Comment by TKoL on Epistemic Concern Regarding Black Holes
I wouldn't call "the direct implications of our models, which have been demonstrated to work in a wide variety of novel situations" pseudoscience. Even if it's not strictly verifiable, it's different...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does the universe not being locally real mean anything for...
"I've asked this question to physicists and the answers I got seem to imply that it's NO, this doesn't have the implications people are drawing from it."This is almost certainly the correct take, yes....
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does the universe not being locally real mean anything for...
@Syed you can absolutely escape non-locality. "non-local correlations" exist even in classical mechanics - it's not the correlations we care about, it's what causes them. Many Worlds can escape...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Has reductive physicalism been falsified?
Despite the claim that chemistry has not been reduced to it, chemistry modelling is actually something quantum simulations have been EXTREMELY successful in. We can model many simple molecular...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Responsibility of scientific theories?
The ethical boards for reseach in social or medical science are more to make sure the experiment is conducted ethically, not the the results are interpreted "ethically" or are within an ethically...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why do most philosophers of religion believe in God?
Yeah, seems like a self selection bias. You wouldn't be surprised to find that most people who study astrology believe in astrology.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why do most philosophers of religion believe in God?
I would love to find out if more philosophers of religion start out religious and end up non religious, or the reverse.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is materialism wrong?
"or does materialism have other complexity beyond humans literally just being material?"Perhaps, instead of "we are the material", one can be a materialist and think "we are the consequence of the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Are David Chalmers' definitions of strong and weak...
There is indeed a clear essential difference between weak and strong emergence. Weak emergence doesn't require any deviation from low-level things following their own low-level rules. Strong emergence,...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Are David Chalmers' definitions of strong and weak...
It is in principle falsifiable, I believe, yes. The statement "there is no Strong Emergence" is falsifiable, at least. To falsify it, you could devise an experiment to show that fundamental particles...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Would the lemurians have been occultist?
This question is like asking "how long does unicorn pregnancy last?"
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How can I convince myself that a number which is both even...
@JKusin its implied by the definitions of even and odd.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Are religion first and science second, as we currently...
If science were a system of mass control, it would be remarkable, I think, that in general Chinese scientists and Russian scientists seem to agree for the most part with American scientists.I think...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Can an empiricist appeal to mental experience?
To the contrary, how could one be an empiricist without referring to mental experiences? The only data we have with which to make inferences about the world come from mental experiences.So not only can...
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 Does the universe not being locally real mean anything for...
@Syed the same would be true in many worlds. No causation travels faster than light, and the causal explanation for the correlation travels at light speed or slower too
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,...
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 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 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.
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