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Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe ideas might relate to this. I think it is only a matter of time before AI fabricates concepts, techniques, theorem...

I want not a life without wants. But I want not to have too many wants. It's a matter of balance.

Yours is among the very best posts I have read on TPF. :clap:

:up: This sums it up pretty well unless you believe rocks have feelings.

Genetics are a big part. A little like musical talent. My father grew up in a poor coal mining community in Pennsylvania where almost all the young me...

Guilty. Just my math background showing. :yikes: And the old adage from CS: "garbage in = garbage out". But, as @fdrake explained, definitions in math...

It's a little hazardous to form an analogy outside physics with a concept or result in physics that one does not fully understand. Especially when num...

Fermilab Symmetry Magazine

Would you consider it empty if permeated by particle fields? Is it really empty if sustaining a magnetic field?

Well, he could have said that, but what he did say was (Wiki): During the 1960s in visits to my parents in Tuscaloosa I would go exercise climbing on ...

From Psychology Today: In this regard the forum needs all the help it can get. :cool:

Plaque vs Plague ? I be confused.

I wonder where? What a waste of time.

The proof is in the numbers, so explain how that comes about.

I see a comparison between "pop philosophy" and "pop science", although authors of the latter generally have more impressive credentials. Nevertheless...

:up: Bullseye.

https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/PoshPooch/400743123/webp/DSC_0187_medium2.webp#JPG How could anyone not appreciate this, a Sach's Puppet? :...

Back in the saddle. Great! :cool:

We become involved in life's experiences and discover what really matters. Oh, wait . . . that's another kind of matter. But, you see, the crux of the...

Welcome aboard . It would be interesting if members would speak more about their life experiences as they argue philosophical points. Sometimes they d...

c=1?

Substantive contributions? Who decides that? Possibly like a clique of mathematicians who gather together to praise the subject to which they have dev...

Getting closer and closer to the solution of a problem through a sequence of mistakes. It's a play on math terms, but probably applies to most problem...

I've been reading some of his earlier posts and when he moves away from purely philosophical banter they read like a novel, fascinating at times. I wo...

It would be good see more personal experiences recounted in these discussions to give meat to things said centuries, even millennia, ago. As a mathema...

THIS is the only thing of substance on this thread IMO. Penrose deserves praise for his contributions to physics and math, but as a philosopher I'm no...

Personal correspondence. I was convinced of his credentials. But I could have been mistaken. He was from the Netherlands.

What surprises me is the person I have in mind has a graduate degree in physics and has reappeared on several occasions in various lively personas. No...

Kudos to the man down under. :cool:

That's a surprise. I would have guessed someone more recent.

In the math profession one achieves favorable results through a convergent sequence of mistakes. :cool:

Sadly, frequently the police can only come in and pick up the pieces. And I doubt that large numbers of Americans fear their own military. Quite a few...

Pogo's words reverberate through time. I once pulled a skiff through murky waters up to my chest in the Okefenokee much like Humphrey Bogart in "Afric...

Stay away from this guy. Throw yourself into adventure.

I would spend part of the summer with my grandparents on the Gulf coast, very loosely supervised. I went crabbing and sold my take to Angelos Restaura...

If AI gains eminence we will all find out. :worry:

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It's the details where things go awry. Over 300,000,000 guns out there, how would one start to deal with the sheer numbers? And they last so long, the...

The late Dr McCarty seems to have been a man of many talents, including studies of logic. Beyond me, I fear. The length of this piece is challenging o...

Ultimate or not, being bitten by a snake or run over by a train is a strong argument for what appears real. I know, "I refute it thus" has fallen into...

Yes. He seemed very trustworthy on technical subjects like this. I miss his participation.

Emergence is not well understood in all its varieties. At its simplest level it is characterized as an automobile, which involves a pattern or arrange...

Please sign ChatGPT on as an honorary member of the forum. :cool:

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At age 91, Dr Pinter is still intellectually active it seems. But he made his mark in mathematics, not metaphysics or neurology. His speculations abou...

Does this measurement physically affect a photon on its way to the far screen?

Where do you buy your weed? A blessed product.

Science fantasy at best. :roll:

This will probably turn out to be really dumb, a lesson not to mess in physics when one is not a practitioner, but nevertheless: Here is a stripped do...

Thanks for the reply. Neat image. :cool: