I should say that I am not an expert in this issue, however I have found
the paper entertaining. The history of Samuel Butler is quite
interesting. Butler in 19th century held that heredity and brain memory
both involved the storage of information and that the two forms of
storage were the
I haven't managed to read the entire paper yet, but it seems to be along
similar lines to the idea that the brain receives consciousness from
somewhere else, like in the story by Barrington Bayley (I forget the title)
in which the universe is criss-crossed with beams of consciousness that
cause
But that is not democracy. That is freedom. Freedom has existed without
democracy since the beginning. Unless we enter in a crazy contemporary
chauvinism that redefines freedom as existence of the majority rule.
Although many people is so crazy and low educated and self centered as to
accept this
On 26 Dec 2014, at 19:55, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/25/2014 11:45 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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Understood, but whether its the Huffington Post or the Standard, my question
is, is it true? Yes, I assume at first pass, everything is propaganda. Then I
will try to establish, through alternative searches whether there is an
confirmation to a claim, independent confirmation. Hopefully,
On 27 Dec 2014, at 03:11, Kim Jones wrote:
Democracy is a concept. It can be implemented in various ways. I
like Liz's conceptualisation of it as communist-style sharing of
astcronomical wealth and resources among the elites with cockroaches
and urine for breakfast for the rest of us
On 27 December 2014 at 23:59, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote:
But that is not democracy. That is freedom. Freedom has existed without
democracy since the beginning. Unless we enter in a crazy contemporary
chauvinism that redefines freedom as existence of the majority rule.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
OK Chris, you made some valid points and you've convinced me that I wasn't
paying enough care in distinguishing between the very common kerogen oil
shale that would need considerable
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
Tee hee. So you are saying - are you not - that it never makes sense to
worry in any naked sense about our tendency to gobble everything up like
bacteria in a petri dish
The bacteria shouldn't worry if the edge of the
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Understood, but whether its the Huffington Post or the Standard, my question
Can you provide some examples?
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Unless there is a technology improvement, the kerogen might stay locked up
perpetually, because of the cost of water in the parched western US, and the
total costs of remediation of the mad and so forth. There can be developments
that make any technology plausible to market. Just look at shale
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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OK Chris, you made some valid points and you've convinced me that I
Our current global energy situation – with say a horizon of the next fifty
years – is not ideal. There are no silver bullets; no easy answers. Every
single choice we can choose is problematic in one way or another.
Continuing our global reliance on fossil fuels is going to continue to become
On 12/27/2014 12:05 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
I should say that I am not an expert in this issue, however I have found the paper
entertaining. The history of Samuel Butler is quite interesting. Butler in 19th century
held that heredity and brain memory both involved the storage of information
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kim Jones
On 12/27/2014 5:27 AM, LizR wrote:
On 27 December 2014 at 23:59, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com
mailto:agocor...@gmail.com wrote:
But that is not democracy. That is freedom. Freedom has existed without
democracy
since the beginning. Unless we enter in a crazy contemporary
On 27 Dec 2014, at 11:44 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 27 Dec 2014, at 03:11, Kim Jones wrote:
Democracy is a concept. It can be implemented in various ways. I like Liz's
conceptualisation of it as communist-style sharing of astcronomical wealth
and resources among the
On 27 Dec 2014, at 9:59 pm, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote:
But that is not democracy. That is freedom. Freedom has existed without
democracy since the beginning. Unless we enter in a crazy contemporary
chauvinism that redefines freedom as existence of the majority rule.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
A lot of the bets made in the US shale boom are not going to pay off for
the investors holding on to the debt; holding those one or two year
duration futures hedge contracts priced at $90 a
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
we burned our planetary surplus up in a fantastically expensive cold war.
What did that get us?
We got nuclear weapons which prevented the cold war from turning into a hot
war and cause the
On 28 Dec 2014, at 11:40 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
we burned our planetary surplus up in a fantastically expensive cold war.
What did that get us?
We got nuclear
On 12/27/2014 5:42 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
Had we not dropped the bomb on Japan we would certainly be in a different universe now.
Probably one in which I as a citizen of an extended Japanese empire in the Pacific would
enjoy bullet train (shinkansen) style air-conditioned serene comfort on my
On 28 Dec 2014, at 1:07 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 12/27/2014 5:42 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
Had we not dropped the bomb on Japan we would certainly be in a different
universe now. Probably one in which I as a citizen of an extended Japanese
empire in the Pacific would
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
Had we not dropped the bomb on Japan we would certainly be in a different
universe now.
Yes but I'm more interested in what sort of universe we'd be in if nobody
had ever thought to build a nuclear bomb in the first place. I
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
You'd also be living in a militaristic society as a racially inferior
minority and possibly working as slave labor laying tracks for the
shinkansen.
I know that if I had been a American soldier in 1945 and was miraculously
still
On Friday, December 26, 2014 7:25:01 PM UTC, zibble...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 3:23:56 AM UTC, Bruce wrote:
John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Bruce Kellett
bhke...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhke...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
I
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
You'd also be living in a militaristic society as a racially inferior
minority and possibly working as slave labor laying tracks for the
shinkansen.
I know
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:47:09 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 22 Dec 2014, at 20:14, LizR wrote:
Sometimes allegedly conscious beings behave very unintelligently. However
using Bruno's distinction intelligent behaviour is conscious (goal directed
etc) but competent behaviour
On Monday, December 22, 2014 6:59:25 PM UTC, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:20 AM, zibble...@gmail.com javascript:
wrote:
Something can be conscious but not intelligent, but if it's
intelligent then it's conscious. Consciousness is easy but intelligence
John - take
Am 27.12.2014 um 22:33 schrieb meekerdb:
On 12/27/2014 12:05 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
I should say that I am not an expert in this issue, however I have
found the paper entertaining. The history of Samuel Butler is
quite interesting. Butler in 19th century held that heredity and
brain memory
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