Kenosha Kid

Qualia is defined as something that a thing that perhaps doesn't exist doesn't have? That's the opposite of simple. It's elusive, if anything. I like ...

By becoming more accurate, even if not completely accurate. Technological progress is linked to our ability to make accurate predictions of what we ob...

Particles have distinct spaces in many-body quantum mechanics, and QC approximations like Hartree-Fock.

What you're describing is quantum chemistry :)

I feel that cannibals have been marginalised here.

What you're describing here is a continuum, so I guess that's also your answer. My take: space is personal. Not just relativistic (fixed by reference ...

You can find the transcripts online very easily. The course of events I described seems pretty accurate. Yours seem... well, invented tbh. I've counte...

Now you're not even being consistent with yourself, let alone testimony. I have noticed that obfuscation via verbiage is definitely your thing. I bail...

No point addressing this to you particularly, just for the record, but your timeline of events was a work of fiction. First off, R was running away fr...

The bit I didn't get was after the ellipses:

It was a short post, you could have read to the end. But yeah if that's too hard, the conversation is doomed.

This isn't even remotely close to anyone's testimony.

The examples I gave before were conservation laws; conserving the total energy, momentum, angular momentum, charge, colour charge, number of leptons, ...

Okay. Well, after some thought, I'm gonna give my answer to the question anyway because I like the subject There are technical and biographical differ...

Rather: what might count as an observer. That seems to be going too far imo. There is no physical theory afaik in which results depend on conclusion, ...

That doesn't obviously relate to what I wrote. What do you mean?

Twice, apparently! :joke: No worries dude.

Then there's the inevitable question of what counts as 'observation'. Can Schroedinger's cat actualise his death? Can a shrimp, or a bacterium? A comp...

The usage of the word was explained in the same post it was employed. If your question is: "Pretending you meant something else, what did you mean?", ...

Doesn't seem absurd to me.

I didn't think you were. I was saying I couldn't see how it would make sense for an electron to exist outside of space-time: But for photons, yes, I c...

As in has it been measured to do so? No, like I said, you can't transfer between frames of reference by the speed of light. But you can keep going fas...

In classical electrodynamics, yes. But bear in mind that, from the photon's point of view, not distance is traversed or time elapsed between creation ...

Yeah, I call mine that too. It's the half-hearted salute. And it's always invading somewhere. And it's crap at painting.

I'm quite sympathetic to the idea that, say, photons don't exist in space-time between their creation and destruction. Makes a lot of sense to me. I'm...

It "knows" kind of like a computer would know, but without a programmer (that we know of, unless you're a creationist). And what we know about it, how...

Don't count on it!

I was referring to physical laws, like conservation laws, second law of thermodynamics, etc. The mathematics we invent that deal with quantity are to ...

It's more and less than that. It used to be called "wavefunction reduction", and simply meant that, before measurement, we don't know if the system is...

That was the paramedic.

If R had only pointed his weapon at an active shooter and was there to give medical aid, yeah exactly the same.

Plato's cave of skulls. I like! And yeah, a correction (already correct in Kierkegaard):

Precisely the cognitive dissonance at play. R's third victim was a paramedic trying to attend to R's second victim. The paramedic was armed, believed ...

There's theory of mind too, which completes the picture: being able to model the subjective experiences, knowledge, situation of others, which is soci...

Yes, which is sort analogous to Kenosha. Race protestors had a reasonable assumption of harm done to them when a civilian arrives threatening them wit...

True, but the referents of those concepts may well exist without us. The universe seems to count (conservation laws, quantum field theory) without a c...

I hear you. Albeit subjectively :rofl: And I'm not denying there's an objective element: I brought up natural harmonics, etc. The objective stuff is i...

Whether they care about it or not. Moderators moderate the website, not the entirety of humanity.

If they're angrier elsewhere, it's not the mods' problem.

He's getting somewhere... So close! You aren't understanding. It can be true that people engage with anger without it always being true, and having to...

The brain talking to itself about itself and girl will it give itself a piece of itself's brain talking to itself about itself and girl will it give i...

I doubt it. There are other social primates, for instance, and I think that 'I' is largely emergent from social interaction. But we don't know. That m...

Chris Rock suggested this maaaaaany years ago. "Make a bullet cost $10,000 and you'll have a lot less innocent bystanders." It's an idea. How much is ...

How timely! https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00759-1

You're right, you do post angry. Laters taters.

You are putting forward a claim that 'we' behave in a certain way. You check this against yourself and it holds up. You check it against others and it...

Yeah I get the first part, it's the I-We transition that everyone has questioned from the start. You have recognised this feature in yourself, so pres...

I take it this bit of your post is the bit that actually answers my question: if the majority believe they do not offer their opinion out of anger/ann...

You answered it here: Okay, so do you have an auxiliary theory for explaining why people who cast out opinions they care about because of anger like y...