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  1. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    The only distinction there is that computers are not manfactured with programs built into their hardware.
  2. PolyHedral

    What is free will?

    For consumer-market machines. :D Distributed supercomputers have been a thing for decades. If your processor has multiple instruction pipelines, it does so. :p It's real, but its not fundamental.
  3. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    I'm not seeing the distinction you're talking about, beyond humans being better at inference than computers.
  4. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Talking about this coherently requires paying very careful attention to your abstractions and how they relate to each other. Awareness of our environment exists because we receive data from our environment, process it, react to it, and remember it. In physical terms, what that means is that...
  5. PolyHedral

    do you believe that there are other creatures in universe, or just in the earth ?

    If it was a mathematical certainty, it would be the case that it was somehow logically impossible for there to be only one inhabited planet in the universe. That's silly.
  6. PolyHedral

    What is free will?

    No, hence the illusion of free will.
  7. PolyHedral

    What is free will?

    Computer multitasking stopped being an illusion in 2004. ;) However, free will is just an illusion generated by not knowing yourself perfectly.
  8. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    The cause in God's handwriting the maths - when two things get entangled, the terms describing them form a structure with specific properties. I thought the solution was to rule out realism of observables.
  9. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    The cause for the correlation is the entangling. No entangling = no correlation. Bell's inequality only rules out local hidden variables. Entangling is not a local hidden variable, its a global one. (Because at the fundamental level, QM talks about global states of the universe and how they...
  10. PolyHedral

    string theory...why do we need the whole shebang?

    What? :eek: I thought string theory was the silver bullet of physics that sadly had the minor problem of not having produced a testable prediction.
  11. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    The local entanglement interaction isn't the thing that causes the state collapse. It's the thing that allows you to deduce that a state collapse happened at all. Measuring an entangled system doesn't somehow "force" the other end of the system into any particular state. Instead, you are using...
  12. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    The local interaction that causes the entanglement in the first place. :D
  13. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    I'm fairly sure its possible to prove that classical electromagnetism is local. So why are you extrapolating from, "This is impractical to model" to, "This is ontologically not the case?"
  14. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    Why not? Have you actually worked out how the global concept maps into small-scale changes?
  15. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    But saying that "experience is a global concept and causes these changes in the micro-objects in the brain" contradicts the premise of reductionism: global concepts are actually built of local objects. There is surely no problem with local objects affecting each other, is there?
  16. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    That second source seems to involve a type error: assuming that "experience" is somehow qualitively different than lots of small changes in the neurons.
  17. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    However, you can say it will happen with high confidence. :D
  18. PolyHedral

    Is there really Cause and Effect?

    The indentation doesn't have a cause - it was always there.
  19. PolyHedral

    INDISPUTABLE Rational Proof That God Exists (Or Existed)

    Why not?
  20. PolyHedral

    INDISPUTABLE Rational Proof That God Exists (Or Existed)

    AFAIK, there's nothing that prevents the universe from being closed in that manner, in which case yes, that would be the result. Did you miss the post where I asked you to elaborate on why an infinite homgenous universe is impossible?
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