I was responding to this: This is not a statement about popular opinion. I know you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but you should at least b...
Ah okay, so you don't want children taught a particular ethics, rather taught _about_ that ethics as part of a broader education? That seems reasonabl...
Agreed, but that's no reason to indoctrinate children with them. (There may be better reasons to do just that.) By social here, I mean empathetic, alt...
Hmmm. Depends. A lot more death threats. Far fewer actual deaths. It's a truism to say that people's bad behaviour is because of their (lack of good) ...
That would suggest they are related and therefore not totally different. 'Consciousness' is one of those words that takes its meaning by the hole it f...
What I meant was that the sample-of-one argument doesn't stand up. Even within humanity, it's not necessarily the case that self-destruction would ari...
I'm actually quite interested in this. Binged a ton of Pedro Almodovar recently and he is OBSESSED with women's bodies, to the extent that, if this wa...
Oh, I wasn't responding to you or your broader point per se, hence not linking to your post, I was just pointing out for the broader board that Republ...
On the other hand, if a dozen branches of the tree of life are headed toward technological maturity and the first one that gets there destroys its own...
And, like Nixon, he succeeded beautifully. Nothing guarantees a mass locking up of politicians and their affiliates than the President drawing attenti...
I think you've rather confused yourself there, as this is not relevant to your previous reply. The statistical likelihood of degeneration through inbr...
Yes, this is what I meant regarding separability. In reality, it's not that clean: if you have two atoms, say, correlated by exchange of a photon, you...
quantum mechanics. I'm not going to argue the science, but both the alive and dead cat evolve from the pre-experiment cat continuously. No matter is a...
Simply that everything physical that happens is encoded in the wavefunction. There is no additional physical mechanism such as probabilistic collapse....
In fairness, the deterministic part of the wavefunction is the only thing that encodes any physics. So Everett was, to this extent, taking the physics...
Sorry Pfhorrest, I missed this. Yes, but not the other way around: not every entanglement is an observation. Entanglement occurs when two bodies or sy...
The basic principle of MWI is: whatever the math says is what's happening. So you follow the math, and there ain't no observer-dependence in there. Ah...
We need a matrix... But I just can't MathJax on this crappy phone :cry: Yes, I think this is what I meant. The first is relativism, the second plurali...
No, not at all. Branching occurs when a system in superposition is "decohered" (not necessarily by a mind, just whatever is sufficient to cause collap...
This is a bit too silly. People didn't enslave others because they believed the rightness or wrongness of it was relative, that doesn't even make sens...
I actually had moral pluralism versus relativism in mind when I asked, but I see no reason not to translate to something more on-topic. The difference...
Then there's nothing I can do with that since I don't understand wtf you're talking about anymore. If you can't explain it either, then we're in the s...
So the experiment has actually been done several times and, unless I made a mistake, one of the links was to one of those reports. So yes, same thing....
Yes, I think so. The killer blow in terms of the condition is how predictive _The Postmodern Condition_ was: it reads like a history book. In terms of...
No no, now that you're right I disagree with you. I still haven't actually tallied them up, but even so the point was that incest has been more taboo ...
Yeah I'm in the green technology camp (my energy provider is 100% renewable, for instance), but to be fair that's to deal with a problem _caused_ by c...
And yet the more people, the less of a share of the Earth's resources they should have. But yeah I understand your point about poorer countries levell...
I dunno. Maybe because now we're anchored to the myth of sustainable growth, it might be difficult to sell real sustainability. But again I feel that ...
Having sex is an act that is not under dispute. Having sex with your own close relative is a particular sex act that can lead to offspring with e.g. l...
If you have to manipulate your customers to want the luxury in the first place, and the means by which organisations do this are varied, sly and grim,...
It's a good idea. It might rather change the tone for the better of the equivalent of those discussions already taking place, perhaps making thread st...
Beckett is the transitional writer here. Postmodern literature is generally thought to start with him, albeit with outliers (e.g. The Third Policeman)...
What you're describing art the start is two unentangled systems (B). That is not what the experiment is describing, in which Wigner and his friend are...
You know 'widespread' doesn't mean 'in my country' though, right? There are lots of countries where incest is more taboo than paedophilia, rape, revol...
That seems, alarmingly, to be the second option, although despite being asked you refused to clarify. Not comparable on any level for reasons that are...
Derrida shirked the label postmodernist too. As I said, I don't think it matters whether one considers a particular philosopher to be a postmodernist ...
Your initial objection was to my comment that MWI doesn't hold up any more if we accept the observer-dependence interpretation of the Wigner's friend ...
It's more what you'd expect as a conclusion to a more fundamental fault. But yeah it does seems like that kind of leap to me. It's been interesting re...
Depends what you mean. If you mean that someone who knew they were HIV and therefore had a strong chance of harming another but had sex with them anyw...
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