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That seems doable.

This is taken from another thread because I think it's more topical here. So there is this huge, seemingly inreconcilable difference between the exper...

I do.

For me too, the different narratives cannot always be reconciled. But sometimes they can. Einstein famously said that "it would be possible to describ...

From a monist standpoint, these different explanations must be coherent, at least in theory: they describe one unique world. It's like the story of th...

See? Miracles happen... :smile:

Hey, a little mystery never hurt anyone...

If it's locally unpredictable, it is no-deterministic in that sense of the word. It may still be called deterministic in the sense that some predictio...

"That" is indeterminism, a metaphysical view of a universe open to novelty, where opportunities happen, where time is not wholly redundant, where some...

But that's the thing: indeterminism never ever pretended that the world was pure chaos. It just says that the future is not fully determined by the pa...

Rest assured that I am well aware of this.

A lot of assumptions you got there... The reason in question could be purely probabilistic.

Ah okay. I guess I go by the QM type then. Didn't know a form of indeterminism existed that did not function with probabilities.

Not saying that, just saying that our human reason may not be fit for this purpose. There could be stuff that forever escape us humans, but they would...

Okay so I can't prove that determinism is not lurking somewhere in this infinite number of invisible universes, and you cannot prove that a unicorn is...

You can see your liver with a CT scan. Can you see these other worlds posited by MWI?

First you said: You also implied that this should be testable empirically. Then you said: Then you implied that the double-slit experiment doesn't pro...

Have you considered that quite a few among this infinite number of invisible universes posited by the MWI may contain at least one unicorn, and that t...

You call it absurd, I don't. I'm just saying that human beings are contingent. They could never had appeared, or be different than they are. Therefore...

Why would there be only one form of reason? Just because we are born with a particular form of reason doesn't mean it is the only one. Our human reaso...

That's correct.

You may wish to be coherent. You can't say something and then its opposite.

Nope. All sorts of funny competing hypotheses are consistent with the facts, including that of invisible flying unicorns. But quite often, one of them...

By this precept, the indeterminist nature of the universe is proven by the double slit experiment. I agree that it does not NECESSARILY conform to OUR...

Concluded from an assumption, therefore assumed as well. This is nitpicking. And I question the presumption that a new me is born everytime an electro...

Not sure what you mean by Absurdism. Camus? I don't think the world is absurd at all, personally. That's indeed the idea. How do you propose to test t...

Come to think of it, aren't hidden variables the last refuge of metaphysics?

It has not yet totally ruled out some invisible unicorn of determinism, hiding behind the empirical data. That may be impossible to do (although Bell ...

Nope. Just because events aren't predetermined, doesn't imply that they happen for no reason. They just happen for reasons that are not predetermined....

What are you trying to do here, Isaac? What's the point of this line of questioning? Understand how people learn a language?

The term "incompatible" is too strong here. Two radically different explanations of the same thing can coexist and represent two sides of the same coi...

Indeed, and people personalize their phones and treat them as private. That's why they put passwords on them...

Except determinism makes enormous claims, like the idea that this post I am now writing was predetermined since the Big Bang. When you make such a gig...

Yes. Italians had no colonial empire but Sicily and Sardinia were treated as colonies, with their inhabitant considered to be of African descent or ad...

I think they are compatible, eg a computer playing chess is applying a limited form of reason (rules and logical inferences) written down on silicon. ...

Indeed. If we go by the definition of objective, physical reality 'that which doesn't go away when you want it to', 'that which exists, whether you li...

Okay, not super deep but there's an effort. Téléphone - Le Temps (Time) You clever sand grain watching your friends Fall one by one to the bottom of t...

Indeed, the best hypothesis for abiogenesis seems to be the RNA world. It solves the chicken-and-egg problem in the DNA-proteins relationship characte...

Okay but then, there is no contradiction between your two paradigms. The mind is just one of many things that matter, and it is free to the exact exte...

Told you that you were not paying attention...

My point entirely: the mind must be physical in some way. It exists, it works, it does things.

I'd gladly talk to those people, if they ever come forward, and review those reasons, if they are ever provided. In the meantime, you'd agree with me ...

Yes, if 'physical' means 'non-mental', as is often conceived including by Khaled. But if one considers the mind itself as a cause, as a force in the w...

A model which does not predict individual events, but instead predicts the aggregate outcome of many events in a statistical manner, is not a determin...

It's the theories you know of, I guess. None of them pretends that one can always predict any and all active transport.

Because I studied physics, chemistry and biology, and those foundational sciences are currently underterministic. Now, if you can prove that modern ne...

You tell me, if one day you manage to peek outside your religious blinders.

Janus already explained that. As usual, you don't pay attention.

I totally agree with Janus. The belief in determinism is religious in nature. It's about not allowing your gods to play dice. Modern science has got p...

Where I live, the state and business apparatus is controlled by Italians, who I suppose are white, most of them in government anyway. Many Italians ar...