Comment by TKoL on Does indeterminacy imply contingency?
@user118157 then there should be an answer to "like what"
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What is the first recorded, explicit and articulated,...
Does that text qualify as a "logical argument"? He's just expressing a need and making a request. Maybe I'm missing something but I wouldn't personally say text of that nature qualifies as a logical...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does the need to use mathematics to describe physical...
I believe in some kind of platonic grounding of mathematical truths, and I believe that the stuff we call 'physical' is itself grounded in those mathematical truths, and I consider myself a physicalist.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Has reductive physicalism been falsified?
@Dcleve all the 'no's are NOT about ontological reduction but about in-practice reduction. It's unfortunate that the wording of that question lends itself to being understood in both of those ways. All...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Are there two type of randomness?
I think this is a fantastic question, and I think there absolutely are AT LEAST 2 different flavours of randomness. I'm actually going to list 3, but the last two might be identical:I would say,...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is finding data to fit a hypothesis unscientific?
I actually think there might be an epistemically valid place for cherry picking, but any conclusion drawn or supported from cherry picking would need additional, non cherry picked experiments for...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is the philosophy of physics a part of the philosophy of...
I'm not sure physics takes physicalism for granted, any more than chemistry takes the idea that "everything is chemicals" for granted (which is to say, chemistry DOESN'T take that for granted, it just...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why is pattern recognition not racism?
I think you're asking some very different questions. Questions about what is racist and why are very different from questions about why ai designers don't understand all of the internals of their ais.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Evolution and Popperian falsifiability
what did he mean by "not strictly universally true"? did he clarify that? did he provide examples?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on If the laws of physics were axioms, would the existence of...
He's saying that potentially a chicken is an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, and as such has some kind of a priori truthiness to it.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What substances are being proposed to be used as substrate...
@JoWehler arguably, yes. Substrate indepdence of emergent phenomenon is definitely a philosophically relevant topic. The idea that one can simulate the building blocks of a brain, and the implications...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How do you prove (A ∧ C) ∨ (A ∧ (B → C)) , B ⊢ C ∨ D?
@ScottRowe all logical proofs reduce to tautologies.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can a point particle exist, without any kind of relation...
The word 'point' itself is a reference to space.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Would mind-reading technology finally solve the problem of...
No, it would leave us exactly the same. Besides, we already can do rudimentary mind reading.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Name for the logical fallacy of asking for unreasonable...
The fallacy of having a really high standard of evidence for beliefs you don't like, while requiring much less evidence for beliefs you hold, is common, probably common enough that we've all done it at...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can a fundamentally random process follow a...
@Syed it's not obvious to me that all the coins tossed in a deterministic universe will have any more reliable of a probability distribution than coins that are fundamentally random.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can science explain the dualistic philosophy of...
If you believe Good and Evil are scientifically investigable concepts, it's up to you to demonstrate that they're scientific.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on The truth and falsehood problem of the explosion principle
@我們這一家 one of the primary arguments for why p and ~p cannot both be true at the same time is precisely this scenario - IF we allow them to be true, then anything else is true as well. Since we know...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can astrology be considered as pseudoscience if the...
Astrology isn't a pseudoscience because of the subject matter, but because of how the practitioners operate in terms of sharing knowledge. If they operated scientifically, astrology would be a science,...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can a rational decision ever be regretted?
@Codename47 yeah, indeterminism honestly has nothing to do with it. Its more just about the ignorance of the being making the choice - if they are making a decision on incomplete information,...
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