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by Necromancer
Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:27 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Atheism vs Religions put to the test - Quantum Computing
Replies: 0
Views: 920

Atheism vs Religions put to the test - Quantum Computing

By Quantum Computing, let's put Atheism to the test! 1. Are the religions more true than Atheism? True or false. 2. Are the religions more helpful than Atheism? True or false. 3. Are religions more valuable than Atheism? True or false. My belief: Hah-hah-hah! Atheism out the window! 8) :mrgreen: Yo...
by Necromancer
Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:13 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Atheists everywhere, hurry to hide or else I will prove this:
Replies: 0
Views: 943

Atheists everywhere, hurry to hide or else I will prove this:

New to Atheism and Its Followers Atheists everywhere, hurry to hide or else I will prove this: "Atheism by moral blindness can cause death by stupidity, the breakdown of the nervous system!" (Very black indeed, bold types, black ink!) by investigating you! And what a massive negative PR it...
by Necromancer
Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:27 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: The Modern Institution of Psychiatry as a Mental Illness
Replies: 2
Views: 1537

Re: The Modern Institution of Psychiatry as a Mental Illness

. You're failing to separate the corrupt psychiatry from the scientific, ethical psychiatry. Medical treatment can mean a World in difference for those who truly require it. You seem to lack the knowledge of the magnificent effects of medical treatment in psychiatry. Though, I agree. A new History o...
by Necromancer
Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:12 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Humans are fundamentally evil - according to Science
Replies: 136
Views: 24230

Re: Humans are fundamentally evil - according to Science

Now what if the Lead Scientist for The Stanford Prison Experiment was corrupt or evil and dishonest himself?

To throw Justice on the scrap heap can prove very costly and throw a nation into chaos and barbarism!

8)
by Necromancer
Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:04 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Humans are fundamentally evil - according to Science
Replies: 136
Views: 24230

Re: Humans are fundamentally evil - according to Science

Because children are just the worst perverts to walk the Earth? :wink:
by Necromancer
Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:04 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Can there be such a thing as a "Liberal Dictatorship"?
Replies: 100
Views: 22702

Re: Can there be such a thing as a "Liberal Dictatorship"?

"Can there be such a thing as a "Liberal Dictatorship"?"

No! N-O ! (What would such a thing do extra as opposed by the further development of Democracy, Human Rights (UDHR) and the legal systems?)
by Necromancer
Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:34 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Make your grass, bushes, trees, fishes and animals happy and pleased
Replies: 17
Views: 5155

Re: Make your grass, bushes, trees, fishes and animals happy and pleased

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Hunch: different grains for cattle can make them very happy, in addition to all the usual.

:D
by Necromancer
Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:29 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Make your grass, bushes, trees, fishes and animals happy and pleased
Replies: 17
Views: 5155

Re: Make your grass, bushes, trees, fishes and animals happy and pleased

. Further: Crazy experiment for trees (crazy!) Now let's try to see what MRI scan of a tree's central core roots system may bring. Let's correlate with substances' radiological signatures. Then, can we prove that a tree is doing telepathy? I said CRAZY! MRI for trees: an MRI-radio beam directed at t...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:10 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

Perhaps if you state where your uncertainty lies and be transparent of the evidence you require for me to falsify JTB I can do better? For a start, I have absolutely no trouble formulating a winner strategy by B, T and JTB and you go directly against it. Therefore, put simply, you are wrong! If not...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:57 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

Time for a paradigm shift, maybe ? ;) Let me end this exchange by saying that you have not proven that B, T, JTB (Plato Tripartite Definition) are junk. My scientific experience says that it is true, although in a more elaborated version today, in 2018. Ok? Enjoy! (Welcome to the Philosophy Now for...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:27 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

It's fundamental and mathematically isomorphic (read: identical!) to statistical mechanics. And statistical mechanics is fundamental to hypothesis testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy True. It is a standard part of the physics education, but only that (small) part. It...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:02 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

Cool story. How do you study the properties of an object without taking measurements e.g acquiring information? How do you represent this information without reducing it into a LANGUAGE that you can parse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity ) ? Sure, you must acquire information, b...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:15 am
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

Of course I see the connection. It is just that the practice of science (and scientific epistemology) is grounded in probability theory[1] and Bayesian inference (ET Jaynes’ principle of maximum entropy) which is grounded in information theory. So I don’t need the JTB (or any other non-mathematical...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:27 am
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

The question is not catch-all. The answer is. JTB has no utility criterion. That's why it's junk. It's also why the "law" of excluded middle is junk. That's not correct. Hypothetico-Deductive Method-Justified True Belief has indeed utility criterion. Problems translating science into Hypo...
by Necromancer
Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:38 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method
Replies: 32
Views: 10790

Re: Justified True Belief and Hypothetico-Deductive Method

JTB is fundamentally broken. The following claim meets the criteria for knowledge: Soon the human race may or may not become extinct. The probabilistic nature of this claim requires a bounded confidence interval on the meaning of "soon". The sentence "Soon the human race may or may n...