Materialism

2013-04-09 Thread Roger Clough
Materialism is the philosophy that chaos is prevented in the universe without overall governance. Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 4/9/2013 http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe

Re: Losing Control

2013-04-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, April 4, 2013 12:55:44 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: There are, of course, undiscovered scientific facts. If scientists did not believe that they would give up science. But Craig is not

Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-04-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
If any particle were truly identical to another, then they could not decay at different rates. While we see this as random (aka spontaneous to our eyes), there is nothing to say that the duration of the life of the particle is not influenced by intentional dispositions. Particles may represent

Re: NDE's Proved Real?

2013-04-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:13 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: What I'm trying to say is that I believe you do not distinguish: A) Science the method of inquiry from B) Science the human institution And I am saying

Re: NDE's Proved Real?

2013-04-09 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: Nature/Science have no magical powers to verify if experiments were performed correctly. Like anything else they are not perfect and are subject to error from time to time, but I can't think of any other human

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2013, at 11:17, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:09 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/4/2013 3:50 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Telmo Menezes

Re: The world is in the brain

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Apr 2013, at 19:20, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 19:12 meekerdb said the following: On 4/6/2013 11:54 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 02:40 Craig Weinberg said the following: Ok, here's my modified version of Fig 11

Re: NDE's Proved Real?

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2013, at 21:39, John Mikes wrote: I think I side with Craig: NDE is not N enough, is not D because the 'observer' (gossiper?) came back and not E - rather a compendium of hearsay (s)he stored previously about D-like phenomena. When a (human or other) complexity dissolves (=

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2013, at 16:16, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, April 5, 2013 9:41:40 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Apr 2013, at 00:07, Craig Weinberg wrote (to Jason) There are algorithms for implementing anything that does not involve infinities. Why do you think so? What algorithm

Re: Free-Will discussion

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Apr 2013, at 01:51, Craig Weinberg wrote: You already are aware of the relevant aspects of your brain function, and aware of them in a way which is a million times more detailed than any fMRI could ever be. No, you bet on them. You are not aware of your brain, in any direct way.

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Apr 2013, at 16:30, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Apr 2013, at 00:07, Craig Weinberg wrote (to Jason) There are algorithms for implementing anything that does not involve infinities. Why do you think so? What

Re: NDE's Proved Real?

2013-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Apr 2013, at 06:38, Richard Ruquist wrote: There is no hell Ah? In which theory? You derive this from CY? In which theology? What is your definition of hell? Bruno On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, April 5, 2013

Re: The world is in the brain

2013-04-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, April 8, 2013 5:38:44 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Apr 2013, at 19:20, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 19:12 meekerdb said the following: On 4/6/2013 11:54 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 02:40 Craig Weinberg said the following: Ok, here's my

Re: The world is in the brain

2013-04-09 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 08.04.2013 11:38 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 07 Apr 2013, at 19:20, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 19:12 meekerdb said the following: On 4/6/2013 11:54 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 02:40 Craig Weinberg said the following: Ok, here's my modified version of Fig 11

Re: NDE's Proved Real?

2013-04-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:44 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Nature/Science have no magical powers to verify if experiments were performed correctly. Like anything else they are not perfect and are

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-04-09 Thread Russell Standish
It is hard to answer this question precisely, because the large, radioactive nuclei are very complex structures, for which exact solutions of Schroedinger's equation cannot be obtained. Rather these things are usually studied via Hartree-Fock approximations. However, in loose visual terms, you

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-04-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 7:54:27 PM UTC-4, Russell Standish wrote: It is hard to answer this question precisely, because the large, radioactive nuclei are very complex structures, for which exact solutions of Schroedinger's equation cannot be obtained. Rather these things are usually

RE: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-04-09 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
Colin's Wackier Version: Because the space they operate in, at the scale in which the decay operates, there are far more dimensions than 3. They decay deterministically in 3D and it appears, to us, to be random because of the collapse of the spatial dimensions to 3, where we humble observers

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-04-09 Thread Russell Standish
Actually, this idea is not as wacky as you're suggesting. Laurent Nottale suggested something like this with his Fractal Spacetime theory, essentially explaining standard QM geometrically as a projection from a higher dimension Hausdorf space (fractal dimension). His ideas haven't gained

Re: The world is in the brain

2013-04-09 Thread meekerdb
On 4/9/2013 12:19 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 08.04.2013 11:38 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 07 Apr 2013, at 19:20, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 19:12 meekerdb said the following: On 4/6/2013 11:54 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.04.2013 02:40 Craig Weinberg said the