Paul S

Yes

Probably the most dumbed down and insulting OP I have read on here. Politically motivated and not in any way related to philosophy, just a sad attempt...

they are big balls of minute quanta

I think you can conceive of anything as infinite at the abstract level. I prefer to constrain my definition of infinity to quanta.

I think that's true. I would agree but the creation of matter from light may be part of it. Looks about right. How would you refute the Ensemble inter...

Perhaps, and I confess ignorance about WMAP and what it does. I know what it is but it's just something I don't get too involved with. I can't help bu...

Maybe it's time it made a comeback then, since we know now that we can create matter from photons. Modernity has lost sight of a lot of things.

I don't really like the pursuit of a theory of everything. I don't feel we are in any way enlightened enough as a species to be there and I'd be a bit...

So a long but not infinite series of spirals with ever reducing size then. It's finite. Maybe that is the nature of space time. Who knows!

Nope, not meant to be anything more than that. I'm wondering whether the universe itself is similar to the cycles within it, seemingly finite but infi...

They are not meant do be. They are supposed to be examples of the finite, so that is good to hear. Not really. That is just abstraction we all picked ...

Please provide some reasoning to support this. What is cosmic to you? What is consciousness? Put them together and tell me what is cosmic consciousnes...

I didn't want to respond with the constraint just that the President could be replaced with a robot because really, the entire mechanism of government...

Exactly.

That's not what determinism at all, is as I understand it.

It was just a clarification so you didn't really need to respond, but whatever.

I don't really distinguish between practical and theoretical. But what is proven is then in the realm of experimental physics in that case. We have no...

That's not certain but some theories do model the phenomena that way, or stochastically. Spoken like a true proponent of the many worlds interpretatio...

Not exactly, Einstein himself discovered that light could be quantised with the photo electric effect, and depending on the type of number used, the r...

I know what you mean. I've learned to deal with it to a degree but it's certainly a challenge. Some days are better than others. I welcome distraction...

I'm using the below definitions. Determinism is the philosophical view that all events are determined completely by previously existing causes. https:...

The device is flipping it. You can make a deterministic device to flip something, at least deterministic at the macro level, so then it's just a quest...

Sounds like you believe we live in a simulation. There is no determination needed necessarily. Information as a concept is entirely abstract, it's jus...

And yet we all leave the world poor by that materialistic metric. We leave it as we came into it, with nothing. Wealth without affluence and some modi...

From a zen point of view you could see when you were young but you are too young to appreciate it or your youth is corrupted. The hypnotism is a veil ...

Yes but the discussion was more about determinism than the motion of the astronomical bodies. We know the bodies move around in a non linear manner ov...

It's a nice post. I see value in both and actually I think they are stronger together, as opposed to puritanical adherence to just one. I would certai...

I think it's different reasons for different people. I was raised in a similar tradition and to this day I deeply dislike the tribalism that goes with...

But it can't be both really. If any part of the universe is deterministic, it all is really, as the nonlinearity or chaos rapidly escalates and the sy...

Your very first post in TPF and you came to my thread. Good. Your first post mentioned ahem-19. Bad (Let's leave any talk of that baggage at the door?...

Then you're not flipping it. He was never a atheist. He was considered a form of theist, he would have seen the deception as God like. It came in the ...

But you really are going deeper into the unknown there. There will always be philosophical questions. I keep one quote in my profile that I think appl...

Maybe not. There are tests of randomness but I don't think they are that useful, they can spot something that is deterministic if it makes no effort t...

I don't see why not if you have a source of "true" randomness like an unstable electrical field for example. But you could argue then that it would be...

I agree that Einstein would see a dice roll as deterministic, and he was using the analogy more to say that he doesn't believe God would allow true ra...

I'm not genuinely looking to mount a treatise on this. Just sharing ideas for now and hoping my perspective can cultivate imagination. The platonic so...

Yes, but no matter what number base we use, there are three perceived dimensions at least for humans, and mammals, with a 4th which is akin to a maste...

Yes. I should have stated "..what is space made of, if anything".

We are really. But one man/woman at the "top" being replaced by a robot won't fix anything. When you take spirituality, family, and enlightenment out ...

If you can relish the moment of putting the sausages on the pizza and embrace the feeling that belittling the wonderful symmetry of the plain ole saus...

The platonic solids can be arranged to represent the structure of atoms, sausages and pizza cannot.

I don't believe it will, or maybe I just don't want it to.

The number three is fundamental in many cultures including Buddhism. Are we drawn to shapes like the equilateral triangle from more than personal pref...

A journey through life, from infant to elderly.

I tend to agree with you but it's not fully settled, and my never be. Is it not the case that space / space-time must be quantised if determinism has ...

The difference though is in your journey to accept that.

Yes, but indeterministic in the context of measurement. A nice Buddhist like take on it!

I don't know what it means or if there is any structure. You could at least have attempted to not go full asymmetric and represented it with sea urchi...

I doubt the human mind could be approximated on any meaningful level without a vast statistical quantum network, so that maybe the creation of AI is t...

I feel that if there is a probability distribution than can describe possible states of a system for waves (superposition) that is indeterministic, th...