On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> unlike psi it would be easily repeatable, if one person who claimed to >> have a sense of humor laughed and said that was a very good joke it is >> statistically very likely (although not certain) that another person who >> also claimed to have a sense of humor would make the same noise, > > > > Why? Do all people who have a good sense of humor laugh at the same > jokes? > Pretty much, certainly the probability of hearing the sound of laughter is much higher than you'd expect from pure randomness, otherwise it would be impossible for professional comedians to make a living. There are professional fortune tellers but they make their living by fooling the stupid not mother nature. If psi is a real phenomenon I don't understand why state lotteries nevertheless consistently manage make money. >> a hard problem theory doesn't have to actually do anything, but a easy >> problem theory most certainly does. Any hard problem theory will work just >> fine, any at all, >> > > > For example? > Only one thing in the universe can produce consciousness, the left big toe on a size 12 foot. This theory is perfectly consistent with everything I have ever observed about consciousness. By the way, I happen to ware size 12 shoes and still have 10 toes. > Building 100ft sculptures of people's cats out of toothpicks would be > devilishly hard Yes. > > and profitable too. > No. > Why does that matter? > Beats the hell out of me. > I don't see a contest between the easy and hard problem > If you have 2 problems to solve you don't see the value of solving the easy one first and then using the wisdom gained from that solution to solve the harder problem? > Everything seems to boil down to some variation of 'My assumptions are > justified because winners win with winning assumptions, and winning always > wins... and don't forget the winning.' > Very well put. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
