I didn't mean to imply that Kastrup's ontology is at risk for solipsism, just that it is completely compatible with computation as causation, even if ...
This has always been my opinion too. It makes for bad sci-fi though because such post-humans, e.g. fusion powered, skyscraper sized brains that are at...
You're right about that. The tsunami of liabilities and costs related to pensioners is going to increasingly define politics in developed countries fo...
Here is a thought experiment which I think might illustrate why I think the principal of indifference applies here. Imagine an alien species in anothe...
A good point that is often missed. You can have multiple true explanations of the same phenomena. E.g., a mechanic, an engineer, and a physicist can a...
There was more vetting at each level when the cost to share information were higher. Publishing companies don't tend to publish Holocaust denial liter...
I'll have to return to this thread for a more detailed response later, but the early universe has this very confusing property of being in thermodynam...
One Damn Thing After Another, Jodi Taylor, very light time travel sci-fi I'm listening to with my wife. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, ...
I didn't fully discover my love of philosophy until my late 20s. A big part of this was the overwhelming diversity of the field. The field seemed almo...
I realize those are mostly revenue raising ideas for austerity, but there are plenty of moves to make on the expense side. Increasing the retirement a...
I would have said "sell securities, raise rates," three weeks ago, but now it looks like that will risk sending the banking system into a crisis. I wo...
Frequentism seems fine in some contexts, or at the very least, it is at times much easier to explain things in that frame when it doesn't make a mater...
Update: Trump himself has released a statement about his immanent arrest from a warrant to be issued in three days and called for protests and support...
Well now it appears law enforcement is prepping for an indictment announcement next week. This is a New York indictment, but a Georgia one also seems ...
Yes. Since there are more ways to be high entropy than low entropy we should have more worlds with high entropy than low. So why are we in a low entro...
Four terms? Imagine, he'd be a spry 98 years old at the end of it, our own Mugabe. More seriously, I don't even think he should run for one more term....
Ahem, unfortunately, the Compatibilist Delegation has moved for a reading of their edits as well... However, the delegation seems split in: "Some choo...
We, of the Voluntarist Delegation, are willing to agree to 90+% of this statement, with some minor edits (see above). All in favor of moving the quest...
I'm not sure I follow. Religion and nationalism clearly exist in the world, so why would they be necessarily supernatural in any respect? "Ukraine," "...
I see it now. Yes, I am aware of that solution, and while clever, it doesn't seem satisfactory. The whole Sleeping Beauty problem class seems to be mi...
I only skimmed this thread, but has the Born Rule problem really not come up? To bring up the example before, it is like someone's spouse is either in...
Just to chime in, I think organized religions' insistence on supernatural explanations and supernatural language is part of the reason for their decli...
EZPZ, just claim time is illusory and that the universe is an eternal object, then one up Hume and claim cause isn't just reducible to something simpl...
He addresses this at some point. The main point, if I recall, is that he is arguing for not-P. One does not need to prove P to prove not-P, he only ne...
Yes, freedom as a concept presupposes its own negation. In making any choice, the choice itself is a constraint. You can move up and down; have your c...
If time is flowing, that is moving relative to different states of the universe, then it must be doing so over some sort of second time dimension. Som...
I found someone making the same argument. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789814295482_0004 I did not realize that Collier was the adviso...
I don't make that mistake though. Without life, there is no color, no texture as such, perhaps no space-time as we understand it. My objection is to t...
Yes, but not a conscious observer. For example, an indivisible "particle" alone in its own universe would transmit no information, and since it has no...
I would argue that information exists "in the wild," as discernible differences. If information only existed when observed we would have to posit that...
Interpretation doesn't need a conscious observer though. Plenty of industrial systems are set up in such a way that the same signal is meant to repres...
Yes, that was sort of Gibbs' original point in the case of ideal gasses. You need a non-extensive entropy to deal with that the problem. Jayne's big p...
Not just that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_paradox#The_mixing_paradox I don't agree with the use of the term "arbitrary" in the Wiki article...
Yes, the English "eternal life" is used frequently for translating the Greek ???? ???????, a pairing of the verb aionios and noun zoe, which I believe...
Maybe Gnostic Christianity, but that sounds more like Neoplatonism. Christ promises everlasting life in the Gospels, not eternal life. Revelations por...
Actually, after all that, I think I might agree with the basic idea that in a way, information, at least in terms of say, what we get from looking at ...
First, isn't it the case that digital computers obey all the physical laws we know about? Hence why knowledge of physical laws has been essential to c...
Definitionally, the eternal doesn't change. E.g., the number two doesn't change into another value or take on new relationships in terms of things lik...
That's just the definition of the word eternal in English. "Lasting or existing forever, without beginning or end, valid for all time, essentially unc...
Would it be fair to classify what you've put forth as a sort of austere nominalism? I.e., pain is just "a name for certain types of experience." I thi...
I would highly recommend Nagel's take on the Absurd. I think some of his conclusions are wrong, but he makes many excellent points. Would your life be...
Upon reflection, I think this definition might be simply too loose. If you assume people are generally rational, then it collapses into historicism, i...
Isn't this guilty of the same division? Humans are part of nature. Human minds presumably have natural causes and thoughts/subjective meaning are part...
And is this the case for all universals? I can't say I find that to be an attractive position. For one, look at the Chinese Room thought experiment. T...
So something changes in the computer when it is observed or is computation just in the mind of the observer? If the latter, why is it not the same for...
You might be interested in information theoretic, holographic principal-based workarounds for this problem if you're not already aware of them. Since ...
A world line in an objects' 3D path rendered with a time dimension, nothing more. A world line can also be used to describe the history of a path for ...
I am genuinely curious about this widespread world of physics where cause is not referenced. I read a lot of physics and causes are mentioned constant...
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