On 29 July 2014 02:35, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:55 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think he falls into the same camp as Fred Hoyle - someone who manages >> to get something completely wrong >> > > Fred Hoyle's Steady State Theory started out as a perfectly respectable > scientific idea, it turned out to be false but that's OK, it happens to the > best of us. >
However he also stuck to it even when the evidence to the contrary was completely overwhelming. But I don't think the cosmologists and astrophysicists interviewed by Nigel Calder were ONLY talking about the Steady State. The "prove Fred wrong" meme involved a number of ideas - and "Violent Universe" was published in the early 70s, or around then, so it was most likely to do with other *cosmological* ideas, since I'm pretty sure that was before Sir Fred decided AIDS came from space and evolution was like a typhoon in a junkyard, and so on. (And it was when he was still writing decent SF.) > > whatever a computer does is "just" the movement of electrons around >> circuits >> > > And whatever a human brain does is "just" the movement of molecules and > ions around neurons. That word "just" sure covers a lot! > Hence the quote marks. Don't worry I "just" love being quoted out of context. > If that proves a computer can't be conscious then it also proves that > humans aren't conscious; and except for me maybe that's the case. > It supposedly proves that the materialist paradigm doesn't explain consciousness, according to comp. Personally I have yet to be convinced (hence those damn quote marks.) -- 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/d/optout.
