Answer by TKoL for Did Bell rule out all possible kinds of local determinism...
How a particular interpretation deals with bells theorem is a fundamental aspect of understanding that interpretation - it's one of the questions any interpretation has to answer.One interpretation...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is knowledge non-physical?
I think this is unfortunately one of those questions where there's no canonical answer, and so the answer you get from each person really only tells you about their beliefs and not much more.The...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Are there certain plausible assumptions, such as block or...
Some people intuitively feel like determinism creates a situation where nothing matters, all choices are 'interchangable' or equally 'rational', because 'rationality' means nothing in a deterministic...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Through the lens of classical metaphysics exclusively,...
@AlistairRiddoch it was unclear why you said that in your post, and you put it in quotes, which makes it appear sarcastic. I'm still not sure what meaning you're tyring to impart by saying it -...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Through the lens of classical metaphysics exclusively,...
I read somewhere he expects at its core to find some sort of clock-work-like-mechanism. - then he can find that in the schrodinger equation, which evolves the wavefunction deterministically over time,...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does determinism nullify the science of economics?
Good thing compatibilism is there to bridge the gap between economics and determinism then.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does being able to remember conscious experience mean...
Remembering itself is a conscious experience, so the claim 'consciousness is epiphenomenal' is not disproven by remembering, because remembering may also be epiphonemonal.There are things you can point...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can the idea of continuity make sense in the real world?
@Amin it's potentially the case that time in quantised while other things, like spatial distance, are not.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is belief nothing but a feeling of certainty about what...
You can believe something without being certain. You probably believe many things you aren't certain of.There are various philosophies for dealing with uncertainty, such as Bayesianism, which gives all...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is entropy physical or idealistic?
Arguably everything that's "physical" but not "fundamental" can be argued to be idealistic. If heat doesn't exist then neither do chairs - they are both measures of groups of particles, and not...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Do we live forever (in our own specific universes)?
I think your first paragraph is a misunderstanding of the idea (I don't think the idea is necessarily true, but if we're taking it seriously then you've misunderstood it). Your second paragraph just...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Should the evidence of OBEs and NDEs increase our...
@Mark ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117086 - a reported Hindu's near death experience where she "went to ‘heaven’ where there were a pantheon of Gods with ‘hierarchy’. There was the trinity of...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is something physical if and only if we can perceive it...
Can something be physical even if there is no known or conceivable way of perceiving it, directly or indirectly, with our senses?There could be completely undetectable physical things - we just...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Should the evidence of OBEs and NDEs increase our...
@Rushi the article is made unimpressive by the fact that a single researcher personally interacted with individual patients to get these singular reports, which were all verified exclusively by the one...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does Math use the scientific method?
I think observation and experiment actually ARE part of math, and central to many mathematical discoveries. @MauroALLEGRANZA
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Quantum Superposition and the Possibility of Free Will
@NikosM. Do you believe humans have control over quantum events?
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Does Math use the scientific method?
I'm going to go against common opinion here and say that, while mathematical truths may be considered distinct from scientific truths (and I'm not disagreeing with that), the process of discovering...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does quantum superposition enable the possibility of free...
@NikosM. Do you believe humans have control over quantum events?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Physics and mereology
I don't think it can help you understand the ladder of fundamentality, it's just another layer on that ladder (or rung? I guess)
View ArticleComment by TKoL on The sensory problem of panpsychism
My take is that, if pansychism is true, any conscious system, like a rock, is conscious of the things it is sensitive to. I don't think pansychism necessarily is true, but if it was, that's along the...
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