<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki<br>
<<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Science is all about observability, measurement, and what actually<br>
>> exists. If you wish to speculate that something that is never<br>
>> measurable, observable, or otherwise detectable must still exist, you<br>
>> need evidence.<br>
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> ### As David Deutsch wrote, science is about explanations. Observation and<br>
> measurement supported by theory is how you arrive at explanations.<br>
> Measurements are however not the output of science, explanations are.<br>
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> I'd like to invite you to speculate about the existence of the inside of the<br>
> Earth. Have you observed it? Presumably, you haven't. Yet, you do believe it<br>
> exists, don't you? In the proper theoretical framework, it is the perfect<br>
> explanation for the outside not falling down.<br>
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While I myself have not observed it, others have - indirectly, but<br>
there is nonzero evidence that it exists, and the contrary theory<br>
(that the Earth is hollow) is not the case.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### What do you mean by "nonzero evidence"? Did somebody go down to the middle of the Earth and check? How is the "indirect" evidence about Earth's center qualitatively different from inference about MWI?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This is quite distinct from observing beings with soul or free will,<br>
as opposed to observing beings who merely think they have free will.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### We are talking about MWI here, not religion.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div>
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