Kenosha Kid

Please read what I wrote again and make an effort to absorb it. This is your repeated claim but it's not shown. Neither in relativity nor relativistic...

'Position' is a state. All of the possible positions constitute a complete basis set. Any wavefunction can be written as a superposition of these posi...

Yes, in quantum theory, including quantum field theory, the electron is considered to be there whether it's measured or not. For instance, it interact...

Full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18652-w This isn't quite what I thought it was, but exhibits similar behaviour. Anderson l...

That's what I mean by defending racists, rapists, sex offenders and tax dodgers. And colluders, how could I forget colluders.

Racists, rapists, sex offenders, tax dodgers... I forgot tax dodgers.

Do you ever get tired defending racists, rapists and sex offenders?

So if a woman asks you out for coffee you'd think it appropriate to start rubbing your dick!

In what sense is rubbing your genitals in front of what you believe to be a journalist consensual?

Interestingly this popped on my radar today, describing something very similar to what the OP describes but with light waves instead of electron waves...

Is everyone in Trump's circle a predator? Rudy's surely fucked... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-com...

I'm aware of your position, hence my qualification. As far as I see it, in terms of evolutionary history, it makes no difference at all. I think that ...

This is discussed in the OP here: In perturbation theory and path integral formalisms of relativistic QM, such as quantum electrodynamics, one specifi...

Ha! And that was the nice version. It's not written like that normally. The important thing is not the terms, but that energy and momentum are not lin...

Your argument, presumably by design, says absolutely nothing about anything. From your argument alone, we can deduce nothing. So the answer to your qu...

I perhaps did not anticipate having to make this clarification and should have: evolutionary biologists are not in the business of existential plights...

This isn't addressed to you per se, just for general clarity: the concrete principle adhered to is the expansion postulate of QM, which states that th...

True, and discussed in this thread in some depth. Please point out where you think I failed to understand it. The OP is fairly ambivalent about the on...

Once again, that is independent of what God is.

And as has also been pointed out to many times, that entire argument was independent of what God is. So really the most it says is that something eith...

This is a thread about the implications of QM for determinism on a philosophy of science channel of said philosophy forum. If I'm out of line in my OP...

I thought of bringing this up when you mentioned you're a cat owner, but then I remembered that Toxoplasma gondii tends to effect men in the opposite ...

Well that wouldn't make sense, because the "selfish gene" is not a "gene for selfishness". But that would be perfectly reasonable. Evolutionary biolog...

This is still the book you assessed in 2 seconds without reading, right?

Did I miss Rand? I thought we were working from left to right.

How could it not? My suggestion to Wayfarer was the sort of existential doubt about meaning he discussed, and about morality as discussed in the threa...

The difference between A) a hunter-gatherer tribe which knows of no other existence, small, close groups based on cooperation and like-mindedness, and...

I have, for the other thread quite extensively. Hunter-gatherer tribes tend to have strict, fairly static ethics and ways of life. There is typically ...

I am. You're missing the point. What I want to know about is not former hunter gatherers reminiscing, but actually hunter gatherers with existential a...

Yes, that's what I meant by executive freedom. What you posted was a man regretting that his hunter-gatherer existence had been overturned by a more p...

That hunter gatherers do not have existential crises about their ethical or executive freedoms. Showing that native Americans preferred their prior ex...

Oh, I don't. The problem is, once again, you didn't read what I wrote.

I'm looking for where he's worrying about the meaning of his life or what is morally right. He seems to know what is right and regrets the incursion o...

By all means, offer a counter-example.

The measurement problem is that the wavefunction that describes the electron can be in a superposition of observables, but when we measure it it's alw...

And I think that is an extremely well-worded description of the problem. And any explanation is going to seem like it's about something else, not 'I'....

It's posted in Philosophy of Science to examine the philosophical ramifications of QM on determinism. This thread isn't meant as an advertisement for ...

:up: Not shown. Knowing that it's not a meaningful question does not imply not understanding the question. Everyone, even the most level-headed atheis...

That explains all, thanks. Anyone who blunts human curiosity, from the Holy Inquisition to the ID brigade, including SJG, will earn some measure of my...

No less a figure than John Maynard Smith: As another leading evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr said: As evolutionary psychologist John Tooby attests: ...

Apparently you've never read it. Science should not be religion-friendly. Religion-blind, sure. But Gould was a terrible scientist who appealed to non...

You clearly don't know the first thing about it. I hold a PhD in it. Thanks but honestly I'm not looking for help from ignorant blowhards with intelle...

As an antidote to the endless spurious claims to expertise in a field that anti-Darwinists like @"frank" must necessarily make, there was a text book ...

That you will bother reading. That's how ignorance yields stubbornly bad positions. If you're not going to do the research, keep quiet on the state of...

That wasn't the question. The point is rather that you don't need to reject evolution to be a creationist. Creationists believe in a creator, that is ...

Did you check the references, or do you prefer to protect your position with ignorance?

Like the Bible? The Catholics have that too. Not all creationists are literalist nutjobs.

It does have ample, recent empirical backing, some of it enumerated with references in my thread on natural morality. You have to, you know, read the ...

But it isn't _all_ behaviour, is it. No one is claiming you have a gene to get a cat and feed a fish. Evolution deals with the origins of biological c...

Would you describe your relationship to your goldfish as significantly altruistic? I don't understand why people have them at all, so I'm genuinely in...