More horsefeathers. Science is only inflexible in demanding the constraint of measurable testing. And that allows a more "anything goes" approach when...
Who do you have in mind exactly? And how much is this simply just a fact about what the public wants to buy? The best-sellers are probably those that ...
But mathematical physics makes simplifying assumptions to allow tractable calculation. Understanding is then demonstrated because the equations make p...
A von Neumann machine or programmable computer. That is what made Turing computation practical. But then that throws the spotlight on to transistors a...
The answers show that "one technology" is an ambiguous idea. All technology traces itself back to the one critical formal thought of "a machine". That...
We know how a hologram can be recorded in a material medium. How is it recorded in an immaterial one? If we are to grant Bergson some subtlety of thou...
You are confusing a problem of maths with a problem of reality. Calculations break down when they arrive at a singularity - a point of circular self-r...
I was reading his published papers. The Atlantic article is a gloss. In his papers, he at least makes a separation between the ontic agnosticism of hi...
The Hard Problem, or explanatory gap, can only exist philosophically to the extent that you believe in the metaphysical constructs of both self and wo...
Yeah. Hoffman starts off with his MUI story, and that is reasonable as an analogic account of psychologiocal processes. Then he goes of into weirdness...
Was there some actual question there? I couldn't get anything definite. Perhaps you just wish to assert dualism but are unable to muster the appropria...
On the one hand, Hoffman is just making a standard semiotic or modelling argument. We understand the world through a system of sign. But on the other ...
Remember that the maths was developed to deal with idealised point objects. So the Zeno-style paradox of jumping to the first next point to get moving...
So you can subtract away all acceleration to arrive at an inertial frame. But after constraining second derivative motion to get first degree motion, ...
But in one, the glass is not bending, nor the ball flattening. In the other, the snapshot looks completely different. The electrostatic bonds holding ...
Most people probably can follow simple math. If the Universe had a temperature of 10^32 degrees at the Big Bang, and the Heat Death is defined by it b...
So you support your position of there being no preferred frame by stating your preference for a frame?You support the reciprocality principle by denyi...
You are like someone plunging off a skyscraper, now being inches from the ground, shouting out I'm not dead yet, you don't know what you're talking ab...
Just measure the cosmic background radiation. Its 2.7 degrees above absolute zero. The average energy density is down to a handful of protons per cubi...
Sure. I get that you want to get going with real world modelling. That is where correlations between variables start to mess up attempts to model in t...
Ho, ho! Trying to slip out from under the rubble of the wreck of your own argument. Reciprocality says there is a "preferred" and absolute connection ...
No we bloody don't. Dark energy is a fact. The Heat Death is gonna happen. Of course we now have to account for dark energy. And again - in my view - ...
I reject parallel worlds and parallel minds because immanence has to be more reasonable than transcendence when it comes to metaphysics. An immanent e...
To be fair to Deutsch, he wrote that book back in the 1990s. Many people got carried away and were taking the most literal metaphysical view of the ne...
So they have an inverse relationship, and yet are the same? Did 1/x = x/1 when you went to school, getting your mighty fine grades while apparently pa...
Franks - https://stevefrank.org/reprints-pdf/09JEBmaxent.pdf I don't get your objection. If you observe a powerlaw statistics, then that is when you s...
They are being metaphysically extravagant in a way the mathematics of decoherence doesn't require. To build an actual quantum computer will require a ...
Many worlds is used by many to avoid the physical reality of wavefunction collapse or an actual epistemic cut. Or rather, to argue that rather than lo...
Modest or radical? The Copenhagen Interpretation is metaphysically radical in paving the ground to acknowledge that there must be an epistemic cut in ...
Models simplify. They shed information. A plot of a frequency distribution is a snapshot of the state of affairs that has developed over time. It is n...
I like the quantum information approach where the view is that uncertainty is irreducible because you can't ask two orthogonal questions of reality at...
It is an assertion of immanence and a rejection of transcendence. The self is the system as a whole. And it is a whole in that all four causes evolve ...
A powerlaw distribution is a log/log plot. So the result of exponential growth or uninhibited development in two contrasting or dichotomous directions...
Surely whether you want unbounded growth or a steady state is what would determine whether you decide to engineer for a powerlaw or Gaussian situation...
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