Haha. Edgar, I have also modified my views through participation on this list. As it has for Liz, Bruno's "comp" has become borderline credible to me, though I am far from a "true believer". I've also been educated in a lot of philosophy of mind and had my grasp of key concepts in physics refined and sharpened. My fundamental position on AI has been altered significantly. The process of changing one's core beliefs is a slow, iterative one. Everyone's world view is a work in progress, or should be. But necessarily and rightly, we change by doing our best to defend our ideas against attack and critique. There's a certain irony to your remarks, because I have certainly seen not an iota of willingness on your part to change *your*views. It seems rather that you think it your business to bring enlightenment to everyone else here without truly opening your eyes and ears to competing or contradictory ideas. And it's rather disingenuous of you to talk about subjecting our ideas to a regime of tests when you completely ignored my $100 challenge to define any way to experimentally falsify your Universal Present Moment. That whole thread was the most exhausting, prolonged piece of head-against-the-wall-bashing I've encountered on this list, and believe me I've seen a few!
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:25:58 AM UTC+11, Brent wrote: > > On 1/20/2014 11:18 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > There are obviously a lot of very intelligent members here who are well > read in modern science. I think everyone would agree with this. > > > Except for a few that are unfamiliar with relativity theory. > > Brent > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
