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ABSTRACT: Philosophers often argue, "Unless P, X is mysterious; therefore, P" or "The theory that P solves the problem of X; therefore, P." But their arguments are commonly v
Mainly a resource thread of Video's and Papers on Nima Arkani-Hamed and Friends new theory over the last 5 years...
General introduction
[quote]20th June 2008. The union of quantum mechanics and gravity strongly suggests that spacetime as a basic concept is doomed, and there are related indica
Ian (pinging you as @Ninshub), here's my promised albeit very belated response to your posts earlier in the thread [url=https://psiencequest.net/forums/thre
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[color=#131313]Thoth was among the most complex and mysterious gods of the ancient Egyptian world. His origins lost to time, he would become the deity of writing, heka (magic), the moon and fate. He would aid in the resu
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Who counts as a person? The severely mentally challenged? The elderly person at the end of Alzheimer’s? The unborn? On what basis do we decide this critical question? How do we know that we have a soul? Hasn’t science decided that all of
Since so many materialists, including I think SH, seem to think that 'complexity' is the explanation of consciousness, it is rather interesting how frustratingly difficult it is to define complexity
Okay so this could be my subconscious playing tricks on me. For the record I've never seen the matrix (I'm a zoomer). I woke up this morning and after my dream but before I woke up, I saw scrolling lines of green text against a black background. I could identify letters and numbers. It then became a
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