Dear John,
Thank you for sharing your amazing life story!
You ask: 'Allow me please one more question: how is it balanced with the
Day of the Divine Final Sentencing that people die now and some go to
Heaven and some to Hell? (I am referring to the 72 virgins vs. the
fire-created Satan-helpers
PGC,
I do not assume that you don't read religious text. I do get the feeling
though that you do not hold them in esteem, due to the reasons you cite
against them, particularly the blasphemy point you keep raising. Also, I do
not think the Quran is yet on your reading list. Is that correct?
If
http://www.autism-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/TOM-in-TD-and-ASD.pdf
This test was also originally devised by Wellman and Estes, and involves
asking the child what the brain is for. They found that *normal 3-4 year
olds already know that the brain has a set of mental functions*,
So much of our attention in logic and math is focused on using processes to
turn specific inputs into even more specific binary outputs. Very little
attention is paid to what inputs and outputs are or to the understanding of
what truth is in theoretical terms. The possibility of inputs is
On 16 July 2014 14:02, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
but I would say it is very likely that having mindreading-empathy deficits
on the autistic spectrum would tend to result in a strong bias against
idealism, panpsychism, free will, or the hard problem of consciousness.
I must
On 14 Jul 2014, at 21:25, David Nyman wrote:
On 14 July 2014 18:26, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Such
explanations are bottom up all the way down. Hence there is simply
no
place in that explanatory hierarchy for any supplementary notion of
computation distinguishable from what
On 15 Jul 2014, at 15:53, Richard Ruquist wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
On 14 Jul 2014, at 02:04, meekerdb wrote:
Yet that seems to be what Quentin requires in order to say to
instances of the MG compute the same function. Knowing the
On 15 Jul 2014, at 16:35, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
Of course there is. You know when in Helsinki, (as a comp believer)
John Clark is NOT a comp believer.
This contradicts the fact that you are OK with step 0, and step 1,
On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:05, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/15/2014 12:27 PM, John Clark wrote:
Yes, the Bible contains its own sadistic lunacy--but the above
quotations can be fairly said to convey the central message of the
Qur'an--and of Islam at nearly every moment in its history. The
Qur'an does
On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:14, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-15 22:10 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be:
On 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be:
On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-14
2014-07-16 19:22 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be:
On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:14, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-15 22:10 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be:
On 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be:
On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:17, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
From: Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com
Well I can accept such language in mathematics where you make clear
what is meant, not in every day use when someone says he
*believes* in god, that's not what he
On 16 Jul 2014, at 04:23, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
Some quoted passages from Alan Watts (author of The Wisdom of
Insecurity - 1951) regarding the distinction between belief and
faith that seemed pertinent to me to several of the discussion
threads going on here.
On 16 Jul 2014, at 15:02, Craig Weinberg wrote:
http://www.autism-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/TOM-in-TD-and-ASD.pdf
This test was also originally devised by Wellman and Estes, and
involves asking the child what the brain is for. They found that
normal 3-4 year olds already
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:53:43 AM UTC-4, David Nyman wrote:
On 16 July 2014 14:02, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:
wrote:
but I would say it is very likely that having mindreading-empathy deficits
on the autistic spectrum would tend to result in a strong bias against
Salman Rushdie wrote:
religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere
innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of
religion in the fashionable language of respect. What is there to respect
in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being
On 16 Jul 2014, at 15:05, Craig Weinberg wrote:
So much of our attention in logic and math is focused on using
processes to turn specific inputs into even more specific binary
outputs. Very little attention is paid to what inputs and outputs
are or to the understanding of what truth is in
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:06:27 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 16 Jul 2014, at 15:02, Craig Weinberg wrote:
http://www.autism-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/TOM-in-TD-and-ASD.pdf
This test was also originally devised by Wellman and Estes, and involves
asking the
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
John Clark is NOT a comp believer.
This contradicts the fact that you are OK with step 0, and step 1, and
step 2.
I'm not surprised. I've long ago forgotten what those steps were but I do
know that If one starts with
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:01 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
18 square miles of empty Arizona desert could yield around two hundred
thousand tons of high grade jet quality biofuel
That sounds about right to me. And I can think of few things
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:01 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Samiya, I can be no more appreciative to all I learned from you about the
Islamic issues during my entire life. I will not change my ways of thinking
now, after 92 years, but I still like to learn.
So live well, have a good life (wherever it will take you) - you got a
friend in me. So please do
The latest theories of everithing admit absolutely everithing. they
are no longer materialistic. Either they are no-theories or they allow
any interpretation anyone may like about the know and unknow reality.
In certain sense materialism has given up without being conscious of
it. That is because
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:22:46 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 16 Jul 2014, at 15:05, Craig Weinberg wrote:
So much of our attention in logic and math is focused on using processes
to turn specific inputs into even more specific binary outputs. Very little
attention is paid to
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