Le 01-mars-07, à 00:35, Brent Meeker a écrit :
Brent Meeker quoted:
Atheism is a belief system the way Off is a TV channel.
--- George Carlin
Carlin makes the typical confusion between atheism and agnosticism.
An atheist has indeed a rich belief system:
1) he believes that God does
Le 06-mars-07, à 07:44, Mohsen Ravanbakhsh a écrit :
Thank you for welcoming me Mark,
I agree with you about the problem with the concept of entropy, but
not all your points. Actually I like this hypothesis, and as Bruno put
it we might be able to describe the Why question about physical
On 3/20/07, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le 01-mars-07, à 00:35, Brent Meeker a écrit :
Brent Meeker quoted:
Atheism is a belief system the way Off is a TV channel.
--- George Carlin
Carlin makes the typical confusion between atheism and agnosticism.
An atheist has
Bruno,
a different reflection from Stathis's, but similarly not a counter-argument
First off: George Carlin is a comedian and his humorous remarks are not subject
to be discussed in a serious argumentation. I like him - at least the old
Carlin.
*
to your #1:
:your atheist has got to believe
Glad to have misread your consiousness as being not unconscious. I agree
with you even in the 'life' part, except that I consider that darn elusive
'consciousness' still on, when you sleep or are anesthesized. You
(whatever it is) are still responding to the information you get: you wake up
Le 06-mars-07, à 09:44, Mark Peaty a écrit :
Thank you Bruno!
You and Russell between you have managed to strike some sparks of
illumination from the rocky inside of my skull. There is no beacon fire
to report but I start to get a glimmering of why you want to *assume*
comp and see
You could be interested by a paper introducing String theory as a
syntactical logical structure by the other Schmidhuber (Juergen's
brother Christof):
Here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0011065
What are strings made of? The possibility is discussed that strings
are purely mathematical
Le 15-mars-07, à 01:38, David Nyman a écrit :
On Mar 14, 10:18 pm, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps using the term existence for mathematical objects is
misleading.
It doesn't mean they exist as separate objects in the real world,
just that
they exist as concepts.
Le 15-mars-07, à 17:15, David Nyman a écrit :
Yes, in that it makes sense to argue (from a 'contingentist'
perspective) that the justification for 'primeness' (or indeed any
other concept) derives ultimately from persistent aspects of
contingent states of affairs (in this case a degree of
Le 15-mars-07, à 19:38, Brent Meeker a écrit :
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 13-mars-07, à 05:03, Brent Meeker a écrit :
But there is no reason to believe there is any root cause that is
deeper than variation with natural selection. You have not presented
any argument for the existence of
Bruno:
thanks for the info. Very educational (although I skip reading Christof's
entire text).
From your excerpt: I have a 2nd question: how about waves? they must be
made
of the same 'stuff' as the 'strings', maybe in a lesser number of dimensions.
And let me skip my retrograde series of
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 01-mars-07, à 00:35, Brent Meeker a écrit :
Brent Meeker quoted:
Atheism is a belief system the way Off is a TV channel.
--- George Carlin
Carlin makes the typical confusion between atheism and agnosticism.
An atheist has indeed a rich belief system:
John M wrote:
Glad to have misread your consiousness as being not unconscious. I
agree with you even in the 'life' part, except that I consider that darn
elusive 'consciousness' still on, when you sleep or are anesthesized.
You (whatever it is) are still responding to the information you
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 06-mars-07, à 09:44, Mark Peaty a écrit :
Thank you Bruno!
You and Russell between you have managed to strike some sparks of
illumination from the rocky inside of my skull. There is no beacon fire
to report but I start to get a glimmering of why you want to
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 3/19/07, *Brent Meeker* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 3/19/07, *Brent Meeker* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 3/21/07, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unconscious factors affecting our sense of continuity of identity must
do it through affecting conscious factors.
That would follow if we were always conscious of our sense of continuity
of identity, but I don't think we are. I may think
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