:up:it seems to me the last part is what is meant by "entanglement." — tim wood
As to randomness, I'll add this: that randomness is really hard to define. I suspect that at the level of the things themselves, nothing is merely random, for reasons I think obvious (yes?). — tim wood
At the moment one particle gets measured, by exactly what mechanism does the other particle know to come out measured the opposite? — flannel jesus
"Touching" in common use (as in this thread) does not mean occupying the identical space, it means exerting pressure on another object. — LuckyR
I am a brain in a vat iff “I am a brain in a vat” is true — Michael
Given this, it must be that the sentence "I am a brain in a vat" in my language is false, and so I am not a brain in a vat (this is simply Tarski's T-schema). — Michael
2. If semantic externalism is true then we cannot be brains in a vat — Michael
I would expect that in principle we can derive Mary's reaction of "aha, now I know what it is like to see red" from a complete physical description of her brain processing. — Apustimelogist
Touching is by many considered an object coming into contact with another, which perhaps requires the objects occupying the same space. — elucid
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Francine Prose — Amity
The ideas that burst from my brain were circled, underlined, numbered, asterisked and arrowed. There has to be a better way. — Amity
I think this is a mental hurdle you have to get over. It is not actually essential that you be understood.I think it is important that a story is enjoyed AND understood. Otherwise, what's the point? — Amity
I have two larger projects that require this. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Read a lot. — Tom Storm
It you want to improve your description, read Bradbury. When I was 19, my first chief tech gave me an old paperback copy of Dandelion Wine. It was a revelation worthy of a fanfare by the celestial brass. I still consider him the grand master of evocative description. — Vera Mont
Murakami — javi2541997
he doesn't leave his desktop until he reaches five or more pages (written in Japanese characters) — javi2541997
As if you were describing something to a blind person, for example. — Outlander
If I do that I run the risk of disrupting the flow and then it can take a very long while before I get back into it. — Benkei
Do you think it is a matter of artistically focusing on crafting your language at the sentence level as an aesthetic choice, — wonderer1
This is not in disputeThis shows that the T aspect of JTB is required. — PL Olcott
If it is true that much of what we think of as knowledge isn’t actually knowledge
then we must accept that as it is. — PL Olcott
What we cannot know with absolute certainty is that a kitten that we are looking at
right now physically exists, or is not a mere figment of the solipsist's imagination. — PL Olcott
Consider first the two possible outcomes conditional on today being Monday. Since Sleeping Beauty always is awakened on Monday regardless of the coin toss result, P(Monday-Heads) = P(Monday-Tails). Consider next the two possible outcomes conditional on the coin having landed tails. Since in that case Sleeping Beauty is awakened once on Monday and once on Tuesday, P(Monday-Tails) = P(Tuesday-Tails), which is something that the Thirders, Halfers and Double-halfers all agree on. We therefore have that P(Monday-Heads) = P(Monday-Tails) = P(Tuesday-Tails). Lastly, since Sleeping Beauty isn't inquiring about the probabilities that any of those three outcomes will occur at least once during her current experimental run, but rather about the probability that her current awakening episode is the realization of one of those three outcomes, the three possibilities are exclusive and exhaustive, and their probabilities must therefore sum up to 1. They therefore all three are 1/3, and P(Tails) = P(Monday-Tails) + P(Tuesday-Tails) = 2/3. — Pierre-Normand
whenever she awakens, the coin landed (or will land) tails two times out of three — Pierre-Normand
However, it seems ridiculous to say that an iterative string creation program is somehow equivalent to its outputs. No one will be happy if they hire a software engineer to create a specific program and they receive an iterative string generator that would, eventually, produce the ideal program they are looking for. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Evolving the universe forward might allow you to turn T1 into any other time in the universe, but in order to halt the process and output the description of the time you want to describe using T1 you'd need to already have a total description of the time you want so that you can match the two. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Anyhow, I found simple requests to "critically assess" my answers can mitigate the agreeability bias. — Baden
hypostatization (reification) — NOS4A2
The thirder view is that only the current slice that you might be is relevant, and there are more being-interviewed slices in the tails partition, so you're more likely one of those. — Srap Tasmaner
the correct analysis is that the coin flip partitions SB's future slices into a heads set and a tails set, just two, equal chances of being in each set. — Srap Tasmaner
She is therefore being asked "What is P(C | M) , where M is your current mental state?" — sime
Task :
Determine the marginal distribution P (C = head ) from the above premises — sime
It's just right, look at the code!
All coding something up does is let you check a calculation for it being correct, not whether it's the appropriate calculation to do. — fdrake
The traditional use of pronouns is to identify sex, not gender. — Philosophim