Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Peaty
Thanks John, now I don't feel so bad. Grin For what it's worth, my plain-English translations of the terms you mention: _mass_ = the intrinsic [its own] resistance to being pushed of something that isn't otherwise stuck down; _energy_ = motion, particularly as measured and accounted for in

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Peaty
I hope you guys will forgive my irreverence, but in the last couple of hours for the first time I have managed to read this thread to here. Having done so, and in the spirit of this everything-list wherein it is assumed everything is not only possible but _will_ happen and indeed may already

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-03-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 3/25/07, Mark Peaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you guys will forgive my irreverence, but in the last couple of hours for the first time I have managed to read this thread to here. Having done so, and in the spirit of this everything-list wherein it is assumed everything is not only

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-25 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: This study recent published in Nature suggests not only a neural basis for morality, but a specific neural basis for a specific kind of morality: I'd say an irrational morality. I almost always make the utilitarian choice in those hypothetical moral dilemmas (must

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-03-25 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 3/22/07, *Brent Meeker* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. I'm talking about a sort of program/data division - which I recognize is arbitrary in computer program - but I think may have an analogue in brains. When I write a