Does it sound like I believe in the God of the Big Bang? Determinism is the exact equivalent to Calvinism. Simply replacing God with the phrase Natura...
Absolutely not. The problem is wealth concentration not of production. Conventional thinking is making this world into one polluted mess. The top 1% h...
Which world are we talking about? You must read the Economist. Concentration of wealth had never been greater nor has debt. It's quite a disaster in t...
It's true that is we consume less we will need to produce less, which is fine. The only one hurt will be the profiteers. They'll have to live in billi...
Listen, quantum theory says that unpredictably is inherent in the universe. All you are doing is parroting some ancient story that was concocted as cu...
My last major decision was to answer this post. I just it and decided to answer it. I would say it was a rather spontaneous action. It just happened. ...
Provide references and I'll see if I have the time to study it. Still, quantum theory remains probabilistic though in Bohm's model there are real caus...
Quantum is the substrate of all events and we continue to use other theories as a matter of convenience. Computer technology developed around quantum ...
There is zero evidence for determinism other than the cute story cooked up a couple of hundred years ago which was in turn decimated by quantum physic...
My knee jerk reaction is that I was never religious (spiritual yes) and no reason to start now just because someone has come up with a new story of ho...
Ok, everything is fated but it isn't. Some call this compatibilism, others call it having your cake and eat it, yet others might call it muddy and str...
Everyone feels they are making choices every day of their lives. Then the determinists come along and claim, no it's all an illusion (Hinduism retread...
"This above all to thine oneself be true.' No need to look to others to be yourself.. Probably lots of people will react in different ways and from th...
No. I am creating and evolving everyday in my life. Are you creative? Do you create new things, new ideas, new directions in your life? Allowing the c...
No, I am constantly adding novelty to my life. I am beginning to realize that there actually may be people who are purely robotic in their life and wi...
And I suppose you have some evidence of this? I change all the time and it had zero to do with my genetics and upbringing. The WHO says only a small p...
All people have to do is consume less, but industry/government have become very good at marketing consumption. Let's take a look at the sales pitch of...
It is not. I've read enough about it to understand there are lots of questions and issues to consider when using the apparatus and setting up the devi...
Someone would have to analyze and compute the quantum potential effects throughout the apparatus. I have not found a specific study on this problem. H...
Bohm's model would simply say that the quantum potential is at near certainty at the point of the slit. However, the quantity potential is subject to ...
As you wish. You know quite well there is a ton more. But for you it's just a baseball. Go for it. You just proved, with a single experiment, that qua...
You don't understand how all of what I've said about real choice, including the paper I've cited by Hiley, had anything to do with the OP. The reason ...
Yes, let's agree. You are using quantum states as if they are baseballs. Are you being deliberately disingenuous? I'm only interested in learning more...
ok. I think we are done. You want to be a robot and play the "I have no choice, only illusions iof choices" game for the rest of your life, go right a...
Yes, I dispute this. http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae392.cfm They aren't close to being analogous. It's like saying a jump rope is anal...
You can find the pdf for this paper, "Can Mind Affect Matter Via Active Information?", By Basil Hiley who worked with Bohm and coauthered several book...
They don't study Bohm, instead they just copy errors. Bell actually took the time to study the equations and came up with a way of understanding it be...
Quantum state??? And how does that figure into determinism? You mean that state that is spread out as a probabilistic wave function? What you are omit...
Well the origin is probably the 1930's Popeye cartoons by the Fleischer Bothers. Popeye use too say, "I am what I am and that's all's that I am". Cred...
The words are influenced by memory but my mind makes the decision in what words to use and how to use them into sentences. If you don't believe me, I'...
The key to understanding the Bohm solution is the quantum potential. There is a lot there so rather than actually studying it, people just copy errors...
He writes in his book Science, Order and Creativity: "Although the interpretation is termed causal, this should not be taken as implying a form of com...
There is a cause but outcomes are probabilistic not deterministic. You mean it is a common mistake. Bohm himself stated otherwise as his model, the Im...
Not really. The only stretch is the Many-Many-Infinity-Many-Worlds for which there is zero evidence and forever will be zero evidence. That is what De...
You realize that Bohm himself said that his equations are causal but not deterministic. They can't be because the quantum potential has to be probabil...
Try to fly and see what happens. Try to make a choice and see what happens. It's tough arguing with the faithful, so let's call it quits. Really, ther...
I said it was my mind doing the writing. We have minds. We don't need the Laws of Nature to make decisions for us. Why would someone want to make up s...
Well that is a mouthful. Unfortunately for your purposes: 1) There is no such thing as the Laws of Nature. It is a made up please with no definition. ...
Absolutely not. The choice were my own. Of all the words I know, I chose these. I can choose different words if you would like me to demonstrate. Exac...
Evidence? I decided to respond and I did in this post. The words I wrote were chosen by me. My own mind. You figure God/Laws of Nature did the writing...
Wrong. I have everyday experience to support my views and there is nothing in science that stands in opposition to free choice. Any interpretation of ...
Everything you write is purely a matter of faith. Faith that someday, somewhere, somehow the robotic nature of the universe and yourself will be confi...
First it must be decided that there are real choices made by the mind and directed by will, and then it must be decided to what extent real choices ar...
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