Questions tagged [reality]
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Why is the complex number an integral part of physical reality?
In modern physics, the quantum wave distribution function necessarily uses complex numbers to represent itself. If physics defines the physical reality, then what we are saying by the statement above ...
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Does True Randomness actually exist? [duplicate]
I tend to think of randomness as a lack of complete information when it comes to knowing something. If we look at the history of probability theory it centers on a lack of knowing the exact outcome of ...
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Can we prove reality?
I heard someone make an assertion that 'We cannot really prove that there is reality.'.
'Reality' here would mean the universe and everything in it. You could look at an apple and think its an apple ...
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What are some arguments against the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment?
I read this article about how this guy in Switzerland did an experiment that he thought proved the Simulation Hypothesis of reality (link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847).
I have also been reading ...
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Is time a physical factor or just a concept?
When thinking of cycles and myths, one cannot pass the idea of Kronos or Kali. That brought me to form some questions about the nature of time.
Three definitions for time:
Time is a measure of the ...
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Are we all ‘atheist’ or 'agnostic in a pandemic'? [closed]
Saudi Arabia is a deeply religious country. Most of the people in the Persian Gulf nation pray five times a day, 35 times a week, 140 times a month and 1,680 times a year. But they banned pilgrimages (...
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What makes Humans different from a chemical computer?
Are we all robots? Is our DNA the 0's and 1's of computer code? Are we an advanced computer system, with instead of keyboard and mouse input... input from our senses. Our database being our brain ...
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Existence of an Intelligible Physical World beyond the Mind [duplicate]
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Are there any philosophical arguments to disprove or weaken solipsism?
What justification(s) exist for the generally-agreed-upon axiom that a physical world beyond our mind ...
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What makes things real?
Suppose that a person can't sense anything. He can't see, hear, feel. Nothing. So for him, does anything even exist?
Does that mean only things we can sense are real or existent?
Also, how would you ...
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What is the definition of real?
What is the definition of the word "real"? For example, we can all agree that Harry Potter and unicorns are not real, while Mount Everest and Mars are real. Some people even say ...
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Is there ‘reality’ after the death of the observer? Does this imply there are multiple ‘realities’?
I presume that, after death, there would not be any afterlife or any remains of the soul.
while I am alive, I have a certain perception or concept of the universe. I have a sense of space, time, ...
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Can we be Boltzmann brains? Or, how can we be sure there is no conspiracy about the past?
The way things are traditionally presented about time, there is the present, the past is fixed, and the future is open. The second law of thermodynamics is invoked. But how can we be so sure the past ...
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How do the meanings of *to exist*, *to be*, and *real* differ?
What definition of to exist, of to be, and of real preponderates contemporary philosophy?
How do the terms differ from one another?
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What would a quantum interpretation without ontology be like?
Luboš Motl keeps insisting quantum mechanics invalidates ontology, and has made ontology obsolete, just like phlogiston. What would metaphysics without ontology look like, where words like "existence" ...
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Why is Philosophy not taught in schools or more widely studied?
(I am new to this section in stackexchange)
Is it because the subject is too vague to become a subject? Also, when I meet college students, I ask them what they study, I find them studying a wide rage ...
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