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In the classic physics era, massive objects were supposed to attract one another at a distance, without any physical chanel of interaction between the...

You have a source?

Another consequence is that, everytime I pee, I create thousands of universes, just to account for where the droplets may fall.

It does assume an infinity of worlds.

Fair enough, he didn't invent the word.

I'm talking of Erwin Schrödinger's interpretation of QM.

That proves very little. There are many books written about aliens from another planet too, or about ghosts. It doesn't mean these books are right in ...

I am actually talking of Erwin Schrödinger's own interpretation of QM, which he tried to argue for in his famous thought experiment about a cat in a b...

MWI says that there are infinite worlds, while Schrödinger assumes his cat can't be dead and alive at the same time. Can you spot which assumes less a...

Yes, of course. The very name of phenomenology — a word invented by Husserl to describe his approach to philosophy — is based of the Kantian idea that...

I would say that these are some of the absolute presuppositions of science. They do not need to be actively "believed"; all one needs to do with them ...

First, science assumes the existence of nature, that is to say, of things that happen by themselves, irrespective of magic, gods and the like. Then, s...

Sure, but my question was: does Heidegger pay his debt to Husserl in B&T?

As I said, in this interpretation, everything that can happen does happen. Including flying unicorns, I think.

QM is science. I am pro science, always. The MWI is an attempt to stick to the metaphysics of Galileo and Newton, i.e. to strict determinism, in an er...

I seem to have this uncanny ability to sing in my head too. Another thing I can do is dream, when I am asleep. And these things I dream of, they somet...

I don't know either, but I just had this thought that whenever I dribble a bit when peeing, I create a few thousands universes (each with all these ga...

Sartre and many others were big fans of H. To my knowledge it's only Merleau Ponty who saw H. more as an usurper than as a heir to Husserl.

You can't understand something in this one world, so you need to assume gazillions of worlds.

Then it is a mistake of philosophy. This chimera of a philosopher king is what it's all about.

Have you read Collingwood's Essay on Metaphysics? It was linked up to on another thread. It reads really well, looks in many ways similar to the Krisi...

Yes, but this sort of parochialism ought to be seen for what it is: a rejection of the other.

It sounds rather absurd, I know, but that’s what the many-worlders are saying.

At worse he was just expressing a prejudice, at best a joke. The French too think highly of their own language, supposed to be more logical than some ...

That is fine, and not what my disagreement is about. My point is about the idea that he "attributes to the Germans a special task" via the German lang...

This guy was so naïve, so simplistic sometimes... It really makes one wonder about the lack of street wisdom of some overly theoretical philosophers, ...

Actually, I'm talking of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. You were fiscal enough to point at the difference with the multiverse, so ...

Okay, the many-worlds interpretation. Multiverse is another sci-fi scenario, fair enough. The Schrödinger equation ?

Okay so, are you going to tell us the difference between the many-worlds and the multiverse, or are you going to keep it for yourself? I never said ot...

This has been the stuff of science fiction for decades. Read The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold for a sample.

Oh no need for that. You see, in the multiverse, everything that can happen does happen, LITERALLY. At every single nano second, gazillions of worlds ...

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Right. And many flying unicorns too.

Couldn't agree more. The multiverse is obscenely anti-ockhamist, it assumes a awful lot and for no good reason. The hypothesis of God is indeed far le...

Lot’s of western folks have drunk the materialist cool aid: they don’t even think that human freedom is theoretically possible.

If we talk of Africa, we got to let the Africans talk, no? Ahmadou, K'naan The original East Coast-West Coast collaboration Rock in Oh! Mes amis, on n...

They can play, as jazz cats used to say.

That's where I think he needlessly complicates the matter. One cannot spot a difference between two colors without having a sense of each individual c...

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What's useless to Paul may be useful to Peter. All this talk about privacy is just one big distraction. Just so you know, telepathy is an illusion, a ...

If you search for tenderness It isn't hard to find You can have the love you need to live But if you look for truthfulness You might just as well be b...

Denying concepts is not a sound business model for a philosopher. Crafting new concepts is legit, using old words for new ideas is legit, refusing to ...

When I was young, I travelled far. I listened to a lot of bizarre music, ragas with 13 beats per measure, love songs with much violins and tablas... I...

As language therefore: the phonetics of words are in an arbitrary, culturally-constructed relationship with their meaning. Yet music is often seen as ...

Metaphors are us, the way I see it. I let you decide if we are illusions or not. It still does not explain why minor chords tend to be heard as more s...

I seem to have one on top of my keyboard. :-)

Yes, we've been there. Interested in a non-illusionary theory of the correspondences between chords and emotions.

It's usually placed between 6 and 8. :razz:

Just because things have more than one aspect or dimension or even structure, doesn't mean that talking of their structure(s) is always specious. Othe...