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Now you are resorting to vulgarity. The ship has sunk.
January 09, 2017 at 18:23
Changes are occurring in a flow of time which Bergson calls Dureé to avoid confusion with clock time. We experience this flow as Memory being directed...
January 09, 2017 at 18:18
You are insisting on a past, present, and future carved out of a continuous flow of time in some fuzzy way. Sorry, I don't even know where to begin to...
January 09, 2017 at 18:10
The changes are occurring as a continuous process, which is why Bergson chose to call the process the Dureé. He jetison's the concept of the Present s...
January 09, 2017 at 18:00
Yes, changes are occurring as a process of the past (Bergson's Memory) moving and flowing into a potential future, which is unfolding as a result of t...
January 09, 2017 at 17:53
For me, there is no issue in understanding this as it has been very well described by Bergson in his initial writings and has been amplified by subseq...
January 09, 2017 at 17:48
As you said, there is a certain "fuzziness" in your ideas. Indeed there is.
January 09, 2017 at 16:52
I read the entire sentence, and you are trying to have your cake and eat it. This is an entirely different issue which I cannot address. That is what ...
January 09, 2017 at 16:45
It's that relative fuzziness that sinks the ship. Or as is often said, you can't have your cake and eat it.
January 09, 2017 at 16:40
I cannot find the line between the two different states, but apparently you have.
January 09, 2017 at 16:31
I think you will have to think it through, since it seems you want to distinguish a Present (a particular state) from a past (I won't get into the not...
January 09, 2017 at 16:15
States can be considered the condition of something at a particular time. Embracing this view, that is the instantaneous time, is what manifests the Z...
January 09, 2017 at 15:39
In such case, your Present, is a process of constant change. There is no instanteous but a movement that represents all that has happened and where it...
January 09, 2017 at 15:19
Yes, I agree. A "state" cannot be defined in a universe that is constantly changing. This is essentially the Heisenberg principle. Binny wants to defi...
January 09, 2017 at 15:12
The issue with Binney's approach, which has been previously discussed in depth in many books I read, is defining the state of the "measuring device" w...
January 09, 2017 at 14:27
One of the "refutations" of Bohm's theory? http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466
January 09, 2017 at 01:15
It is not surprising that scientists personal views of life may diverge from scientific journal acceptable ideas. The v two fulfill different purposes...
January 09, 2017 at 01:10
That it cannot be made relativistically invariant is a positive. Time as define in Relatively and Einstein is a mess with all of its sci-fi inducing p...
January 09, 2017 at 00:39
What Bohm was able to do, and what De Brogle could not figure out how to do, was build a casual, real model for QM that had an ontological basis. But ...
January 09, 2017 at 00:29
I am not sure about De Broglie's views, but Bohm is quite clear in his own book, that his model, which he shares with De Broglie is casual but not det...
January 08, 2017 at 23:58
On my my tablet, the mechanics of this site are a bit obscure, since some icons are hidden and not intuitively obvious. For quoting, I first highlight...
January 08, 2017 at 23:36
I would say that "Living in the Now" one form of theory worship. What we are living in is constant change. Constant, never stopping, no matter how muc...
January 08, 2017 at 22:53
The issue is that the cannot find a present within a process. It is impossible. There is no instantaneous non-motion within a continuous motion. Try a...
January 08, 2017 at 22:50
In regards to the double slit conundrum, the Bohm-De Broglie real wave-particle interpretation handles it quite eloquently as long as you can tolerate...
January 08, 2017 at 18:13
I am not suggesting that the equations are incorrect or that they do not have some usefulness - albeit quite limited. What I am suggesting is the elev...
January 08, 2017 at 18:10
I think we should stick with gravity. Much more concrete than the lavish notion of space-time. I feel the pull of gravity and yes, gravity will have a...
January 08, 2017 at 17:02
There cannot be a moment, a present, an instantaneous, within constant motion. Such a notion creates paradoxes, the most famous ones being set forth b...
January 08, 2017 at 16:56
More precisely, mathematics is an symbolic and convenient tool, a certain subset of which scientists convert into a Law, imbuing the equations with a ...
January 08, 2017 at 15:47
The issue is pinpointing a "present" if everything is in a continuous state of motion and change. One cannot. It is analagous to the quantum problem o...
January 08, 2017 at 14:43
Mathematics is a tool to view a very narrow slice of what surrounds us. Scientists invent this tool to measure and predict to a level of necessary pra...
January 08, 2017 at 14:34
Space-time is as real as probability waves. Einstein's greatest feat was transforming Lorentz's transformation equations into fodder for sci-fi writer...
January 08, 2017 at 14:13
If you have an interest in Bergson, you may want to have a look at The Physicist & Philosopher, Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Und...
January 08, 2017 at 03:19
Such a discussion must first entertain that such Laws do exist or do the "rules of nature" evolve as does everything else. I would say there is no way...
January 07, 2017 at 21:13
My view is that the so-named Copenhagen Interpretation, was a well-meaning attempt by Bohr to draw a line between the Schrodinger Equation and the met...
January 07, 2017 at 21:07
My view is that QM is basically the Schrodinger equation (and it's offshoots), which is a symbolic mathematical equation used to predict the location ...
January 07, 2017 at 20:10
If, as some suspect, information is memorized in holographic form, and the brain is acting as the reference wave, then it would be possible for people...
January 07, 2017 at 20:00
I agree to an extent. But now we are talking more about style rather than substance. Hence, the dogma is there it is just we don't publically call it ...
January 07, 2017 at 00:21
I agree. One cannot single out one type of group as being more or less dogmatic. It varies by degree and where the dogma is taught.
January 07, 2017 at 00:16
Depending upon the religion, it may be characterized as more or less dogmatic. This is totally dependent upon the nature of the local group. For examp...
January 06, 2017 at 21:26
I believe that the differences in philosophy, religion, and science for that matter, is the degree of faith that an individual places in the process. ...
January 06, 2017 at 19:21
It's impossible to prove that all change is due to natural selection for survival. What would be the proof? The species survived? Well in this case, n...
January 06, 2017 at 17:59
I would say that our experiences are our own and are subject to change as is all memory. There could of course be disagreements with others which can ...
January 06, 2017 at 17:49
What I would suggest is that evolution can be precisely described as "change brought about by learning". Suffering is merely a signpost directing the ...
January 05, 2017 at 20:21
The issue with any and all translations is that they are limited by and reflect the experiences and worldview of the translator. So in the case of the...
January 05, 2017 at 00:57
I believe that expression of creativity is the impetus of life and art is a medium for sharing this expression with others so as to give impulse to cr...
December 29, 2016 at 00:13