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pp 5-6, there is an interesting arguent that concludes When we make a measurement, say the velocity of a falling object at t=1, need we assume that th...

Not too sure where you are going. In this thread I'm more interested in uncertainty in classical physics.

A bit. What do you have in mind?

Cool. I'm still working my way through the Del Santo article. Anscombe no doubt has one eye on the ethics of free will, so yes, her account is broader...

We can also drop that the model is deterministic: if we have a good model, it works predictively. Isn't that right?

Ah, sweet. Thanks.

Given the deep understanding of mathematics and physics that you have demonstrated elsewhere, you might forgive me for not paying your posts here much...

Yep. Are you aware of Physics without determinism: Alternative interpretations of classical physics? Mentioned in Has physics ever been deterministic?...

All you will have done is used "correct" to mean "true". Not an improvement.

Just the simple logic that a theory of truth could only be true if it satisfied itself.

So... our choices are accidental? Random? The argument would be something like "I want someone to blame, and I can't do that if you did not freely cho...

The philosophical theories of truth have one thing in common; they are none of them true. How could they be? If they were they would be self-servingly...

There can never be no error.

Anyway, the upshot is that the philosophical community is beset by a fantasy of determinism.

:joke: It's sweet. I must have read it long ago, because it mentions Feynman's bomb, which I have used hereabouts previously. A bomb is attached to a ...

So is a choice free if one can give reasons - presumably good ones, whatever that means - for making it? But it is a straight forward thing to give re...

Following on, if the Bill Gates Chip forces you to vote for West, then you did not exercise your free will. If you chose to vote for West, you did exe...

SO you act freely if and only if you might have done otherwise. While removing a tumour, your surgeon puts a Bill Gates chip in your head programmed s...

Seems as it's mad rant time on the forums.

You feel. Hence, that statement is subjective, and itself unlikely to be true - by your own account.

There's much ambiguity in these definitions. If it is based on real facts, are there facts that are not real? Of course not. If I believe some real fa...

It's statements that are true or false. So the hypothesis proposed in the OP is that All true statements are objective. This hypothesis would be falsi...

It's not truth that is slippery - it's the theories.

Then whence apostates? Dictates is a poor choice here. One choses one's religion, even if one does so by not changing one's mind. That is, there is a ...

Sometimes I do this by lending a hand to the blind. It's not all big stuff. And yes we do disagree, and without a clear method to resolve our differen...

"...misguided."

yes... speculation...

Yeah. We have the same problem over here.

They'll be able to show you what a conscious person looks like. To answer you question... But it won't work with rocks. That's my point.

Yeah, about that...

Perhaps you should do a first aid course...?

...none of which, even if accepted, shows that rocks are conscious.

The OP still makes no sense.

Conflating consciousness with experience. This begs the question, rather than clarifying anything. If I don' t agree with you that a rock is conscious...

I don't see anything in the OP.

OK?

Seems to me you are conflating different things, including consciousness, experience, conscience, awareness, self-awareness... Methodologically speaki...

But that is an experience of consciousness and unconsciousness of which we all have first person experience. Moreover it is a clear example of a diffe...

Cyril Connolly?

You are convinced that you see consciousness. I'm not.

Sure; but not within a specific thread.

It would be good to be able to see a list of all posts by a single author in one thread.

Yes, it's about vulnerability, not truth. Meta sees his argument as invulnerable, others see it as contradictory and infertile. More over the dance ge...

One's reflexes remain functional even when one is asleep. It's how we tell the unconscious from the dead. You would count reflex as a form of consciou...

You want all your medical experiments done on black folk? (Too dark? You know its true.)

Indeed. A friend of yore, long departed, would quote Aristotle' point that at some stage all that is left is to laugh and walk away. It is worth learn...

What was Einstein's supposed definition of insanity again?

Household Size and Composition Around the World 2017 It's just data. Don't be afraid.

The nuclear family was a reaction to a requirement for mobility following the industrial revolution. Prior to that families were what we would call ex...

And therefore, so can a rock? What is it that would allow you to conclude that a Jellyfish is conscious? What observation?