etc. We have some idea, but there is considerable uncertainty th...
See The World Through The Eyes Of A Cat https://www.popsci.com/resizer/S94l-1o7fA_bab1Bsi6wYJcXjj8=/1002x420/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-bonnier.s3.amazo...
Yes, we are well aware of that. Even ordinary photo-video media (film, digital sensors) don't have the same light sensitivities as the human eye, and ...
I am not sure. The motivation for the Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory is to have a time-symmetric formulation of classical electrodynamics, right? Bot...
I wonder why he thinks that Type II emission is equally possible as Type I. Type I is an interpretation of a well-studied phenomenon (emission/absorpt...
Well, Sam put a good deal of work into his posts, and he actually made philosophical points, not just jee-whiz, isn't it special. He was a crackpot an...
In TI the electron is still essentially its wavefunction, right until its inglorious end. So it will go through both slits, interact with itself, etc....
He mentions a "relativistic Schrodinger equation," which has has a (P2 + m2)1/2 term. Does the incoming electron always scatter on another electron? I...
I was hedging because in his 1980 Phys. Rev. D paper Cramer writes that for particles with spin other than 1/2, e.g. bosons, there are a number of alt...
So I went back to Cramer's papers from 1980s onward in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the transactional interpretation. I think I manage...
All I can see from your quotes is that Mary Midgley is dissing someone you don't like. If that is what turns you agush... meh. May as well listen to a...
https://sketch.io/render/sk-4dfd88faa4cae8574b37473f378d433d.jpeg But this only gives the "real paths" of the electron once the "boundary condition" o...
As I read your reply I realized that I didn't really understand the OP :confused: So let me try another question to see if that helps a bit: How does ...
You are overthinking it. I haven't looked at the video, but the wiki on Penrose tiling explains the sense in which the pattern doesn't repeat: it just...
Collin's so-called prime principle of confirmation notoriously provides spurious support. Collins tries to repair it with an injunction against ad hoc...
That was a nice presentation and an interesting discussion. Thanks for putting in the effort! I was thinking about what you said about the asymmetry o...
We get attached to our beliefs - that's the main reason we hang on to them in the first place, regardless of their epistemic virtues or lack thereof. ...
Orbitals are distributions, charge density clouds. They are smeared across the entire universe, but their density peaks in the vicinity of the nucleus...
Here is one representative (I think - I am no kind of expert) example, with some thoughts on x-phi: Joshua Shepherd, The Folk Psychological Roots of F...
It is relevant to the extent that the starting point for Strawson's thesis is the old debate on the compatibility of personal responsibility/free will...
It depends on what one expects the result of such an inquiry to look like. Moral philosophers traditionally tend to look for simple, universal princip...
I was going to respond, but I see that this thread has since been taken over by an argument that spilled over from elsewhere. An object lesson of a fa...
This guy already joined this forum and posted his video a little while back. But I agree, such appeals are pointless and have never had any actual imp...
I wasn't so much complaining about a derail. It just seems that you (or maybe just Olivier) are itching to have this discussion - so why not have a de...
Can one of you guys start a thread on determinism/indeterminism, instead of hijacking other threads? (I have the damnedest time making OPs, but I migh...
I was thinking of folk theories, as in folk physics or folk theory of mind - intuitive or conditioned but unschooled understanding of how some aspect ...
Sometimes you may want to conclude that what we've been talking about all this time is not what we thought it was, or that it's just not a well-formed...
It's a common knowledge that Newton's predominant interests throughout his life (judging by the expenditure of time and ink) were esoteric religious s...
Making truly random choices is notoriously difficult - ask a poker player. There are common situations in poker where random choices are considered to...
Yeah, he doesn't actually define responsibility, except in a negative way, so this was a bit of extrapolation on my part. I suppose if Strawson was a ...
There is something that Strawson is saying with his argument. He apparently believes that the only thing that can bear the "ultimate" responsibility i...
This is because for him the buck doesn't stop at the self. He doesn't actually give an account of personal identity, because it is irrelevant to his c...
Sure, but can this technology scale up many orders of magnitude to simulate human brain? And just as importantly, is such a neural net simulation full...
I wonder if functionalism with respect to the mind in general might fail for a similarly banal reason? Might we be overly optimistic in assuming that ...
In a way, Strawson's argument is the opposite of the Gem: instead of "My will is my will, therefore..." it is "My will is not my will, therefore I am ...
There is something analogous here, but I wouldn't say it's the same thing. Strawson capitalizes on the so-called sourcehood criterion of free will: fo...
For my part, I am not really paying attention to this pompous ass, but there is not reason why we can't discuss analytical philosophy or the value of ...
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