On 28 February 2010 17:38, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
People believe and do all sorts of crazy things, as I'm sure you know.
The psychological capacity for just about any possible behaviour is
there, but the very maladaptive behaviours are rare. It's not that
it's difficult to
On 27 Feb 2010, at 18:38, David Nyman wrote:
On 8 Feb, 14:12, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
The main problem with Tegmark is that he assumes an implicit identity
thesis mind/observer-state which does not work once we assume the
computationalist hypothesis, (and thus cannot work with
On 28 Feb 2010, at 07:33, Rex Allen wrote:
What would the causal mechanism for natural selection be? A
selection field? Selection particles? Spooky selection at a
distance???
No, it is (mainly) Sex.
Selection by individual seduction. On some level.
Chatting universal chromosomes. On
On 28 February 2010 15:45, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
UDA shows that the wave equation (not just the collapse) has to emerge from
a relative state measure on all computational histories.
The schroedinger equation has to be itself the result of the abandon of the
identity thesis.
On 2/27/2010 10:33 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Brent Meekermeeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
Rex Allen wrote:
Note that I am not arguing that this particular belief is an
impossible belief. What I'm arguing is that evolution doesn't help
you one way or the other in
On 2/27/2010 10:38 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Stathis Papaioannou
stath...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 February 2010 05:33, Rex Allenrexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Is it that peoples' beliefs
could not be other than what
Okay, I think maybe we're getting somewhere!
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 February 2010 17:38, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
People believe and do all sorts of crazy things, as I'm sure you know.
The psychological capacity for
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 28 Feb 2010, at 07:33, Rex Allen wrote:
What would the causal mechanism for natural selection be? A
selection field? Selection particles? Spooky selection at a
distance???
No, it is (mainly) Sex.
Selection
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
I think you have to narrow a concept of explanation; you seem to confine
it to causal physical chain at the most fundamental level. If someone
asked you whether you expected a newly discovered animal species to be one
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