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These sort of questions are silly. You don't need to argue that you exist. Descartes only got to that point because he was trapped in doubting everyth...

How do I know I exist? How can I be sure? How do I know that I think? What makes thinking any different than experience with existential questions? I ...

Because I have them, just the same way I know that I exist, because I exist. Granted, I have to the kind of animal that is self-aware to do that. You ...

That certain neural activity is the cause of consciousness? The problem here is: 1. Distinguishing this from correlation 2. Showing how certain neural...

Wouldn't the same principle apply to my existence? Am I supposed to provide a logical argument for existing? Isn't it just the fact that I exist? My e...

Ture, but then neither can software. You have to have peripheral devices hooked up to your computer to do all that.

So you subscribe to an identity theory of mind. The physical substrate is necessary for conscious experience. Has to be squishy meat.

I was imprecise. Most experts agree that 1.378 billion humans is needed to implement a universal Turing machine. A lot less Datas would be needed, tho...

An idealist could ask whether material existence is determinable by logical argument, or just something the physicalist begins with as a premise.

There is a logical argument for determining the nature and cause of my experiences, which could be physical. A physical correlation has been establish...

No, do you? How does that work? You form an argument and then experiences pop out with the conclusion? I'm curious, do you experience forming this arg...

Because racism. Only a Chinese substrate will realize a true Turing machine. God is Chinese, and Searles messed up by having the room output Chinese, ...

Humans were computers before electronic computers existed. Is there a reason why enough humans given enough time can't compute any algorithm? How is t...

It is except the focus is own conscious experience and not understanding. Arguably, a fair amount of progress has been made in computer understanding ...

Interesting. Why that one in your opinion over fire, clothing, or the printing press?

The same sort of thing could be said of external objects. An idealist could turn your argument on it's head and claim that material objects are undeci...

I disagree that this something to be logically determined. My experiences would be the premises one starts with to make a logical argument. It's not s...

You mean there is no objective method. Subjectively, I know that mental phenomena exist, because I experience it. That's how I can know with certainty...

Why group animals with robots and computer programs? Animals have nervous systems, and they have their own goals independent of us (often enough at od...

Actually, that video was pretty amazing! Maybe there really is something to pilot waves. I didn't know there was a classical system that produced simi...

Feynman said that nobody understands, assuming that wasn't taken out of context, but I always understood him to be saying that nobody knows why the do...

I didn't explain what I heard well. It was only after several pages of replies that I figured out how to express it clearly.

This is where I get confused about the Copenhagen interpretation. Is it anti-realist, or is it saying that reality is this non-classical stuff of poss...

It's gravity certainly does. The unobserved particles have properties that are important to atomic structure and fields of force. It's similar to noti...

Let's say Bohr was right. Why the interference pattern, then? Why not some other probability distribution? It's highly suggestive that something is in...

Yes and no. I'm pretty sure Binney challenged taking the postulates of QM literally (realistically), when interpreting the results. He said they were ...

No, that's not what he was arguing for. Binney stated several times that the probabilistic nature of the value obtained was due to our epistemic uncer...

At the beginning of the talk I linked to, Alan Bar introduced the measurement problem for the audience, then Simon Saunders argued for MWI, followed b...

I don't know what that means, though, unless one is an anti-realist, which I'm not. But how do you go from probability to actuality? What is the mecha...

Alright point taken, but the question is whether the Schrödinger equation is describing the real state of the particle before it's measured, or it jus...

That is a big problem. Perhaps as big as not being able to detect other worlds or pilot waves.

Science isn't math though. It's an empirical investigation of the various phenomena in the world. As such, the world has the final say, not math. Expe...

One other thing about the math in QM. The experiments are primary, not the math. Math is used to model and predict experimental results. Schrodinger's...

No, it's about accounting for the measuring device, not removing it.

The argument: The measuring device is the source of uncertainty in these experiments. You don't agree, fine. You don't want to watch the video or rese...

But the interpretations stem from the measurement problem, which is not accounted for by the mathematics. That's one thing. The second thing is to rec...

Problem being that when a measurement takes place, Schrodinger's equation fails to predict the outcome, unless of course MWI is endorsed.

I don't think that was the case. He repeated himself a lot, and was rather adamant. He doesn't except certain postulates as being anything more than u...

I don't know, sounded to me like he was denying that the Uncertainty Principle was fundamental instead of a useful approximation based on epistemic li...

As such, the title is misleading. It is a hidden variables approach, just not of the particle, and its non-classical. The way Binney stating things, t...

Yeah, but I don't think it falsifies HMI (hidden measurement interpretation, which looks basically like what Binney was promoting). That's because the...

Yeah, that's pretty close to what Binney was arguing for. I don't recall that he mentioned any history of the development of hidden measurement, which...

Binney's view of the wavefunction is that it's a really useful and powerful tool, given our limited knowledge, but it has unreal properties, such as s...

Anyway, I didn't make this thread to debate MWI, or any other standard interpretation. I wanted to know what people thought about Binney's interpretat...

LOL! Only if you take Schrodinger's equation to be modelling a real state of affairs, and disregard all other interpretations, or the possibility that...

Penguin suicide? How do they manage that?

The sorry state of chickens?

I thought the contention was more fundamental than that. Being born an animal subjects one to a life of suffering in one form or another. Some more ex...

Sure, what I mean is that it's a pretty big metaphysical bullet to bite.

What is the point of active pessimism? If life is such that one should be pessimistic about it, why bother with some virtuous ascetic attempt? Why not...