Andrew M

This refers to quantum entanglement of distant particles. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". QM just says that the measured values of e...

Yes. What I think is also needed is a reframing that doesn't depend on those dual first-person/third-person perspectives. I find Aristotle a useful re...

About that cat, I have good news and bad news... Have you tried the Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

No, each branch is independent. What someone does on one branch (including when they die) has no effect on any other parallel branch. No, from your br...

i appears in the Schrodinger equation: i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial{t}}|\Psi(t)\rangle=\hat{H}|\Psi(t)\rangle

You are assuming those two notions are opposed. But, yes, I assume at least the first. Yes. And you are assuming that the quantity of something (say, ...

I choose what to measure and how to measure it. But when I do so, that I measure three atoms in a water molecule doesn't depend on my mind, it depends...

I think it's important to know that it wasn't a prediction. It was instead a note for how regions should act in the face of fat tail risk and uncertai...

Some experts were advising the US to close borders in February 2020 and earlier. And the US did close their borders to China on January 31st (albeit l...

No. Per the above example, the quantity of atoms is independent of mind (real), but dependent on the atoms (immanent). So the quantity doesn't have an...

That's not quite the question originally asked. Let me quote Hacker to set the context: Note Hacker's italicization of entity above. Here's the Lexico...

As mentioned, this is the problem of universals. Your position, conceptualism, is one of the many possible views that people have held about numbers, ...

I love Scott Aaronson's comments on this:

I don't agree that a number is a concept. However I have a concept of a number, just as I have a concept of a tree, and also a concept of a unicorn. I...

:up: As Peter Hacker (co-author of Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience) says:

I don't think words such as "conscious", "mind" and "exist" would be meaningful to you if you otherwise knew nothing about reality. By the time we beg...

No, one could be either a realist or an instrumentalist about particles. As with Rovelli, I think that if you can detect it then it's real.

To quote Carlo Rovelli, "particles are the objects revealed by detectors". We build up a representation of those objects (and the probabilities of mea...

Agreed, we don't have proof. Regarding Einstein's view as described in your OP: Einstein viewed nature as ultimately intelligible. To paraphrase Einst...

I don't see the question of your OP as merely a practical one (but perhaps you do?) A quantum coin can be represented by a qubit, just as a classical ...

Why not?

In some quantum experiments, it is possible to both play dice and predict the measured outcome with certainty. For example, suppose I prepare a quantu...

My argument was that elimination is possible (i.e., what could be achieved at larger scales of infection) as against your claim that "zero cases is li...

My comment was ambiguous. They were successful tests at the scales of infection in Australia and NZ, and therefore instructive (i.e., useful and infor...

Also need to factor in long COVID, length of immunity and the potential effects of emerging variants (for example, the new B117 variant appears to be ...

And, better yet, no Democrats, RINO's or CNN! Make your alternative reality come true. Donate here!

Make Mars great again!

It can be Elon Musk's next project...

The NO-COVID/CovidZero strategy outlined by those papers is a multiscale approach - applicable to large geographical regions such as the US and Europe...

Could be. It's also easily conceivable that a much more deadly pandemic hits us in the future, and nothing was learnt from this one...

Indeed, and there is little room for error: As I see it, Katz fails to acknowledge the unknown risk in pursuing herd immunity. Maybe it will work out ...

It's an important point. Bar-Yam addresses it here:

For an alternative point of view: The discussed paper: Also the five week CovidZero plan from Yaneer Bar-Yam at the New England Complex Systems Instit...

:100:

If a plan is complex, then it will have many potential points of failure. Consider a complex piece of software that has never been tested. Would you r...

Yep. Australian states have a clear objective, which is to get community cases to zero and keep it that way. Then life returns to normal. If they can ...

It's worth noting that the state had been free of community transmission for ten months, and the rest of Australia currently has no known community tr...

:up: I think Strawson is just saying that such a statement isn't propositional (due to a false presupposition), rather than interpreting in the intuit...

Yes, my translation would just be the first. The background to my original comment was Russell's analysis of definite descriptions and Strawson's crit...

Yes, so context matters. That sentence had an obvious use in a time when a French King existed. But it doesn't have that use now.

Speech acts occur in a context. So part of the context in the hypothetical I presented was that it was raining. How you tell what the context is is bo...

It's the context for our talk. Language doesn't arise in a vacuum, but in our interactions with the world (our experiences). We perceive a difference ...

I'd like to present a hypothetical scenario, which I'll analyze in my own words, and then perhaps you can point out any problems, as you see it. The s...

I think he agrees that my statement of the event is a proposition. He just disagrees that the event itself is a proposition. But I think you would agr...

Purported is a qualifier on an event, not another kind of event. Whether or not a purported event is an event depends just on whether it meets the spe...

If the purported event is representable in language and it meets the public usage criteria for an event, then it is an event. It seems to me that it t...

My purpose there was to distinguish them in a dependency sense. First-order beliefs are about the world. Second-order beliefs are about statements abo...

Yes, that seems OK. Any event can be characterized by a statement. Whether or not it ever is, is a separate matter.

No. An event does need to be representable in language, in principle (i.e., such that language users could potentially make a statement S(E)). But it ...

Loaded questions You seem to be looking to disagree on things that, as far as I can tell, we have no real disagreement about. The content of a true be...