Kenosha Kid

I'm more sympathetic to his alternative, operational definition of classical physics, not least because history has moved on and we understand how det...

I'm not sure if it's that profound, although I confess I haven't finished it yet. But looking at his definition of infinite precision, it disallows in...

Not at all. It is a gap in what we can know as asserted by Kant, analogous to a gap in what we can know, e.g. about the emergence of consciousness as ...

Preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07411#:~:text=A%20tradition%20handed%20down%20among,certainty%2C%20independently%20of%20any%20interpretation...

Cheers, I'll take a look around. Although I guess there's no guarantee of finding it without determinism. :wink:

No, I can empirically verify it myself right now. Pass me an orange... The explicit assumption of any -of-the-gaps argument is that the unknown thing ...

The notion that a competent physicist could predict the outcome of a single ball drop fails if there is any uncertainty, however small, of the initial...

He invites the reader to compare sensation with memory of sensation or idea. This is a perfectly experimental approach. It has everything to do with K...

I wouldn't go that far. Spacetime is at least well-defined, indeed a lot of mathematics depends on it, so I think at worst emergent. One thing that po...

Purely educational, honest! :joke:

That was all faithful to your responses. That your argument lacks any degree of coherence, only you are to blame.

Okay, so just to be clear then. Your anti-black-lives-matter position is that you are troubled by the support networks you say they are not putting in...

I think BLM thinks of itself as international, not nationalistic. Any campaign against a specific thing is going to be, by your definition, unbalanced...

But there isn't a disconnect, is there? The name is perfectly in keeping with the aims of the movement, given that the tolerance of murder of black pe...

So your view is: if there exists a bigger problem than X, we should not expect or campaign for justice with regards to X. Is that accurate?

Haha, yes, the metaphysics of rejecting metaphysics. I'm actually closer to postpositivism. All knowledge is pending post hoc invalidation. But I'm a ...

There may always be universal laws which we do not know about, or only understand approximately. It is important to distinguish our current or best fu...

It isn't an equation. There's no = anywhere.

There is a feedback loop, with media adjusting content to what sells the most copy, and consumers voting with their cash for the content they like to ...

It can be said, but only falsely, since An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding does indeed "contain experimental reasoning concerning matter of fac...

The Rindler horizon's similarity to the event horizon is only insofar as any light travelling from the negative x direction cannot reach the x=0 world...

This is of course not a practical concern. Circumstances don't truly repeat themselves. I might find myself in the same situation, but in a different ...

Can you explain how they can possibly implement the extended family model while obeying the nuclear family structure requirement? Again, you seem to b...

Spacetime is fundamental in string theory still, that is to say that string theory is an N-dimensional theory, with N depending on which flavour of st...

Can women even rape a man where you guys are? Here you have to have a penis. Bloody British patriarchy, can't even rape unless you're male. @"Bitconne...

Yes, I know. And this is why your argument is incorrect. You seem to think that somehow, in the accelerating observer's frame, the distance from x=0 t...

Great. So you support BLM's "supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another" at least in principle, ...

So you support a network of black people helping one another now?

That doesn't sound like "troubling". It sounds like "irrelevant to me". You said you found it "troubling" and that part of the reason is it's a bit "c...

Indeed, relationism (of state rather than intervals) is gaining traction among quantum theorists following the recent Wigner's friend experiments, yet...

Why? It doesn't disrupt it for you: you seemed to agree that people having such networks doesn't hurt your right to be left alone and let everyone els...

This entire thread has made me depressed. So many people citing losing religion as a profound defining moment. Nonetheless, Darwin has still probably ...

Well, no. I confess my first thought when I heard of George Floyd's murder was not: "This wouldn't be happening if black people cared less for one ano...

Okay so according to your information (whatever that is), the BLM virtual village isn't a thing. So why do you find it troubling if it isn't happening...

Then in what sense do you find such support networks troubling?

Seriously? You don't just have a problem with black lives mattering, you have a problem with an oppressed people having support networks?!? Or is this...

I have found this page: https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Rindler/RindlerHorizon.html and wondered if this or something like this is where you've gotte...

It's interesting what constitutes corroborating evidence to invested parties. US troops have testified to it. Afghan security council members have tes...

Because they are not derived from experience and consideration, but rather a pre-existing dogma of a religion that you're overwhelmingly likely to hav...

Dogma is a package: a set of incontrovertibly true principles according to an authority. Which bits people choose to adhere to, yes, not so strict. Ok...

You're clearly setting up a false dichotomy in which an entire package must be subscribed to or else every view you have be utterly novel. That isn't ...

It might seem so, if you authentically arrive at a common position. But many many others is irrelevant. That's kind of the point of authenticity: you ...

Can you explain what you're asking? You've put a diagram of a wormhole up and a difficult-to-parse equation of unknown origin and derivation, but you ...

Follow that worldline to the edge of the diagram. Now, tell me, is it closer to the horizon or further away? Yes, the worldline is bending to the righ...

I agree that it is contrary to objectivity. I just disagree that the opposite therefore implies objectivity. The discerning feature is in the evolved ...

Assuming the existence of an objective reality underpinning the regularity of phenomena at various scales neither compels one to consider all objects ...

You cannot, by definition, "accelerate away from the Rindler horizon". That horizon is an acceleration limit. Lemme dig out a pic to explain. https://...

Good link, especially the bit that says:

You brought up Rindler coordinates. There are two interpretations of these. The original is that they map the hyperbolic worldlines of accelerating bo...

When our ancestors lived in disparate social groups, I don't think, for even the most philosophical among them, a philosophy of morality would have be...