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Can anyone demonstrate that given all other necessary criteria’s a falling tree does not make a sound if there is no one to hear it?

Yes.

What is a sound?

My clock says 31/8, the BBC says nothing.

Think of it like this:

one AND one IS onea,
one AND onea IS oneb,
one AND oneb IS onec,
one AND onec IS oned,

and so on.

As formalised in the Peano axioms.


Eggs IS eggs, no empirical eggs needed.

Nothingness is the total absence of any type of existence; therefore nothingness is totally non-relational and non-existent. And yet there it is, on this page, in your mind and in my mind. Nothingness is not totally non-relational, in fact just like everything else, it's relative to what it is not....

Yes, a person makes a choice, but whichever choice they make is completely determined by predetermining causes. For example, some people have more choices than others, and some people are more intelligent, more confident, more knowlegeable, etc. All these things determine what choice a person will ...

That means even one causal event cannot be precisely defined. Therefore causality itself cannot be defined? Causality can certainly be defined. A cause is something that is necessary for something else to exist. Then you must realize the problem of the "totality". If it has a cause, what ...

You're reading far too much into what the statement says. What you've postulated is: 1)Knowing our memories are reliable involves acts of reliable memory. 2)There is the possibility of unreliable memory. This is a statement of possibility. Possibility 1 Memory is unreliable. Therefore, We cannot kno...

To be clear, the formulation of the original question is complete gobbledygook. The reasoning is valid but the premises are unsound. It's garbage in - garbage out. First there's the abundance of words with the same meaning. So: The possibility of faulty memories may make it impossible to distinguish...

Andrew: How do you know if your perceptions are "clear" How do you know if your knowledge is perfect? There's only one answer to these types of questions. (in fact, what does it actually mean for a perception to be clear??) For it to be not unclear. And is this not still the only way we h...

There's always imperfect and therefore unreliable memory. My memory is pretty shit sometimes. A pen and paper usually do the trick! Some peculiarities: A - Just Knowledge The possibility of faulty knowledge may make it impossible to distinguish good arguments from bad ones: 1) We cannot know that ou...

Bosons and fermions are subatomic particles -- unless they've changed the rules again. Seems like someone's trying to turn force into matter. Bosons are not only the force carriers. Protons and nuclei, which are 'matter' particles, can also be bosons. I'm still trying to work out how a massless par...

Because the Exclusion principle only applies to Fermions. Bose-Einstein condensates are made with, you guessed it, Bosons. From what I was reading (which was, admittedly, the cartoon version for fourth graders), they were using atoms of rubidium. Does an atom act like a boson here? I was thinking i...

Like you say, virtually all the energy is removed from a bunch of squashed together atoms by cooling them to almost absolute zero. Because we can now know the energy state (and therefore the momentum) of all these atoms very precisely, we can no longer know their position (the conjugate variable of...

Analog wrote: Any proof of the law of identity would necessarily depend on some form of the law of identity, so the reasoning MUST be circular, and constrained within a limited domain. It is circular, yes, but not constrained. This is because it is impossible for there to be a domain in which A=A d...

Hence the inverted commas around the word 'real' and the careful use of the word 'physical', even though the distinction you're making is taken as read around here.

Try to be a little less condescending in making your initial posts and points, such as they are.

Nonlocality does violate the supposed universal speed limit. Scientists aren't generally pleased with nonlocality. But it's been proven that spatially separate particles can behave as though there is an instantaneous link between them. Make of it what you will. I'm not really thinking of it as backw...

Interestingly, in the last few months, new experimental data has come to light which might prove to be a nail in the coffin of both the Copenhagen AND Many Worlds interpretations. This is because the data seems to violate them both, whilst confirming the Transactional interpretation. This interpreta...

If you're able to condense thousands of atoms into the same quantum state, wouldn't you then be able to 'recharge' these same 'cluster' atoms into a stable form of renewable energy? By using the same method, wouldn't you be able to provide an input/output interface for a quantum computer? Bose-Eins...

Dave,

Because the Exclusion principle only applies to Fermions. Bose-Einstein condensates are made with, you guessed it, Bosons.

None of this poses any more threat to causality than water becoming ice does BTW.

You've already had the third one.

So any more than the five characteristics you've listed?

analog57 wrote: Infinite freedom is without boundaries or constraint. Un-parameterized by the "Law of Identity". It can only be inferred by sentience from within constrained reality.

What other characteristics does it have?

The Uncertainty principle is for 'real'. It describes a physical actuality, not a limitation of perception. For example, were this not the case, Bose-Einstein condensation would be impossible. I've just read up about Bose-Einstein condensation, but it doesn't seem to prove that the uncertainties of...

I think there's a misapprehension going on here.

The Uncertainty principle is for 'real'. It decribes a physical actuality, not a limitation of perception.

For example, were this not the case, Bose-Eistein condensation would be impossible.

aaahh but without love what is it all good for?

Without truth, what is what?