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Thanks for your additional insights. In regards to quantum holographic research, I am most impressed by Erik Verlinde. There are several videos of his...
February 14, 2018 at 00:59
Yes, time isn't spacial and any ontology that spacializes it is going to yield all kinds of problems such as Zeno's paradoxes and time travel.
February 13, 2018 at 23:18
Your understanding of Bohm is the absolute worse I've ever seen. I can only presume that you are equally messed up on all other subjects you speak of ...
February 13, 2018 at 21:31
Absolutely 100% wrong again. If there was a way to be 200% wrong, this would be it. A complete mess in all respects in a most profound manner.
February 13, 2018 at 21:04
There are many ways to approach the nature of duration (time) and if God is the preferred approach, that is fine. But who ever is discussing time in s...
February 13, 2018 at 20:35
Bohm articulated a very interesting" holographic view of the universe which is now being picked up indirectly by many theoretical quantum physicists. ...
February 13, 2018 at 17:46
Thank you for your thorough response. I do realize that Bohm's (later Bohm-Hiley) works went very through phases as do all authors of any work. We cha...
February 13, 2018 at 17:38
Have you ever seen or experienced a Moist Robot in your body?
February 13, 2018 at 16:26
No. I think it fully validates it as pure comic fantasy. Dennett's is just spinning tales from pure imagination. People who want to role-play bots (I ...
February 13, 2018 at 15:47
Fully appropriate. I look forward to more comic books from Dennett's.
February 13, 2018 at 15:34
An interesting new nomenclature for Mind. I guess it is suitable for those who like to role-play bots in their life. What happened to Dennett's "selfi...
February 13, 2018 at 15:26
That's OK, but it is no longer determinism. The only aspect of determinism that is being maintained is the word. Why the infatuation with the word? I ...
February 13, 2018 at 15:20
Personally I wish that philosophers wo(man)--up, develop a spine, do the necessary work, and stop accepting junk scientific materialism metaphysics as...
February 13, 2018 at 14:56
That is not why they get exasperated. They get exasperated when any philosopher or scientist challenges the hegemony of their materialist metaphysics ...
February 13, 2018 at 14:44
I guess the verdict is still out. Mind/Life may violate it I guess and that would be that.
February 13, 2018 at 14:18
For specificity, it should be pointed out that Bohmian Mechanics it's based upon a very specific field that c appears in its equations which Bohm/Hile...
February 13, 2018 at 14:01
I don't think Free Will can be observed in every day experience. What can be readily observed is the mind making a choice in the direction that it wou...
February 13, 2018 at 07:17
They can give the determinist argument, "I believe you don't".
February 13, 2018 at 07:14
Duration, real time, comes into play when understanding the nature and creation of the underlying quantum information (memory). This is not scientific...
February 13, 2018 at 07:00
Yes, doubt pushes us forward to discover more. We are all explorers.
February 13, 2018 at 06:17
A rather startling assumption in the author's part. As for the actual flow of time, real time, the duration of life, everyone who is alive has experie...
February 13, 2018 at 05:41
I change direction. I'm only interested in understanding nature. The more I look the better my skills. The problem with logic is that you never go bey...
February 13, 2018 at 05:38
And you know this how? Had anyone ever seen your memory?
February 13, 2018 at 05:33
You are absolutely on track. Bohm's book I mentioned is a good read and will confirm. His theories were rejected because of the nature of the quantum ...
February 13, 2018 at 05:32
It's a great observation, and when the experts are embarrassed (because they really don't get it), they call it gobblygook. Bohm agrees with you. What...
February 13, 2018 at 05:21
Don't want to upset too many of them during their fund raising efforts. You think I take them any more seriously than the average myth maker. Rather t...
February 13, 2018 at 05:15
Of course you are correct. There is no space-time under quantum physics. That is why the latest theoretical physicists are abandoning it and apparentl...
February 13, 2018 at 05:12
The issue is that there is no fit at all. The Big Bang was totally fabricated so that science had their own Genesis story to be taught in textbooks. A...
February 13, 2018 at 04:49
The thing is the self-proclaimed expert is 100% wrong. Not even a modicum of study or understanding of Bohm's works. How did you put it? Too concrete....
February 13, 2018 at 03:33
Nope. Totally 100% wrong again.
February 13, 2018 at 03:09
Oh, I think it is quite conscious, just more quiet about it. The most evolved may not have to go around patting itself on the back. Remember, these li...
February 13, 2018 at 02:55
Yes, that is the point. Personally I like the whales or maybe the highest form of life, the great Methusalah tree. Now that's living. Maybe a bit too ...
February 13, 2018 at 02:46
Well that's your metaphysics and can be rejected for being too "nothing". Bohmian Mechanics is real. The quantum potential wave field is real. The "pa...
February 13, 2018 at 02:39
Who knows what they may be thinking? Probably nothing like humans and so what? They may have evolved beyond humans and just enjoying life.
February 13, 2018 at 02:24
I have no idea what evidence you have to conclude this.
February 13, 2018 at 01:47
For the non-scientists who do get the gist of the issue, one really can't speak of non-local, spooky action at a distance (now confirmed at the molecu...
February 12, 2018 at 23:35
It will evolve but easily explains all of the wave collapse paradoxes, predicts spooky action at a distance (Bell was an advocate for Bohm Mechanics) ...
February 12, 2018 at 22:27
At some point in one's life one had to jettison these notions of proof and someone programming them, and just come up with a model of nature and life ...
February 12, 2018 at 20:41
Personality is personal memory/experiences. It is a point of view constructed by your mind based upon what it has learned. It would be the same for al...
February 12, 2018 at 19:43
Exactly. I had the same response once to a lecturer who claimed she was making her own universe. I told her to try to take my wallet and she might not...
February 12, 2018 at 19:30
I agree. To me it's an experiment going completely out of control. Definitely headed toward a poor outcome.
February 12, 2018 at 17:27
It's a new idea for me. Another similar "idea" could have formed elsewhere or it could be completely new for the universe. It's like snowflakes, simil...
February 12, 2018 at 17:23
The new idea would fundamentally consist of a different form/vibration of the entangled quantum wave. There are limitless variations.
February 12, 2018 at 16:41
I agree.
February 12, 2018 at 16:09
You think that Facebook and mass pollution moves us up the hierarchy? I'm sure you realize that humans just create trash that cannot be environmentall...
February 12, 2018 at 15:53
There is no reason to believe that human life is more or less evolved than other life. Other life may have long ago answered this question and evolved...
February 12, 2018 at 15:49
No one is hijacking anything. Physicists are reworking the model of the universe around quantum information and entanglement. Information implies a Mi...
February 12, 2018 at 15:29
There is no reason to take a dualist stance. It can be considered all the same stuff, quantum information if you will.
February 12, 2018 at 15:23
The only experience that I have had that is fully emergent is a new idea or epiphany. This would represent growth of the mind.
February 12, 2018 at 14:50
Peirce said: 1) there was Chance Tychism and from this came 2) Mind and from this came 3) Matter, matter being effete Mind. Now compare this to Daoism...
February 12, 2018 at 14:48