Wayfarer

Thanks for the clarification — I take your point that stochastic mechanics aims to be a constructive theory, grounding quantum phenomena in classical-...

Right - that is the point I’m labouring. It’s the inevitable subjectivism that now must apply in such matters - a consequence of the individual consci...

I don't think so. I think you're confusing electromagnetic waves with the wavefunction in quantum physics. This thread is about the latter, not the fo...

Nothing to do with bias, but a considered judgement. I'm one of (apparently quite a few people) who simply think that Everett's metaphysics (as this i...

Good question, to which I don’t know the answer - but the wavefunction doesn’t describe an electromagnetic wave. The wavefunction is a wave-like distr...

Which is tantamount to asking if anything is truly physical. Let's see what the original poster has to say.

But they’re also solutions to a problem. So - what’s the problem?

(Mimicking Socrates): Is justice, then, to be learned from dogs at play? Or shall we not rather seek to know what justice is - even if be something th...

Indeed - but the question was, if MWI is a solution, what is the problem it is addressing? Put another way, if it turned out that MWI couldn’t be the ...

We've been through it all before, always ends in impasse.

Three of the better popular science books on the subject: Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science, David Lin...

Thanks, that’s a fair clarification. I agree Rawlsian liberalism doesn’t explicitly deny transcendental values or claim the world is morally indiffere...

:rofl: Let me ask you, if MWI is the solution, then what is the problem?

It's assuming too much. Paths are no more definite or real than particles. The brutal way of putting the Copenhagen attitude, is, in my view, there ar...

The issue being that the supposed ethical neutrality of liberalism is itself based on a worldview, namely, that the ground of values is social or poli...

Yes, I watched that yesterday. It is based on the fact that in the double-slit experiment, the wave pattern will gradually emerge even if the particle...

I do understand that there's no 'action' as such, like a force that operates between the two particles. 'Spooky action at a distance' was, however, Ei...

And to you! Or an antinomy of reason. I thought of a philosophical joke: Q: What’s the difference between an aporia and an antinomy? A: It’s a conundr...

Secular culture provides a framework within which you can follow any religion or none. But the proselytizing liberalism that Timothy is referring to g...

Would that be because of the implicit presumption of a normative axis, the implied idea of a true good. A criticism the forum's Secular Thought Police...

Indeed, it was a cherry-picked quote. That is from a New York Times article from 2010, which I've kept as a kind of scrapbook reference, by Stanley Fi...

Mind-independence’ has two levels of meaning. In one sense, of course the world is independent of your or my mind — there are countless things that ex...

Very perceptive analysis.

How, then, do you hope to persuade a listener? Presumably you are hoping to convey something are you not?

So according to NY Times it turns out that the letter of demands sent to Harvard which triggered this huge conflict was sent by mistake.(“Trump Offici...

I have noticed that particularly in those French laws passed to prevent the wearing of religious clothing and paraphernalia in the public square. The ...

In fairness to the OP, it presents quite a few arguments, and includes an academic paper on the topic. It’s not empty rhetoric.

One issue with the Eleatic Principle is that it leaves out more than just abstract entities like numbers — it also excludes the kinds of structural co...

I wrote an OP on this - the Mind Created World. But it’s very easy to misunderstand what it means. We need an epistemological framework which allows f...

For pragmatic purposes it is what enables the effectiveness of applied science. The difficulty of discerning the precise nature of causality notwithst...

What are major causes of infant mortality? Does polio virus cause paralysis? Does increased atmospheric CO2 cause global warming? The list could be ex...

You mean, liberals did that :yikes: ?

I posted that in my story about Suarez (above) but the mods removed it. Too sad, this young guy just trying to make a life, swept up into that dreadfu...

Arturo Suárez Trejo, 33, a musician, was snatched off the street in Raleigh, North Carolina, by ICE, and became one of the 238 Venezuelans deported to...

You'd think that loosing your career would be a greater penalty than not having your opinion heard, wouldn't you?

It's significant that one of the major drivers of Trump's second presidency is the prohibition of any expression of diversity, equity or inclusion (DE...

But what about antitrust legislation? This very day, Meta is being taken to court in the US to consider compulsory divestment of WhatsApp and Instagra...

But isn’t lending to building companies inherently greater risk and lower reward than lending for mortgages? After all, the kind of finance builders r...

Where is this coming from? Is this conservative polemic against so-called political correctness? Because I can’t think of any examples of this purport...

All very difficult questions, of course. But the point was rather that beliefs can't just be brushed off as personal matters. In fact that privatisati...

You sure sound like you do. And again, you're declaring it a matter of opinion. And what we do is informed by what we believe. Do you think if murdere...

Also it shouldn't be lost sight of that an enormous number of extremely powerful and intelligent people are furious with Trump. Trump loves to pick fi...

A shared vision is not an authoritarian religious regime. Your problem is the reflexive rejection of anything you identify as religion (which covers a...

Bernie Sanders and AOC pulled a crowd of 35,000 in LA last weekend. But the real conflict will begin when it's clear the economy is going to shit and ...

The moral vision that underwrote modern liberalism—its emphasis on human dignity, conscience, rights, and responsibility—did not arise in a vacuum. Th...

Trump's attacks on Harvard University are a direct attack on higher education and academic freedom. This is where Trump is going fully authoritarian -...

Right. I watched his lecture, thought it very good, and he's a charismatic speaker. In Alexander Lefebvre’s reading, liberalism is not merely a set of...

Just listened to the rest of that lecture. I liked his style and his 17 points - the last of which is 'redemption'! I still think it harks back to its...

Agree. But it also emphatically does not proclaim that every philosophical opinion is of equal worth, on the basis that somebody thinks so. Where this...