Mon 9 Feb, 2009 03:43 am - [quote=Bones-O!]I hope that explains it well enough.[/quote]
I think that it probably does explain it in that I can now imagine much better how it works. As you and Khetil suggest in earlier... (view)
Sun 8 Feb, 2009 05:24 am - Of course particles exist - in the minds of those who postulate them to explain phenomena. But then, how else could anything be demonstrated to exist? (view)
Fri 30 Jan, 2009 05:23 am - Thanks for all these very helpful replies.
[quote=Bones-O!]The breakdown in determinism lies in measurement, not propagation, since there is no known mechanism for time-evolving an... (view)
Wed 28 Jan, 2009 05:53 am - I think that I understand how it is that we can know an electron's position but not its velocity and vice versa. I also understand that Einstein did not think that this affected determinism... (view)
Wed 24 Dec, 2008 03:34 pm - Surely when we talk about what we mean by "consciousness", we don't usually use neurological vocabulary. We don't say "A few ganglia fired and I became aware I was no... (view)
Tue 2 Dec, 2008 04:34 am - I think I'd design the afterlife so that experiencing it it felt a bit like coming back off holiday or like stopping playing a computer simulation game. We would no longer feel the space time... (view)
Tue 11 Nov, 2008 11:02 am - I did philosophy as a subsidiary subject at university a few decades ago but haven't really had much opportunity since. I'm primarily interested in philosophy of science, different types... (view)