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Watched a show on it,. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/1816-the-year-without-summer.htm

Not likely to change my mind. I read Popper, he used the term experimentalist. The only reasonably objective knowledge is an experiment. One can make a logical valid a I have yet to see a clear definition of determinism here or on other threads. Logically valid argumnets meaning no fallacies...

Phoenix is a good example. It was long known as a place with low allergens and low humidity. A pace for those with brething problems. Large scale air conditioning and open air water mist cooling changed thn local climate. And agriculture.

I guess debate is not your strong suit. As I said to be competent at philosophy today I'd say yiu need to have an underfeeding of science in general and experimental science. Back in the 90s a philosophy teacher I had said to be competent inn philsophy requird absorbing about 25 books and...

There is no experiment that can experimentally demonstrate determinism or free will when it comes to making a choice. That makes determinism philosophical speculation not objective fact. I am not a p[philosopher and do not pretend to be one, I had few classes in school and did reading over the...

I wonder if Florida will be habitable in the future. Unless buddings are raided on concrete above 40 feet or so. There are videos of houses on the shore on the east coast slipping into the surf. Coastal waters temperature trends...

It is their cross to bear.

After 100 years of experiments and debate the general consensus is underlying physical reality is inherently uncertain or probabilistic. In this context the terms are synonymous. Pick up a rock you perceive as solid. At the atomic scale atoms are in constant motion movbrting continuously...

Well, I am sure glad I retired in western Washington and not Florida. 20 foot storm surges.

Peacegirl if nothing else you are prolific. Do you have a formal background in philosophy? My view is we are adaptive neural nets that configures itself from experience from the start. We are constantly inctyeracting with the environment around us, declensions are a manner of speaking. It is a...

hTat is what metaphysics is all about, thought abstractions. The problem is that we are inescapably self referential. We create abstractions to define other abstractions. Mind is a term we use but can never be precisely and unambiguous;y defined such that all agree. Mind is a product of...

The Earth rotates so radiation from the sun equally roasts the Earth line a chicken on rotating spit. The CMBR looks like a black body at round 2.7 kelvin radiating in all directions. When a photon leaves a laser is there an equal and opposite reaction...

All our thoughts are the products of our physical brains. Thoughts are the results of atomic interactions, quantum scale. There is no mind separate from body.

An object is radiating heat as EM energy while at the same tine is absorbing heat from the surrounding environment. An object and its environment want to go to equilibrium. Photons get murky. No mass but possessing momentum...

A lengthy dissertation on determinism form the Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/ Casualty in science simply means something does not happen without a cause. The philosophical question is when we make what we think is a free choice...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html https://today.usc.edu/usc-study-confirms-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-has-slowed/

Again a question of immeasurable small changes. What happens when the mass of a space probe leaves the Earth?

It is faith to believe despite thousands of years of reordered human history humans will collectively be something other than what we are. I was having a conversion with a Washington state cop once and he said over something 'You do not understand, individually people are are smart...

A PDF thermodynamics text if anyone is interested. https://soaneemrana.com/onewebmedia/Thermodynamics%20by%20PK%20Nag.pdf

Looking at it from conservation. Motion of the Earth supplies energy to the pendulum. Earth's kinetic energy is converted to the pendulum kinetic energy and some is lost in friction showing up as heat. Entropy says all of the energy transferred to the system cannot be used to do useful work in...