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Against all the odds, http://bit.ly/1Q86PsU argues a little bit.

This just proofs that random numbers generated by humans are biased. And I agree with you, they are biased. But they are still random. As stated at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness "randomness implies a lack of predictability" and that is why human being can generate random numbers...

Yes, I agree. When answering this kind of questions, Science is just a set of constrains to what we can say or not properly. Logic is the only tool we have to find out any conclusion. This is Philosophy. Wikipedia probably explains it better than I could...

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness): "Some theorists—most of whom are physicists—have argued that classical physics is intrinsically incapable of explaining the holistic aspects of consciousness, but that quantum theory provides the missing ingredients." So...

What a colossal waste of time would be is a universe without observers. To avoid it, quantum uncertainty seems to be a solution. So, Philosophy is offering a possible answer to the main questions of this thread: * "Why is quantum so fundamental?": Because it makes consciousness possible...

This question is out of science, but nevertheless it is a very interesting question. Science cannot tell a thing about something we cannot measure. Philosophy instead could shed some light here. Depending on the metaphysics applied conclusions are very different. In a metaphysics where...

Free-will does not defy logic, but cannot be expressed mathematically.

Indeterminism may be against mathematics, but not against logic (rand(1) function definition I saw here seems to me a tautology). Maths defines things. Logic does not. We probably cannot achieve a complete mathematical description of the Universe (see...

Uncertainity (HUP) and collapse have consequences (causality) as in Schrödinger's cat. A wavefunction that let's the cat being alive or dead could also be a wavefunction that would make possible any future events conditioned to our choice (free will). Wavefunction determinism is not in...

Determinism is a behavioral aspect (how it works) meanwhile here we just try to analyze different ontologies (what is it). Nevertheless, determinism can be associated to some of the listed ontologies, for example #5 (Einstein's). This mumbo-jumbo is expressing the wide variety of views of...

Ok, then, QUESTION: What is there when we do not observe? 1.- We don't know (Feynman, Shut up and calculate), but QM is a good theory of measurement. 2.- We cannot know (Hawkings, Positivism), but QM is a good theory of measurement. 3.- There is nothing (Bohr, Copenhagen...

Just trying to explore the ontological possibilities that Quantum Mechanics have created, I would like to make a list that covers the variety of ways of thinking about reality, using this question as a starting point: QUESTION: What is there when we do not observe? 1.- We don't know...

Probably I have expressed wrongly. I mean the perception/awareness/consciousness of being thinking. That is feeling yourself, not your body, but your mind. The act of thinking, or even simpler, the creation of a particle from the void. There is no rule for that. It's been discussed a lot...

You really don't feel that you think? One of these beliefs could be, depending on which particular religion we choose, the sense of spirituality. You may call it the way you like, but the point is that there is a part of the reality that does not belong to science (because it is not based...

Just the contrary. Science is based on experiences.