Kenosha Kid

They do. Generally, Fourier transforms of real functions are complex. The Fourier transform of a wavefunction of position and time is the wavefunction...

If it were the 70s, I'd vote for someone grittier like... Gene Hackman.

We are not born literally selfish, that's correct. We are born from stuff that's metaphorically selfish. Where has anyone said that competition in nat...

It means what I said it means: I cannot understand this from 'strong gene', although if the argument is now merely a question of which single metaphor...

Then you do not understand the metaphor no matter how often it is explained to you. This is a limit of your understanding, not of the metaphor, and ce...

Okay. So you don't know what a metaphor is. Fine. A metaphor describes a thing by comparing itself to another, more familiar thing, in certain relevan...

If this needs explaining at this point, you're rather admitting that you're criticising something you don't understand. Genes undergo mutations which ...

Yes, but that's just anthropomorphism. To extend the metaphor accurately, you'd also have to see "altruistic" behaviour in genes, which is illogical. ...

That is precisely the metaphor: that altruistic behaviour benefits the genes that give rise to it. That is not an "altruistic gene" as in the opposite...

What would an altruistic gene be? It can't be just a gene for altruism, since that's what selfish genes that yield altruism are. Extending Dawkins' me...

Yes, through her sons with big tails that will please females.

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Yes, sexual selection can yield arbitrary feedback loops.

This is pan-adaptationism. Sexual selection, also formulated by Darwin, is also a contributor to evolution.

Except we don't pass on our characteristics to our progeny by sending the proteins our DNA encodes. We send chromosomes.

Did you even watch the video you linked? Happy to oblige, although just a Google scholar search on "human evolution review" will sort you out. I'm jus...

P.S. The Templeton Foundation -- your idea of a source -- bases its unquestionable wisdom on human genesis on a 3000 year old book. "up to date" indee...

And at least he knows he's going against the consensus.

That's it? Well, two evolutionary biologists told me the opposite. So much for that. Yes it is. Just repeating it doesn't make it true. Except for som...

Then you're outright lying about the biologist consensus on human evolution, since that consensus is that humanity evolved largely through natural sel...

Yes, perturbation theory being an obvious example. Quantum electrodynamics is usually treated with perturbation theory, with each term in the perturba...

I think you're confusing biologists and creationists. You're a religious man, I take it. Thank you for, after being asked about six times, finally cit...

No, it isn't, that's pan-adaptationism. Dawkins is not a pan-adaptationist. Like Myers, Dawkins also believes that genetic drift is a factor in evolut...

It's the view that many characteristics are evolved to fit the organism's environment. You gonna cite that source or stop bullshitting any time soon?

I even reposted the question, you cannot be this thick. Was the question: "Can I have a reference for the claim that Myers is an anti-adaptationist?"A...

It's worth going into this a bit more. Midgley is a Darwinist, so accepts that characteristics which benefit the individual are more likely to be inhe...

But it is explained, quite thoroughly, in genetic theory. Of course, genetic theory has assumptions, all theories have. They're far from "unexamined" ...

The thing that the metaphor is a metaphor for is what is built in. It sounds like you're saying that unless the metaphor is continuously restated, it ...

Haha! Midget! Politically autoincorrect...

She does seem to have it in for genetics generally. I don't think that's the unexamined assumption she's talking about. Dawkins was not a social Darwi...

Madgley makes basically the same point, which is odd. The Selfish Gene is a popular science book aimed at bringing scientific knowledge to the lay mas...

Haha! Straight to dubious Nazi accusations, like it! That's not an answer to the question as I'm sure you're aware. Can you support your original asse...

Such as? I haven't read it in years, but don't recall it being presented as anything other than a shorthand. I envy you. Lost was a TV series about 20...

This feels like Lost all over again: all evidence suggests it's crap, but I'm being assured that if I keep going it gets better. Anyway, read it. So s...

So she doesn't understand metaphor. Is that good?

Thanks, I'll try not to lose sleep over it.

It does mean something. It means that complex exponentials are easier to do calculus with than sine waves.

That is also merely a convenient representation. Voltage and current are real, but in AC currents they are sinusoidal. Complex exponentials are easier...

I'll give you a few examples of why the complex wavefunction might be complex because of representation-specific factors, which I think will answer yo...

And yet it looks exactly like you don't understand and he does. Weird how these things go.

How you tabulate results is a matter of convention, for communication, or performance. You can represent classical waves as sine waves: completely rea...

Yep! The examples I gave earlier are where emergent properties of a system are modes of interaction that are inaccessible to individual components, bu...

Oh good. At last check, 7 out of the first 12 threads were Christian stuff. It's like a crusade or something.

We've never managed to measure anything that is a 2x2 matrix either. We use matrices a lot -- they are useful, but they are constructs. I don't think ...

Yes. I think your question was: how do we get the Born rule? The Born rule is derived from each retarded path in the sum over histories overlapping wi...

From the overlap integral of the retarded wavefunction with the advanced wavefunction: https://sketch.io/render/sk-4dfd88faa4cae8574b37473f378d433d.jp...

No, I did something that has apparently never occurred to you: I got an education.

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By describing it as panpsychism (everything is conscious), you are doing that. Yes, you are demoting consciousness in this context to any physical res...

P.P.S. If you're wondering about the half, that comes from the Schrödinger equation being a non-relativistic approximation. Energy is proportional to ...