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Question for religious parents
R. Steve Walz wrote:
wrote: Many-worlds says that in reality, what we've got is a multiverse, and that we can't get any information whatsoever from any of the other universes. And what happens to the cat is that it fissions into two cats; any given cat is either dead or alive, but not both. ----------------------------- We say that something must be alive or dead, but in medicine we can see that there's quite a span between the two that is sort of undefined, but still, FINALLY the cat is dead or alive. Schroedinger's Cat is not specific to the difference between different interpretations, nor to discussion of the MWI. So change it to an electron going through the slits, instead of a cat. The point remains that the superposition is not A, not B, not both A and B, and not neither A nor B. It's something different altogether. It is not affirming a contradiction. I'm not talking about reasons for belief, nor am I talking about consequences. I'm talking about what it is to say, "I believe X;" specifically, that it means you do not believe not X. ------------------------------ Belief is affirmative, the opposite is NOT actually believing NOT-X but believeing OTHER than X. If you believe something other than X, then you believe not X. You think X is a false belief. -- C, mama to three year old nursling |
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Question for religious parents
R. Steve Walz wrote: wrote: One's personal faith can be Christian, and one's preferred way of knowing stuff about reality can be scientific method, with no conflict between the two. ----------------------------- An absolutely stupid lie. Truth is of one cloth. Religion is lies and confabulated bull**** about things no one can possibly know, Beliefs are things one takes to be true. One can hold them for any reason, or for no reason at all. One might argue that it's generally better to have empirical reasons for believing things -- in fact, I would argue that -- but again, I am not talking about having reasons. I'm just saying that belief is an attitude about a proposition about the world. Nonsense, faith is NON-reason. Pure faith can believe in anything, and that is belief in Evil, since it has no reasoned basis and so invariably must contradict reason!! Everyone has some unjustified beliefs that they take on faith. Or else you think that it's evil to believe in the evidence of your senses...? Consider: all that data could be sent to you by an evil neuroscientist who had your brain preserved in a vat and hooked up to a computer. How do you know you're not just a brain in a vat? -- C, mama to three year old nursling |
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