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Is the existence of physical substances, such as organisms, compatible with physicalism?
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If I, an organism, cause my arm to move, we could say the organism (Z) causes its arm to move. But for this to happen, the organism would need to impart energy and momentum onto its parts (X ...
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Is the existence of physical substances, such as organisms, compatible with physicalism?
The organism does have causal potency, as do the particles that make it up, and the causal potency of the organism is nothing more than the causal potency of the particles that make it up. When we say ...
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Can the Paradox of Phenomenal Judgement be resolved with a non-causal theory of knowledge?
Chalmers' intuition is that for:
(4) we know we are conscious [1st person knowledge]
to be true, then our judgment that we are conscious must occur in precisely those possible worlds that we are ...
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What is the difference between implication and causality?
(I think) it is conditional probability. Eg (R)ain CAUSES (W)etness can be written as R ↷ W,
which is to say
P(R ↷ W) = P(W\ R).
Lets try to understand the differences between ⇒ and ↷
R⇒W is same as -...
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Does Quantum Entanglement Disprove the Principle of Locality?
According to recent evidence published in New Scientist, yes.
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What is the difference between implication and causality?
Cause has a forward direction to it, it is dynamic, so contrapositive wont make sense. But in implies, there is no direction, there are just events, so we can make contrapositive statement.
We cannot ...
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