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My own preference is to avoid limiting options. As it appears there exists opposites for everything (call it the apogee and perigee of the waves) I al...
February 08, 2017 at 02:59
Not an absolutist. I am a philosopher who prefers precision to grandiose claims or overreaching descriptions. Just describe it as it is and be good wi...
February 08, 2017 at 02:46
I would say that there is aspect of quantum physics that need upon current observations, there is at this time a limit to precision and completeness o...
February 08, 2017 at 02:23
In hesitate to limit possibilities since there also seems to be more of them. Heraclitus declared all is in flux. In his own way, Bergson adopted a si...
February 08, 2017 at 00:53
There is nothing special about a square. It is a shape. It is a shape with for sides that are equal. What two people may see may be completely differe...
February 08, 2017 at 00:40
I would call it an observation that there seems to be habits in nature that change over time and between each repetition. Law, as commonly used, impli...
February 08, 2017 at 00:20
Habits is a way to understand nature other than laws. I habitually wake up in the morning, however the time I awake constantly changes, and yes it is ...
February 07, 2017 at 22:15
It therefore remains that the question that the OP is asking cannot be answered until someone presents a concrete law of nature. If nature can be best...
February 07, 2017 at 20:51
There is a speculative mathematical description of how gravity behaves which is one thing. However, this description is not gravity. Gravity is someth...
February 07, 2017 at 19:01
Successful, precise predictions never occur. What does occur are useful guesses and approximations. This is why I prefer Sheldrake's preferred use of ...
February 07, 2017 at 18:54
I agree. Talking about physical laws in some abstract manner serves no purpose. It is easier and more productive to just discuss the specifics that ar...
February 07, 2017 at 15:16
If a physical law is just a limited mathematical description of a some limited behavior of matter that is mutable over time then I would prefer to cal...
February 07, 2017 at 15:06
Quantum mechanics is a limited description (it has self imposed limits) on how ca system of particles may behaved depending upon a system being observ...
February 07, 2017 at 14:59
Numbers are not mathematics. They are symbols of an observed multiplicity in space, and yes these symbols have changed over time. Nothing is immutable...
February 07, 2017 at 14:54
If all the talk about laws simply comes down to quantum mechanics, then there are no laws, since quantum mechanics limits itself on what it can know a...
February 07, 2017 at 14:48
I don't remember you at all. But apparently in all the years that have passed, the only law you've come up with is the number 7 which for me is as muc...
February 07, 2017 at 05:07
The question at hand is not the practicality of quantum physics. Nor is the question whether a probabilistic equation can be considered precise. The q...
February 07, 2017 at 04:53
One can use what ever adjectives one wishes. The subject of this thread is laws which is a noun. As for accuracy, physics as moved from the Newtonian ...
February 07, 2017 at 03:36
7 is a symbol, not a law. It represents a multiplicity on space that has been learned in some past time, symbolically agreed upon in some past time (b...
February 07, 2017 at 03:15
As history has shown, nature is constantly changing, our knowledge of nature is constantly changing, mathematics is constantly changing, mathematical ...
February 07, 2017 at 03:06
Then I suggest that the two laws are not laws at all but rather mathematical equations that have been defined to describe a very strict set of behavio...
February 07, 2017 at 01:32
I if 1) Is this a complete list? 2) Can you show that each law applies to every event and is invariant through all time (post and future) and are incl...
February 07, 2017 at 01:04
Before answering a question such as yours, with a high degree of precision, one must first: 1) Enumerate the laws that one wishes to discuss and 2) Ex...
February 07, 2017 at 00:38
You can play Trump. You'd be perfect. An infantile, bullying, uneducated, narcissistic, cry-baby, looking for attention. You can even have your idioti...
February 05, 2017 at 13:16
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I see. It appears ad hominem is permitted. No problem. I've seen much worse.
February 04, 2017 at 23:54
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Is ad hominem permitted on this site?
February 04, 2017 at 23:44
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The wave is the pattern.
February 04, 2017 at 23:42
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Everything would be holographic.
February 04, 2017 at 22:29
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You are quite welcome. Good luck on your research on this topic.
February 04, 2017 at 21:51
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While it may be overwhelming, if you visited google scholar you will find references to scholarly work concerning a holographic universe. https://scho...
February 04, 2017 at 21:35
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In my frame of understanding things, Memory would be a holographic imprint which is embedded in the fabric of the Universe. Yes, thought would be invo...
February 04, 2017 at 21:31
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Yes, if there is no memory of something anywhere it doesn't exist. One might say the universe is Memory.
February 04, 2017 at 21:21
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A holographic pattern within universal waves would be the defining aspect of existence, but one must first embrace the holographic model of the univer...
February 04, 2017 at 21:14
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If there is some memory of it, it exists. If you are an adherent of the holographic model of the universe, you can say that it exists, if there is a h...
February 04, 2017 at 20:53
A symbolic statement is talking about itself. This must assuredly will lead to real world problems as is often the case in paradoxical symbolism and a...
February 04, 2017 at 20:46
The dreaded question. I am afraid there is no answer though there is cause to continue to meditate and penetrate the question with some hope of prying...
February 04, 2017 at 20:38
Before we proceed, I invite you to review this scholarly paper at your leisure, but most especially before you once again use the word, an expression ...
February 04, 2017 at 20:30
Your questions are quite on target. I think you may find some insights with Bergson and if you wish Bohm.
February 04, 2017 at 17:40
The question Augustino is asking is reasonable. He is also questioning where is the bridge in dualism? It is not only reasonable, it begs to be asked....
February 04, 2017 at 17:33
You are quite welcome. I am looking forward to hearing what you may discover.
February 04, 2017 at 17:32
For me, it provides an extraordinary path for exploring the nature of life and death, the purpose of life, and a spirituality that provides some meani...
February 04, 2017 at 17:22
In practical terms it makes all the difference in the world in the way we view and treat life, for those who are exploring the quality of who they are...
February 04, 2017 at 16:54
They are embedded in the holographic field as Memory.
February 04, 2017 at 16:44
Bergson resolved the clumsiness of both monism and dualism. If anything, it may be considered a more process oriented philosophy though he called it a...
February 04, 2017 at 16:43
You do. It is called instincts, inherited traits inborn skills.
February 04, 2017 at 16:41
I consider Bergson's a mode of dualism that has dissolved the line between the two.
February 04, 2017 at 16:39
The thought is the initial impulse conveyed through the energetic, substantial field which we call bodily matter. There is no hardline between the two...
February 04, 2017 at 16:37
In my thought process I view matter as relatively passive, remembering that all matter is decaying (half-lives), thus there is no absolute passivity (...
February 04, 2017 at 16:33
There are other options that sit in the world between absolute chance and absolute certainty. Neither poles of absolutes are satisfying for me because...
February 04, 2017 at 15:47
One must study with precision. It is the host that is unhealthy, the germs are simply a manifestation. Understanding health lends itself to a healthie...
February 04, 2017 at 15:14