Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "" video.

  1. Maybe they just can't help themselves.
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  2. Which is why simulations use simplified models of the thing being simulated. If you want 100% fidelity to the thing, then the thing itself is the model and the computer. The universe will give you the future state of the universe in real time.
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  3. The universe is the computer.
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  4. Exactly.
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  5. It isn't a physics question until a physicist thinks of some way of applying scientific method to the question to resolve it.
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  6. The work of Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace is important to mathematics, physics, and engineering.
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  7. Agreed.
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  8. It isn't just a convention, though. The distinction became necessary because natural philosophy became much more rigorous. It was useful to separate the questions which could be subjected to rigorous application of scientific method from those which could not.
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  9. Here is what Carnap* had to say on the question: "The problem of determinism is, of course, closely connected in the history of philosophy with the problem of free will. Can a man choose between different possible actions, or is his feeling that he has freedom of choice a delusion? No detailed discussion of this question will be given here, because, in my opinion, it is not affected by any of the fundamental concepts or theories of science. ...." *An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Rudolph Carnap, Edited by Martin Gardner, Dover edition 1995.
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  10. I only use that term for people who are stuck in that mode.
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  11. I think it is well established that subatomic particles do not behave like tiny pool balls.
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  12. Agreed. Word salad is not intelligible to anybody. That one does not understand a statement is not sufficient to declare it "word salad."
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