Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Nov 2013, at 22:06, John Mikes wrote: Bruno and Brent: Who are you to T E L L society what it needs? I am only trying to tell society what I need, and what I think my children, my students, my friends, and all people I care about can need. (BTW: I agree perfectly with your

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2013, at 01:27, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ok, but this is a technique for priming the intellectual pump. If it produces nothing good, nothing powerful, then this method would be a complete failure. It seems to me that this works very well, as long as the society is below some

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Nov 2013, at 08:42, LizR wrote: On 10 November 2013 18:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 6:13 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Let me ask you Jesse do you suggest any substitute that we can turn to for transforming world civilization to clean power? The only

Re: Re: [4DWorldx] Is mass mental or physical ?

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 11 November 2013 09:44, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Liz: it all starts with the proper use of words we use so imroperly. Musttrynottofeelshadenfreude... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 11 November 2013 18:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but the thing is that *you have to*, and asking such question at that

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses to comply? ?? You mean the U.S. government refuses to act in the best interests of it's citizens: Vote them out. We could have meant that the US government fake to comply. Once a government lie, and

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 11 November 2013 21:07, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 08:42, LizR wrote: On 10 November 2013 18:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 6:13 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Let me ask you Jesse do you suggest any substitute that we can turn to

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Nov 2013, at 20:13, meekerdb wrote: On 11/9/2013 1:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Tegmark thinks he will survive, if the gun works sufficiently well. if not he might degrade and eventually ... die. This makes no sense to me. It is annoying, but we can degrade a lot, yet we can't die

To understand consciousness, you have to get personal. Otherwise it's hearsay.

2013-11-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hans, Your mind has been self-limited due to your materialism. Consider this: Bertrand Russell said (correctly) that there are two forms of knowledge: a) knowledge by description (anything in language, impersonal, third person singular, public knowledge, hearsay) This is all that

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
No. In this case I´m not insulting, just gently defending myself, since I´m a Warmism infidel, I used to be a dangerous smoker , so may I have to pay for it with my life if the next wave of human rights advocates take over. And, I have to confess, I fart from time to time and no doubt this will

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:04 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 2:19 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:05 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 12:29 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: As I said before, I am agnostic on this issue for the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
The effects of global warming are visible in quite a few places around the world now. Glaciers have retreated worldwide, and the Arctic sea ice is getting thinner and not extending so far. Measurements indicate average temperatures have risen, and there are of course increased levels of

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but the thing is that *you have to*, and asking such question at that stage is very likely...

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
Oops I meant OR a googol years, of course. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group,

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 11 November 2013 22:47, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but the thing is that

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Nov 2013, at 19:31, meekerdb wrote: On 11/9/2013 11:37 PM, LizR wrote: On 10 November 2013 08:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 1:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Tegmark thinks he will survive, if the gun works sufficiently well. if not he might degrade and eventually

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
Watch out the black helicopters are coming for you From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 1:21 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World No. In this case I´m not

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I will reject them with a pack of snuff and a fan. They will run towards their politicians crying for their human rights 2013/11/11 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com Watch out the black helicopters are coming for you *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread spudboy100
A Grand Council of Truth? And, you already know where I am going with this. One night, while dining at a restaurant, a good one, the High Reasoner, meets with an old friend to discuss the new FIFA rules issued for the World Cup. The friend slides over a closed sports magazine. Have a look at

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread spudboy100
Ah, but Brents' point is that smoking and cancer are proven fact. However, at the time, Troifim Lysenko's views on biology were proven. So were the Eugenicists that lead directly to Dachau. Almost 100% concurred (physicians, anthropologists, geneticists, biologists) on this fact. What's a

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 12:11 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 18:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread spudboy100
You are making this too complicated. We have living examples every year when the power drops due to too, hot, too cold. Let's use Paris where this has occurred over the last 10 years at least twice. The heat comes in from North Africa, a blocking high happens over northern Europe, and the heat

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 12:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses to comply? ?? You mean the U.S. government refuses to act in the best interests of it's citizens: Vote them out. We could have meant that the US government

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 12:15 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 21:07, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 08:42, LizR wrote: On 10 November 2013 18:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 12:11 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 18:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 1:28 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I didn't say I didn't feel like it or that I was unwilling to do it. I said I believed it would not be possible, with a reasonable amount of effort, to have an informed opinion. Are you a climatologist? If not, you seem to believe otherwise beacuse you

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread spudboy100
This is true, Professor Marchal, but more directly, what if they tell Brent, as US Director of the Climatological Remediation Bureau, Stop telling is what to do. You are already rich and all we want to do is catch up. It's not fair that you have so much, while our people struggle. Why don't

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 1:47 AM, LizR wrote: Obviously they could all be politically motivated or in the pay of mysterious socialist organisations, and it's always possible that their modelling is wildly inaccurate, but unless someone is actually making up the data and the measurements then /something/

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 1:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but if I live infinitely long I will have almost all my experiences older than 75. So when I note that I'm not that old and that seems improbable, The thing is as I said is that you have to be *first* 75 before being older...

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 1:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but if I live infinitely long I will have almost all my experiences older than 75. So when I note that I'm not that old and that seems improbable, The thing is as I said is that you have to be

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Ah the apocalyptic mentality. Apocalypticists are like nationalists. The laters think that they were born in the best possible country by pure chance. The apocalypticists, also by pure chance, think that they are in a pivotal moment on history where some catastrophe or something wonderful will

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 1:28 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I didn't say I didn't feel like it or that I was unwilling to do it. I said I believed it would not be possible, with a reasonable amount of effort, to have an informed opinion.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 10:13 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ah, but Brents' point is that smoking and cancer are proven fact. However, at the time, Troifim Lysenko's views on biology were proven. ?? To nobody outside the Soviet Union - and only to a few there. So were the Eugenicists that lead

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 10:42 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 12:11 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 18:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM,

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 11:21 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: You find you every day, according to you, every day should not happen, only being 10¹⁰⁰ is likely, it's just non-sense, your life is not random sampled, yesterday happen before today and before tomorrow. That doesn't

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 11:21 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: You find you every day, according to you, every day should not happen, only being 10¹⁰⁰ is likely, it's just non-sense, your life is not random sampled, yesterday happen

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 09:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 11:21 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: You find you every day, according to you, every day should not happen, only being 10¹⁰⁰ is likely, it's just non-sense, your life is not random sampled,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 07:13, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: However, at the time, Troifim Lysenko's views on biology were proven. I didn't realise the Russian government at the time allowed his views to be peer reviewed and independently replicated. In fact I thought they created a climate in which

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 09:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 11:21 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: You find you every day, according to you, every day should not happen, only being

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 13:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 09:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 11:21 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: You find you every day, according to you, every day should not happen, only

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
Actually, if you were Billy Pilgrim, you would know immediately you fell into the chronosyncinastic infundibulum (sp?) whether you were quantum immortal or not, because the chances would be infinitesimal of ending up in the first N years of your life, where N is *any* finite value. In fact

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize that is poor fool who does not know how the world works and has replaced with

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 4:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 13:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 09:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 4:39 PM, LizR wrote: Actually, if you were Billy Pilgrim, you would know immediately you fell into the chronosyncinastic infundibulum (sp?) whether you were quantum immortal or not, because the chances would be infinitesimal of ending up in the first N years of your life, where N

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 5:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize that is poor fool who does

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 14:04, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 14:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 4:39 PM, LizR wrote: Actually, if you were Billy Pilgrim, you would know immediately you fell into the chronosyncinastic infundibulum (sp?) whether you were quantum immortal or not, because the chances would be

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 14:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 4:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 13:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 09:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 11:21

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 6:38 PM, LizR wrote: Benjamin Button lived his life in reverse. Oh, right, like the guy in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow (itself a rip off from An Age by Brian Aldiss). Presumably according to QTI he's at the end of an infinite future lifetime, or whatever? But since he's

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 16:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 6:38 PM, LizR wrote: Benjamin Button lived his life in reverse. Oh, right, like the guy in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow (itself a rip off from An Age by Brian Aldiss). Presumably according to QTI he's at the end

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2013, at 18:49, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: A Grand Council of Truth? Certainly not. Honesty is not knowing truth. It is just being able to correct oneself when being shown wrong. It is very simple, if they were not jealousy, vanity, pride, and things like that. And, you

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 7:35 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 November 2013 16:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 6:38 PM, LizR wrote: Benjamin Button lived his life in reverse. Oh, right, like the guy in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow (itself a rip

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
it's like when there actually are rising temperatures and rising sea levels and rising O2 and increasingly wild weather and ice melting all over the world, you stop and say, oh hang on, maybe Fourier had a point after all when he worked out the Greenhouse effect in 1824. Rather than just putting

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2013, at 19:34, meekerdb wrote: On 11/11/2013 12:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses to comply? ?? You mean the U.S. government refuses to act in the best interests of it's citizens: Vote them out.

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:47 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World it's like when there actually are rising temperatures and rising sea

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11 Nov 2013, at 18:49, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: A

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 17:47, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in