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It doesn't imply that the world doesn't exist in the absence of observers. That is 'imagined non-existence', imagining it going out of existence or no...

Some points from the ChatGPT outline: Copenhagen Interpretation (Bohr, Heisenberg): * Posits that quantum mechanics does not describe an objective rea...

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There is no 'exaggerated ontic claim', other than to call into question a realist view of physics. There are plenty other than me that call that into ...

Hence Wheeler’s conjecture of the One Electron Universe

But that is not his point. I get that Linde’s argument is quite technical - I don’t know what ‘Hamiltonian’ stands for - but the plain text summary of...

That's one of the factors, but there are others. The perils are environmental, economic, political and military, and each one, or a combination of the...

Say what you like about J D Vance, he can write. Here's one of his pre-Trump articles, the one in which he compares Trump to heroin, one of the articl...

Today's New York Times frontpage is basically BIDEN MUST GO, with terrible polling and yet more senior democrats calling for his retrenchment. His sit...

I mean as a kind of broad cultural trope, not specifically about denying 'faith in God'. Kind of a shorthand.

The problem with such atheist philosophy is that it has no greater perspective within which to frame the nature of existence. Consider the Buddhist di...

thank you for the clarification.

If you can't understand the position you're arguing for, it's pointless to pursue it. In any case, that was the tail end of a point I brought up about...

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Fair enough, to be honest I only joined late in the discussion so I should add my two cents about the OP. Notice the implicit assumption in the statem...

Notice the implicit arrogance in the presumption are you able to grasp what the universe might be, outside and beyond the human conception of it. Scie...

Time means nothing without perspective. It doesn’t exist in itself, independently of the observing mind which provides that perspective. You might ima...

Except it doesn’t allow for the iunreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. As I said above, the reason the most people won’t ...

The difference being, when a Democrat member is found guilty of felony, the Party expels him. When it's a Republican, they make him leader.

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Any observations on the arguments for or against mathematical platonism as outlined in this post?

And here is Linde spelling it out, with a dash of wry amusement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc89m2SaOAc

'The dial' or any instrument is an extension of the human ability to perceive the object. I know that the question of 'what is an observer' is a vexed...

But instruments don't make measurements - or rather, whether they do or not relies on the measurement being observed. And that Wheeler article discuss...

Presumably nothing abstract.

Right. You see that echoed in the measurement problem and the ambiguous nature of sub-atomic particles.... ...which likewise bears resemblance to Whee...

I think you're right. It seems this shooter really was a loner with no manifesto or political activity or affiliations. Yes, I took that onboard. I'm ...

Hersh asks right upfront: 'in what sense do mathematical objects exist?' That was the question that hooked me on the subject, and I see it as a philos...

So you don't accept that 7=7? apropos of this general discussion, I've just downloaded a rather interesting textbook, What is Mathematics, Really? Reu...

Thanks! Coming from you, that is high praise.

I will take issue with this. I say that in this standard formulation, the phrase 'timeless entities existing objectively' is wrong, because it is a re...

I hardly understand anything in this thread, as my knowledge of mathematics is rudimentary. But my view of the metaphysics is much more benign, as I'm...

No last year I was doubting Trump would be nominee. Doubts about Biden’s nomination only came into view this year.

All well beyond my competence I’m afraid. I have a vague recollection of a BBC documentary, Dangerous Knowledge, ‘Documentary about four of the most b...

So, what could falsify the thesis you're proposing in this thread? What could someone point to, to demonstrate that your contention 'Mathematical trut...

Isn’t that just an example of Kant’s dictum ‘concepts without percepts are empty’?

What was that bet again? $10.00 to charity of choice? Looks like I'm about to pay up.

As I said in the Trump thread, the assassination attempt is a big plus for the Trump campaign. Not to suggest for one minute it was planned or staged ...

Judge Cannon by now has a long history of questionable decisions in that case, most of which seem to have leaned towards the defendants. This dismissa...

They're already fundraising off the clenched fist shot. It's the ultimate grift gift for a Donald Trump: martyrdom without death.

So you believe Putin is bound by doctrine? You think if a multinational force started to engage Russian troops that he would not resort to tactical nu...

Trump still thinks if he levies tariffs on Chinese goods that the Chinese pay them. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-tariffs-proposal-10-percent...

Be that as it may, and I certainly don’t agree, neither the points raised in the OP nor the philosophy of Hegel are relevant to the issue of what nomi...

It’s more that seeing through our own cultural conditioning is very difficult. That goes for Buddhists too.

I do agree that factory farming is often extremely inhumane and that animals suffer through it. We've been consuming Impossible Meat (plant-based minc...

Meanwhile, as Biden and politicians around the word pile on the platitudes about 'unification' and 'coming together', and the abhorrence of violence i...

A gift link to a version of the article in the NY Times. Singer's point seems obviously correct, but then, Western culture is entirely predicated on p...

The Australian Broadcasting Commission is airing a two-part series, Retribution, beginning tonight (although it may be geo-blocked outside Australia)....