Re: Chaitin on infinities

2014-10-04 Thread Pierz
On Sunday, September 28, 2014 1:51:00 PM UTC+10, Brent wrote: > An interesting talk by > Gregory Chaitin on reals and infinities. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svzGGHdqst8&index=1&list=PL68D02324107784C1 > > > > Brent "Like" -- You received this message be

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-04 Thread mickey . beergate
On Saturday, October 4, 2014 6:03:44 AM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > > As I've said no natural phenomenon has ever been found where nature must > solve a NP-hard problem > > > > To solve it exactly? > > > Obviously exactly. > > > swa

Re: generalizations_of_islam

2014-10-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Religion and sacrifices are the preconditions for cooperation and social life. As is for any group of entities that are not clones whose behaviour has been shaped by means of natural selection . See my previous messages about that. Religion construct mutual trust, that is: social capital. Sacrific

Re: generalizations_of_islam

2014-10-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
what about Tegmarks' statement that consciousness is another form of matter. -Original Message- From: Richard Ruquist To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Oct 4, 2014 6:53 am Subject: Re: generalizations_of_islam "Nobody worships matter" But many worship nature. I do not see much diff

Re: generalizations_of_islam

2014-10-04 Thread Richard Ruquist
"Nobody worships matter" But many worship nature. I do not see much difference. Richard On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:55 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 10/3/2014 10:20 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > >>A lot of evidence for some God (like the god Matter), is not a proof of > its ex

Re: Non-Genetic Reproduction (telegony)

2014-10-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
That is one more example of epigenetics in which the parents activate or deactivate genes of the offspring. It has a adaptive and prepare the child for the environment found by the parent. In this case the environment for the female may be the size of the males. 2014-10-02 3:53 GMT+02:00 Kim Jon