I think there are so far as we can tell particles of mass that are made up of quarks and leptons (electrons and what not). So far as we know those the fundamental particles of matter.
Question - how hard have we banged on quarks/leptons to see if we can blow those up into smaller units? I...
But see, it is my view that if you don't think you have free will, you saying you are not sure you believe that is in fact not based on logic or reason - you were determined to say that at the beginning of the universe. Indeed, nothing you ever said, did, or thought was based on logic or...
Thanks PeroK! I think I follow you. Taking your last statement:
"In short, deterministic doesn't mean indefinitely predictable. These are different concepts."
Got it, and I think I understand. But deterministic would mean there is no free will, would you agree with that? And more broadly...
Does it make sense to anyone? He says our universe is just one in a long line of prior universes. But the big bang was not so much starting from a very small area, but instead results out of a prior universe that had gotten so old that essentially it has no matter, and when there is no matter...
I watched a youtube pop-sci program the other day where the host kept talking about there being some anti-matter "problem". Sabine Hossenfelder, Lee Smolin, and at least one other kept trying to tell him there was no problem, but he never seemed to grasp what they were saying.
The alleged...
I would say that is correct - non-deterministic does not necessarily mean free will exists, but it certainly allows that possibility. Deterministic (as I understand it) does not allow that possibility. So if this were a deterministic universe we would necessarily not be using logic address the...
That doesn't follow. At the very least the instruments are part of the universe and you can (even theoretically) measure everything to unlimited accuracy.Thanks PetroK! On the one above, are you saying that in a deterministic universe you CANNOT measure everything to unlimited accuracy? I...
Determinism, as I understand it, means that everything that can ever happen could, has already been determined, because everything is just a reaction based on everything else. With good enough instruments you could predict with 100% accuracy the future of everything in the universe. Quantum...
But I asked this:
But, whatever the wave function is, and whatever might collapse it, can we agree consciousness is not required to collapse it? I.E., the moon was there before "conscious" beings, on this planet or elsewhere, viewed it?
Isn't that the exact same question as what you said I...
I believe, but I could be wrong, that it had to have apparently been so uniform that such conditions only had a 1 over [insert big number here, like in the trillions] possibility of happening. Does that sound right? Could be confusing things. Thanks.
I just ordered "Where does the weirdness go?" off Amazon, thanks! Will review.
But you said yes, consciousness is not needed for the wave function to collapse, but then you qualified it with a "this is for B level threads only". This is a very simple question - is the viewing of item at issue...
Shoot Nugatory, I missed that (and I just spent several minutes trying to go back and find it, could not off hand). Might you tell me again? Thank you!!!
I see this written or talked about so often. Pop-sci for sure. But, whatever the wave function is, and whatever might collapse it, can we agree consciousness is not required to collapse it? I.E., the moon was there before "conscious" beings, on this planet or elsewhere, viewed it? Is at...