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On Jul 12, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: > > Yes, I had made the same calculation myself, and the result was > unbelievable. That is why I need a mathematician before I start > believing Octopus Paul really understands fútbol. >> >> On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone calculate the probabilities that Paul the octopus has >>> reached his results by chance? >> >> 1/2^8 = . 0039 >> >> Statistically significant at the 99.6 % level. >> >> Sheldrake strikes again! >> There is no implication that Paul understands fútbol, just as there is no implication that the Pythoness understood her predictions. The implication is that the greatest "understanding" resides in a collective superconscious field into which some individual animals (even human ones) sometime attain a subconscious attunement, producing real results that a mechanistic world view dismisses as anomalous. >> >> Shane Mage >> >> "The sibyl, with raving mouth, uttering things mirthless unadorned >> and >> unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her >> voice." (Herakleitos, fr. 92) ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
