Wayfarer

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I think we’ve both got bits of the elephant, but it’s a big elephant!

From which The point is a very difficult one, and my knowledge of it amateur, so I’ll leave it there.

That might be a good name for a confectionary, but nothing more. It’s an attempt to come up with a name for something unknown. As such, best to avoid ...

But you’re objectifying the wave-function. In reality, nothing ‘collapses’. That is simply the expectation that there should be something real there w...

What it depends is on is the ability of the human brain as a reality-generating organism.

Galileo’s method leaves something out. It’s not that significant when it comes to calculating trajectories, but it becomes very important when science...

Not at all.

:up: We’re given some raw materials to assemble ‘on the fly’.

Sure. (This is from memory, I'm sure if I'm wrong KK will correct me. ) During Einstein's debates with Bohr, he came up with the EPR thought-experimen...

Figures. He seems Californian.

Thank you. I thought it rather a stylish presentation. I like that guy’s channel.

In the context, ‘recalling it’ is kind of the point. OK call me pedantic….

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Well, it is a youtube video, so visual comments and props are the requirements of the media. Sure, a maths textbook would be more accurate, but it wil...

A can of worms, with immortal worms in it.

'Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds', saith Richard Feynman. However, both ornithology and philosophy of scie...

Yes that's how come dinosaurs lasted so long. Took a massive comment to wipe 'em out.

Well, it has philosophical significance. When the problems associated with 'the observer' started to become apparent, this was what prompted Einstien ...

Do you think you're an unconscious automation that has been formed by chemical interactions driven by physical laws? That creativity, art, philosophy,...

We’re all observers, and the absence of human beings, what observers are there? Now that’s a question you’re not going to find the answer for in physi...

Not me. I've never believed it, and never said it.

Yes, now they would. This is one of the main things that taught them that.

As distinct from energy! :roll: I thought you’d get that.

That’s not it, either. The underlying issue is that science excludes the observer. Now, who or what is ‘the observer’? Why, that would be the human be...

as distinct from…….

Enjoying mine as I write this. We must be in a similar timezone. The reason quantum physics tends to undermine materialism in any form, has nothing to...

Until your head is crowned with stars, until the sea flows in your veins, we don’t see things aright.

Arguably, quantum physics has done exactly that, but let’s not go there.

Yes but energy is dumb, by itself it has no direction. It’s really no different to materialism, and matter, likewise, doesn’t act, but is only acted u...

Depends on who you ask.

‘That shady nothing...’ speaks volumes to me.

I have a strong suspicion that a lot of the terminology around 'consciousness' as an object of philosophical enquiry actually came into popular (and e...

There are terms in various cultures which invariably end up translated as 'spirit' in modern English, which I think overall is a very poor word, not l...

Hey don't feel bad. Overall I like your philosophy. Just did a random lookup on Amazon and found this book https://amzn.com/3030036316 I think it's th...

However, after all the chest-beating and threats to blow up search in Australia, the new media giants have come to the table: https://www.smh.com.au/b...

Sorry, I don't think that works. We have access to electrical energy, courtesy of the power grid. What does 'access' mean? the means or opportunity to...

The problem I see is that 'information' is not 'a simple'. The word 'simple' has particular implications in this context - it means 'irreducible', 'ca...

But only probabilities can be given, with respect to the objects of physics. And as for ‘X’, that is a symbol, whose reality is only fixed by conventi...

It’s a physics theory, not a theory of every single itty bitty thing. Those who believe that physics underlies everything might then further assume th...

Where classical metaphysics has helped me, is in understanding that ideas - not all ideas, of course, many ideas are just thought-bubbles - but at lea...

That's the amazing thing about a priori. Seems to me a lot of people take it for granted, or explain it away. But according to traditional philosophy,...

I was going to quote a snippet from Jacques Maritain. Of course, Maritain has an enormous literature, and I'll freely admit barely having skimmed the ...

That you should type your replies into refined sand, as it probably wouldn't make a difference.

Computers are entirely reliant on conceptual analysis - binary data processing, high-level languages, machine code, transistors - developed over many ...

That tree is number 7 and smells fishy. Hey only kidding. What impresses me about platonic realism is that numbers and fundamental concepts are not th...

That is true. But I still think it’s well-established that the risks from COVID are far higher than the risks from any of the vaccines. Still, my rela...

Actually I do agree with that. I think caution is warranted. But I also think that the whole issue became entangled with both anti-vaccination sentime...

Energy is ‘the capacity to do work’. The idea that ‘everything is energy’ is a modernised version of ‘everything is matter’ (since Einstein’s discover...