Comment by TKoL on Who was the philosopher whose lectures prompted suicide(s)?
If I was forced to hear Zizek's digestive system for too long, I think I might look for an easy way out.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for What do we mean when we ask "What's the – fundamental –...
When I ask it, I'm usually asking something along the lines of "Why does it work the way that it works? And in what ways, exactly, does it "work"?"
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does standard quantum mechanics imply anti realism?
Standard quantum mechanics is usually taken to imply a very constrained type of anti realism, but not a broad general anti realism.The type of anti realism it DOES NOT imply: there's no such thing as...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Isn't Camus' philosophy just a violation of Occam's Razor?
If he needs all the other stuff to reach his conclusion, then there's no reason to get rid of the other stuff. I think this is a missapplication of Occam's razor.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Through the lens of classical metaphysics exclusively,...
The way you've worded your question is a bit ambiguous, so forgive me if my reading-between-the-lines is reading incorrectly, but it seems like you're saying that modern Quantum Field Theory might be...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for If a given type of event has never been believed when it...
The argument is somewhat circular.You start out with the premise "Nobody has ever believed X while X wasn't true".But you also now, presumably, have someone who believes X. And you're using that to...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on At what point in the history of mathematics, and why, did...
You're getting downvoted because your answer has nothing to do with the question
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What do you think about all existence following the very...
Well at some level every thing does follow the same laws - the laws of physics. Is that a valid answer to your question?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is the mind infinite?
@Gabriel if it's not subdividable, why call that 'infinite' instead of 'atomic'? Why assume it's infinitely large, instead of the smallest unit possible?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does quantum mechanics make the God hypothesis likely?
If you have to add an EXTRA process God has to do to account for quantum mechanics, then it seems like it wouldn't offer the God hypothesis an explanatory advantage, it seems like it's a disadvantage.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is the concept of "supernatural laws" an oxymoron?
It's not necessarily an oxymoron, depending on how loose you want to be with the word "supernatural". But one perspective to keep in mind is, if there were a supernatural realm with supernatural laws,...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why isn’t quantum entanglement seen as evidence for rather...
It's ironic that that quote by Tim maudlin shows a motivation to interpret quantum experiments deterministically, and yet vehemently denies what is probably the most popular deterministic...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Do we have evidence that explanations that contain a...
Simpler structures, for the most part, occur more frequently in nature than more complex structures. This is what Occam's razor / kolmogrov complexity are trying to generalize from, but at a higher...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Did God "design" logic?
@RabbiKaii yes it does. If god is beholden to the laws of logic, that means it didn't invent them. You're not being very charitable in your reading if you don't see that.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Why isn’t quantum entanglement seen as evidence for rather...
The biggest piece of evidence that properties don't have set, distinct values prior to measurement is given by Bells Theorem and the experiments to test it. If you send an entangled pair of photons...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Who was the philosopher whose lectures prompted suicide(s)?
If I was forced to hear Zizek's digestive system for too long, I think I might look for an easy way out.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Isn't Camus' philosophy just a violation of Occam's Razor?
If he needs all the other stuff to reach his conclusion, then there's no reason to get rid of the other stuff. I think this is a missapplication of Occam's razor.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Can the idea of continuity make sense in the real world?
This is actually an open question in physics - it's currently unclear if physics requires any kind of spatial infinite continuum, or if all of spacetime may be discrete. Physicists take both...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Are our intuitions about probability not wrong after all?
@DikranMarsupial I would go at far as to say, the entire confusion in the original question can be boiled down to not knowing what question they actually want to ask
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Who Bears the Burden of Proof Regarding Free Will:...
The Burden of Proof isn't an absolute property. There's no experiment you can perform on a person, a brain, or a position to show that that thing has the burden of proof.The Burden of Proof is a social...
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