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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Space and Time: God |
| Kon |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2013, 7:14 pm
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| I'm not very knowledgeable about the various quantum theories of gravity but a number of them try to do away with spacetime. And some physicists, like Gisin, who are convinced that violation of Bell's implies that nature is non-local, further argue that nonlocal quantum correlations would appear to ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Violations of Bell Inequality imply nature is non-local? |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2013, 9:05 pm
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Replies: 3
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| As posted on the link (see my post 57), Norsen in his papers discusses why Bell felt that his theorem does tell us something about nature: Since all the crucial aspects of Bell’s formulation of locality are thus meaningful only relative to some candidate theory, it is perhaps puzzling how Bell thoug... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2013, 10:42 am
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Replies: 16
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| I doubt the mind-body problem can ever be "solved" in the sense that we'd get a tidy little theory that explains the entirety of consciousness, including the subjective. It's just too complex. The best we can do is model its components in ever-increasing detail, approaching, but never quite reachin... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2013, 12:41 am
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01001011 wrote: Position 4. 'Consciousness' in this context is just some nonsense uttered by some mystics and so called 'philosophers'.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2013, 10:24 pm
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| Spend a few hours with a PET scanner and that will make a believer out of you. I have. I have seen myself think. Fascinating. I am now more convinced than ever there is no such think as mind as a separate substance not conformable to physical laws. I doubt that you have ever "seen" yourself think a... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Violations of Bell Inequality imply nature is non-local? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2013, 8:19 pm
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| I've posted this question on the physics forum and had quite a few responses. Some of the responses come from theoretical physicists that have published a number of papers in quantum foundations, but I'm still not absolutely certain about the two major sides of the debate although I do lean heavily ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2013, 7:50 pm
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| The neural events are consciousness. We just can't see it right from the Inside. Well, if you can't see/measure them, how can be so sure that they are same thing (e.g. neural events=consciousness), particularly given the vastly different nature of the two? And also particularly because you need the... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2013, 5:14 pm
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Keni wrote: You can observe and measure consciousness going bit by bit due to chemical or organic alterations (overdose, anaesthesia, stroke, Alzheimers).
You can measure neural correlates of consciousness/qualia but not consciousness/qualia. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2013, 10:05 am
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| Yes. As soon as we solve the Stomach-Digestion Problem? Both the stomach and digestion is knowable from a third person (objective) point of view. Consciousness/qualia/subjectivity is not. To be in a subjective state is to have a first-person point of view. The same is not the case with digestion. A... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Can we solve the mind-body problem? |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2013, 8:20 pm
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| The so-called "hard" problem of consciousness (e.g. mind-body problem) ranks in the top few unanswered scientific questions: Journal Ranks Top 25 Unanswered Science Questions http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/misc/webfeat/125th/ Please vote and discuss why you hold your position. Here are some ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Some Children Lose Autism Diagnosis |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2013, 1:47 pm
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| Some children who are accurately diagnosed in early childhood with autism lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has confirmed. The research team made the finding by carefully documenting a prior diagnosis of autism in a small ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How will the DSM-5 affect me? |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 1:27 pm
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Replies: 39
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| I would not meet the new criteria even though I arguably met the dsm-iv criteria. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What is so wrong with anarchy? |
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Posted: 08 Dec 2012, 1:04 am
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Replies: 46
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| The major definition I came across was their opposition to authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations. This does not mean no authority whatsoever. It does mean, however, that all forms of authority /hierarchy should be justified and scrutinized. Proponents of anarchism,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Quantum mechanics-Bohmian interpretation + mind/consciousnes |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2012, 9:58 pm
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| Where is a mind located. I had an MRI and Petscan made of my body and my mind was nowhere to be seen. Is it not you who wrote: This topic is really about what constitutes empirical evidence. We can't always see what we know exists. Sight is not the only mode of perception. The quantum state cannot ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Quantum mechanics-Bohmian interpretation + mind/consciousnes |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2012, 8:27 pm
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| I thought this interpretation of Bohm’s/Hiley’s quantum potential/active information scheme by Seager (see below) was an interesting one and actually makes more sense to me than the one proposed by Bohm/Hiley. First, the problem with the pilot-wave dualist ontology as acknowledged by Bohm: Finally, ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Atheists, do you believe in air? |
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Posted: 13 Nov 2012, 10:02 pm
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Replies: 67
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| The quantum state cannot be observed directly either as it can only be reconstructed indirectly by lengthy state estimation procedures. But that hasn't stop physicists from doing tons of physics. |
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