Comment by TKoL on Does being able to remember conscious experience mean...
@JohnRC unless it's not recorded physically
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does indeterminacy imply contingency?
no, i wouldn't agree with that.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why is creationism even an issue?
@Faraz I don't think Alistair is a creationist, so you're telling the wrong person.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does Pascal's Wager refute Apatheism?
@WinstonEwert before you realize that no religions have a lick of evidence for them, sure. Do a bit of investigation, realize they're all talking crap, and then move on with your life. I did include...
View ArticleDoes it matter if certain professions have a lower rate of theism, and if so,...
Many of us are familiar with discussions bringing up the correlation with religion and IQ, or educational achievement, or being a professional in a certain field like physics or biology. These are...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can a fundamentally random process follow a...
@user80226 it's one of those things that happens naturally, without anything making sure. If you had a 'fundamentally random coin', it would very probably look statistically like we expect a common...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can a fundamentally random process follow a...
"The only exception I can think of might be quantum mechanics. Even then, there is the presumption that something is constraining the universe to act the way it does." -- citation needed
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can a fundamentally random process follow a...
Great answer. Unfortunately OP is committed to his own biases and so he's marked the one answer in this place that confirms them as correct.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What would falsify relativity?
"Anything that deviates from those predictions would falsify it" - counterpoint, we observe that galaxies have a lot more mass than relativity predicts. Instead of saying "relativity is wrong", we say...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How is free-will formally defined as distinct from...
I never really found this to be a satisfying answer. So what if it's decoupled from the world's causality? It still has its own causality, and as such is still trapped in the OP's trichotomy.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Non-random indeterminism in physicalist reductionism?
I truly don't think there's any alternative to the randomness / determinist dichotomy. (I don't consider a mixture of the two an alternative). I have an explanation for why but it's a bit long to lay...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Are statements of the form "I claim that X" always true?
"I claim x" is ALWAYS true, at least at the moment it's uttered, in a self referential way. If we consider saying "I claim x" as a claim of x, then "I claim x" must be true."I believe X" may not be...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is this a good analogy for superdeterminism?
Your analogy is one way superdeterminism can be. Superdeterminism can be set up by initial conditions in that way, yes.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does Einstein's local realism in quantum mechanics imply...
Einstein didn't know about Bell's Theorem, afaik, and superdeterminism is a (imo very absurd) response to Bell's Theorem. Einstein just thought quantum mechanics was wrong about something / missing...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Will superdeterminism, if proven, make science useless?
I don't think you've fully grokked what superdeterminism is saying. It's not just the same as determinism - it's something much stranger.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Will superdeterminism, if proven, make science useless?
No, dude, Kant didn't know anything about Bell's Theorem or quantum theory at all, or superdeterminism as an answer to Bell's Theorem. You're confusing superdeterminism with determinism.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Under physicalism, what is the ontological status of the...
@user80226 I don't belieive it has a separate name - as someone who holds this view, I'm pretty sure most of us just call ourselves 'physicalists', and I kind of want to wager that a sizable fraction...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Are there notable contemporary scientists and physicists...
@ScottRowe "Popularity has no relevance to the truth of a proposition" - I disagree. If you have two people, and one persons strategy is to believe the most popular opinion among the relevant experts,...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Are there notable contemporary scientists and physicists...
@JD should I change it to "explicitly a platonist" then?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Emergent Dualism in continuation of Non-Reductive...
prove that there was no evolution, meaning that Neanderthal or Ecuadorian Amazon tribe child after birth will have the same mental capacity as any other modern human child on Earth? -- Why would...
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