Re: Cryonics punched cards and the brain

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 John Mikes wrote: ​> ​ > physical measurements simply ASSUMED some neuronal activity "translated" > into mental processes. ​Assumed? Each and every time it's been tried a change in ​ neuronal activity ​results in a reported change in mental state, and a

Re: Cryonics punched cards and the brain

On 2/15/2016 12:38 PM, John Mikes wrote: JKC wrote: " Giuseppe Peano ​ did not have​ a brain made of matter that obeyed the laws of physics ​ ?!​ Was he headless or just brainless? Perhaps Giuseppe's mother had the Zika virus when she was pregnant. Physical sciences - so far - never

Re: Cryonics punched cards and the brain

JKC wrote: " Giuseppe Peano ​ did not have​ a brain made of matter that obeyed the laws of physics ​?!​ Was he headless or just brainless? Perhaps Giuseppe's mother had the Zika virus when she was pregnant. Physical sciences - so far - never explained the MENTAL activity assigned to brains

Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!

Reassuring to read excellently educated scientists talk about hypo(thetical) items using other hypo(thetical) names to explain the unexplainables. The outstanding post came from Russell, who referred to theoretical texts of other scientists (the rest spoke for themselves) - however fell into the

Re: Cryonics punched cards and the brain

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​ >> Giuseppe Peano >> ​ did not have​ >> a brain made of matter that obeyed the laws of physics >> ​?!​ Was he headless or just brainless? Perhaps Giuseppe's mother had the >> Zika virus when she was pregnant. >> > >

Re: Cryonics punched cards and the brain

On 15 Feb 2016, at 00:14, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​Obviously, 2 divides 4 without any help of physics, ​Obviously 2 never changes so by itself 2 has never dived 4 nor done anything else; 2 just is. ​If 2 is going to