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Since everything is quanta, the above statement it's incorrect. In any case, any speculation about a universe without humans is strictly outside the r...

Quantum physics it's basically the probabilistic Schrodinger equation which leaves plenty of room for choice but pretty much crushes determinism. But ...

When someone starts claiming that something is applicable everywhere but not applicable everywhere we start getting into the realm of religion which I...

Choice doesn't determine anything. It gives impetus in a direction. The outcome is always indeterminate and resolves itself as time flows. Everyone is...

This is the fundamental problem work science. Speculative ideas are just bandied about and people are suppose to unquestioningly accept them because "...

F=MA it's inapplicable at the quantum level and is at best a good approximation for practical purposes at larger levels. If this is example of a law o...

I agree.

I have no idea what a so-called Law of Physics is (a term that is bandied about with absolutely no definition) and since science is changing all the t...

What you are asking for is a totally new description of the problem, which it's reasonable. But to say that a person had the ability to choose and at ...

This appears to be one of the many beliefs upon which determinism is founded. There is no reason to believe this actually is so, especially since ever...

An interesting notion. A measurement is being taken without a conscious observer. Exactly how is this known? Something indeed may be happening, and if...

1) Developing awareness is great. Best way to do this is via the different arts. 2) One can't stop judging. We are continuously judging in order to se...

The deBroglie-Bohm causal, real, non-deterministic model nicely resolves all quantum paradoxes without resorting to infinite worlds, altering the past...

The Dao De Jing, as with other ancient literature, is of unknown origin and intent and seems like a compendium of chants, stories, and advice. Everyon...

Unfortunately, for those who are looking for Truth, the Dao De Jing, as with all literature, is subject to the same forces of change. You are are read...

Daoism is fundamentally about continuous, never ending flow and how flow creates that which we are and what we perceive. (It stands in opposition to i...

There is mass agreement that Trump is President but mass agreement does not make something true. Someone can easily come along and say the election wa...

The U.S spends 40% more than any other developed nation on so-called healthcare and is absolutely last in life expectancy. In fact, for the the first ...

In a nutshell, you are suggesting that the science industry (including its academia incubators) have aided and abetted herd mentality for its own bene...

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

Just like there are a multitude of reasons that someone might have voted this way or that way in the last election, so there are a multitude of factor...

History is part detective work part lawyering where a historian puts together some quotes from other historians and witnesses and presents a case base...

I agree, but such people are rarely looking at bigger, longer term affects.

Rather right on point. The trouble is that nowadays, whatever position a group takes, undo (alarmist) great or undo (way over optimistic hope) is the ...

Very reasonable way to frame the issues.

Proof? If only the science industry held itself to the same standards that it holds everyone else, it would shrink to almost nothing overnight.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005738

This may be a good place to start researching the subject. http://www.livescience.com/8365-dark-side-medical-research-widespread-bias-omissions.html

It is not necessary to apply a value judgement to Black and White. No more than value judgements can be applied to wave crests and troughs. They both ...

I agree with the OP. Science is essentially an umbrella marketing term for fundraising and shielding against criticism. There are no standards, there ...

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I would say it is a perspective. The Dao that we speak of is not the Dao.

Yes. Such a conception is common in Eastern cultures. Also, Heraclitus shared this view as his Lagos in flux.

A universe in continuous creation and flux can be imagined as a continuously rotating kaleidoscope. This would be the one and only fact, as far as I c...

I clearly don't believe that we create the world (universe) but I do believe we are all involved (entangled) in a continuous co-creation (more Bergson...

A former English teacher of mine also insisted that an author's writing were completely distinct from the author. I argued back that it is impossible ...

If we agree all is in flux, then the fact must also necessarily be in flux, creating as far as I can tell a unique meaning to the term fact. It's OK, ...

A fact to me had to be more concrete, immobile to be useful. It is a movement that had been conceptualized as from. A photograph. What's out there, on...

There is something real out there but whatever it is under constant flux. How we each perceive it is also under constant flux, but something about it ...

As can be ascertained by my statement, I view facts as a manifestation of inter-human behavior. What is out there is simply a mass of waves that are c...

Yes. I agree. There probably is something out there. Probably some wave patterns that the brain reconstructs as some sort of hologram. But everyone is...

Facts are claims made with great certitude from a relative perspective. There is stuff out there but everyone sees it differently. What people do is a...

Yes. Very Bergsonian.

1+1=2 is essentially 5 arbitrary symbols strung together that we are taught in elementary school to accept by rote. Inherently it has as much meaning ...

Let's consider the trivial notion that 1+1=2. It is five symbols strung together that is inherently meaningless. It has as much truth as covfefee. It ...

Billionaires usually protect each other no matter what but this time the Oligarchy decided they rather have Pence who is a good little soldier as Clin...

Yes, we are in agreement. I am responding to your statement that you aren't sure, so I was providing some additional information. Sorry for any misint...

Preferences or strong desires (e.g. addictions) influence but do not dictate choices, as do innumerable other influences. Habits (memory) are influenc...

That no one can provide a universally acceptable definition of relativism (or any concept) should speak loudly.

Choice is an action in a specific direction. Perception can be viewed as potential (virtual) action. Over time we do develop preferences (habits) in m...