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So you see it like - everything is a quantum system, just sometimes the corrections from quantum mechanics to macroscopic systems are sometimes neglig...

Hey which people are more valuable? I will kill everyone subject to the whims of my blind prejudice.

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It isn't even necessarily a straw man; just the distinction between recognising internal consistency or inconsistency vs consistency or inconsistency ...

Depends on what you're writing. For purely exegetical work, you should go through the arguments in the text in as close to the text's terms as possibl...

Reading groups are a lot of effort to stay close to the text and provide useful exegesis. If you wanted yours to succeed, you could have put in more e...

Have a question for people who know a lot more about this kind of thing than me. I've seen that people use the word 'know' a lot when talking about ob...

I'm not the one advancing an incredibly contentious idea about quantum mechanics requiring human minds to work. Note, this is not just the claim that ...

Mitigating circumstances don't remove responsibility, they only make transgressions easier to understand, forgive, or not care about. Something seen a...

You need to make better OPs, see the guidelines for help.

It depends, I think you keep reading it that an observer is required to be a human and measurement is a form of conceptualisation. I also think you be...

We are still responsible for the stupid shit we do while drunk or high.

Merged from previous thread.

How does this work? Do you think the observer's intention somehow acts on a superposition to constrain it - tightening the distribution of states or c...

Probably contextual, the presence of a universal quantifier like that doesn't do strictly the same thing every time to every utterance. 'Food is good'...

Forgive me.

The first sign of being addicted to philosophy is doing it while you're in a k-hole. The second sign is doing philosophy when you're not in a k-hole.

@"Andrew M"@"boundless"@"noAxioms", note of appreciation for such a good sustained discussion. :clap:

They only 'show' this when you misinterpret the observer. Like this: See? Claiming observer=human again. Bohr and Wheeler have gone to pains to say th...

... Really? You didn't even tag me man! And you seem to have forgotten a few things from the paper, selectively choosing what to emphasise. Initiate c...

Unfortunately people still need to be convinced that the territory isn't another kind of map.

Going once... Going twice...

Does anyone want to hang any staff about this decision or can I close this thread? We're just having the argument in feedback rather than the Lounge t...

Our bar's pretty low, actually. If you've ever been in a place without any content standards, you'll see the wisdom of having some. The moderator deci...

Which is funny because people have babies a lot. Let it go, you read too much into a plausible- sounding-at-first-glance-paper and now you're annoyed ...

And refuting the morphological argument in the paper, and an analysis on chromosomal compatibility which strongly suggests that the pairing couldn't b...

To be fair, the link to the biology blog I gave demonstrates extremely thoroughly why the argument in the paper is flawed and the conclusions would be...

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I'm sure the only reason that it was removed from the science category into the lounge was because no pigs were artificially inseminated with chimp se...

If you are willing to collapse the distinction between the two, rather than merely and only 'inhabiting' the relation as correlationists describe, the...

2§4 This follows from the previous discussion; it's enough to know the curvature is zero in a subset of independent surface directions to know it's ze...

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More observations give more evidence, as a general rule. Say we have n of them. However, if you repeat the same observation n times - like copy pastin...

I would like to reiterate a few previous points before continuing the discussion, Wayfarer. The observer or measurement effect in quantum mechanics do...

Personally I think it's just all made of eggs. All the way down. No one can doubt the formlessness of eggs in their ineluctable succulence intruding i...

Half hearted questions get half hearted answers.

Lines - still drawn.

One of the most interesting things about our reasoning is our ability to create concepts with it. We make concepts to understand reality, based upon o...

Does this mean you disagree with the claim 'The existence of X is different from our ability to conceptualise X'?

Thanks, I am a noob in this kind of discussion.

The claim that something exists mind-independently does not commit one to the claim that it is conceptually inaccessible. We conceptualise the world a...

Yes, the relationship between empirical exteriority and transcendental interiority is exactly what this kind of argument challenges.

I honestly don't understand your position and the relationship it has to my questions. I appreciate that you are probably trying to argue that the ans...

Collapse mathematically is a mapping from an operator's spectrum to a one of its eigenstates right (a projection map)? Whether this collapse has a phy...

I was wondering if you would answer a few questions for me before I respond in more detail: (1) Do you believe that ionic bonds happen without human i...

The relevant question about our networks of inferential knowledge is whether they are vindicated solely by virtue of being intersubjectively validated...

Rovelli makes the same point in the paper boundless linked, as does Bohr in the quote I gave earlier. It's convenient to talk of these things in terms...

I do agree that the claim 'the universe is 13.8 billion years old' is something produced by our theories and understandings. But I also believe that i...

(will also serve as a reply to our Heideggerian friend @"Joshs") This more general theme is precisely what I was reacting to in the thread. There's a ...

Clarifying note: a basis is a collection of directions which can be used to express an arbitrary displacement. EG, for 2 dimensional space, the plane,...