Well yes. It’s the difference between tossing a classical coin to discover if it lands head or tails, and knowing that if you toss one of a pair of qu...
How do you mean? The act of measurement that picks out a solution is the tricky issue. As an experimenter how is just one fate picked? And does nature...
I would say that misses the point. From the point of view of semiosis as a theory of meaning, our great advantage – what makes us intelligent organism...
No it’s not. But perhaps you are confusing yourself because you want to critique the US as an imperialist superpower rather than engage with the speci...
As you say, it is a semiotic process of sense making. So it is all intwined and develops in hierarchical fashion with new levels of abstraction coming...
That’s right. This kind of open criticism of the political settings - the choice of wars fought, the size of the established force, etc - is what Russ...
It’s simple enough. If you set up a top down system with the goal of diverting blame from the leader then that prevents the bottom up feedback that tu...
That is in fact exactly what I would focus on with my own biosemiotic approach to the measurement problem. The significant thing is that human intelli...
Inflation is still an open question. Observation has indeed ruled out a large class of models now. Guth's own version died almost immediately as it wo...
OK. So how would you objectively measure the quantum foam? In what sense does it exist as a measurable stuff? If you properly follow that question, yo...
This interview with Ralph Schoelhammer sets up how things might go as Euro nationalism erupts in the coming sticky winter, especially if the US did bl...
As a science writer I was indeed professionally engaged in delving into varieties of woo mongering in the 1990s, from psi, to quantum consciousness, t...
You are treating this like some kind of cultural power struggle. But that is a bad lens for understanding the sociology at play in the scientific comm...
I wasn't talking about QM interpretations. These are all ways of trying to make ontological sense of mathematical algorithms. All the players are tigh...
Vexler says 30% of the motivation would be Putin creating domestic crisis so as to take tighter control of a shaky power structure. But that leaves a ...
The problem here I believe is that the goal of a forum ought to be to express some collective wisdom rather than provide a platform for personal opini...
Yeah. Folk had to have a go at assimilating the quantum weirdness to conventional classical metaphysics as the first step. Nothing wrong about that. T...
It runs the gamut from "shut up and read the dials" instrumentalism to "consciousness causes the collapse – as that is the only place we can find a co...
What defines knowledge is that you can act on it. It is pragmatic. It is a model of reality that results in the ability to affect reality in predictab...
I thought I was clearly arguing against a "first cause" position. Emergence and development are different from "acts of creation". So I would say you ...
The battle space is Ukraine. If you are in Idaho or wherever, you don’t say let’s go MAD. You say sorry for your loss, guys. The issue is how to frame...
Minimising our notion of material cause by maximising our understanding of formal cause is still progress. It is answering the question of cosmic exis...
Vlad Vexler gives an interesting account of the psychology driving the invasion. In a nutshell, the ideological/existential clash between Russia and t...
More useful comments on tactical nukes from former British army officer and former commander of the UK & NATO Chemical, Biological, Radiological and N...
I’m not following. How could lobbing a few tactical nukes in the current war - now framed as a legitimate defence of mother Russian territory - make a...
Commentators say Russia could use a tactical nuke and the West would live with it. So step one is not MAD but calculating what Western caution allows....
So an EMP strike to take out communications and surveillance in conjunction with a renewed push by a conscript reinforced frontline, perhaps next spri...
Situation update: mobilisation makes it far more sure Putin will resort to tactical nuclear weapons now. He has proven he will keep doubling down no m...
Your last replies didn’t really engage with any particular argument I was making. To recap, you started out with the question of why anything would ac...
No. I asked for a geopolitical account by which he might be understood as a rational actor. Just as my first post stressed that Russian imperialism as...
You and Bennie just shoot first and ask questions afterwards. But go ahead. What is your balanced view of Putin and his little adventure? What paints ...
I saw comment that military law says conscripts have to serve four months before they could get sent to fight in Ukraine. But annexing Donbas, etc, wo...
As I said, it was hyperbolic in response to benkies hyperbolic accusation of imperialism being a fiction. The fact you acknowledged this yet still con...
So Treisman says the seizing of Crimea was either to prevent loss of Black Sea fleet, or part of a more general imperialist agenda, or just an impulsi...
So what I actually said was… …which means that my point was about how Russia is expansionist as a geographic necessity. And that then has become an en...
Yep, you’ve got nothing, have you. Just a lot of anger and frustration. No rational reply. No sources to back you up. Your man Putin says it out loud ...
Yep. I did read the first 10 pages out of interest. I enjoyed the counter views of frank and apollodorus. And I’m quite happy with critiques of US and...
Great. You will have no problem providing expert sources arguing the opposite then. Look forward to it. Maybe it’s you and Benkie that are emotionally...
Right. All this is a commonplace. It is Russia’s story about itself whether Tsarist, Communist, or Putinist. So why are posters here wanting to deny i...
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