While an interpretation might survive many difficulties, it cannot survive the failure to provide the one thing it promises — and even after seventy years, “many worlds” has yet to produce even one.
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If nature’s beginning has no explanation, the door is left open to embracing unexplained occurrences anywhere in nature, undermining the practice of science.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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What these speculations point to is the way new findings have destroyed classical materialism. Materialism isn’t so much dying out as breaking up.
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We don’t have a reason to expect the eliminative materialism Carlo Rovelli recommends, which has not helped in the past, to be more help in the future.
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People are entitled to their own definitions of materialism, of course. But once we focus on a standard one, we see that it is false to the reality of the human mind.
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The solution to last week’s puzzle is to ask whether the way each of the relationships is created makes any difference.
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Shermer told Mind Matters News after the event that he would bump up his credence in the existence of souls from 1% to 2% out of 99%.
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Initially, many scientists felt that non-locality or “action at a distance” was too spooky to be correct. But it is correct.
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We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.
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I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.
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Here at Mind Matters News, we thought there might be fallout. And 1.15M views in less than a week seems like fallout already. Something’s rotten.
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It seems unlikely that the only reason that the Munich Center parted ways with Hossenfelder is bad language in her posts. Is she uncomfortably correct?
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If the physics establishment is only just now beginning to see that public funding depends on public legitimacy, well… it’s about time.
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When Piers Morgan invited Sean Carroll and Eric Weinstein on his show, sparks flew. And Sabine Hossenfelder’s comments are an eye-opener.
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The answer to Micro Softy 36 lies in considering the problem from a number of angles…
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Interestingly, Mitchell uses evolution to establish free will. Most uses of the concept would be to deny or diminish it, as in “We evolved to be violent,” etc.
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In last week’s puzzle, the car was handling like a cement mixer because something was wrong with the tires. The solution lies in finding out what that is.
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Harris is the wife of well-known New Atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris, at one time one of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheist apocalypse.
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We hear so much these days about the need for more trust in science. Making science sound like a carnival of unlikely stories is not helping.
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