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Entropy is a statistical law which is given as a reason for the existence of complexity although I agree that it is hard to imagine any exceptions1. Indeed, but the fact that it's statistical doesn't mean that it's not always true. Neither argument is my point anyway. My book concerns how nature ba...

Yet I am not entirely unsympathetic toward the Creationist view that life seems more than a purely random occurrence, but there are standard rebuttals to the argument they make regarding the second law. One is that entropy is a statistical law, something that is usually but not always true, life th...

Europe thinks What or whom do you mean, when you say "Europe thinks"? Every European citizen, the majority of citizens of Europe, of the European Union? Every European government, or the majority thereof? it can become another United States, but that's absolutely laughable since you can't...

The youtuber QualiaSoup has made two new videos on Substance Dualism. He had made another video a few years ago and I may have mentioned it in the Philosophy Now forum, but I'm not sure about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4PW35-Y00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTCK8ZluEc Do you find any ...

A New Superpower. The latest disgrace goes on and on. The US wants to gaol what some on this Forum would call a 'retard', for 60 years. Gary Mckinnon hacked the US's most 'secure' and secret websites, without bad intent, yet this Asperger's syndrome sufferer is still fighting the stress of extradit...

It was BR's birthday yesterday and I've been looking into his life and influence again. Was he much of philosopher? What did he bring philosophically beside his analytical style. Was his true talent really as historian? Watching a clip on you tube as per his views on Nietzsche, I felt he was talkin...

I thought the thread was started by an curious child, or another slightly ignorant person who is eager to learn. I was disappointed to find out that it was in fact started by a person who, unsatisfied with the scope of problems facing humanity, makes up their own imaginary problems and seeks confirm...

This seems like a very reasonable theory. The human mind excels in recognizing patterns, to the point of creating patterns where there are none. And interpreting the world as intentionally purposeful seems like an advantageous approach. It might be mere prejudice, but I also believe there is some t...

I think you're clutching at straws with the science but you're also accepting sensationalist media reports uncritically as evidence of telepathy or ESP. Actually hard facts on where psychics have helped solve crimes is hard to come by and there are many reports of psychics wasting police time or se...

Suppose free electron (in STR “empty” space). It has some direction and some velocity (they can differ by related STR “frame”). Suppose another free electron (with the same spin). Now focus at these two “object”. How they differ? Again, where is saved information about they speeds and energy? They ...

It's NO about definition (of a black hole) as such! No, you misunderstand. It's about this: ... defined (as opposed to tacky ) ... Dictionary.com for "tacky" if you like. The importance of this discussion hinges on what the nature of Black Holes is and thus how this nature has implication...

I ask this question, not because I am against science, in fact i love it.. but because i am against those who aren`t scientists yet fancy themselves as know alls because they only believe in their bias doctrines of scientism..Most real contemporary evolved scientists will tell you they can disagree...

My answer is that Black Holes are sufficiently defined (by their "circles", where the Black Holes start to be black, the rims of them) to consider them defined (as opposed to tacky). This is in relation to an ongoing discussion that has encumbered my brain for a while now. I'm not sure wh...

A little note to this topic: The Dirac stream! I've come aware of the Dirac Stream in physics and some people claim that it's possible to see and other people don't. Even detectors and other data on it are unavailable! So my assertion in this regard is this: I'd say that the Dirac Stream is this st...

Are we all supposed to take on faith your assertion it is from nothing? Of course. where is your scientific evidence? You were supposed to have faith in my assertion, but here is some of the evidence anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift#Lamb_shift_in_the_hydrogen_spectrum In 1947 Willis ...