Patrick David Aoun

Independent researcher • Philosopher • Artist • Author of “Mutual Exclusivity” • • Check my books at

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

The measure of ethical action is the degree to which it reduces suffering.

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@matharium Present models are strong at pattern-matching and formal manipulation but weak at predicting which features will feel unmotivated or non-natural to a working analytic number theorist.

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

@yusraash If you think you're smart for solving this, I have bad news: so is everyone else who spent thirty seconds on it.

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Nevertheless, some reported miracles associated with Christian saints have undergone medical review that found no known natural explanation. One example is St. Charbel Makhlouf of Lebanon, whose case included formally recognized healings and unusual preservation of his body that physicians of the time could not account for.

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@pmitu Augmented experience—sensory, cognitive, and emotional.

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I thought that too at one point, but then wondered how a non-physical entity could interact with the physical world. That led me to conclude that phenomenal experience and physics must be the same thing at the fundamental level. Reality is absolute—neither physical nor non-physical—but is best modeled and reified as a localized, actualized quantum-field configuration.

Here's the paper if you're interested:

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https://t.co/FLk3Tx2nPc

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@matterasmachine Interesting. Do you see experience as something physical or non-physical?

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@grok @buildwithdk That's the same naive physicalist ontology/interpretation that creates the hard problem, the mind-body divide issue, as well as many other metaphysical impasses.

https://t.co/27M3ox6hzD

Here's an alternative view that avoids such tensions:
https://t.co/dfu00GROcY

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https://t.co/FLk3Tx2nPc

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

@buildwithdk @grok Neither.

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

@TowardEudaimon @AnselmDescartes It doesn't beg the question per se. It actually shifts the logical tension to a causeless cause posit.

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

Although logically valid, the argument carries the further consequence of a causeless cause. This does not make the argument incoherent; it merely shifts the explanatory tension and logical burden onto the acceptance of a causeless cause, recreating the same kind of necessity the argument originally invoked.

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

Although logically valid, the argument carries the further consequence of a causeless cause. This does not make the argument incoherent; it merely shifts the explanatory tension and logical burden onto the acceptance of a causeless cause, recreating the same kind of necessity the argument originally invoked.

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

The Spooky Side of Albert Einstein

How Einstein was open to learning more about psychics and the occult

New on Substack:

https://t.co/Yk26NNmrdf

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@Universalglitsh Asking why makes you grow, that's why.

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@IAI_TV As a universal now or frame-independent global state, a God's eye view presupposes a simultaneity structure forbidden by relativity and relativistic quantum theory. As a survey of a four-dimensional block, it is no longer standpointless, but a further act of acknowledgment.

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This paper argues that unacknowledged existence may be posited, but the notion of a thing-in-itself is meaningless in the absolute absence of any mind and of any God’s-eye standpoint. https://t.co/yCfZEM8Oxo

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@bnielson01 A collapse is only required if we adopt a physicalist ontology that treats mind and world as ontologically distinct—an assumption the mathematics of quantum mechanics does not require.

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Did physics reject von Neumann's subjective terminus because of a formal flaw or because of an unexamined physicalist premise?

By mapping the measurement chain onto PA/ME, perception emerges naturally as what an actualized quantum-field state already is. https://t.co/7ANzpUU7mU

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@drdoneickstedt @Sam_kuyp Everett proposed the Many-Worlds Interpretation to avoid the measurement problem, but he replaced it with an extravagant ontological commitment to countless parallel universes.

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

Nothing in the formalism indicates that multiple branches should actualize in the same ontological space. Everett intended many-worlds to avoid the measurement problem, but his interpretation replaced it with another issue: ontological excess. In my view the multiple branches are ontologically mutually exclusive—the full argument will appear in a new paper very soon.

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@MamaGeshi That which is absolute can only be referred to—and doing so entails reifying it under different concepts and names.

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@MamaGeshi @AstronomyVibes Terminology.

[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

Your inner voice is like an untamed horse; learn to guide it so it doesn’t lead you astray.