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Poll: Which one describes philosophy as an academic discipline?
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21.43%
3 21.43%
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How worthless is Philosophy?
RE: How worthless is Philosophy?
(February 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: --Also nice to see you again, dude. Hope you've been well.--

I remember talking to you some time before... you were saying that QM had a "measurement problem"... as in, QM as a theory couldn't define what a measurement really was. Has any headway been made in that regard since we last spoke? Or do you have any further thoughts on that at least?

I'm doing well, thanks.  I'm still working because they pay me too much to retire.

No headway has been made with the QM measurement problem.  The Many Worlds Interpretation doesn't solve it - it just shifts the problem from "how does the wavefunction collapse?" to "how do I end up in one of the Worlds and not all of them at once?".  That's an identical problem.

Most physicists punt the problem.  It is something that happens when the system-under-test interacts with the "environment".  The problem is that the boundary between the two is artificial.  Every system is something else's environment.
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How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - November 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Silver - November 14, 2023 at 7:37 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - November 14, 2023 at 7:51 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - November 14, 2023 at 8:46 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - November 14, 2023 at 9:06 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by arewethereyet - November 14, 2023 at 9:19 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 14, 2023 at 9:26 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - November 14, 2023 at 9:19 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by arewethereyet - November 14, 2023 at 9:47 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Fireball - November 14, 2023 at 11:34 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by brewer - November 14, 2023 at 11:39 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Orbit - November 14, 2023 at 11:59 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2023 at 12:51 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Brian37 - November 15, 2023 at 1:28 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Angrboda - November 15, 2023 at 1:56 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by FrustratedFool - November 15, 2023 at 4:41 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2023 at 6:36 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 15, 2023 at 6:40 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2023 at 7:02 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2023 at 7:54 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 15, 2023 at 8:12 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2023 at 8:28 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 15, 2023 at 8:51 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 15, 2023 at 5:27 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 15, 2023 at 7:02 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 15, 2023 at 8:57 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2023 at 10:31 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - November 15, 2023 at 7:38 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by arewethereyet - November 20, 2023 at 6:06 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 21, 2023 at 11:44 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 13, 2024 at 3:35 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - February 14, 2024 at 7:00 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Fireball - November 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 18, 2023 at 10:27 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - November 23, 2023 at 2:54 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 23, 2023 at 11:55 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 23, 2023 at 1:49 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 22, 2023 at 10:46 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 22, 2023 at 10:59 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - November 22, 2023 at 12:39 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - February 13, 2024 at 6:03 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 13, 2024 at 6:09 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - February 13, 2024 at 8:08 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 15, 2024 at 5:26 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Belacqua - February 15, 2024 at 2:35 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - February 14, 2024 at 11:27 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 26, 2024 at 11:01 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by no one - February 14, 2024 at 9:34 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - February 15, 2024 at 10:28 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - February 15, 2024 at 12:10 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - February 16, 2024 at 12:38 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Ahriman - February 16, 2024 at 2:10 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by Anomalocaris - February 16, 2024 at 10:25 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 1:48 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by The Grand Nudger - February 27, 2024 at 12:04 am
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 12:50 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 4:21 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 1:31 am
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 5:08 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 5:21 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 5:27 pm
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RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 6:15 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by HappySkeptic - February 27, 2024 at 6:31 pm
RE: How worthless is Philosophy? - by vulcanlogician - February 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
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