It is valid within quantum field theory models, yes. Motion of particles themselves is formulated in terms of destroying a particle in one position an...
But it isn't 24%. 24% believe p-zombies are possible. Of those, most will believe that humans have consciousness and zombies don't. Without an example...
24% is merely an upper limit given by that survey. Believing in the possibility of p-zombies doesn't necessarily mean disbelieving in consciousness. A...
I think this is the objectivity error in a nutshell. Everything I experience in discussion with another is a subjective experience, likewise for them....
I was rejecting the idea that the 4D object moves wrt the 4D universe, an idea that would require some other dimension of time to make sense of. I fre...
I've worded this imprecisely. In eternal inflation theory, it's still the same field, just in two different states. These states can coexist either as...
It is exactly in concord. "has motion", "is sometimes moving" appear to be equivalent expressions. Again I feel a sense that your focus is not on maki...
It is, as in "it is sometimes moving". As already stated, "moving" refers to gradients wrt time not space, in the same way that "altitude" refers to h...
I think the confusion is between the inflation of the universe, which is described above as being eternal into the future but not the past, i.e. the u...
Any object is extended over time, from its creation to its destruction. I'm pretty sure I repeatedly denied that an object "changes" temporal position...
Sorry, it was bedtime here. I had to actually check the Feynman diagrams to see what Pfhorrest meant. A couple of clarifications. The Higgs field is a...
And here's a scary thought: what if the photon's perspective (no time, no distance) is the correct one? :o Because we get energy from two things: our ...
Well, there is something like motion: spatial gradients. Given that motion is by definition with respect to time, just as spatial gradients are by def...
I disagree, I think rather you have not yet shown that the content of this concern of ultimate importance is actually any higher than secular concerns...
Oh, sorry, I see. We call the gradient motion if its with respect to time only. And one wouldn't call a gradient in time a hill either. In 4D, purely ...
Right. So it's not just the personal concerns of the person in question but those of others. Like people who oppose injustice, oppression, etc. But no...
Yes, you're right and, as I said, all scientists do is model reality with empirically-verified theory. So while it's right to say our whole "view of r...
Ahem. If you're talking entropy in the thermodynamic sense, the order is not necessarily quantitatively different for different categories of ordering...
This is a justification for considering science a work of fiction? Or, to put it another way, how does this relate to what you quoted? You seem to be ...
So how do you know what most Christians pray for? I'm not hearing anything that justifies the claim that, even from a believer's point of view, puts b...
As one of the people who got the mad fucker unexpectedly banned by reporting an abusive post (against, ironically, another banned member), I would als...
I'm sure they would, it would be the Christian thing to do. And that will help them on judgement day. Okay, that's a mean joke, I take it back. I'm su...
I agree that's what the Wikipedia article says, which is I think in turn paraphrasing what Gettier says. I don't think it's true, though. Plato's orig...
I'm saying that even as a 50/50 agnostic, I hope I'd put the future of the planet ahead of my personal fate. The notion that people who are concerned ...
There's maybe more to it than that. I think any philosophical position with any value will, as it is refined and developed, have offshoots that begin ...
No, I think even a believer can figure out that their personality fate is not more important than the human species and the Earth beyond it. Whether t...
I wasn't being wholly serious. It is certainly a stricter position. "One of you is wrong, and that's that!" My beef with this is that, unless we have ...
I'd say that reversing the long-term damage to the planet done by humans, while social in origin, goes beyond "the social, cultural and personal domai...
My understanding is that responses have been of two kinds: refine the definition of justified belief, or add a fourth condition that allows for a Plat...
Cosmologists, like any other scientist, build theoretical models to test against empirical evidence. If your point is that they do not know in advance...
It is merely x that need differ. The value at one time being different to that at another. This does not depend on something moving wrt something else...
As Pfhorrest has already said, he is using some implicit common sense definition. We can't say exactly, since it is implicit. His implicit definition ...
I don't see a profound revelation here. The two kinds of marbles were consciously ordered in the same way when they were put in the bag, became disord...
As per the comment of mine you quoted, he does not. If I believe when I roll a die the number will be 6 because I had a dream about it, and it turns o...
I think, in a choice, this is a false dichotomy. All means and ends can (but not necessarily will) form part of the choice. The fact that there are co...
Now there's the dogmatism of objectivity I was looking for! No, the opposite. Abortion may be right for Anna, wrong for Barbara. As I went on to say, ...
Let me put this way, if a scenario has the rights of one group of people, say trans women, at odds with the rights of another, say cis women, do you b...
Funny. The first thing I think of when I read this: is not some guy whose trousers are falling down, more like ripped skinhead neo-Nazis, or Hell's An...
I think this answers my other question. In effect, your idea of objective moral truths are prohibitive and fundamental rather than extensive. (One nee...
Correction to above. I'm not doing good posting today. I appreciate there was nothing in this to justify my earlier suggestion of caution. The rotatio...
It's not direct evidence, no, but it is a +1 for astronomical estimates of masses, i.e. the gravitational lensing is not consistent with heavier-than-...
It's within a falsification framework. If a theory A predicts that B must occur, and B occurs, belief in the efficacy of A is strengthened. It is not ...
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