An electron in an atom is *bound*: unless it is supplied with enough energy (ionisation energy), it cannot move away from the atom. In this sense, it ...
They wouldn't have the extraneous properties, sure. But properties of qualia ought to be no more than those we know we observe. The original definitio...
Well, I'm being careful to distinguish between transmission and emission. Emission can be described as the spread of a single electron wavefunction fr...
Forgive my laziness, but is that what he's saying? I read that as: what you think is going on in the brain is not what's really going on. Chalmers ins...
I don't see these as exclusive. If we saw in high-contrast black and white, such that any light below a certain threshold frequency appeared to us bla...
I don't know about being in need of pummeling. To borrow from comedian Kevin Bridges, when someone in a bar starts raving about tables and rocks havin...
When an idea gains traction, proponents of competing ideas must retreat, consolidate, and reassert themselves in ways that might even compromise the o...
That's my point, it doesn't have to go anywhere. For an electron to transmit, there will typically be a chemical potential difference between the sour...
:up: Looks good to me. In some qualitative sense, I guess. Redness seems to be a property of objects of perception (no abstract redness is observed, b...
It already exists, it's called the Dirac equation, and he did get the Nobel prize (so you're right about that). It's general relativity that's proving...
He does indeed, which is why I am sure he did not write that they are the fundamental equations of QM. The last is historically significant; you might...
Then, sure, the notion that an intelligent being kicked the universe off is sufficiently vague and discreet that it can absorb pretty much any scienti...
E=mc2 is from relativity and is not part of QM's postulates. You can derive it from the Dirac equation in the classical limit by taking expectation va...
I don't expect all animals to have the same concept of the same colour. As you pointed out, we have a linguistic component to our understanding of red...
I'm not sure why you think so. The electron doesn't have to be transmitted at all. In fact, wherever the hole is located, we expect no electron to be ...
The answer is likely similar to mine regarding the resurrection: it's the author of the story who should be doubted, not his supposed witnesses. First...
Vanishingly slight. But note that we are not, in this example, examining 500 witnesses, but one: the author of the text. There is no reason to believe...
Yes, we're not a million miles apart. Subtract your tentative holding true of untested beliefs, which the above does not require, and we're more or le...
Refering back to myself: So that last sentence proposes that the association could be identity in that instance, allowing for the possibility that, fo...
I understood that, and I'm saying this is NOT relevant. If red things appeared red because God willed it, we would still have phenomena with the prope...
In one of my older threads I cited several sources that suggest that moral drives and capacities have some biological basis. You are right to an exten...
That was precisely my point. Other than the absence of a historical competitor theory, the initial evidence is no more for one theory than another whi...
I think that's apt, although I cannot speak for cs as to what they meant. Linguistic handling of object properties are obviously very different from p...
Both can be true. The characteristic decay chains of the Higgs boson in the LHC data are evidence, not proof, that the Higgs exists, sufficiently so t...
Yes it is. A crow cannot be trained to collect red things without some crow equivalent of a concept of redness. There is a phenomenological similarity...
That was not the extent of my argument. Try not to cherry-pick. If, say, a crow can distinguish between a red ball and a blue ball, and can correlate ...
Something 'seeming true' is a reason to believe it, not the believing of it. Some of those are rational, such as empiricism; some are not (e.g. I cann...
So it is the liberal part I'm referring to: that any given belief should be considered justified enough to be tentatively accepted. This would include...
I doubt this is true. Yes, to know that it is called red, to talk to someone else about its redness, one must have language. But to know that this red...
That's inevitably true of falsification as well. Falsification is important because you cannot affirm general laws empirically. You can never show tha...
Difficult to say. He doesn't say more than 'We will not discuss Type II transactions further' or words to that effect in the original paper. (Recall t...
That this doesn't hold true is precisely my point. While an individual transmission may depend on the precise microstate of the screen, the screen exp...
If you're insisting that one single person's interest constitutes "broad interest", then I'm afraid our disagreements on the English language are rath...
In the contrary, for that very reason it should not. It is precisely that theory must be falsifiable, testable, modifiable, or even rejectable, i.e. s...
But science doesn't present perfect and eternal truths. It is, by its nature, self-correcting and incomplete. Empiricism. Scientific models are primar...
This is following the supposed rejection of a literal, historical interpretation of perfect and eternal truth. The pseudo-historical aspects thus yiel...
I think it's more of a qualitative shift from logos to mythos, but yeah, that's the fate of all religions it seems. Nonetheless, while I wholeheartedl...
This in no way constitutes broad concern and interest. I think so. People have found wisdom in the stories of the Bible, particularly the teachings of...
In effect, it is obliged to interpret the action of medicine, along with the resilience of the human body, viz: and the function of medicine itself, v...
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