Pierz, How about a $100 bet on who's right about spacetime expansion? You or Misner, Thorne, Wheeler and me? :-)
Edgar On Monday, January 20, 2014 6:42:59 PM UTC-5, Pierz wrote: > > 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.
