Comment by TKoL on Is pluralism the correct philosophical interpretation of...
Good answer, I think some type of pluralism about what probabilities are has to be right.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does being able to remember conscious experience mean...
@JohnRC that wouldn't prove your conscious experience of memories isn't epiphenomenal, that would only prove that physical events can have an effect on your consciousness - anti epiphenomenalism is the...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Top-down bottom-up
When they're saying top down or bottom up causation, they may be talking about emergence.Bottom up causation is frequently another way to talk about weak emergence - how a high level macroscopic...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does the universe include everything, or merely everything...
There's two competing definitions of universe.1 is everything that exists, period.Another is, everything that exists in this same space-time as us.The second definition is what many people mean when...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Reductionism from a philosophical viewpoint
@quanity yes, those are great examples of reduction / emergence
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What is something that math cannot be applied to and...
"Unless you're talking about the mathematics of chemical reactions in the brain" -- seems like you found a way for mathematics to apply to your feelings about the cat.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does this follow from Everett's Many-Worlds?
You asked a lot of different things, so I'll just try to focus on one:My main query is this: If every possible world exists, and quantum probability simply emerges from the abundance or perhaps density...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does it matter if certain professions have a lower rate of...
@Joshua can you source that claim? I've never heard that before.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Hypothesis and Scientific Method
What this example illustrates is the hazards of trying to generalize hastily from too little information.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can every idea including mathematical ideas be reduced to...
"You can expand meaning down to the atomic level of individual words with agreed-on meanings and canonical relations between those words." - and can you make it simpler than that?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can every idea, including mathematical ideas, be reduced...
"You can expand meaning down to the atomic level of individual words with agreed-on meanings and canonical relations between those words." - and can you make it simpler than that?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is the law of excluded middle sufficient motivation to...
@causative that's right, looks like a completely arbitrary exception for personal uncaused causes
View ArticleComment by TKoL on An idea to prevent the principle of explosion
What's the motivation for wanting to prevent explosion?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can science inform philosophy?
Science BETTER inform philosophy. If philosophy is entirely unaffected by chemistry and physics and neuroscience and consciousness studies, then philosophy is lost
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What is the link with nihilism and hypocrisy?
And if there are no objective values, that still leaves my subjective values in tact.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can we possibly know if the entire populous of the...
We don't know that. Ever heard of the "invisible hand of the economy"? This very well could be the sort of thing you might mean by "unknowingly we humans are interacting and going our ways in a way...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does the PSR fail only at the atomic level in quantum...
There are many interpretations of QM, and those different interpretations may answer this question differently.In pilot wave theory, some apparently-random event was in fact not random but determined...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How does quantum field theory affect the ontological...
@JerraT you have to read his quote as a bit artful, rather than taking it ultra-literally. Try to understand what quantum mechanics says is and isn't the case about the things we call "electrons" and...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How does quantum field theory affect the ontological...
What a weird exception to carve out. No composite objects exist except living things. "I'm a living thing, and of course I exist, and I'm a composite object.... but no other composite objects are real"
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How does quantum field theory affect the ontological...
"I imagine that if cornered, Van Inwagen would agree that this is just a linguistic blunder and not what he really would have said if he had sufficiently thought through what he wanted to express." - I...
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