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Yeah see you’re point….lying awake at midnight on your thin rattan mattress….’where did I put that umbrella….’

I am reading Pierre Hadot's Philosophy as a Way of Life, and it too stresses the importance of living in the moment - which is really just another way...

we've been here before...

It was scarifying, but the best realistic production I've ever seen, by a long way. I've been interested in Chernobyl a long while, actually took a bo...

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My understanding is that Bohr would never have agreed with any of this. Talk about the state of anything when it is not being observed is empty words....

Fascinating. Links to another great PBS documentary by the look of it. Just finished watching HBO's Chernobyl last week. Also terrifying. (But then di...

Never knew that! I was always of the view that Kruschev backed down at the last minute. I studied origins of WWII at school, well aware of the role of...

Ain't that the truth. I read the story in Niall Ferguson's Ascent of Money, of how the Rothschilds expanded their massive fortune on the back of the N...

that what exists are actually instructions, i.e. 'manifest electron here'. :wink:

It’s a story, the way things seem to be. That goes for anything anyone says here, apparently. Does make you wonder what the point of calling it a phil...

I read a bit more of that Tolstoy excerpt. I thought it pretty insightful and cutting, although he was obviously a man of very strong opinions. I don'...

Those few who took the trouble to visit Japan and begin the practice of Zen under a recognized Zen master or who joined the monastic Order soon discov...

I think the problem is, that moral issues are by nature beyond what is simply 'objective'. Objectivity is fine to determine what is the case with resp...

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Yes, I do see the point, although there are often grounds for a kind of 'mutual exasperation' in such discussions. There's the expectation that if you...

She's very Billie Holiday.....

Besides, I don’t acknowledge doing that. Generally don’t think I can be accused of being discourteous although plainly my views are at odds with many ...

Fair point. I am trying not to throw grenades, I used to do it a lot more. The thing is that modern culture, generally, presumes that the ‘scientific ...

Responded here.

I'm responding here because don't want to derail KK's thread with such digressions. I did try and respond to your objections in this thread, but the p...

There are a number of people here that never respond to my posts. The reason it’s pointless to debate you, is because you have a fundamentally positiv...

That's due to the subject matter, which has no ultimate nature. Science went searching for the ultimate basis of matter, and this is what it found.

In that case, nothing to discuss.

Do you recommend Daniel Dennett's approach to the subject?

Sure, sorry if I butted in, but Fishfry is right to point out that what is generally referred to as the multiverse, is a different conception from the...

...according to Max Tegmark's classificatory scheme, which is shared by practically nobody. I think it's all nonsense on stilts, but who am I?

Because if they weren't, nothing would exist.

https://youtu.be/a1zNRIs0OiM

'I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum physics' ~ Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics. And yet, this very computer relies on...

Lalo Schifrin. Another fabulous musician. I’ll definitely check that clip out, although at the moment I’m entirely besotted with That Girl Ksenia Buzi...

Heard of them yesterday! They became famous doing covers of Chicago, the great jazz-rock ensemble from the 60's and 70's, only around 2018. They're Ru...

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'Size' has nothing to do with it. What we bring is perspective.

Well, I'm extremely sympathetic to Platonism in mathematics, but i see no reason whatever to beleive that justifies the 'many worlds' intepretation. L...

The bigger the equipment, the bigger the questions. Curious how one of the things 'the scientific view' does is, in the first place, to deprecate h. s...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/the-multiverse-as-imagination-killer/497417/

Not only my opinion. The question I ask is, if the many worlds conjecture is a solution, what is the problem? What would its fanatics advocates, like ...

I've discussed this many times on forums, and the consensus usually is, Johnson was right. (That said, I'm not a Berkeleyian idealist, but I won't div...

You know that Everett was drinking when he first had his brainwave, while busy thinking up “ridiculous things about the implications of quantum mechan...

Informed comment.

That's what is called 'cynicism'.

What I'm critiquing is not science but scientism. Indeed, scientists and philosophers have begun to see through it. The collapse of the purportedly ob...

I think that is contestable. Registration, in that passage, is an 'act of measurement', not simply an interaction between any particles. To me, the ph...

This is what I had in mind. It's from Wheeler's essay, 'Law without Law'. /uploads/resized/files/kh/jghrgx75q15zshnf.gif Einstein didn't accept the de...

Yes, well I'm still quite interested in the philosophical implications.

I know that, but it’s still worth spelling out. And besides, it was the main issue in the decades long debate between Einstein and Bohr, so it’s hardl...