Category: Assumptions
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Not real?!
Physicists have published a review that explores Bell's inequalities and his concepts of reality and explains their relevance to quantum information and its applications. (1) Bell. Quantum mechanics. Mathematics. Physics. Philosophy. Poor humans. Arrogant men. All this effort based on the most absurd of assumptions: That something can NOT be real...
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There is no Death! There is no Life either! (A child, a brain map and a coincidence? - Part II)
Some days ago Harmonia Philosophica posted an article about how a Truth Puzzle filled in by a child was amazingly enough indicating something that could be of importance for philosophy (check the "There is no Death! (A child, a brain map and a coincidence?) article"). Now a new twist was added to the plot. Some…
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There is no Death! (A child, a brain map and a coincidence?)
Harmonia Philosophica has already published articles for the use of brain maps to solve the great philosophical problems of humankind. Check the relative article here. In summary, the 'Truth Puzzles' in Harmonia Philosophica are nothing more than simple brain maps with all the major elements of philosophy (life, death, existence, being, God, truth, phenomena, faith,…
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Gödel's incompleteness theorem: The non-Cretan way out...
Gödel's incompleteness theorem is well known for proving that the dream of most mathematicians to formulate foundations for a complete and self-consistent theory of mathematics is a futile exercise. Gödel proved that any set of axioms you could posit as a possible foundation for math will inevitably be incomplete; there will always be true facts…
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Old philosophers, science and the poison of knowledge...
A friend recently asked: how can we seriously read philosophers from before the 18th century, now that we know of their lack of knowledge regarding the cosmos and the universe? How can we read them and draw any serious conclusions now that we know that they knew almost nothing that we currently do, based on…
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