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Karl

['Member']Joined: January 08, 2019 at 20:28Last active: March 26, 2025 at 04:350 discussions9 comments
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I see religion as ultimately the quest for eternal truths. Nothing we observe in the eternal world will, by itself, tell us what, if anything, will la...
March 26, 2025 at 04:24
Any doubt about having a thought comes after the thought, and so one is, in effect, doubting the memory of that thought. And the question of how much ...
March 26, 2025 at 03:55
Super determinism was what I was referring to in my original post. Yes, you can preserve determinism with the many worlds interpretation, but although...
January 14, 2019 at 08:22
I doubt I fully understood what you just wrote. "QM without collapse." - Are you referring to the many worlds interpretation?
January 14, 2019 at 07:47
Ok. Then I misinterpreted what you originally wrote.
January 14, 2019 at 07:23
"If you are saying that the state of the universe, together with the laws of nature, fix some event with only 50% probability" It may fix an event wit...
January 14, 2019 at 03:03
Acquiring insight is the main purpose of life. And if you need a reputable source for that, you only need to look at my profile.
January 14, 2019 at 01:29
In order to even suggest that IQ tests measure intelligence, one must define intelligence as the ability to learn, rather than the ability to problem ...
January 11, 2019 at 00:07
"Why didn't humans stop at atheism? What went wrong?" There is an obvious distincition between not believing in a deity and not being religious. As un...
January 10, 2019 at 23:33
As Bertrand Russell pointed out in "Problems of philosophy", the induction principle is an example of synthetic knowledge a priori.
January 10, 2019 at 23:04
Assumption 1: Time is discrete. From this follows that space must be discrete, where one unit of space equals one unit of time multiplied with the spe...
January 08, 2019 at 20:49
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One way to narrow down what matter is, is that is has the property of existing independent of any individual's consciousness, which allows us to make ...
January 08, 2019 at 20:38