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Here is a full Grok's response. What do reciprocal processes contribute to theories of Stochastic Mechanics that interpret Quantum Mechanics? Reciproc...
April 24, 2025 at 08:36
Yes, the You need to do better than that. I'm in agreement with Levy & Krener to the extent I understand their actual claims, which is what I was poin...
April 24, 2025 at 07:38
For what its worth, I'm finding vanilla ChatGPT especially helpful with regards to navigating in a sourced way the nuances of the stochastic mechanics...
April 23, 2025 at 20:28
Well not according to your source "On the Stochastic Mechanics Foundation of Quantum Mechanics ". There is no mention let alone explanation of entangl...
April 23, 2025 at 18:33
I cannot access the Levy & Krener (1996) paper, so instead I asked Grok for an account of reciprocal stochastic processes, of which I am unfamiliar wh...
April 23, 2025 at 15:22
I have a suspicion that the authors you mention aren't intending to address foundational questions of QM ,and are instead focusing on the technicaliti...
April 23, 2025 at 14:39
That is only true if the so-called background hypothesis, which is typically assumed to consist of a random field locally perturbing the motions of th...
April 22, 2025 at 07:45
The stochastic interpretation of QM isn't an interpretation of QM in the sense that Bohmian Mechanics is, i.e. in the sense of being a non-local or an...
April 21, 2025 at 21:32
In my understanding, a physical language per se is purely a communication protocol for coordinating human actions, that is to say physical languages p...
April 19, 2025 at 08:23
Suppose a realist insists "Metaphysical realism is true". If we understand the realist's beliefs as having a causal explanation in terms of the realis...
April 17, 2025 at 21:30
First we have to consider the meta-metaphysics of "mind-independence"; should mind-independence be understood to be an existential claim that the worl...
April 17, 2025 at 17:04
The impermanence of emotions and sensations isn't necessarily in conflict with the thought that an emotion or sensation is temporally unbounded. Consi...
April 16, 2025 at 07:27
I'm not a theologist, but I think that eternity should be distinguished from unending procession. Notably, the present can be regarded as 'eternal' in...
April 12, 2025 at 14:07
I suspect that hinges refer to what Frege called "taking as true". For example, I often "take it as true" that my colour judgements are synonymous wit...
April 02, 2025 at 13:36
Resource conscious logics such as Linear Logic don't automatically assume that the premise of a conditional can be used more than once. They are exten...
March 27, 2025 at 14:36
If you mean the Heisenberg uncertainty principle no - although I'm tempted to think that Zeno was close to discovering a logical precursor to the Heis...
March 27, 2025 at 09:37
More or less in the case of Zeno. Mathematics is often said to resolve the paradox in terms of the topological continuity of the continuum, by treatin...
March 20, 2025 at 23:09
Zeno's dichotomy paradox corresponds to the mathematical fact that every pair of rational numbers is separated by a countably infinite number of other...
March 20, 2025 at 19:50
Apologies for any misleading. To clarify, in type theory synthetic judgments can be identified with existential quantification due to the fact all pro...
March 19, 2025 at 23:50
Compare Quine to Martin Lof, the inventor of intuitionistic type theory. According to Lof, analytic sentences, at least in the context of intuitionist...
March 19, 2025 at 15:06
I'm not aware of a mathematical definition of an alternative continuum that resolves all of the logical puzzles posed by Zeno. Zeno's paradoxes when i...
March 19, 2025 at 13:17
A critique of Frege's theory of sense and reference by Wittgenstein isn't possible, because Frege never provided an explicit theory or definition of s...
March 13, 2025 at 16:31
Many of Wittgenstein's contemporaries said it better than Wittgenstein by formally distinguishing assertions from propositions. In particular, Frege i...
March 13, 2025 at 10:50
A suggested computational analogy: Non-rigid designators: Reassignable Pointers. Namely, mutable variables that range over the address space of other ...
March 12, 2025 at 12:27
I can appreciate the distinction you are pointing out between stipulation and observation. Indeed, classical probability theory explicitly accommodate...
March 11, 2025 at 12:53
I'm not quite sure what you meant there, but to clarify, a sample space S can fully and faithfully represent any relation that is defined over a count...
March 10, 2025 at 20:35
Your suggestion is essentially equivalent to what I suggested in my last post, and indeed the likely tool for constructing the sample space i was refe...
March 04, 2025 at 04:42
Yes, you're right to challenge my previous post, as I realize that I wasn't quite correct in my interpretation of possible worlds in probability theor...
March 03, 2025 at 23:29
No, it is the same in probability theory. There, the "set of possible worlds" refers to the sample space, where a "possible world" is normally referre...
March 03, 2025 at 22:28
Knowledge is represented in terms of 1) A deductive system, that apart from the logical connectives is comprised only of constants, sets, types and fu...
March 03, 2025 at 19:35
Kolmogorov's axioms effectively define probability in terms of a collection of sets of possible worlds, together with a probability function that maps...
March 03, 2025 at 14:11
It depends what you mean by apodictic. Anti-realism doesn't necessarily deny the possibility of logical certainty with regards to the existence of oth...
March 03, 2025 at 08:18
Certainly empathy is an antidote to psychological solipsism. But does empathy refer to other minds 'in themselves' that possess an existence that is i...
March 02, 2025 at 09:12
Does Husserl believe in the existence of other minds in the literal sense of other? I posed that question to Grok, which returned the following slop(?...
March 01, 2025 at 23:16
A simple explanation is amnesia; ordinarily, you cannot remember your waking life when dreaming. Hence the reason why wannabe lucid dreamers habituall...
February 20, 2025 at 09:32
Sure, but if the psychological past is part of a mutable mental state, then you presumably mean the "just past" in a manner of speaking, in the same w...
February 07, 2025 at 23:42
I can experience a gradual change of pitch played on a violin (portamento), but I cannot make empirical sense of a flow of "experience" unless the wor...
February 07, 2025 at 16:42
One should always start by mentioning Mctaggart on these sort of topics. The Cartesian coordinate system represents movement, in the sense of remember...
February 06, 2025 at 15:18
Anselm's ontological argument presents a few riddles for cognitive science, and presents a problem for Realism in general. Suppose you are a self avow...
January 30, 2025 at 14:09
In computer science, the problem of inverse reinforcement learning can be thought of as the problem of determining what an agent believes on the basis...
January 22, 2025 at 11:00
I understand the inscrutability of reference, and more generally the indeterminancy of translation to be more or less equivalent to contextualism as o...
January 21, 2025 at 13:27
The formal meaning of negation in intuitionistic logic refers to the syntactical inconsistency of the negated sign, rather than to a purported semanti...
November 14, 2024 at 15:06
So in common-sense Kripkean semantics, A --> NOT A says: all worlds that satisfy A also satisfy NOT A. But in Kripke semantics, a world satisfies NOT ...
November 12, 2024 at 12:11
It is an inference in the syntactical sense of implication, but not in the semantical sense of implication as ordinarily used by scientists and legal ...
November 12, 2024 at 11:42
I disagree with regards to ordinary language, because we ordinarily reject contradictory premises for sake of avoiding contradiction; we naturally rej...
November 12, 2024 at 06:09
Yes, and that's what i meant. To explain myself clearer, I meant L and R to refer to open sets of rationals together with the entire set of rationals ...
September 24, 2024 at 19:53
I agree with you, but i probably didn't make myself clear enough. I'm saying that if L| R is a Dedekind cut consisting of two open sets (as is the cas...
September 24, 2024 at 18:06
I'm tempted to think of Dedekind cuts as a mathematics joke, in the sense that when open sets L and R are used to define a Dedekind cut L|R for an irr...
September 24, 2024 at 11:13
Consider the operational meaning of "infinity" that refers to circular control flow that lacks a termination condition. That is what the lemniscate sy...
September 18, 2024 at 11:49
Semantic puzzlement at the fact that one cannot finitely bound the natural numbers is understandable, even when having no syntactical puzzlement with ...
September 12, 2024 at 16:59