There's nothing special about it, it's a general rule: that which you didn't cause is not your fault. If your child has a genetic deficiency due to a ...
In my view, there is no common goal of human beings, individually or collectively, in this or any age. We each have our own interests, those interests...
But not 100% effective. Wow! You really proceed with maximal unjustifiable assumptions, don't you. And you just got through saying hormonal contracept...
If you mean using contraception, then no. There's no contraception that leads to no procreation, only less procreation. The example I gave was sterili...
Okay you're talking about subjectivities across branches, yes? That's not what's meant by observer-dependence here: it's not about different versions ...
Okay, now I see you don't understand. No one is saying that Wigner has to be entangled. The point is that he can be entangled (as per the paper) and s...
A consensus builds... I'd be interested in hearing both your thoughts on what kind of relativism this is. In addition to the special relativism of the...
Does homosexuality lead to offspring with genetic disorders, high infant mortality, children with broken immune systems, and weak hearts? If not, then...
That's a contradiction right there. You're not making it up, but it doesn't say what you purport it to say, that branching is observer-dependent. That...
Ah okay, I wasn't aware of this. Note though: Minds are not required to bring things to a close: a molecule will do the job, and it's an act of episte...
P.S. I should add that observer-dependent facts is only one possible interpretation, even if it is the one that gets preferential treatment in paper t...
Indeed, or even just reference frame dependent: Wigner occupies a different reference frame to his friend. Whatever the underlying reality, he and his...
There's a part of your post in which you briefly stopped speaking of entanglement and spoke of observation. That's the part I referred to in my previo...
The recent experiments are being used to suggest that QM is observer-dependent: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/5/350 https://www.nature.com/article...
The question as to whether the universe is probabilistic (Einstein vs Bohr) isn't a settled matter. But the dream of some objective measuring framewor...
I think I have said this to you before, but this is massively out-of-state thinking. Special relativity killed off the idea that there's a special fra...
That would be different to many worlds in itself. If you have to add a thing (merging criteria) that's a new theory. No, many worlds is a universal br...
Weirdly, Soviet architecture was much more decorative than Western modernist architecture. I think their take was that buildings still ought to inspir...
Yes, or a philosophy of ethics, politics, aesthetics, etc. for that already being accepted as the case. Is there some need, whether it has been met fu...
I think so to. Logocentrism needs some sanity-checking. Yeah this is a huge issue. Post-modern architecture is a revolt against modern architecture, w...
I can't imagine how, it was right there on page 6 of 29. But as per the last thread, that's not answering the question being asked. In fact, you answe...
For the record, I'd say a philosophy with the qualities you describe is assuredly _not_ postmodern. It sounds like a narrative that aims for one over-...
You can also Google "substitution fallacy" and conclude something about pretending that simple matters of recorded fact and deep mysteries of philosop...
Boltzmann's constant has an SI unit of Joules (energy) per degree Kelvin (temperature), so entropy is the same. These are easily Googlable questions b...
Or possibly: we can just redefine 'modernism' to mean whatever we need it to mean. EDIT: Kind of analogous with lots of other isms: communism, America...
Are you basing the second paragraph on your understanding in the first? Because it doesn't follow. CLS wasn't appealing to an innate ethnocentrism in ...
Great post! It's not just the Holocaust that changed minds about race in WWII. The US armed forces, for instance, were forced to have black and white ...
Then why do they want to change me?!? Is this true? Did Descartes think that reason was inadequate? Did Leibniz, Spinoza? I'm sure there's exceptions ...
Sure thing. You're probably aware of the idea of energy levels in quantum mechanics, often depicted as concentric orbits which is inaccurate but might...
You don't need to approach lightspeed. Any velocity through space is at the expense of your velocity through time, which is what time dilation is. It'...
Entropy is originally a thermodynamic concept. Thermodynamics is reducible to statistical mechanics, which has its own definition of entropy which app...
The mosquitoes near my house are very misanthropic, and I have red lumpy legs to prove it. Then you lost me here: I'll be honest, if we're talking the...
I was hoping to come onto this. If one can deconstruct Of Grammatology, does that mean one cannot deconstruct Of Grammatology? Is "One cannot deconstr...
You're hitting on precisely the sort of thing we have to be careful about. I've recycled this story a lot on here but I find it genuinely insightful a...
Ha ha thanks I think? No, as I said above, imo Lyotard confused an algorithm for a narrative. I'm not making the same mistake. The narrative here is t...
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