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Personally I participate much less mostly because of the animosity that is quite prevalent, when we say things that others don't agree with we get qui...

I was talking about spacetime, the 4-dimensional manifold of general relativity. Regarding space itself, it doesn't create the separation between obje...

Spacetime isn't an actual observable thing either, it's a mathematical tool, to say spacetime curves is not to say there is something actually curving...

Newton's laws of motion aren't true, they can't be proven logically or experimentally, they are a framework, useful to some extent. Newton's 2nd law i...

Regarding the claim that it is default wrong to do something to someone without their consent, I don't see it as wrong to push someone so that they do...

I can both help starving people and have children. I won't have 100 children and I won't decide for others whether they should have children, it's a p...

I'm coming back to this because your arrogance is insufferable. I do. I disagree, because inherently a bad experience isn't worth avoiding more than a...

I generally agree with this, most of the objections you've got stem from an interpretation of the word 'choice' different from yours (you're obviously...

Well, it doesn't take a genius to realize that if relative acceleration is a function of distance that doesn't depend on time: dv/dt = f(r), then vdv ...

I don't see it that way.

I know, I just think it makes you look more and more dogmatic as you keep going, but I guess you don't see it that way?

I know, all you see is "dark matter exists, so everything you say against that is wrong, ergo you're wrong, ergo you don't know what you are talking a...

Of course you don't. Meanwhile, you kept claiming that dark matter has been detected, even EricH disagrees with that. But I suppose you don't want to ...

I find it sad that you don't realize I speak on this subject knowledgeably, and that you don't realize your impression that I do not know what I am ta...

Of course, but if person A spends 10 years working on hypothesis H1 and person B spends 10 minutes working on hypothesis H2, and H1 better fits the da...

I disagree that the problem I'm talking about would exist without money and bartering. The problem is not the uneven distribution in itself, it is tha...

You agree that dark matter hasn't been detected, contrary to what some people on this forum say (that dark matter has been detected), and contrary to ...

See: Unless you want to argue that saying there are flaws in my argument is not saying that my argument is flawed.

Is it arrogant to say an argument is flawed when we notice a flawed argument? You said my argument is flawed, so by that token you're arrogant too. Ok...

I said that they failed to convince me because they are flawed, not the other way around. And I addressed every one of them. Here is my argument again...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/flawed flawed: having or containing one or more faults, mistakes, or weaknesses So for instance, N...

If you won't believe me but you will believe Wikipedia, maybe you will believe the Nobel laureate in physics Frank Wilczek, he says the same stuff as ...

Come on, nature has been working without money for eons, people have lived without money for eons, it's not money that makes people move no, but in th...

Yes, even more than two, but still so few. Though it surely would help if those who agree there is a problem would think together about how to solve i...

I hadn't realized you replied to me. I think that a few people can't save the world if the vast majority isn't willing to wake up on how it is progres...

Falsificationism doesn't work though, because so-called scientific or empirical hypotheses cannot be falsified: if an observation appears to falsify a...

Sure. You're saying what a being perceives at a spatio-temporal location is "what some part of the world is like at that spatio-temporal location". Wh...

I was fully in control of my actions when I committed that crime, therefore I am not responsible for that crime and so I am innocent your Honor. You'r...

Okay, but you do say that what a being perceives is what the world really is like from their spatio-temporal location, correct? So how can you disting...

I was talking about the purpose of science in the minds of many scientists and people, to them there is no need to think about science and about what ...

But we already have science with a purpose, that purpose is Progress or Truth, which supposedly will solve all our problems. Scientists believe that w...

Reification is the act of reifying, of treating an idea as a concrete thing, it doesn't mean anything to say gravity and spacetime are reifications, t...

But when you say that what a being experiences is what the world really is like from their spatio-temporal location, it seems like you're saying that ...

So you agree that the statement "there is a real way the world is from a particular spatio-temporal location" is true from your spatio-temporal locati...

I don't see how that's not rephrasing the "poof" in a more complicated way. "Some way" is how I feel about your explanation for how minds arise from b...

And then poof minds arise out of brains. You can have a primary mind that imagined what we call the universe, and we would be part of that mind. Our m...

That quote is from his paper "Biology: A Necessarily Limitless Vista". I find it quite funny that in the very next paragraph James Watson engages in p...

I don't see it as an us vs. them, to me science and philosophy are inseparable, and trying to separate them makes science a religion and philosophy so...

That's kind of a derogatory way to look at it, I might as well say so you think matter exists spontaneously and then aggregates in a specific way and ...

At some point people need to have a bit of intellectual integrity, they just have to look at the history of science and read papers of renowned scient...

If that's the way you see it, then again by that logic unicorns and ghosts are as real as oceans and dog hair, just because we can think about them. R...

Okay, but you know my view is that everything stems from minds in some way, so in my view these rocks/minerals also stem from minds, I don't see them ...

I mean, a century ago scientists-philosophers like Einstein and Poincaré understood fundamental ideas about science and the concepts it uses that many...

I don't ridicule people who believe in ghosts or the afterlife, but it's often what scientists do. I'm saying that if you believe in curved spacetime,...

Sorry no, if I can make predictions as accurate as general relativity without using the concept of curved spacetime, I'm not gonna say that curved spa...

Let me help you figure that out. If a person perceives a ghost, and says that this is not a hallucination, do you think it's really a hallucination an...

Don't you count brain states as part of a reference point, and not just spatio-temporal locations? Or do you mean that when the reference point is a p...

I would say I observe a world that depends on my mind and on other minds, I'm not saying that what I observe is totally disconnected from other minds....

Yes, but how does that contradict the idea that "things are determined by minds"? Other minds could influence the world we observe in a way different ...

And how is 'fact' determined? You seem to have ignored everything else I've said.