Tom Siegfried – Uncommon Descent

At Scientific American: Another whoop for the multiverse

All the Cool people believe in it, which is just so much better than evidence.

John Horgan on how multiverse theories are bad for science

The Scientific American columnist is unimpressed by two recent books on the subject, cosmologist Sean Carroll’s Something Deeply Hidden and science writer Tom Siegfried’s The Number of the Heavens.

Ford Prefect Like all of mathematics, the hexagons are all just a big accident, right? Well, given that they form naturally without... – Why we keep seeing hexagons in...
Viola Lee Realtd writes, "However, in the case of the brain, once it decides to measure something in the quantum world, the... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Querius PyrrhoManiac1 @8, I don’t believe any naturalist, and certainly not myself, has a fully convincing story of how we got... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Querius Barry Arrington @OP, But on materialism, there is no fundamental difference between the brain and the liver. They are both... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
chuckdarwin BA/17 I don’t believe I was trying to “refute” the OP. I’m simply looking to see what you and your... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
relatd VL at 22, The human brain has a direct link to the quantum world. And that links directly to an... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Viola Lee to BA: the other half of the hard problem of consciousness is how an immaterial something can interface and interact... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Viola Lee Barry should read this paper, in its entirety, to give him some idea of serious attempts to deal with the... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
relatd This just in: Journal of Reproducible Results, Vol. XVII, No. 2 The Seversky and Chuck Problem - skipping to the... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Querius Origenes @52, Sorry I missed that. Arvin Ash might talk about how cooling an object to near absolute zero significantly... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
bornagain77 JVL: "Plus there are those annoying stones I keep stubbing my toe on." That subjective conscious experience of pain, i.e.... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
PyrrhoManiac1 . Materialism asserts that the liver is nothing but an amalgamation of chemicals and that amalgamation of chemicals is incapable... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington PyrrhoManiac1 @ 8 Nope. You evaded the OP. Not surprising. The OP asserts that materialism cannot account for intentionality. You... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Chuck. at some point you will have to come up with a testable alternative Nope. If my goal is to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
chuckdarwin BA/6 Materialism is false whether or not some other proposition is true. However, at some point you will have to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
JVL Bornagain77: You see Sev, in order to even be able to differentiate beliefs that are real from beliefs that are... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Origenes Querius @50 Ori: In the video, it is claimed that large objects are not informationally isolated and therefore are in... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
relatd Ba77, "You see Sev, in order to differentiate beliefs that are real from beliefs that are illusory, you must first... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
bornagain77 Sev, you tried the “change the subject” trick. But the catastrophic epistemological failure inherent in your materialism, which Barry highlighted,... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Querius William J Murray @40, If the nature of reality is that it reflects back at you that which is the... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
Querius Origenes @36, However, no doubt you are aware, there are larger objects that show quantum effects and are not informationally... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...