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You're lecturing me, virtually calling me a clueless wiki-zombie, despite my explicitly giving you my criteria for rejecting your definitions. Which s...

The brain is the brain. It's probably not useful to think of the brain as a digital computer or as an analog computer.

The PDP-11 did not have a microprocessor. Nope. The OS is absolutely unnecessary. Usually this is referred to as bare metal. Also unnecessary. I recal...

You're begging the question here. Not all of them. None. The TR-10 includes interchangeable plug-in components including coefficient setting potentiom...

I judge wikipedia's definition the same way I judge yours. Wikipedia's definition is good by this criteria. Yours is wanting. Everyone deals with myri...

Well that rules out analog computers (as well as quantum computers), but it doesn't sound like it's talking the same language as people who use terms ...

No idea what you're talking about, but: The PACE TR-10 was developed in 1959. The ALGOL computer language was originally developed in 1958. The first ...

No. That would be changing the standard usage of terms. But that's not what's going on here. The TR-10 was commercially sold as an analog computer, as...

Cute narrative, but that is not what happened. I linked to a museum manifest and a wikipedia article. I've yet to call anything an analog computer... ...

Sorry, I'm lost. First you were saying to your knowledge there has never been an analog computer. Then I gave you a listing of them (a museum manifest...

There's nothing to debate here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

https://www.analogcomputermuseum.org/

I often like to remind people that before "computer" was a type of machine you bought with a keyboard and monitor, it was a job title.

Cute picture. So, your digital picture shows 101010101010? Or does it show 110011001100110011001100? Or is it 111000111000111000111000111000111000? Or...

...not quite. Neurons do indeed tend to "fire" or "not", but they quite often fire at frequencies which can increase and decrease. Furthermore, neural...

I think you're emphasizing the wrong thing. The significance of the photon traveling large distances on a cosmic scale is not that the distance is lar...

So you're not sure if E=hf?

Isn't that a "leading question"?

Photons are packets of energy. The energy in a photon is directly proportional to its frequency; E=hf. Given that, here's my question. When a photon t...

Both the broken eggs and the omelette are consequences. Which includes both the omelette and the breaking of eggs. That's not consequentialism. This i...

Not quite; you still have this mixed up. A theory might have a proponent. The proponent would believe the theory is true; and give arguments for the t...

What are you talking about? The argument that there is a problem is the problem of evil. Incidentally, if there's a definition of humility, I'm pretty...

That's meaningless. That's a fair definition. But look at it. Consequentialism is defined as a position on the morality of actions; i.e., it is dealin...

There's a mismatch here. To advocate is to recommend or support a position. The Problem of Evil is a problem, not a position. What I'm trying to conve...

What do you mean by "proponents"... proponents of the problem of evil? I don't even know what that means. Again, it doesn't matter. Assume infinite pu...

Almost. It's not quite a matter of what I personally would consider bad or evil; this is more what the problem is. The whole point of the problem of e...

What you're saying makes sense, but it seems weird to point out. There are a lot of non-analogies between these two things; you're just pointing out a...

Nope. Reread my posts. I'm abstracting out what bad means greatly. "Puppy murder" and "puppy births" are essentially metasyntactic variables. I'm not ...

Not even close. In fact, if I accept your criteria, there is literally no limit to the amount of evil a being could commit while you're still calling ...

This sounds like excusing away the problem of evil, not dealing with it. I don't quite see the difference in saying the evil will not have existed "fo...

Yes. Who says 2 follows from 1? That evil's existence is incompatible with the three omni's is the problem of evil. The problem of evil doesn't derive...

The answer doesn't matter. To demonstrate its irrelevance, I'll happily grant it's made up for. In fact, I'll lower the bar tremendously more... I'll ...

I'm not sure this is sinking in, so let's spell this out for you. You are presuming to address The Problem of Evil; that phrase, "The Problem of Evil"...

How many puppy births undoes a puppy murder? Still doesn't work for me. If a single puppy is burned in a house fire, telling me you have an infinite a...

I have two bags. In bag A, I have an infinite number of white marbles, and one black marble. In bag B, I have an infinite number of white marbles, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation ETA: Just to nip another misunderstanding in the bud, don't assume that my discussion style m...

Proposing? What the heck are you talking about? I just described what's not a thing, and had thought you were agreeing it wasn't a thing. But given yo...

Nobody is saying it's MWI. What I'm trying to unwind is what you could mean by this: Unwinding, (B) is this: ...for clarity I've underlined Wigner's s...

...but you apparently agree the branches are not universal in the sense that Wigner branches when Wigner's friend branches: Right?

I agree that this is nonsense, but what you said that I responded to was this: ...and there's certainly nothing universal happening in the sense that ...

I'm not commenting on the paper; I'm commenting on the notion that branches are universal. I don't think I have any comments on the paper at this time...

You're severely confused here. You're certainly not addressing what I purport. Keep the terms to ensure you're not conflating things. S has the radioa...

No. Many Worlds is a subject relative branching. It's simply part of the universal wavefunction. No. This is described exactly in the introduction of ...

I think you're falling prey to Poe's Law. To me, this thread is just a bunch of hyperbolic nonsense; I read "This is exactly what the Biden Administra...

I wonder if I should report this thread and this site for not complying with the Biden Administration executive orders on freedom of speech restrictio...

This isn't about lack of imagination. I can imagine sqrt(2) being rational as well, as I do when proving it's irrational. For me to be that person has...

And the proof that sqrt(2) is irrational continues by exploring what it means for sqrt(2) to be rational. But then I present that difference, and you ...

I'm not sure you proved anything on the first go around. If the monist view is correct, biology provides your pointer. A specific brain encased in a p...

So now that chat mode is done: And like I say, you've got this backwards. It's your job to make a valid and coherent argument, not my job to prove to ...