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Right! That is what I have been thinking about. The question seems to be: how can a particle 'interfere with itself'? So is there any sense in which t...

It took me till late in life to find my current occupation as technical writer. Tech writers produce instructions, configuration guides, end-user guid...

Thanks! I took a question over to physics forum and made what I consider an original discovery. This is that the interference pattern in the double-sl...

I really do understand that my stab at that was completely mistaken and that the passage I pasted in was nearer the mark.

'Something solid, something grounded, something more reliable than reason elevated to divine status', is what sticks with me.

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You're such a nice person, SLX. I wonder how I ever got along previously. Anyway, courtesy Dr Google, I have found the words the Nietszche vomited up ...

No, it wasn't intended as sarcastic in the least. When he says: 'We do not object to a judgment just because it is false; this is probably what is str...

I was asking for suggestions. I thought, maybe, when he's talking about 'our new language', what he means is, the 'new' way of talking about things th...

So, I'm up to Everett now in the book I'm reading on quantum mechanics. The section on Everett starts with a couple of eminent physicists saying they ...

I asked for suggestions as to what is meant by 'our new language', I got from SLX 'Just another way of saying 'our new way of talking about things', I...

I mean that when N. refers to 'our new language', he means modern scientific method - Science.

I did already.

Thanks! Interesting. I had the feeling there was something important behind it. AH! I get it. 'Science'.

Thanks! Helpful quotation you provided, and very relevant to the thread. Although, I would be interested in your take on what he meant by 'our new lan...

Totally with you on that. I have been participating in a thread over on Ed Feser's blog about the 'pre-existence of the soul' which is canvassing some...

The whole point your long and detailed answer skips over is the 'm' in mwi. Right. So it says the 'many worlds' are already there, it was up to Everet...

It's also utterly pointless arguing about this particular topic with Agostino, from my experience. He's definitely imbibed whatever kool-aid it is tha...

It's very much a work in progress.

You might find this article of interest: George Monbiot on Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems --- But saying that everyone i...

I don't think Trump is smart, and I think his election is a disaster. That's all I have to say on it.

I'm hoping for the best, I hope he can rise above himself, but so far, as far as I am concerned, it is the victory of mendacity and mediocrity, and th...

It's a difficult point. What Descartes (and his contemporaries) meant by 'substance' is very different to how 'substance' is nowadays defined. The Gre...

Trump's whole shtick was 'f*** you'. 'You say I can't complain about Mexicans? Well, f*** you.' That is how he won. He was deliberately anti-conventio...

Some questions about this passage quoted by @StreetlightX What is 'our new language' a reference to? What does 'furthers life, preserves life...' mean...

The analogy is not apt. The fossil history of life, whilst having some puzzles, is a story of pretty straight-forward linear development. The explorat...

The Einstein-Bohr debates is what this book is about, from which I have been quoting. Neils Bohr says there are no sub-atomic particles until an exper...

According to whom? Do you know about the Bohr-Einstein debates?

The particles are real before they are measured. Not according to Neils Bohr; which is part of what is at issue, isn't it?

Curious you say that. I too often feel that meditation is a waste of time, apart from being boring and pointless. I stopped altogether at various peri...

The 'interference patterns' are really patterns left on screens. The question is, what is causing those? The answer is, sub-atomic particles. But if t...

The difficulty there is, the soul, the 'cogito', is never an object of experience. To say that it is 'something' is precisely to reify an abstraction....

Seems to me you've just lost one. As for Trump's 'successful businesses', five of his businesses went bust, and he has been sued in over 1500 lawsuits...

My views are 'left' in some ways and conservative in others. For instance, I support regulation of the financial sector, generous public education and...

They're often very 'fuzzy' terms, used differently in different contexts. I think there is nothing the matter with ego per se, insofar as we need to h...

That is how Einstein wanted to see it, but I think that is precisely what is at issue. Or - 'it depends on what you mean by "real" - because we're not...

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Just as well it's not poker machines eh? X-)

I should have stuck with my original response, but it's a topic of interest to me so I just couldn't help myself.

Surely it's time to lay this thread to rest, it's somewhere between deep water and swamp at this point. May we only hope that Colin's epiphany is bene...

sorry, CS, I dashed that off but it was in not meant in a hostile way. It's more that no matter what kind of theory we have, it's a genuinely difficul...

Indeed it does! Good luck with that.

The Buddhist answer is that the self is not a permanently existing entity; in fact the self neither exists nor doesn't exist. To say 'it exists' is to...

There can't be one without the other!

What if probability waves are exactly what they seem - distributions of possibilities? So the patterns will appear along the lines of possibility, but...

when you present a coherent argument I will attempt a coherent response.

that's one interpretation but recall 'ego' and 'person' are practically synonyms. 'The persona' was the mask worn by actors in Greek drama. Dukkha rai...

He was professor where I studied philosophy. Arch materialist.

Transcending the ego, that's what I was referring to. And don't forget, there's a verse somewhere in the Bible which says 'God is no respecter of pers...

I have read several books by Armstrong, beginning with the first, Through the Narrow Gate, which was her account of her seven years as a monastic in a...