As I just said to Willow, and as I read Wheeler as saying - humans are 'the universe coming to know itself'. But that is not something 'physical' - or...
ON the contrary - as Wheeler says - that we are ‘a patch of the Universe coming to know itself’. And I can’t see how that can possibly be incorrect? W...
So, what is the meaning of ‘participatory universe’? Some other random Wheeler quotes that seem relevant. You can knock them all off, like a coconut s...
Anyone else here in agreement with this? Because all of those actions - every one, which experiment, how to set it up - they are all set up by an obse...
Still not the point. The particular piece of information in question - about the ship - can be described exactly, by any one of a number of media and ...
Well, you’d be mistaken. The information could be transmitted wrongly, or correctly. If it’s transmitted correctly, then it stays the same. The rest i...
Fair enough, I stand corrected. But I still think it’s a legitimate question as to whether any actual ‘registration’ has occurred in the absence of an...
I was actually going to refer to an article about Wheeler called Does the Universe Exist if we're Not Looking? Any idea why that article might be call...
Unfair, and I think it says more about you. You have an intense, emotional commitment to a philosophical outlook that I regularly challenge, and whene...
No, you're not being naive. StreetlightX, for some reason, has an intense dislike of my posts, and often goes off like this. Apparently I spread 'inte...
Who, nevertheless, agreed with my analysis here. The whole issue is about 'the measurement problem'. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a debate. Of course,...
That is a world-class dodge, even if there were nobody around to comment on it :smile: There’s pilot-wave theory, and many-worlds. To which my questio...
Not at all. The whole argument is about what constitutes 'an observer'. This is where you came into the argument: But this is the whole nub of 'the ob...
As I said yesterday, you resort to condescension because you can’t actually come up with an argument. It is a plain fact that in normal usage ‘an obse...
What is ‘sophistry’ about claiming that ‘an observer’ is in fact an observer? Claiming that an apparatus constitutes an observer is the only ‘sophistr...
The ‘Syria reaction’ was going OK up until Trump woke up and decided to tell the Russians he was going to fire some really ‘new, smart’ missiles - by ...
Von Neumann came later than Bohr and Heisenberg. The point is, I think the idea that 'consciousness causes the collapse' incorrectly suggests the whol...
So - it's acknowledged to be 'observer dependent', but by designating the observer as 'a reference frame' rather than as an actual scientist, then the...
I think there is a profound point which has dropped out of the consideration of this argument, which is that in traditional philosophy, there was a se...
What I make of David Chalmer's point is simply that because of the first-person nature of experience, then it's not fully describable in objective or ...
I've been dwelling on this question for years - actually it is why I joined forums - and the view that I've come to is, in brief, that 'modernity is a...
One analogy that is useful here, is that this is rather like saying that the drama in movies has a basis in the film (although perhaps the analogy is ...
What you then write is an abbreviation of what Thomas Nagel describes as ‘neo-Darwinian materialism’ - a model which proceeds to describe consciousnes...
That’s Dennett’s ‘unconscious competence’ model. There is one fan here on the Forum (although in my opinion he doesn’t really understand what he’s say...
I don't agree that this is what the thrust of Chalmer's questions are. Asking 'how' or 'why' is a different question to what Chalmers raises. I think ...
I think this is descriptive of the stance of natural sciences, is it not? This is not a criticism but a reflection on what actually is being analysed....
It is the ancient question of 'reality and appearance' - so it's not just something that can brushed off. The very notion of 'the noumenal' arose out ...
Let me leap in here with the following observation: that 'the tree' is indeed a complex of sensations, perceptions and judgements. Part of that is 'ap...
Have a look at Quantum mysteries dissolve if possibilities are realities.This is a proposal which is not ‘fringe’ or alternative but which is philosop...
That’s not it. Darn, now I’ll have to go and dig it out. It’s exactly what he says: = clumsy experimenters. I’m sure that Patterson article is a lot w...
That Patterson article SLX linked says: ‘In a nutshell: in order to “observe” things at a quantum level, it requires specialized devices, which necess...
Observations are carried out by observers, who use apparatus to make their observations. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2009-06-quantum-mysticism...
Never mind. Provides an opportunity for re-telling my favourite story about a bit of graffiti sprayed on an Auckland wall: ‘Australia Sucks’ To which ...
He’s doing more than ‘picking a fight’ - he’s trying to actively undermine both Justice Department and the FBI. Often seems to have friendlier things ...
I have to say, I am finding the 'Mueller investigation' pretty perplexing. Nobody is told exactly what is being sought, but it seems to have a pretty ...
I think that Kant in his mature (i.e. post-Critiques) thought came to the view that the very notion of a 'proof' with respect to God was something of ...
My considered view after about a decade of these debates is that knowledge has an irreducibly subjective pole. The notion of a ‘mind-independent reali...
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