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You asked for types of constraints. So I used some dinner examples. I could have said trying to barbeque without a fire. There are multitude of constr...
September 07, 2017 at 19:23
Yes, it is just we are not free to live the life we choose. We can only try.
September 07, 2017 at 17:32
Going through a brick wall. Stealing a wallet. Flying off a building. A choice can be made to try with unpredictable consequences. It is like the ship...
September 07, 2017 at 17:21
It depends on how one thinks of free. I can make Choices (in which direction), which are constrained, and I have Will to attempt to effect those choic...
September 07, 2017 at 17:12
We all face all types of constraints in our lives. Living a life is much like navigating ocean waters. We do our best and learn from experience.
September 07, 2017 at 17:04
This. There are limitations and constraints.
September 07, 2017 at 16:55
This I am afraid flies in the face of everyday experience. We do make choices but so does everyone else and we are constrained by the choices we make....
September 07, 2017 at 16:32
There are all kinds of people who act in all sorts of ways. There as many types as drops in the ocean with enumerable gradations. Economic security is...
September 07, 2017 at 16:27
That's what I meant when I said he isn't fully conversant. He he just repeating what he read elsewhere. Bohm' himself write it is causal but non-deter...
September 07, 2017 at 15:31
I tried watching the whole lecture but it is so muddy, I just couldn't. He is trying too hard to be acceptable. A far, far better exposition of the pr...
September 07, 2017 at 14:37
The agent is precisely what you experience every day in you life. Call it what you will, consciousness, your mind, the Elan vital, or that which is ch...
September 07, 2017 at 13:31
Using Bohm's Interpretation, not Copenhagen, we have real world that mind is actually viewing. But the real world may be nothing like the image we see...
September 07, 2017 at 13:08
I am totally OK with flights of fantasy in science and philosophy, but if we are to start taking seriously a quantum theory interpretation that calls ...
September 07, 2017 at 12:46
We didn't have a bottle for 30 years. Recently, I took about 6 over a two day period. Probably didn't need two, but I figure aspirin had been around f...
September 07, 2017 at 01:01
Nope, no one would go to the hospital. We all agree on that. As for the mind healing itself, that is precisely the only thing that actually heals. It ...
September 07, 2017 at 00:22
Haven't used Big Pharma of any sort in 35 years. Ditto for the rest of my family and we are substantially healthier than those who do. It is a matter ...
September 07, 2017 at 00:15
Oh, I thought you would call me a crackpot. Nice change of pace.I realize that there is a belief that money never corrupts, and $trillions of money ab...
September 06, 2017 at 23:55
Yes, transferance of wealth from the people to preserve the wealth of the super-rich as been the objective of all types of governments since ancient t...
September 06, 2017 at 23:45
Science is one data point but like any data point, the source has to be considered. To my mind it had been so polluted my money it is no longer trustw...
September 06, 2017 at 23:36
John Bell (of Bell's Theorem) coined a phrase for this: Good enough for all practical purposes (FAPP). That is, if we limit the observation for what i...
September 06, 2017 at 22:54
You may not realize it, but you have hit upon the reason Special Relativity has no ontological relevance. There is no Twin Paradox because there is no...
September 06, 2017 at 22:41
So, the idea that everytime there is a quantum event, which is happening continuously everywhere in the universe, a new world is created for every pos...
September 06, 2017 at 21:43
Much, much crazier than Bohm's straightforward causal non-deterministic interpretation. Bohm's interpretation implies non-locality which has been expe...
September 06, 2017 at 20:00
This implies that creating a new world for every quantum event, or smearing every thing across infinite works comprising some mega-universe of some so...
September 06, 2017 at 14:49
As things stand, each person perceives and understands Donald Hoffman differently, which is different from how he perceives himself. That is why peopl...
September 06, 2017 at 14:31
Mike, if you stick with your original question as it relates to current particle theory v it may provide you with some interesting insights.
September 05, 2017 at 23:09
Actually pretty close to what is happening. What can be said it's that there exists a field that behaves in a certain manner depending upon different ...
September 05, 2017 at 23:02
I know, it's tough being made a fool of by a beginner. Tell me again about my big beginner's mistake?
September 05, 2017 at 19:56
Yes, it is a big closet they can hide in. It's do, so, big, and complex. Someday.
September 05, 2017 at 17:28
Yes, materialists always hide their Designer in Very Big, Very Complex, and Very Long Time. But despite the bluster, there remains zero evidence that ...
September 05, 2017 at 17:21
OK. Enjoy your exploration into the issue.
September 05, 2017 at 15:43
While not a prediction per se, Bohm's version of the Schrodinger equation implies a quantum potential that can act non-locally, at a distance. This im...
September 05, 2017 at 14:11
Philosophers need to distinguish between ontology and symbols. Math, words, music notes, etc. are symbols not the real thing. They don't even come clo...
September 05, 2017 at 13:26
It was a real pleasure making a complete fool of you, but honestly, even for a beginner it wasn't that difficult. I hope you are spending some time ru...
September 05, 2017 at 13:06
The boundary question is one of quantum interpretation. Quantum theory rejects the idea of a particle, and instead has replaced it with the concept of...
September 05, 2017 at 13:01
I have not argued for materialism since grade school. What we have is a quantum field which is embued with memory and consciousness. Everything is rea...
September 05, 2017 at 03:24
https://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v11/n3/full/nphys3233.html "Assuming that a notion of objective reality exists, our results thus strengthen the v...
September 05, 2017 at 02:41
Sometimes it is helpful to ruminate over one's autobiography. It provides lots of insight into oneself.
September 05, 2017 at 01:59
The molecules are waves. I already told you that non-local, quantum entanglement had been demonstrated at the molecular level. Try to imagine a contin...
September 05, 2017 at 01:57
I wish to remind you of Wilde's great insight into human nature. It is extremely insightful: “The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of...
September 05, 2017 at 01:41
Your propensity for calling everyone and anyone who doesn't buy into your anachronistic materialistic philosophy a crackpot, including one if the grea...
September 05, 2017 at 01:07
No. It is a universal. It is the fabric. Imagine the ocean as the universe with waves and waves everywhere. First you must be able to imagine it. Righ...
September 05, 2017 at 01:00
OK, now that we have obliterated separation between electrons, protons, neutrons in a single molecule, you want me to show you how separation is oblit...
September 05, 2017 at 00:25
I figure you'd be back trying to save particles. All of materialism rests upon it. It must be saved at all costs, even if it means teaching 17th centu...
September 04, 2017 at 23:59
Look at it. There is no particle anywhere. That is the difference between a wave and a particle. This is your Bohr model. Note the difference. The qua...
September 04, 2017 at 23:55
I don't think you know what you are talking about. The image represents density! What the heck more do you need??? It is continuous and dispersed as a...
September 04, 2017 at 23:42
The molecule is a formation of the wave. Here is a depiction. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7241/fig_tab/458975a_F1.html https://images.n...
September 04, 2017 at 23:23
Do this is the big claim of science: " That things change". Some due out. Some continue. It comes and it goes. Fine. I think this goes back to Heracli...
September 04, 2017 at 22:31
Better represented would be there measurement of a what appears to be a particle is a manifestation of the experiment. A wave in the ocean may strike ...
September 04, 2017 at 21:53
Morphic resonance is one component of how it perceives life forms (and the universe as a whole) as conscious habits, however his description of how he...
September 04, 2017 at 21:34