Long post here, I hope you will read all of it carefully in order to understand, I could have made it shorter but I wanted to answer you as clearly as...
As to why the observed frequencies are often (not always) close to 1/6, consider the following: Since in a deterministic system the outcome depends so...
1. Probability expresses incomplete knowledge that we have about a system. 2. The exact same initial states in a deterministic system lead to the exac...
As evidence that probabilities refer to incomplete knowledge (and not non-determinism), consider the following: If you don’t know anything about a die...
I think you’re conflating probability and non-determinism. When we say that “there is 1/6 probability that the die will land on three”, do you agree t...
I agree that in order to experience change there has to be something that stays the same in relation to what is changing, for instance a thought, beca...
Since you don’t address the points I make, I have to agree. You’re not interested in understanding or addressing the points that other people are maki...
I’ve done that repeatedly in the previous posts, do I really need to say it again? You believe that the die behaves non-deterministically, that’s wron...
That you can find patterns in a deterministic system doesn’t mean that the deterministic system behaves non-deterministically. That you can find patte...
Yes you aren't seeing the relevance, because it precisely addresses what is bothering you. That's the kind of thing I was referring to yesterday, you ...
I really hope things are going to work out for you, hopefully your sister can get you out of these difficulties. Yes many things can be problematic. B...
Because as I keep mentioning, it does happen! It is rare but it does happen, even with an incredibly large number of experiments. There is a non-zero ...
I agree for the most part, except: If you don’t look at the initial state, you may pick unwittingly the same initial state every time (or a member of ...
It’s possible to throw the die a million times and get three a million times. It’s possible to throw it a gazillion times and get three a gazillion ti...
Not exactly. In your OP you correctly said: There is no randomness involved in that definition. In an earlier post I gave hints as to how you can show...
Okay, sorry for reacting that way, it’s just not pleasant to take time to explain something carefully in order to help you see your misconception only...
Let’s go baby steps: Say there are 6 numbered balls in front of you, they aren’t even in a box they are in front of you, one ball has number 1, one ba...
So basically you have ignored again what I have taken the time to explain to you in details. I have shown you where your error lies, and you keep igno...
Sorry for the late reply I see where you’re getting at, but do you agree that without the experience of change we wouldn’t even come up with the conce...
But it’s not a presupposition, it’s a definition, existence is defined here as all that exists. Existence cannot belong to anything else than existenc...
I'm not sure they are less problematic. For instance why wouldn't you say that objects are states of mind, instead of things outside mind that are cau...
As I said I’m not a Christian, I do not follow any organized religion. I don’t think the problem is non-Christians and I don’t think the problem is Ch...
Yes I agree with this, but the fact people can be mistaken about what’s truly good and what’s truly evil does not imply that good and evil are fundame...
Don’t you see that people invoke science to say that people aren’t equal? Also, both scientific and religious conclusions are based on empirical evide...
I like how you put it, it has interesting parallels with something else. You talk of two distinct spaces that are opposed. In one space there is diffi...
I would say suicide is what happens when one suffers more than one can handle. Depression, anxiety and hopelessness are all forms of suffering. There ...
Note that I didn’t disregard your points, I addressed them, maybe you misunderstood me. My argument didn’t rest on your lack of a robust definition fo...
The idea that microscopic germs exist and cause diseases used to be seen as a supernatural power, because we couldn’t see them and the idea seemed far...
Well what is true intelligence? If you define intelligence as being good at maths, having good memory and being good at IQ tests, then by definition s...
Indeed, but what he says is valid only as long as nothing travels faster than light. If we ever find something that travels faster than light, we coul...
I agree with that. But going even further, if sometime in the future we manage to show that there are things that happen within a living body that don...
Attacking someone is coercion, protecting someone isn’t. Regarding your example, people attempt to murder for various reasons, they usually do not wak...
Certainly overpopulation is problematic, however I think it would be wrong to see it as the root cause of the division and indifference you're mention...
A few questions for you: 1) What religious conspiracy theories are you referring to? 2) Why do you feel the need to flag something you're not willing ...
There is an even bigger problem: how can you tell if you are truly intelligent, or if you simply believe you are because you aren’t truly intelligent?...
For now. If we ever come to find out that faster-than-light communication is possible, then this relative simultaneity will be wrong. Sure people will...
The more violent it is, the more counterproductive it will be. The military today is much more powerful than it used to be, things would really turn u...
But then if he’s omniscient he would know that humans would see him as a God, so he wouldn’t think they’re wrong for seeing it that way, he would know...
Yes I know, but that’s a belief, they haven’t proven it. It is possible that probabilities in quantum mechanics are not fundamental, that they are due...
:up: But coercion is never the solution, coercion is what got us there in the first place. The wealthy won’t let themselves be coerced into distributi...
I would say we don’t even have to refer to motion, simply the sensation of ‘white’ would count as existence, even if nothing changes about that sensat...
We can’t achieve anything with intelligence alone, we also need to turn it into something, with the help of our body or of tools we create with our bo...
I’d say fundamentally there is such a thing as right or wrong, true or false, but uncovering it is not a straightforward process, I liken it to one bi...
Okay, yes I agree that there can be a distrust of people who seem intelligent, but more generally there can be a distrust of people who seem more able...
Science is venerated by many people like a religion, including people who call themselves intelligent and people who call themselves stupid. The word ...
I can understand why you would say that if you assume materialism right from the start, namely that your experiences are a manifestation of an underly...
The skyrocketing cost of living has many causes, overpopulation is only one of them. If we collaborated with one another we would live much more easil...
I don’t see quantum mechanics as showing that individual particle events do not have a cause. However where I see physics offering no support for mate...
So are you saying that your experiences are not part of existence, because supposedly existence is “nothing more” than a necessary condition? Also can...
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