Yes, quite. Although there's a danger here of giving the sense that QM is a bottom-up theory of ignorance: it isn't. The version of QM that encodes su...
This has been done, for the following reasons. The website, far from the credible source Andrew seems to think it is, is the product of some pretty fu...
I'd agree with you. How does this warrant intolerance to the vast majority of trans women who aren't advantaged in this way, or those that are who wou...
Wut. Lemme get this straight... What you're saying is that because we define "supernatural" to be beyond nature and reason, there must logically be so...
Is this really true? I mean, I can believe that some chancers have tried it, but nothing that would account for a sharp rise in nominal female crimina...
Ah, not quite what I said. I am aware of some edge cases of atheists concluding that there must be a creator. That is not to say that this is the main...
I'm quite interested in what the root arguments are about stopping trans people doing their thing. Historically, when we victimise or disenfranchise a...
Even random things have reasons. What would make a randomly selected value for c change to another randomly selected value of c? For instance, the qua...
Teaching people ideas is probably not very problematic. It's when you teach people to be afraid of questioning, doubting, entertaining alternatives......
Nope! Yes. It's called optimisation and requires no comprehension. As pre-genetics Darwin put it: 1. Characteristics are heritable 2. Mutation occurs ...
It's a genuine field of research: are physical constants really constant or just slow? can other universes have different constants, qualitatively and...
:up: And this is the (necessary) fallacy of the theist: that we must approach atheism and secularism rationally, with care and effort, or approach it ...
If you believe that the wavefunction is epistemic, sure. The debate isn't of interest, but your belief does make a difference. Knowing about ourselves...
I imagine you could guess them... Going into a bit more detail: 1. Human morality is partly objective because humans share biological traits that unde...
No it isn't. To not "make headway", the long list should stay the same size. If it's getting shorter, it's making headway. You can't discern a traject...
The OP. "How should I live my life" is a question about ethics. The OP argues a) why such questions occur now, b) that they would have been rare for m...
Sure thing. These recent experiments are laser interferometer experiments aimed at simulating Wigner's friend experiment* in which Wigner's friend mak...
I have already referred to this a couple of times. I have a feeling you might be the kinder if reader that magazines have in mind when they keep runni...
The interpretation of the wavefunction is not the issue. That already assumes primacy of our conceptions, rather than demonstrating it. However we thi...
I'm not sure any more tbh. But Copenhagen is the original, and that has an epistemic wavefunction, i.e. it represents our knowledge about a system, no...
The simulation hypothesis leads to a lot of other questions about our experiences. If we are living in a simulation, it does appear that it has been p...
You'll find lots of conversations about consciousness on here and people frequently have to define what they mean: a panpsychist, a solipsist, a duali...
That's not an explanation. It explains absolutely nothing about why I'm having that experience and not some other. I'd infer they're asking me what it...
That he can be said to exist when he can't even be described. Things do exist. If God is one of those things, say an apple, then he does exist. But I ...
No, not me, panpsychists. I think consciousness is a capability of brains (and maybe other, similarly complex and malleable information processing sys...
But that's already a good reason to reject the proposition: if it is too badly defined. Also, you don't need a complete description. I can reject the ...
A property isn't for a particular event. The single-objective-universe hypothesis has it that the cup has the capacity to emit light without the evolu...
The proposition was that atheism is illogical, so it's any normal-use definition of a deity, not just a particular one. I personally define God as 180...
Copenhagen also disagrees, in its original guise anyway. The wavefunction in Copenhagen is epistemological, not ontological. It contains the factual a...
Actually, I'll correct myself here. Yes, my experience is observable. For instance, you can watch me experiencing a film (in principle, not a weird in...
My experience is not observable, no: it is the process, not the object, of observing. I have already mentioned several. I could cite the standard mode...
It isn't a fiction: that is the gravitational and inertial mass of the object. It's just that its identically the energy of that object divided by a p...
Stuff that is observable, directly or indirectly, to the senses to behave in a regular, predictable way. Basically something is physical if it can be ...
My question was what this means in the context of the debate. I know what it means in the context of soccer because that has an established scoring sy...
I'm not sure I'd agree, but then the strongest argument against advertising that I can see is not enumerated: it's impact on health, both physical (ju...
I'm interested. What did you have in mind? Because much of that logical rigour is logical precisely because it is mathematical. And clear language see...
Never heard of it and sounds like a contradiction, but assuming someone can and does do experimental metaphysics, what impact can that have on the def...
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