RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:54 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 02-Jul-2014, at 7:44 am, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-02 3:30 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 2 July 2014 11:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: SMad will likely not work with say, an Iranian guv mint, but it worked ok with the Sovs. You fear a Pyrrhic victory, I fear capitulation. Yes,

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Samiya Illias
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Samiya Illias *Sent:* Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:54 PM *To:*

Re: Is Consciousness Computable?

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 2 July 2014 17:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/1/2014 9:40 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 July 2014 15:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/1/2014 6:52 PM, LizR wrote: Interesting. How is the energy required to erase a single bit reducible to statistical

Re: Is Consciousness Computable?

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 2 July 2014 17:06, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/1/2014 9:42 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 July 2014 15:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: OK, so how does that work? Like I said, I don't understand it. Intuitively, saying that A causes B and B causes A doesn't appear to

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-02 Thread Kim Jones
On 2 Jul 2014, at 12:46 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Brent: I don't think that's true. I think differently than I did as a child. As a child one experiences many more things as new, fresh, surprising. Liz: OK, so you disagree with Kim (or my reading of Kim) on that. You're on

QM and oil droplets

2014-07-02 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi all, I would like to know what people here make of this... http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality Cheers Telmo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Religion does not stand on the same footing as science. Religion overarches and encompasses

Re: Speaking of free speech...

2014-07-02 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:52 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 July 2014 23:05, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:49 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see how the university can stop the student union from banning things if they want to, I

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:46 AM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Samiya: I don't argue with you (like PGC) I ask a question going back further than this entire discussion: you wrote: *I could say that

Re: QM and oil droplets

2014-07-02 Thread smitra
Who knows? Perhaps the De Broglie-Bohm enthousiast can get some further insights from this experiments allowing them to e.g. predict subtle patterns in interference phenomena that shouldn't be there acording to orthodox quantum mechanics. De Broglie-Bohm theory looks to me a bit like the old

Re: QM and oil droplets

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
It seems to me that double-slit/single-photon experiments illustrate the approach to quantum equilibrium in great detail. Richard On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:22 AM, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: Who knows? Perhaps the De Broglie-Bohm enthousiast can get some further insights from this experiments

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Therefore I repeat what I said before, at least one of the following two statements must be true: 1) If ET exists then ET is a christian. 2) Bruno Marchal is

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-02 17:08 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Therefore I repeat what I said before, at least one of the following two statements must be true:

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-02 Thread David Nyman
On 2 July 2014 01:24, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Well, I was trying to be short, hence to put it simply. Would you take issue with the preceding statement that The point, again in principle at least, is that nothing *above* the level of the basic ontology need be taken into account

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samiya Illias Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 2:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:42 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Why in hell do we keep talking about ancient ignoramuses like Plotinus and the worst physicist who ever lived, Aristotle? Likewise why mention Galileo or Newton or Maxwell, when they've been shown to be wrong? Because unlike

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:12 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Samiya Illias *Sent:* Wednesday, July 02, 2014 2:00 AM *To:*

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jul 2014, at 21:16, meekerdb wrote: On 7/1/2014 9:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But you don't have to prove something doesn't exist to reasonably fail to believe that it does. I don't have proof that there is no teapot orbiting Jupiter, but that doesn't make me epitemologically

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Therefore I repeat what I said before, at least one of the following two statements must be true: 1) If ET exists then ET is a christian. 2) Bruno

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jul 2014, at 21:26, meekerdb wrote: On 7/1/2014 10:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 Jun 2014, at 07:41, meekerdb wrote: On 6/29/2014 10:20 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 June 2014 17:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/29/2014 7:33 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 June 2014 04:43, John

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:12 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:     From:everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jul 2014, at 19:56, John Clark wrote: omnipotence is self-contradictory. I know, but a little thing like being self-contradictory would never stop a good theologian. Lol. Good humor. Or we have a big vocabulary problem. Let me make something clear. By a good theologian, I mean

Re: Is Consciousness Computable?

2014-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jul 2014, at 22:10, meekerdb wrote: On 7/1/2014 12:04 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In a way, all of fundamental physics posits information theoretic entities. Particles are nothing more than what satisfies particle equations. Bruno complains about Aristotle and primitive matter,

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-02 19:23 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Therefore I repeat what I said before, at least one of the following two statements must

Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-07-02 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:58 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I'm all for sun and wind, but the storage and transmission issue may be a lot harder to solve in the short term than building LFTRs. I agree. And even building LFTRs will probably take ten years for development. In

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
You make statements where the difference between science and theology is a matter of degree: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:32 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You are being a purist. We all begin with the assumption that an external reality

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 5:07 AM, Kim Jones wrote: On 2 Jul 2014, at 12:46 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Brent: I don't think that's true. I think differently than I did as a child. As a child one experiences many more things as new, fresh, surprising. Liz:

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 2 July 2014 18:17, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-02 3:30 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 2 July 2014 11:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: SMad will likely not work with say, an Iranian guv mint, but it worked ok with the

Fwd: Brain and Mind (Interesting video clip)

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
Original Message Interesting video clip, and there's some nice music at the end by the Amygdaloids (nice pun there!) 17 minutes. http://www.salon.com/2014/07/01/the_truth_about_free_will_new_answers_to_humanitys_biggest_riddle_partner/ Bill -- You received this message

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 8:51 AM, David Nyman wrote: On 2 July 2014 01:24, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Well, I was trying to be short, hence to put it simply. Would you take issue with the preceding statement that The point, again in principle at least, is that nothing *above* the level of the

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 9:46 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Brent has said things sounding like doesn't matter, whatever works who cares how and why, to which my reply is: then we should completely ban all ethical/theological consideration from scientific inquiry. If you think I said science should

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-02 Thread Kim Jones
On 3 Jul 2014, at 5:09 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A brain simply hosts a self, best generalised as a mind. This might be the same as soul, but I'm not really into the supernatural, only a vastly expanded reality. Based on assertions about your feelings? Brent Yes.

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 9:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The classical theory of knowledge, already present in ancien epistemology is the modal KT theory, or KT4. K is [](A - B) - ([]A - []B). It is equivalent with ([]A [](A - B)) - []B. It is a belief in the modus ponens rule. T is the important thing:

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 10:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jul 2014, at 21:16, meekerdb wrote: On 7/1/2014 9:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But you don't have to prove something doesn't exist to reasonably fail to believe that it does. I don't have proof that there is no teapot orbiting Jupiter, but

Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
We may need to use nuclear power but there are sensible and stupid ways to do it, and maybe it's time to try the first of these. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/24557-nuclear-radiation-releases-continue-in-new-mexico On 3 July 2014 05:56, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 3 July 2014 05:56, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:58 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I'm all for sun and wind, but the storage and transmission issue may be a lot harder to solve in the short term than building LFTRs. I agree. And even

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:27 AM Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! You make statements where the difference between science and theology is a matter of

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-02 Thread David Nyman
On 2 July 2014 22:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Since the primary truth of what I see is simply what I see (i.e. it is incorrigible) it can't be subject to Gettier's paradox. I can't be right about what I see for the wrong reasons because what I see is constitutively true. But is

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Of course you are happy, but this is more likely that you want the US to be essentially neutralized. To this point, do you have an example for which you approve of the US using military force, and lets us leave out WW2. This will be more telling then mere argument. Name a couple. US CIA

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Yeah, we all deal with the oceans rising because, hey, its a much, bigger, problem, and then avoid the knock out punch from outside the US. Nice advice, thanks. Though nowadays, even BHO doesn't like the results of his policies. You'd better be lecturing him instead of myself. Of course you

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:16 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: -- *From:* Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:27 AM

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Just by historical experience it is better do die on your feet, merely, because, it seems to afford a greater chance at survival. This reminds me of the novel Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, where Yossarian's friend has a dialogue with the Spirit of Ancient Rome, where he states, It is better to

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
In all these discussions we often simply complex issues, because hey, its a mailing list. So let me add two other components. One is the ability to degrade incoming mass attacks (MIRV'd warheads) with missiles, and or, rail guns, and or lasers. The US developed this missile tech around 1960'

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:21 PM Subject: Re: American Intelligence Yeah, we all deal with the oceans rising because, hey, its a much, bigger,

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
They're definitely trying to go for a Pertwee vibe, which is fine by me (Pert is my 4th favourite Doctor from classic Who) On 2 July 2014 11:17, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: What about the newest guy? Reminds me of Jon Pertwee, minus the fluff

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 3 July 2014 04:46, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: That is no excuse! The technology at the time was good enough to demonstrate that a heavy rock does not fall faster than a slightly lighter rock, and Aristotle was supposed to be a master of logic and should have realized from pure

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 3 July 2014 05:51, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No I see that Bruno's point is valid if atheism is equated with physicalism and the negation of the Abrahamic god (as he does here)... But it is a narrow view... most atheist would agree that they are agnostic on first cause and

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:27 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: -- *From:* spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals. Where does that come from? The standard measure on the reals is based on the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals.

Re: Speaking of free speech...

2014-07-02 Thread LizR
On 3 July 2014 02:17, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I wonder how you bully someone politely :) I would think you politely ask them to stop what they're doing, in the process calling attention to them. Assuming they're in a corner of a college bar or something with other people

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:23:35AM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
Quantum measure is the result of solving Schrodinger's Eq. yielding a different probability for each quantum state and a different measure for each different scenario unlike the invariant measure of the reals. Do you disagree? Richard On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Russell Standish