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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. Do you have an example of Zeilinger's writing where he discusses his philosophical stance? Is a philosophical stance something you believe that a physicist shouldn't have?
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Fine, here's another from Ronald Hensen at Delft: Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins separated by 1.3 km 2015 https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05949v1 "...Thi
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Because pilot wave theory assumes realism and determinism[1], and the authors of the first paper I listed conclude that their result "suggests that giving up the concept of locality is not sufficient to be consistent with quantum exper
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
In this instance, the popular understanding corresponds to the latest research better than realist theories like pilot-wave theory. Proponents of realist interpretations of QM have relied for decades on identifying possible classical channe
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
According to an article in the Washington Post[1], the Kwon case resulted in an outcry that caused Congress to change its guidelines, adding the additional requirement that the IRS must show the money in question are the profits of criminal
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
The value of the philosophical disciplines of logic and epistemology to empiricism and science is as self evident as the value of algebra and numbers to mathematics in that you can't have one without the other. Empiricism and science d
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
You're going to run into problems attempting to operationalize a variable like 'critical reasoning', in order to demonstrate, scientifically, its empirical validity. In fact, you'll need the help of philosophers, who hav
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
Philosophers explore and debate the very meaning of the words 'evidence', 'empirical', 'reasoning', 'facts', and various methods of knowing - many of which insist upon empirical evidence (e.g. science
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
The article, and the parent comment seek to gain some understanding of consciousness by exploration of subjective perspectives - both our own and that of the bee's. Your statements merely assert that you view consciousness from the out
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
When the alternative is destitution, homelessness, and starvation the choice to work in a hellish occupation can hardly be called 'voluntary'. Many who find themselves in a situation where a job in one of these hellholes is an att
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
People who understand capitalism tend to be entrepreneurs, as they understand the rules of the game. But capitalism does not equal economics. I would even venture to say that people who consider themselves capitalists have a woefully limi
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
Longest Chain Rule, that the network honors the longest chain as the correct chain.
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by jmcmichael 9y ago
<eyeroll> Standard libertarian/ancap nonsense that confuses interference with regulation, and actively maintains a blindspot to the role of government in fundamentally supporting every single business within the economy by provid
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
> The idea that science advances only when old scientists die is used to promote the idea that science has nothing over politics. It is anti-science propaganda. Sounds to me like you believe that science proceeds without politics. > Y
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
By default angular-cli produces source maps in dev mode. These work transparently when viewing source and using breakpoints in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera. Just install @angular/cli create a project and a few components and check it
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Yes: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Yes, but some are self-serving lying fascists.
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
> self-replicating interstellar probes DNA
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Yes, I've struggled with very similar feelings about guilt over past misdeeds. I agree that feelings of guilt serve a critical function in modifying our future behavior such that we never do the actions that lead to us feeling guilty i
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
The recommendation 'Only live in the now' requires a differentiation between two types of thinking about the past and/or future. One can be involved in thinking about the future in one way, e.g. making concrete plans for achi
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
I don't think Latour's criticism of social theory applies to the causal closure of physics, or science's claimed exclusivity to describe fundamental ontologies; it criticizes the approaches of 20th century post-modernist crit
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Yes, and logic + various epistemological disciplines besides science give us valid knowledge in other domains.
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Anytime one attempts to abstract entities and features from reality in order to work with them - whether you're practicing philosophy, physics, medicine, writing laws, coding animal behavior, or describing a database schema, one must b
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Do you believe that the ontology of science, namely the fundamental entities of the standard model and general relativity, serve as the only valid foundation for all other ontologies encompassing the human experience?
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
I'm curious why you believe all philosophers need to keep up with mathematics and science, as you appear to imply. Certainly philosophers working in branches that deal directly with science, math, and the nature of reality must maintai
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The far-right conspiracist gold bug economics of Bitcoin(davidgerard.co.uk)
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
Seriously, Trump, Bannon, Guiliani, and the rest of those ghouls you consider to be 'regular people'?
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
They already possess white privilege. No matter how bad their situation, all other things being equal, if the color of their skin were black instead of white, they would be treated worse by the society around them and our social institution
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
How would you differentiate between your definition of identity politics, and recognizing the very real, factual discrepancy between how society treats white males and most of the rest of the population. Do you believe in white privilege, o
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by jmcmichael 10y ago
These protests are more of the 'Fuck that guy!', and not the 'The elections were rigged, storm the White House!' kind that the right threatened.

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