On the Nature of Things

The Crest of Becoming Objectively, neither the past nor the future exists. Subjectively, our experience points in the same direction. What we call the passage of time is not an object moving through a pre-existing temporal landscape. Rather, it is the continuous unfolding of actual events. The ...

Quantum God wrote on a tablet at Mount Sinai: An Ontological Proposal for Quantum Reality The Primacy of Actual Events and Quantized Degrees of Freedom This proposal does not seek to replace quantum mechanics. It seeks to replace only its ontology while preserving all empirically verified ...

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The Right to Be Actual Ontology, identity, and the psychological cost of explaining ourselves away Modern science has become extraordinarily successful at explaining things in terms of other things. A sensation is explained in terms of neural activity, behaviour in terms of brain processes and ...

https://i.ibb.co/Dg4XPdRD/file-00000000b7c881f4b85b4dad040001f2.png Proposition: Free Will as Agency Within Constrained Degrees of Freedom The traditional argument against free will is usually framed as a dilemma. If reality is deterministic, every decision follows necessarily from prior conditions ...

The Solipsist Meets Donald Hoffman Eight Conversations on the Map and the Territory Chapter 1 — The Interface Solipsist: Before we begin, I should probably ask whether you're really here. Hoffman: I was expecting something like that. Solipsist: Don't worry. I'm willing to assume you exist for the d ...

The Map–Territory Correspondence Principle 1. The basic distinction A useful starting point is to distinguish between the map and the territory. The map is the world as it appears within experience. It includes everything available to us through perception, measurement, memory, abstract thought, ...

The people who know nothing know everything

At an insufferable anti-Israel dinner party, a masterclass in dealing with pro-Palestinian idiocy.

Very well written

A Modest Improvement to the Many-Worlds Interpretation The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics has always suffered from one unfortunate defect: it is nowhere near extravagant enough. According to Everett, the wave function never collapses. Every quantum event gives birth to new branches ...

There you go. https://youtu.be/ugF10scW_OI?si=S9dS-CQLm0aD9Qtn It's Microsoft, see aboves, and British PsiQuantum the US Govt wants to do its bets (bits) on. Hundreds of millions will be invested in their technogies and hopefully one of them will pull it all off. As a skeptic I hope to be proven ...

This sums it up even better The Grand Explanatory Reversal A proposal for ontological restraint Modern science has achieved extraordinary explanatory power. Yet some of its deepest conceptual puzzles—quantum measurement, Bell's theorem, the hard problem of consciousness, the ontology of spacetime, ...

The Principle of Ontological Restraint Actual events are ontologically primary. Every observation, measurement, theory, equation, memory, and interpretation is itself an actual event within reality. Scientific formalisms describe, organize, and predict regularities among actual events. Their ...

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Quantum God corrected me: A decisive, reproducible quantum computational advantage would strengthen the case that coherent quantum amplitudes represent a physically exploitable resource. Conversely, a long history of principled failure—despite overwhelming engineering sophistication—would inc ...

https://youtu.be/f5xCuYC4n9s?si=56iQGCcszKBJOBpW Well, it surely should be considered an amazing technical achievement to keep a collection of qubits in a superposition (undisturbed) for 20 seconds with very fast quantum gates to read out the quantum states. But that is still not the ultimate test ...

Can you define what consciousness is not? Unconsciousness? Subconsciousness? Self consciousness? Pretty much standard: Unconscious, examples: deep sleep no dreams, coma, heavy object meets skull, death Subconscious, the assumption: that things happen in the brain while you are conscious, that you ...

I use OTNOT as sort of note book for ideas to be used in a later to be written book, when I have enough time as a pensionado. It's a little ambitious to say the least, as it covers the question of consciousness but also explores ontological interpretations of quantum mechanics, and what not. A ...