boethius

This is literally what I explain, as the electron somehow "co-existing" in detached regions. What is at issue is what to make of this. That's not a pr...

In science, yes, that is what is happening. If we don't have new information, we cannot say what is happening other than the probability distributions...

But how do we know this? We observe the world and see a definite state? How do we know we've observed the world to see a definite state? We become con...

There is no experimental evidence that something just needs to be "big enough" to cause probability wave collapse. "Big things" we assume are in defin...

Obviously, this whole conversation is in the context that there is no theory of quantum gravity, no real understanding of what dark matter or dark ene...

I'm not sure I agree. MWI seems to me to still have the problem of when these worlds actually "split"; it's easy to say "when something is measured as...

Yes, this is the main problem with "entropy collapse" as I understand it. Entropy is (in it's classical sense) a macro statistical property resulting ...

Usually in these discussions what I am calling "a fork in the road" is called a branch in a graph of possible state changes. What it means is simply t...

There's no wave collapse in MWI, as the idea there is all possibilities really exist in some physical definite state and new universes pop into existe...

There is no inconsistency with MWI. You just have the block universe of all the possible universes. You have mathematically exactly what I described a...

Having multiple interpretations of things does not create inconsistencies. If you show a parabola equation to a mathematician, there's lot's of interp...

To those following this discussion and still uncertain of what "the problem" is. An analogous problem is the idea of a "block universe", which is a hy...

This is just not how it works. Interference patterns disappear, not because of wave collapse, but because of running a different experiment, where pha...

You seem to be in a contradiction. You're saying the MWI solves the problem we're talking about, but somehow the problem doesn't even exist for the pr...

I'm not sure you're getting it. We cannot, by definition "observe" when wave collapse happens before an observation. If you say your eyes cause wave c...

This does not seem any different than just experimental apparatus causing wave function collapse, just eyes being apparatus. The whole point of the qu...

There is no such experiment proposed, even in principle. But yes, if there was, it would no longer be pseudoscience but science. The pseudoscientific ...

Yeah, I say both are reasonable. Yes. What I don't believe is that it is resolvable by experiment, just as whether anyone else is conscious to begin w...

I said you're in denial it is a pseudoscientific belief, whereas I am not. Two beliefs being "as reasonable to believe" do not make them true. I trust...

I said as reasonable. Both are claims about consciousness we are unable to verify by experiment. They seem equally reasonable to me in this regard.

I'm not really following you anymore.

I'm pretty sure you don't understand what we've agreed to, but maybe you're feeling lucky.

As reasonable as believing there's some people that have a consciousness made of "expertise" in some way.

It's not an experiment, it's not science. It's pseudoscience with all the same trappings of other pseudosiences: plausible sounding reasoning, anecdot...

Yes, do even know this? Where's the data? And if so, what experiment allows us to distinguish between a "real expert" and not. As for the subject matt...

I just told you: independent groups I have (for not experimental reasons) reason to believe are really independent and have run the same experiments a...

I'm not sure when science became just "trust us", but that just so happens to be the exact same epistemological framework of the Catholic church, whic...

Sorry I didn't add the obvious implication of experimental evidence. Experiments you can do yourself.

I'm pretty sure they're wrong. Based on experiments I've actually seen.

Experimental evidence of what? If I send you my resume with all known PhD diplomas that have ever existed, would you just accept the result of this ex...

You don't seem to be able to extricate yourself from your pseudoscientific beliefs about the world. We can look at their resumes, I agree. Whether the...

We can devise an experiment to resolve who likely has these socially constructed tittles, but to propose an "experiment" that bestows the claims to kn...

Ah, but do you have a non-pseudoscientific definition of expert. Aie, there's the rub. But don't worry! I nominate myself to fill this power vacuum.

I think it's worth explaining the "stakes" in bell's inequality. A fundamental rule of physics is locality, which just means information doesn't trave...

I say process. We could imagine the Swiss / Nordic experiment as some point in a process towards "withering away of the state". I too live in a Nordic...

Yes, I'll look into them. To be clear, I would not call myself "a Marxist", and I wouldn't say Marx develops what we would here call "a philosophy" at...

I don't have time to look into it now, but I will do so. However, on this topic, I completely agree concepts are used inconsistently. If we want to cr...

Though I touch on it in the above post, I think it's worth expanding what is meant by "revolutionary" in Marx's writing. Marx writes well before the S...

This is more of a Leninist idea and of course critical to Soviet understanding of Marxism (obviously, Soviet Union believed in an important role of th...

I think this is very well said and summarizes my own basic question of what the foundational ethical theory is used or implied to justify the transhum...

I listened to one podcast of his where he talks with a physicist if I recall, and he goes into it a bit. As others have said, nothing has been present...

This isn't prediction though, only retrospectively the numbers in the series so far can fit an infinite number of polynomial functions. If the numbers...

In my view, Marx is best best viewed as a "philosopher-scientist" with strong parallels to the founders of other sciences in the same period, for inst...

As per the OP, US style conservatism committed to anti-intellectualism starting with Reagan and the "southern strategy". It's so far down the anti-int...

Yes, it's just the free market of ideas that taxing the rich to pay for social programs in Nordic countries that have free health-care and free higher...

This video goes a little deeper into ... basically that we don't know much at this point. https://youtu.be/j7xsOsrDmPQ

That's what statistics is about: drawing conclusions from available data, which become projections that can change with new data. I'm not sure you eve...

If by "statistically perhaps" you mean "yes I agree" then we agree. Your bird analogy is dissimilar in some critical regards, as the birds are not gro...

The evidence the strain is more infectious is that it displaces the previously dominant strain. Due to the network-effect, the dominant strain in an a...

What do you mean by this?