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AMA | March 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How Can You Reconstruct Theory a Just Given Theory B?

In our experience, we've done pretty well in finding out what the quantum theories of nature are by starting with the classical theory and quantizing it. In my own system of values, this whole situation is not immoral. But using this framework brings me to very taboo situations for most people - like a petifile satisfying his or her sexual fantasies doing a video chat with a parent who bathes their baby. Do you see anything wrong here? Is there any argument i could use to come up with the conclusion that this situation is wrong? So i think that the situation here, there's two things going on. One is that many people's a morality comes very much from instinct, rather than

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