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for applied philosophical questions about the study of science, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the scientific method
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What kind of universe would there be with entirely different physical laws?
That's a big question.
I've asked tough questions that required 'soft' [read: speculative; non-quantitative] answers on physics.se, and I received helpful replies.
That aside, I recently wondered …
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Is the existence or not of extraterrestrial life a philosophical question?
It's not of much interest.
If we ever learn that they exist, it will not be philosophers who ascertain that fact. It will be astronomers, astrophysicists (who recently looked at 100,00 galaxies for …
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Is human consciousness encoded in DNA in an infinitely regressive way?
For what it's worth - you could probably quite easily store the schematics for the 100 most powerful super computers on one USB stick.
Furthermore, its not the complexity of a thing that makes it po …
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Can we measure the effort to create a mathematical theory in terms of energy?
I suspect that we could. Although such a measure may not be especially informative or useful. Consider for example that some brains may use more or less energy than other brains use when completing th …
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