Jake Tarragon

It was only part of the OP. I think it was an apt and meaningful phrase to use though I accept the language was colloquial.

Note to posters: my opening post was also "modded" ... and some of my intention has been lost. I am not actually asking for help with understanding ra...

In fact "only God could play dice" was the neat enough title of this thread ... don't see why it had to be dragged to Drabsville ...

In other words you are not happy to accept "just random ". And if you are like me to do so would feel wrong because effects need causes. Einstein coul...

Such a concept is theoretical though and my point is that there is no randomness in physical processes if you delve deep enough.

Who here can be satisfied with an "explanation" of.. "Oh it's just random" ..?

So She's "defeatable" by a concept called "randomnesss" ??

Prediction is not incompatible with determinism.

...until you reach quantum level...

True randomness is surely a miracle!

Of course God exists in various "senses". So does randomness. But not really!

Not necessarily. Think about modern day conspiracy therorists; the rise of wacky and not so wacky religions...

I think your question about "observers" is only relevant to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, where it is assumed that the wave func...

Nobody's! You get cloned whenever the universe is cloned due to a multiple-valued quantum outcome from anywhere in your universe. And whenever you get...

I'm not so sure. Enthusiam is a productive driver of thought. I feel that it is the quest for elegance that adversely affects thinking sometimes.

Bergson. Bergson. All I hear is Bergson.

:) because maybe there is just one ethical standpoint that IS "best" . (and maybe TR's is in the right direction but trying to be too "pure".....)

It's very likely that "divine senses" are radically different objectively, and probably subjectively. I say that it is the role of ethics to judge the...

It's all very well defining good and bad. But what are the implications here?

There will be times when there is a clash between what some regard as good as some as bad; the fact that all parties feel good about their decisions/v...

So surely this "wrongdoing" must be defined objectively before you can say you have an objective morality?

What about a person who experiences joy - all the feel-good effects of the mood hormones in fact - through inflicting suffering on others? Are they a ...

Really good visual dreams show us what we are capable of enjoying, but few people seem interested in seeking these experiences out in waking life, I w...

FWIW on reflection I would say that emotions are sometimes reduced in dreaming. The last dream I remember was one I occasionally get - about being bac...

:) But is the fear really related to the explicit dream material or is it a fear of the repressed being made explicit? But yes, I guess fear is part a...

Well ... I think that perhaps the emotions are considerably reduced in dreams in order for us to afterwards take in the lessons on offer. How else cou...

lol! That wouldn't do it, obviously.

For consciousness, maybe this is necessary ....... The emergent behavior can model itself.

yeah, but that's titchy!

And there's the rub .... I think you would struggle to show that there are more consistent BB scenarios than there are suitable variant universes of a...

Given you agree that an inconsistent BB is far more likely than a consistent one, we should expect to live in an inconsistent one rather than a consis...

There are vastly more Boltzmann brain scenarios that are inconsistent than there are that are consistent. Tegmark suggests for example, if our memorie...

And emotional surely?

Dawkins would refute that a "purer" altruism is not possible in humans, and does so explicitly in the later (I think) editions of "The Selfish Gene" a...

In the sense that bad dreams can be interpreted as pointers to improving your mindset or whatever, yes I think so.

Buildings are stable and consistent. ....

I think the net has real potential to apply utilitarian calculuses that would have constituted mere thought experIments in yesteryear's philosophy tex...

Provided it is an/the accepted norm. Social (dis) approval heavily influences how people feel about themselves.

I think good dreams are a bit like good experiences with certain types of drugs. Maybe they work in similar ways ... connecting up brain areas in nove...

Memristors are where it's at, apparently.... some materials are being developed that can be used to create artificial neurons and synapses that work i...

According to the "many worlds" interpretation of the Schrodinger wave function, a "true" random outcome(i.e. a quantum one) is only subjectively real ...

Is feminism a sort of tribalism?

He might realize that many others aren't happy...

It's nice when one becomes distraught at losing one's keys/purse etc because of the joy of finding it again. Not sure how quickly it is a repeatable e...

hehe I thought you had Sapientia on the rails but he pulled a draw out of the bag when he said that people's point in living is to enjoy their lives. ...

The best sort then :)

Is that physics or metaphysics, may I ask? I mean, it is possible from string theory to have universes of space without time I believe ... and 4 dimen...

It's a useful insight i guess but doesn't really help explain whether velocity is intrinsically encoded within an object, rather than measured as an e...

Nice try to restore classical physics but space and time don't work like that in the large. Locally, and relative to one observer - yes. I am a beginn...

Perhaps you need a point to live well?