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Philosophy is often divided into three branches: metaphysics or ontology (what is existence, why do reality’s constituent parts behave the way they do, what constrains and explains Nature’s regularities), epistemology (how knowledge grows, how people come to know what we think we know), and morality (what one should and should not do, how to choose some values over others).
 
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A good explanation is not only hard to vary, but it must also cohere with the rest of our explanations and actually explain what we are trying to explain.
 
These three constraints imply that the search for good explanations will always be nontrivial. In fact, the deeper our explanations of the world, the more constrained the space of good explanations becomes
 
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Evidence-based anything is an illusion. There is no evidence-based science, evidence-based policy, evidence-based argument (see this very paragraph).
 
In reality, a mind first guesses—conjectures—an idea. This could be a scientific idea, a moral idea, an economic idea, a political idea, an idea about beauty—anything.
 
One then criticizes it: is it internally consistent? Does it cohere with our other ideas about how the world works? Is it arbitrary? Is it consistent with our observations?
 
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Taking Schrödinger Seriously, Module 1: What Is the Schrödinger Equation?, by Conjecture Institute Fellow Maxime Desalle

 

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

-Identify each symbol in the Schrödinger equation and explain what it represents,

-Describe what the wave function is and why it must be complex (here, complex

means ‘having both real and imaginary components’),

-Explain why the equation uses only the first derivative of Ψ, and what this implies

about determinism,

-Read the Hamiltonian as a specification of what physical situation the system is

in, and

-Articulate what the equation says, and what it does not say.

 

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People, Reason, & Reality Part I: Reason: Module 1: The Paths to Adopting an Idea, by Conjecture Institute President Logan Chipkin

 

The relationships between errors, problem solving, thinking, and rationality are not as straightforward as common sense might suggest.

 

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