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Very interesting. I had assumed that beam splitters act entirely randomly, but from your description it seems that they do not. Is that correct? I thi...

Thank you for identifying the flaw in my example. I should have known that it wasn't so simple. I'm still confused about how the interference pattern ...

I'm wondering if my position could be made more clear if we focused on a simpler experiment. Let's assume that I've set up an experiment that starts s...

I'm finding it hard to see how these two sentences are compatible. The second sentence suggests that measuring the idler photon does not impact the si...

Thank you for the detailed response. I assume you are being fully clear and it is just me not fully comprehending your answer, but let me ask this: ho...

Thank you. I now understand that nothing about the idler photons can be deduced by looking at the signal pattern. However, I'm still reluctant to say ...

For the double-slit experiment, are there any areas on the back screen which have exactly 0% chance of being hit by the photon when path information i...

I'll leave it to the more informed to comment on your other thoughts, but I like this conclusion. Classically there is a desire for everything to be a...

What if all idler photons strike D2? This requires an element of pure luck as the photons pass through BS3, but it also requires an element of choice ...

What would you say happens to the signal pattern in the unlikely case that all idler photons are (by a stroke of luck) erased? Is it fair to say that ...

True. But if a wave function needs an actual observer to collapse it, doesn't it need an external observer to make the first observation (in my simula...

I'm trying to unpack this statement. Could this be related to the Wikipedia entry where it says that "a photon in flight is interpreted as...something...

@"Trestone" My impression remains that you're adding on layers as a way to justify disallowing problematic statements/sets from existing within Layer ...

@"Trestone" I haven't had the time to read through your messages thoroughly so I don't expect a response if you've already addressed my comment in you...

But in a way you are sweeping "this proposition is not true in all layers" under the rug. I wonder if there is an analog to the Russell set which you ...

@"Trestone" So my understanding is that your resolution to the Liar's Paradox is not Layer Logic, but disallowing problematic statements. As for Russe...

If you are fine with disallowing statements in Layer Logic for which a truth value cannot be assigned, why not skip this added layer of complexity and...

I see. With layer logic there is no self reference since layers cannot talk about themselves. The problem is that for all statements you've abandoned ...

I haven't read your work, but how would you handle the following pair of statements? Statement A: Statement B is true. Statement B: Statement A is fal...

I agree with this. I need to study more to either accept that it's nonsense or find a way to better communicate it. Until then, we're just wasting our...

Okay, that makes sense. I mean continuum in the context of the geometrical objects of extension studied in elementary calculus, the objects that we ty...

I don't understand this statement. I am probably wrong, but your statement isn't proof of that. Like I said to fryfish, my view has neither been forma...

I have concerns with infinite sets (including the set of all rational numbers) and real numbers, but those concerns are not essential to my argument. ...

If we take this reasoning to its limit then we end up with the whole being an assembly of a bunch of 0-Dimensional objects (i.e. nothing). Is that wha...

Yay!

I've mentioned QM and physics in an attempt to support my view, but the focus of my argument has always been on the mathematical scenario. From now on...

Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is Ryan O'Connor with a new account. These are not identical. A 'mathematical' string is infinitely divisible bec...

No doubt, QM is in dire need of philosophical progress. But we can't downplay the value of physics. Experiments and corresponding models ground our re...

This is Ryan O'Connor under a new account. Hopefully, you'll be able to @mention me now. Are you suggesting that with each step someone sweeps over in...