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  1. LegionOnomaMoi

    "Do Your Own Research" - Are *You* Doing *Your* Own Research?

    I don’t do all of my own research, nor do I know anybody who does. Science (and academia more generally) has become increasingly interdisciplinary as it has become increasingly diverse and specialized. Many of the conferences I go to are attended not only by scientists of different fields but...
  2. LegionOnomaMoi

    Science

    I was curious about that. I missed that particular meeting. I was hoping it might have been before my time and perhaps you knew about it :)
  3. LegionOnomaMoi

    Science

    We don't "observe consciousness in living brains". There is nothing much approaching a consensus as to what consciousness is in neuroscience and related disciplines, let alone methods to determine when or how to "observe" it in "living brains" and observe it cease at death. It is mostly ignored...
  4. LegionOnomaMoi

    Just Curious: What is the logical and scientific basis for accepting physicalism/materialism is fact

    Absolutely, and in several quite fundamental ways that can (and do) often cross both different fields and entire disciplines. For example, from medical sciences to particle physics to climate science to social psychology and elsewhere, many of the same statistical methods are used. And indeed...
  5. LegionOnomaMoi

    Just Curious: What is the logical and scientific basis for accepting physicalism/materialism is fact

    This is in direct contradiction not only with much current scientific practice, but also most of the origins of modern science, which emerged rather directly based on theological and metaphysical presuppositions that were absolutely inconsistent with and opposed to (reductive) materialism or...
  6. LegionOnomaMoi

    Just Curious: What is the logical and scientific basis for accepting physicalism/materialism is fact

    Neither theories nor hypotheses in the sciences can, generally speaking, be falsified. The term is typically misused to mean something like "evidence can be presented that demonstrates the hypotheses/theory to be false." However, there is a very good reason why Popper and followers used words...
  7. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    Almost without exception, the answer is “no.” For the bast 60+ years, basically the only application of the physics that is (or, before it emerged, was) the standard model of particle physics is to particle physics experiments and (by extension) cosmology (which incorporates the standard model...
  8. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    1) We do not have any method for determining which particles are “elementary”. This is part of the reason that different accounts of the standard model of particle physics give different numbers of types of particles (other, related reasons include where one decides to draw the lines when it...
  9. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    Quantum theory led to the foundations of chemistry. Essentially, it was our understanding and development of quantum theory that allowed us to place the whole of chemistry on sound theoretical and conceptual footing by e.g., explaining the stability of atoms. This is ridiculous. Firstly, the...
  10. LegionOnomaMoi

    What do You Think Science is...

    This made me think about an aside during a lecture made by a well-known physicist and educator (not only as a college professor but as the author of textbooks, including a standard textbooks used to teach quantum mechanics to beginning graduate students and sometimes advanced undergraduates)...
  11. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    Actually, I said that such popular science pieces are almost always sensationalist garbage. And indeed they are, regardless of whether they are an online science news outlet or a more traditional magazine. The magazines are typically better in that they leave most of the sensationalist garbage...
  12. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    Nothing in quantum mechanics shows this. It is via the reinterpretation of the operators from QM and the demotion of the position operator to a status that is on par with "time" in spacetime that, along with conservation laws and symmetries (and the uncertainty principle, of course) makes it...
  13. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    Quantum Field Theory grew out of a reinterpretation of the way that the quantum formalism describes systems when it is forced to obey the correct relativistic symmetries. In particular, the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations were ostensibly relativistic quantum mechanical descriptions, but such...
  14. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    Agreed. However, much of the sensationalist bunk is due to the author of a magazine article, not the physicists you dismiss with descriptions such as this: Flowery language and typical sensationalist mischaracterizations combined with the typical oversimplifications and obfuscations found in...
  15. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is But a Dream?

    And your characterization is about as woefully, hopelessly incorrect and horribly wrong as could be. I once asked Chris Fuchs why he didn't publish a particular paper in a philosophy journal as it explained a lot of the QBist philosophy and he told me that he didn't feel comfortable enough with...
  16. LegionOnomaMoi

    Mutation not random????

    Even were the sensationalist account of the actual paper an accurate characterization, it would hardly be new. Indeed, the late, great biologist Robert Rosen noted in the prolegomena to one of his monographs that, at least at some level, the assumption of essential randomness is at odds with...
  17. LegionOnomaMoi

    Subjunctive Mood

    I would say the use of "the language" here rather than e.g., "English" is potentially offensive to some. I would also somewhat agree, albeit with many, many caveats, that in English the term "subjunctive mood" is hardly warranted. It is unfortunate that English grammar (as well as many other...
  18. LegionOnomaMoi

    What we mean by "there is no evidence for theism"

    We can't know. True. But we can do more than just act on the assumption that we are not by e.g. , examining the implications under the assumption that we are, or more generally how we might reason starting from such solipsist-like assumptions, e.g.
  19. LegionOnomaMoi

    The Truth is Objective?

    So does this mean that, as the moment you posted the above is now gone, it is no longer true? More broadly, if "the truth" is constantly changing, then so is the truth of "the truth is constantly changing". In other words, if you claim that there is no objective truth (regardless of whether or...
  20. LegionOnomaMoi

    What we mean by "there is no evidence for theism"

    So far, all of it. In 1801, Young did the first experiments that showed (contra Newton and therefore widely held beliefs) that light was not corpuscular (composed of particles) but was a wave. During subsequent decades, one of the most successful physical theories ever devised grew out of this...
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