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by bkst 11y ago
>Entire quantum physics is a mathematical model of physical things by definition. Quantum physics doesn't follow from definition, it follows from experiment. You are confusing a priori statements with a posteriori statements. >Ph
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by bkst 11y ago
>because I believe at least that an internally consistent external world exists and a global conspiracy of physicists doesn't. The assertion that the world must be internally consistent is quintessential rationalism, not materialism
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by bkst 11y ago
The technicalities are the entire point! If the fundamental nature of reality can't be analyzed technically, what can be? The evidence that things are non-physical is quantum physics experiments showing that the fundamental components
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by bkst 11y ago
>Oh dear. More quantum mumbo jumbo and obvious fallacy. If you were a philosopher you could actually refute my so-called fallacies with logic rather than insults :\ >1. Quantum mechanics tells us that matter obeys the Schrodinger equa
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by bkst 11y ago
Most human beings don't consider themselves logical. 80%+ of people consider their most meaningful and important beliefs to be faith based. So I have no problem with those people claiming to believe in matter. It's the materialist
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by bkst 11y ago
I'm not solipsistic at all... I'm using the socially established definition. I'm engaging in the 2500 year old tradition and usage of the word. I'm using the word in the same way it was used by Thales, Democritus, Bacon,
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by bkst 11y ago
I'm a rationalist. An honest rationalist is logically compelled to be an immaterialist. Immaterialism does not imply theism. What is strange about today is that the materialists themselves have discovered their own refutation, but inst
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by bkst 11y ago
>I tell you what my definitions are, not the other way around. Update your arguments, which, in this case, probably consists of discarding them. I've never spoken to you in my life. The definition of materialism has been established
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by bkst 11y ago
You can't resolve the interactionist problem by just fuzzing the definition of matter. Materialism is the philosophy that all things are matter. Quantum physics refutes the philosophy of materialism because it's incompatible with
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by bkst 11y ago
It's not that consciousness exists independent of matter, it is that what materialists keep calling matter... does... not... exist... Matter just doesn't exist. In what way is the quantum wavefunction material? It's not deter
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by bkst 11y ago
The interactionist problem was solved by Berkeley when he proved, without refutation, that matter is the fiction while mind is the obvious empirical fact. Quantum mechanics came along and re-confirmed what he already proved. "Matter&qu
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by bkst 11y ago
>If they love the book and not the content, why do they care if the content is available. They want to have something that others can't have. >Wouldn't you rather own the only copy of a famous atlas, then an obscure one? Som
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by bkst 11y ago
I'm not trying to "help the situation" by posting on HN. I'm informing a fellow nerd who asked a question. Rare book dealers don't read HN so I don't see how I could offend anyone.
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by bkst 11y ago
The rare book community is the community that has facilitated these crimes. There are more black hats than white hats--no money at all for white hats in this business. Private book traders make all their money by selling unique items to ric