Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-03-25 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On 3/22/07, *Brent Meeker* <[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. Whe

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 (mus

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

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 h

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Peaty
Thanks John, now I don't feel so bad. 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 scienti