But also first order in space, I think? So the four solutions (advanced spin up, advanced spin down, retarded spin up, retarded spin down) reduce to t...
I've never heard of this as begging the question. Pretty much every theorem ever proven would be an example, since the definitions of all terms must b...
Not at all. Ordinary usage of the words is assumed without apparent ambiguity. An eternal fact is not defined as "a statement that is true irrespectiv...
Yes, reductio ad absurdum. The only out is that the language we're employing is meaningless such that an eternal fact need not hold eternally and an a...
Randomness has its own distributions. If something is random, we can infer it, and ask why it is random and not regular as other things often are. QM ...
What sort of answer are you after? Something absolutely factual? :100: There cannot be sometimes absolute eternal facts. If it is sometimes absolute b...
It cannot end there, I'm afraid. A mathematical device with an astounding ability to predict experimental outcomes, even at a statistical level, deman...
I didn't mean to suggest it was yours, rather by "our own" I'm referring to the human race as a whole. Cyclic universes have no real empirical basis; ...
Damn straight! All, I believe. Time, frequency and energy are all inextricably linked. Essentially energy is frequency with decorative physical consta...
Shoot! The time of relativistic quantum mechanics is the same time as normal special relativity for a single object. But that does leave a lot of room...
I wonder if we're doomed to impose our own mythologies on everything we encounter... I'll get back to you. She wasn't on my radar, thanks. It can occu...
Yes. Qualia are elements of subjective experience. When we subjectively experience a memory, we just experience a different kind of qual. I admit when...
It was more that a justified belief is knowledge if the belief is determined to be true e.g. by observation, deduction, etc. The part I quoted made kn...
Penrose believes they are the same arrow, not aligned arrows, which is perhaps one of his least controversial views. However, if the two arrows are al...
It's sort of a sequel thread. The previous thread established (or attempted to) the relationship between time-reversibility and determinism. I hadn't ...
Thanks! :) Although this is admittedly much more loosey-goosey than I'd like. I'm extremely worried that it might be read as a theory in itself, where...
It would only be there if you gave consent for it to be there. So... the obvious follow-up question... how can you justify your claim that journals ar...
This requires knowledge of whether or not the thing is true, the knowledge that is under question. If one already knows it is true, belief is irreleva...
Sure, if f(x,y) is unique for x and y, you can talk just in terms of x and y, and ignore f. f doesn't add any new information. Likewise what Dennett's...
And this is the Strawson argument. That because we have experience, somehow we can't study it and understand it more scientifically, as if not having ...
Oh okay. Ha ha! Decoherence leads to random phases between different trajectories. You can't guarantee a singular value upon measurement without invok...
Exactly. Same goes for anything. Neither can a computer program. I think that's the way he represents himself. I hadn't thought of it in terms of inte...
Consciousness isn't in doubt though; irreducible consciousness is. We don't experience the mediators of our experience, but we don't experience the ir...
No, the point he is making in the quote in the OP is that disagreeing with Strawson's conception of what consciousness is is not the same as disagreei...
Right. Or close enough. Basic, simple, not homocentric elements. Are you saying that if you didn't know how a car was put together, you might suspect ...
Can you give an example of something that is irreducible but can have a natural origin? But, to quote Strawson: Like I said, you're not supposed to as...
I didn't say Strawson was a dualist, just that he has a dualist's idea of consciousness. That said, any physicalist panpsychist is also a dualist, sin...
You, as always, misunderstand what you are being told. Dennett does not think consciousness is magic. Consciousness as described by Strawson is magic....
They are not journals, just preprint databases. Point being that even journals that charge for access allow the contents of their publications to be f...
Yes, so do I. And the movement is toward open source. There are lots (Elsevier, for instance) but that isn't the point. Publishing a journal costs mon...
I get the impression I have not well conveyed what is meant by a reversible process or how it relates to independence of time direction or real physic...
Dennett is saying that the dualist conception of consciousness is an illusion. Basically Strawson holds that consciousness is this magical thing that ...
Just a clarification, it is not lost to the environment in the Copenhagen interpretation: it is simply deleted. Decoherence is the process of informat...
I think this is a good question. We're currently at the point where knowledge as to how to effectively exploit our environment has led to unforeseen (...
This is absolutely untrue. Scientific journals cost money to produce. While referees give up their time for free, the editors are highly skilled peopl...
It's true that people can and do make God so ill-defined that one cannot say that it exists or doesn't. But if the thing someone claims exists has no ...
Most fundamental processes do. Mass, charge, position, acceleration, energy, density, electric field, potential and polarization are the same under ti...
Yeah, that's really not how empiricism works. You can't look at a red car and state that your strongly held belief that all cars are red is empirical....
And this is sufficient. If the mathematical entity -- the wavefunction -- is doing its job in yielding accurate predictions of statistical outcomes, i...
Then don't describe it as empirical. What it is is a strongly held belief. And yet you just said we don't need empirical evidence because a claim is s...
And yet no one has devised an experiment to show that photon emission/absorption is unidirectional, or motion is unidirectional, or matter/antimatter ...
is an example of defending racists, rapists, sex offenders, colluders and tax evaders. Oh, and killers. Let's not forget killers. 300,000 dead through...
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