Banno

If at core a holographic explanation accounts for both conciseness and "real" objects, and all there really is, is holograms of some sort... that's ho...

Then surely you are a monist?

So you want to use pilot-wave theory?

Thanks, Rich. I was worried we would not be able to proceed. So we agree to ignore the many-worlds interpretation. We will for now set aside the other...

Here's the thing. I do not disagree that there is such a thing as entanglement, nor that making an observation can affect the path of an electron. Wha...

You don't seem to get the "discussion" bit. So what do they say? Or, what do you say? Be interesting.

But that's just not the case. It is a metaphysical presumption made by one small group of physicists and not generally accepted.

You have asserted this once or twice before, and each time I point out that rather, it has become ubiquitous. So widespread that perhaps you do not re...

So, educate me.

The OP makes no mention of Trump. Threads have their own life, of course, but at the inception I had in mind a discussion about the role of the Post M...

And again in Wittgenstein's rejection of both idealism and realism.

Yeah. No need to pay any more attention to Rich.

Compare "Ann sees the object move to the right" is true IFF Beth sees it move to the left. (adding all relevant velocities and such)

"We are swimming in the ocean" is true for microbes IFF microbes are swimming in the cup.

But here's an odd thing. Why is it that the tipping point is not the North Koreans being able to bomb Seoul, or Beijing, or Osaka, or Vladivostok - bu...

Meh. They can only reach as far as Darwin. There's nothing up there.

One problem with this approach is that somehow, despite each of us being in our own subjective world, we manage to agree on the vast majority of thing...

Davidson can be seen as taking this Principal of Relativity and applying it to language. Hence Radical Interpretation.

There is a popular misunderstanding of Special Relativity that comes to mind here. Folk read a pop science book and walk away with the misunderstandin...

Sure. What are the microbes swimming in? The cup. They see an ocean, we see a cup, but we are talking about the very same thing. So we can conclude th...

Six months ago I made this comment: Now comes the purge.

Bold. must be true.

8-)

I had wanted to discuss some philosophy, but if you are only willing to trade insults, let's leave it there.

I rather that I do "get it", and that "it" is a crock of speculative pseudo-science. At its heart it confuses Jupiter with "Jupiter", the thing named ...

I suspect that you and Penrose would not get on as well as you think. So you will not address this?

Again, can you address the philosophical points I made?

OK, so the Copenhagen interpretation is only accepted because the heads of physics Departments world wide insist on it. How about addressing the philo...

Ah. So there is a conspiracy to hide the truth of cosmic consciousness.

Penrose received rather a lot of flack for his proposal.

Philosophers have been saying that it is impossible to know at least since Kant. The main error in your quantum thinking is the "nothing but"; the cup...

Which post?

Where?

So, proove that when you close the cupboard door the cup becomes no more than a quantum thingy.

What? Why would I want to do that?

:-|

so have the balls not to fall for it.

What is wrong with this is that you see the cup as nothing but a quantum thingy. Why not see it as a cup and a quantum thingy? And why the pretence th...

yeah, but turning this into a personal attack is not cool.

Yep. Something it takes a special type of sophistication to deny.

And here.

Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation It's not what most physicists think happens. It looks and smells like new-age wishful thinking. No.

No.

No, we all did; some of us said "T'was me!" Some of us believed them.

...and then we created art, which taught us all how to see, hear, feel smell and taste, and then...

....that's what you are...

...which so much resembles a strange loop.

Universals are what we make of them, and not things found around us. Austin's critique, from “Are There A Priori Concepts”. Yep.

And there we will leave it.