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April 16, 2018 at 12:48
Nah, I don't think either of those map on very nicely to what's going on here. If there's a classical distinction that might be relevant here I'd say ...
April 16, 2018 at 08:33
@"Janus": One thought I keep coming back to is that in rejecting the reality of types, one must - or at least this is what I want to argue - reject th...
April 16, 2018 at 06:47
Just briefly 'cause I'll be out all day, I think it is neither desireable nor possible to avoid 'kinds-talk'. The whole question is over what we are d...
April 15, 2018 at 01:07
Also, reading back on some of the comments on nominalism more generally, it's true that the kinds of ideas expressed in the OP are indeed just 'half t...
April 14, 2018 at 07:19
Coming back to this... I'd say that a fact in this context is something which commits us to certain undertakings. If there is a type-token distinction...
April 14, 2018 at 07:13
I don't think this follows. One can speak of parts of the world picturing other parts of the world (if approached in the right way). Actual pictures (...
April 14, 2018 at 06:08
In general, yeah, these are more or less what I'm after. I'm also not familiar with Austin's take, so I can't really comment on that either. What real...
April 14, 2018 at 05:38
Just some general reflections to feel my way back into this thread... I'm still entirely against the idea of 'natural kinds', which I can only see as ...
April 14, 2018 at 04:45
I've said my piece. If close-mindedness means rejecting equivocations, appeals to ignorance, and the falsities and fantasies of cranks like Wayfarer, ...
April 13, 2018 at 11:05
I mean if you want to call meeting the literal bare minimum criteria for constituting an explanation in any field whatsoever a 'challenge', then yeah ...
April 13, 2018 at 10:25
No, I said it was meaningless as far as it playing a role in explaining anything about QM. It could be substituted for nonsensical words without loss ...
April 13, 2018 at 09:56
Guilty. That said, I don't see any problem with saying that quantum processes might play certain roles in 'explaining consciousness'. Quantum electron...
April 13, 2018 at 09:24
Yeah, and it conveniently works both ways too - 'why consciousness?' 'because quantum!'. And intellectual con-men like Wayfarer will milk both to say ...
April 13, 2018 at 08:52
The issue, to begin with, is one of methodology: your approach, or at least the approach you've outlined here, looks to me like one of social atomism,...
April 13, 2018 at 06:14
Yeah, can't have anything to do with your consistent dodging of questions, and your peddling of lies and falsehoods.
April 13, 2018 at 05:32
Of course I understand. Sophists don't like being called out on their bullshit. It's embarrassing to be shown up time and time again for your know-not...
April 13, 2018 at 04:31
Oh look, when challanged about a concrete point - the meaning of observation - pivot entirely and bring in some last-minute Googled irrelvencies passe...
April 13, 2018 at 04:21
You can tell Wayfarer he is literally, factually wrong about this till you're blue in the face, and he'll still insist, against all reality, the the q...
April 13, 2018 at 03:39
Will return to this thread soon but Haugeland's reading of Heidegger is seriously one of the most interesting and just flat out facinating that I know...
April 13, 2018 at 03:34
Ah, so the argument is that because consciousness isn't literally meaningless, it ought to be a contender for explanation? That's the bar you've set? ...
April 13, 2018 at 03:24
/uploads/resized/files/0l/rhawl38yaqsoglye.jpg But think of the children! What planet could one be living on to see treating children as data as thoro...
April 13, 2018 at 02:34
And there we go: ignorance as a virtue. The ever thinning breathing room for idealism measured by the distance between what we know and what we don't:...
April 12, 2018 at 19:50
The curious thing about 'social capital' is that its apparent decline comes about during a time of its increased significance. I suspect it was birthe...
April 12, 2018 at 19:01
I happen to be one in the 'no collapse' camp, though I'm happy to simply refer to the measurement problem in general by that name because it's so wide...
April 12, 2018 at 17:51
No, this doesn't even qualify as a possible answer because a) saying 'consciousness does it' does not explain by what mechanism it would carry out tha...
April 12, 2018 at 17:19
Sigh, I thought you were at least a tad bit serious. Turns out I was wrong. How unfortunate.
April 12, 2018 at 15:40
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ac640a57b4960387d71b463e4be92033 Here is Schrodinger's equation. Where is the device in it?
April 12, 2018 at 15:37
Huh? QM has nothing to say about what a device 'is'. A double slit experiment might involve a device that includes a photographic plate, a light sourc...
April 12, 2018 at 15:13
This sentence doesn't make any sense. Still, there is narrow sense in which you are right about your general point: that we are inextricably involved ...
April 12, 2018 at 14:13
Sure. The measurement we get is defined by how we set up our devices for measurement. We may choose one way, or another way, but whatever we choose, t...
April 12, 2018 at 13:08
As usual, the fact that Wheeler explicitly disavows the role of consciousness is quietly ignored, as though a minor inconvenience to a position trying...
April 12, 2018 at 12:35
Sure, if you want to call bromide emulsion 'interpretation', be my guest. But you no longer get to whine about 'observation' being used in a way in wh...
April 12, 2018 at 12:18
Yep, where 'observation' is 'an irreversible act of amplification such as the blackening of a grain of silver bromide emulsion or the triggering of a ...
April 12, 2018 at 11:54
But - and this is the audacity of QM - Wheeler is entirely right. Of course we participate in the universe. We participate in the universe just like e...
April 12, 2018 at 11:37
Wheeler is certainly in agreement with 'this'. It's from the same paper I quoted which states that ''Consciousness' has nothing whatsoever to do with ...
April 12, 2018 at 11:24
Bohr actually commented on the ambiguity of the word 'observer', and simply resolved to affirm that at the end of the day, whatever we call it, it was...
April 12, 2018 at 11:17
Yes, I've seen you link to that article before, and I scoured it to see if it actually sourced that headline quote from Wheeler himself, given that I ...
April 12, 2018 at 10:41
The question is largely over the exact status of the states in superpositon: is it epistemic or ontological? And if it is either, what would it imply ...
April 12, 2018 at 10:27
I have an intense dislike of charlatans.
April 12, 2018 at 10:09
This is the only relevant point in the debate, and if you can't see that, then you don't understand the debate.
April 12, 2018 at 10:07
Sorry, but this entire post is hogwash. First, you literally put words into the mouth of Andrew, who nowhere speaks of physical measurement systems, b...
April 12, 2018 at 09:57
Interestingly, later Wittgenstein was all about being attuned to the contexts of useage, and he too would have demanded that we pay strict attention t...
April 12, 2018 at 09:33
Sure, and that normal usage is irrelevant when it comes to the issues at stake, so trying to leverage that normal usage to try and address those issue...
April 12, 2018 at 08:26
Right, because your inability to get past how words were used in primary school means that science is other than it is. As if your failure of intellec...
April 12, 2018 at 08:10
Step 1 in quantum sophistry: reverse the terms. Pretend that a reference frame designates the 'observer', rather than the other way around; Step 2: im...
April 12, 2018 at 07:10
Perhaps it would be better, and perhaps it might put a stop to the endless swarm of psuedo-scientific troglodytes who, too thick to understand that la...
April 12, 2018 at 04:17
Okay, sure, but I didn't offer an 'argument' about 'points of view' - I didn't even use the phrase, let alone discuss it - I simply cited Nagel as a r...
April 11, 2018 at 10:21
I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing I am. I'm referring to Nagel's 'What Is It Like To Be a Bat' paper - which Chalmers cites - which isn...
April 11, 2018 at 09:40
Without commenting on the rest of your thread, Chalmers's 'hard problem' is quite specific: it asks why consciousness is experienced as so, where 'as ...
April 11, 2018 at 09:01