Tag: general relativity
Can Physics Account for Our Whole Reality?
Mathematician turned philosopher Nancy Cartwright says no; reality is ultimately too complex for that.
Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders.
A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism
“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead.
Astrophysicists Battle over Whether the Multiverse Must Exist
“If cosmic inflation and quantum field theory are both correct, then the Multiverse arises as an inevitable consequence of the two.”
Are Singularities a Part of Science?
“Any paper that discusses or describes singularities in the field equations of general relativity is discussing extra-natural objects.”