Kenosha Kid

I don't doubt a close call election can be stolen; it seems to me that's already happened. But who cares? If Trump loses by 1%, that's still an electo...

Again, ticks all the boxes for me. I think you're confusing ' an argument that yields a conclusion I dislike' with 'an invalid argument'.

It's called the Higgs field. Most people have heard of it.

I don't agree. George Floyd has no relationship with Edinburgh University and them using his name would be exploitative of his death imo. He was a vic...

Nope, seems pretty solid. If you accept premises 1 and 2, 4 follows. 1 is, as I say, the neuroscientific definition of the mind. 2 is self-evident.

Sorry, it's not. That might be a bit much. There's a broader movement in the UK away from celebrating persons involved in the slave trade. Hume, it is...

Well that certainly proves you read right-wing trash. Not that there was doubt.

Seconded. The OP is astounding too. As far as I understand your rhetoric, you claim there is a contradiction between the idea that the intrinsic prope...

That's certainly true. Bye.

Have you read much on memetics? The idea that replicable information drives the evolution of human culture has been around for a few decades now.

That is not excusable. Self-destructing when you're on the right side of the argument is not only unnecessary, it's outright bizarre.

Is the fear that Donald Trump could successfully overturn a lost election particularly realistic? Some people seem to worry, and Trump himself seems t...

That's a purely dualistic question: from a physicalist point if view, we do not have brain function *and* mind; they're the same thing. But from that ...

Well, you can. So... This doesn't mean anything. What does it mean to have access to one's awareness? It's a false dichotomy, and the conclusion you'r...

Am I reading this right..? Are you using the Chinese room argument to suggest that individual neurons aren't conscious?

Ah okay. That actually sounds quite nice.

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Oh are you or a loved one I'll? Sorry to hear. Be safe!

As I've said before, I don't protest the claim that consciousness can collapse wavefunctions, only the claim that consciousness is the only thing that...

I'd be surprised if any moderator here reading the first few exchanges would lose their objectivity in the OP's favour: the OP was obviously triggered...

That is not particular. The experiment above still distinguishes between such systems that demonstrate consciousness-dependence and those that don't. ...

An experiment that does not demonstrate a dependence on consciousness where it is claimed there should be one. I think the problem is you're not reall...

Hi. In neuroscience, brain function is mind. You're quite right that a non-materialist can define mind differently, but then she cannot speak about th...

Yes to all of the above. I'm still catching up, I can do complex numbers if need be, I've done it before. The other thing we need is category theory. ...

Sorry, specifically a quantum field.

Brains don't cease to exist when they stop functioning. However, you can't have brain function without brain. And that's just brains. There's toasters...

And yet the experiment proves it is not. Yet more as sausage-making. Beyond the broad gist that is unscientific, I have no idea what you're trying to ...

I meant, would it be easier if we only needed conjugation from complex analysis, then I remembered that pretty much everything in QFT is commutators. ...

I think we can limit complex analysis to that which is needed to prove the relativistic Hohenberg Kohn theorems and maybe get from the real observable...

Pointing out that God-worship is not philosophy is not a hate crime.

It's just an impression. I've had a hard time finding any data on this at all. I guess it's an odd question to ask someone.

Or 8 minute life and death decisions apparently.

My understanding is that was his view, since that seems to be the view he recanted later. He argued (unreasonably) that, while it's fine for the lab w...

I can do some more of the basic axiomatic maths, but I've been cheating and looking ahead at axiomatic QFT and decided that I really need to study mor...

I wish I had this site when I was at school, because I suspect that, with the right wording, you could make @fdrake do a lot of your homework. Interes...

:up: How does a computer sense when I hit the space bar?

I am a fine Feynman man! The lights are in there. The boobies are not, however they do feature in 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman' viz. his nude por...

This seems to presuppose an outcome of precisely the kind of majority view that should have primacy.

It's in Feynman's Lectures on Physics Vol 3 which, far from free, is quite expensive. I'll find something though when I get a mo.

The several I mentioned above. Sure, a person needs to set it up at the start and, sure, a person needs to check something at the end. But there are v...

None of this impacts the particular thought experiment described. QM is a statistical theory. If there is a possibility of getting stripes instead of ...

This wording is not great, I apologise. Obviously tons of philosophers have greked this, and some well before physicists did (e.g. Kant). What I meant...

Why would you need a theory of consciousness to examine an experimental setup where consciousness is absent? That's absurd. There's no gap. Not assumi...

You're really flip-flopping on this issue. First you say that theory must be accurate or else complete fiction, i.e. you cannot have a good theory tha...

I haven't been an ass about your ignorance at all. Your mode of conversation is: anything goes in; the same thing comes out. This is good for making s...

The length of a moving rod? The time on a clock? The velocity of a moving body? These are all observables; they are not invariant. Invariant laws of p...

And which laws are they? That's quite lazy. I just Googled 'physical law in quantum theory' and there's plenty of reputable references on page 1'. Fir...

Boom! Thank you!

Quantum fields. In modern physics, the concept of physical law is archaic. Instead, you have interaction fields. These are ambiguous, but considered m...

Phew! That was a rollercoaster!