Kenosha Kid

If you hold that QM is not a physical theory, then we don't have the same language.

No, the wavefunction is physics, not metaphysics. You're mixing up the interpretation with what it's interpreting. MWI describes a single physical rea...

But we didn't. You're treating ignorance as a strength. So your response to the fact that I'm not a materialist is that I need to be because you know ...

Well I guess it depends what you find satisfying. This criteria suggests 'that which comes first'. What I had in mind, after you'd prompted it, is tha...

Absolutely no offense taken. I was just highlighting the conversational dead end of your change in mode of conversation. Ah but here you've switched f...

That wasn't actually my intent, and with respect to that intent my wording was too narrow. But now that you've asked me, I think... yes? Yes, that's p...

Interesting, thank you. You did remind me, I wasn't completely divorced from the influence of religion as a child. My school, while a state school, wa...

Well, I know this is a big ask but how about giving the opposing argument an airing rather than just claiming it to be true, calling others crazy, and...

Mary needs to (to keep it short) process red photons into images in order to have information about how Mary processes red photons into images, which ...

Yes, it is. It's a good example of: Knowing the wavelength of a shade of red, how it will refract in a centimeter of glass, which materials absorb and...

Ah now that's interesting. I wonder how common this is.

I left it open for disagreement. If you can't disagree, then I guess we agree? I'm not, but same goes there. In MWI, the universe is described by a si...

Well let's see... Is that what I said?

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... as per general relativity, a physical theory... ... which is why we can know more but not everything... ... a physical theory... ... the on-going ...

As in neuroscience is an on-going project? Yes, I'm well aware (and you're probably aware of one of catchphrases in response :) ). All numbers are lar...

Ah! Perfect timing Mww, see my above response to Tom.

Quite right. :100: I did actually mean to add... We don't actually have a great deal of insight into ourselves. Our consciousness is of second-hand an...

It's just a belief. If a neuron fires (objective) when someone has a particular experience (subjective), a physicalist would likely say that that firi...

This got me thinking about Darwin this morning, a man who lost his Christian belief in the face of facts. I was not raised in any religion at all, and...

This would be problematic if reality had presented us with anything that obviously did not sit in physics' purview. However, the success of physics re...

Well I was wrong as it turned out. Never take gambling advice from me.

No dispute from me here. Say no to dualism, kids. But the rest seems to arise from the same prejudice: toward tying reality innately to the mind rathe...

Because 3017 will probably never give his opening argument, and 180 won't provide a counter-argument until he does so.

That's not a particular feature of materialism. Any firm, undoubted, unexamined position, whether right or wrong, would qualify, including religious o...

Not logically. One could say something like, 'There is no perfect, omnipotent God who would not allow a Holocaust."

Ummm I've read the book? And seen a very good stage adaptation. Anyhoo, a quote, as Freud famously said, is sometimes just a quote. :|

I predict no derailment. It would be a miracle (ha!) if the train ever leaves the station. I disagree. Weak atheism requires no consideration at all, ...

Sure, there's a long tradition in literature of equating ugliness, old age, and deformity with evil as well. monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo

I used to live with a Catholic and we had a conversation about theology, my argument being that the Bible is apparently insufficient. She disagreed so...

Shit, he finally agreed to the debate he's always demanded? This is my new box set.

I'm not sure Alain Delon really did fun. Melville went to his apartment to talk him into doing Le Samourai. Delon barely spoke, lived in a spartan hom...

You just reminded me about a Christian preacher a few weeks ago who was lambasting Moslems for praying openly and outside, when God wants your faith t...

When there were multiple other vaccines in the rollout. That's not what we're talking about here: Janus' idea is that we should stop that rollout alto...

True, but if we discovered that, there'd have to be some compelling evidence... a paradox?

The problem with this is that the same people reject any evidence that there are some animals that would do something remotely similar, of which there...

Could it be due to the fact that, for safety reasons, no health organisation fast-tracks new medicines in under two months on the say-so of some initi...

Idealism _is_ unverifiable tosh. I'm unaware of a good idealism. Could you provide an example? I'm talking about people who find the idea offensive. A...

I just got through talking about it:

The cold war was also lost, not just won. A better example might be: remember Pfizer? One problem is, models of complex systems aren't often very good...

No, you manifested it in the OP. I'd think, if you were serious, you'd welcome the invitation to provide a better illustration of your point.

Extended states, yes. I'm never sure when people say brain states on here whether they mean instantaneous or over time. It is also convoluted: your ex...

Materialists don't deny the mind afaik, they just deny that it's fundamentally non-material. You can still talk of minds and mental things like images...

Itself mythos, though I kind of get you.

They don't tell you this!

I get this, although tbf faith is the refusal to countenance the possibility that you may be mistaken in your beliefs; it doesn't obviously lead to th...

I didn't mean to suggest the latter for sure. I'll edit for clarity. It is still storytelling though, to the extent that I'd say that if it didn't res...

:up: I don't think it makes much sense to ask if we as individuals or on the whole are modern, postmodern or neither. They're more historical eras in ...

Then I'll clarify. An argument for materialism is that there exist things that are material, like rocks, clouds, rivers, etc. that have no minds; howe...

I'm a big champion of the story (not just the novel) for it's power to explore what we are. A good story is like a psychological resonator: it present...