From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A greath truth. Every human knowledge has also social consequiences. When I say A. I don´t only say A is true. I say also that because A is true and you must accept it because a set of my socially reputated fellows of me did something to affirm it, you must believe it, and, more important, I

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:57 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/5/2013 9:46 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:06 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/4/2013 1:24 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:49 PM, meekerdb

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2013-01-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Roger, Hi Telmo Menezes Thanks. But can such biomolecular structures develop into a living cell ? Current mainstream Biology believes that's the case. There isn't a complete model yet, but many pieces of the puzzle are already known. The current developmental theory is based on

Life and death in a world of good and evil

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Life and death in a world of good and evil Although God is all-powerful in Heaven, where there is no death, down here, where death is ever present, God must try to pilot us through sometimes rough waters, in which his options are more limited. Down here, good and evil -- life and death--are

Re: Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb I'm sorry that Christ does not measure up to your liberal standards. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Materialists can't consistently accept inextended structures and functions such as quantum fields--or if they do, they aren't materialists. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona Sounds like fascism to me. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-06, 06:56:37

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Your robot do not have time to know the true truth. He would not speculate on the nature of his programmer, or why he is here. At least until the problems of survival are solved by means of a stable collaboration. Even so, he never could have the opportunity to know the programmer. He don´t know

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Jan 2013, at 17:44, Roger Clough wrote: Hi socra...@bezeqint.net Spirit, like life, like God, like faith, like love, and like mind, is not extended in space Those objects you mention are extended in space. Like numbers, programs and other digital machines. Well, even non digital

Re: Physarum machine

2013-01-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Jan 2013, at 19:10, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 26.12.2012 13:45 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 26 Dec 2012, at 12:45, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have recently seen a paper on a Physarum machine A Adamatzky Physarum machine: implementation of a Kolmogorov-Uspensky machine on a

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Jan 2013, at 21:49, meekerdb wrote: On 1/4/2013 7:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Don't take this too much literally. I have never believed in any notion like charity, or distribution of wealth. It *looks* nice, but it generates poverty. Oops, too late! I already gave my kids several

Re: A paranormal prediction for the next year

2013-01-06 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Even people who have no sense of humor can deduce that other people do have it, Would they if only 0.001% of the population had a sense of humor? Yes, because unlike psi it would be easily repeatable, if one person who

Re: The evolution of good and evil

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 4:27 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:57 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/5/2013 9:46 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:06 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/6/2013 6:56 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: A greath truth. Every human knowledge has also social consequiences. When I say A. I don´t only say A is true. I say also that because A is true and you must accept it because a set of my socially reputated fellows of me did something to affirm it,

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/6/2013 8:39 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Alberto G. Corona Sounds like fascism to me. How so? [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver:

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/6/2013 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Jan 2013, at 17:44, Roger Clough wrote: Hi socra...@bezeqint.net Spirit, like life, like God, like faith, like love, and like mind, is not extended in space Those objects you mention are extended in space. Like numbers, programs and other

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 5:47 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Because this is a form of guided question, I will not hide my cards and I will say my conclussions: Once some actor (call it robot) collaborates with my robot I would mark it as faitful. therefore I will believe in what it says. If I detect that

Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Sorry, everybody, I was snookered into believing that they had really accomplished the impossible. The killer argument against that is that the brain has no sync signals to generate the raster lines. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time,

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 11:37 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/6/2013 2:17 PM, meekerdb wrote: So no physicists since Schrodinger are materialists. So materialism can't very well be scientific dogma as you keep asserting. Brent Hi Brent, I think that you are taking as evidence the lack of overt

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/6/2013 3:14 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/6/2013 11:37 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/6/2013 2:17 PM, meekerdb wrote: So no physicists since Schrodinger are materialists. So materialism can't very well be scientific dogma as you keep asserting. Brent Hi Brent, I think that you are

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists give up when things get complicated. The dynamic of groups stability and cooperation and their mechanisms is an field which has not even started. They do not study the vital role of public cult and rites, for example that are

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2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Telmo Menezes Could be, but so far no success. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Telmo Menezes Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-06, 07:51:49 Subject: Re:

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Not all physicists are materialists, or if they are, they are inconsistent if they deal with quantum physics, which is nonphysical. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/6/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 12:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists give up when things get complicated. The dynamic of groups stability and cooperation and their mechanisms is an field which has not even started. They do not study the vital role of

Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 12:57 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb Sorry, I obviously missed the point of your quote from Matthew. What is your point ? That the Christian Bible, and by extension fundamentalist Christianity, is a cartoonish world view which no thinking person would take as a guide for

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 12:59 PM, Roger Clough wrote: quantum physics, which is nonphysical A new record. You've contradicted yourself in only five words. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/6/2013 3:49 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King The word must implies forcible persuasion. Hi, But the use of force to persuade is not the essence of fascism. Fascism is a governing system where the population can own property privately but the use of said property is

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/6/2013 3:52 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King I think what was meant was the inverse, namely that no consistent materialist can believe in quantum mechanics. Ah. OK. I would like to see an explanation of this claim if I had the time for such minutia. -- Onward! Stephen

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy You've obviously never watched one of Sheldrake's lectures. Watched, listened, and even read some things a few years back. I sincerely tried to open my mind, but when I realized I was forcing

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The expression Socila construction of reality is an expression that hold any kind or relativism. This is nor that. This is a algorithmical study founded in game theory, and resource optimization with a narrow set of possibilities and a harwired nature of any social being (the ROM element). Social

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 1/6/2013 4:56 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/6/2013 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/6/2013 3:49 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King The word must implies forcible persuasion. Hi, But the use

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2013 3:19 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/6/2013 4:56 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/6/2013 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/6/2013 3:49 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King The word must implies forcible persuasion. Hi, But the use of force to persuade is not the essence of

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-06 Thread Richard Ruquist
Roger, I hate to keep harping on this but aren't BECs unextended in space, as you put it. And if so, life and its machinery could be embedded a BEC even if the BEC were extended. BECs have the kind of magical properties that suggest that they are outside spacetime. Richard On Sun, Jan 6, 2013