Re: Atheist

2014-07-15 Thread John Mikes
, however, did it to me. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: > Dear John, > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >> Dear Samiya, people ask the wrong questions. >> > > Maybe, or maybe I need to study and reflect much more b

Re: Atheist

2014-07-16 Thread John Mikes
not reply my parting question anymore, which pertains to your approval-or-not of the cruelties of Sharia law and whether you accept ANY advancement of humanity over 1500 years at all. With respect John Mikes PS I found on Google a picture with your name, a gorgeous bride-face. I hope it is yours. JM

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-21 Thread John Mikes
leave out the plants either! And - all that is only at consideration of this small and negligible mud-bullet within the company of that unremarkable small star (Sun?) in the spiral halo of a galaxy "us" being a 'latecomer rookie' with good potential to ruin our planet. John Mik

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-22 Thread John Mikes
Bruno and Kim: what "SELF" would you consider in e.g. ants? if we realize the highly merged (individualized?) *group-self* - the answer is different from taking the present individual (simplified DOWN to functional minimum composition units) *'ant'* and trying to assign a *'self*' to such *partial

Re: video of Andrei Linde hearing gravity wave news

2014-07-22 Thread John Mikes
(that sucks me). --- On 3/19/2014 2:29 PM, John Mikes wrote: Brent, my hearing is so bad that I not only misunderstand(?) all video-speak, I hardly even could HEAR gravity-wvaves (not to SEE(?) them). I esteem old Isaac and when an apple fell on his head he has all my sympathy. But

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-10 Thread John Mikes
Liz: I wrote some books, several ones have been also published (mostly professional). Here is my experience - not a 'novel', but about one Sci-Fi I wrote ~1990~ in 2(!) languages and tried to publish in the US and in Central Europe with excellent publishing houses. Both markets rejected it (withou

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-11 Thread John Mikes
Spudboy - and Liz: thanks for the approval - I wouldn't have resorted to Everett's MWI even in 1990 (found it restrictive to our lately human conclusions) nor to an 'infinite' universe (finiteless world is better in which we have unrestricted (number and qualia) universes, So I proposed (my version

Re: Comp and "logical supervenience"

2014-08-18 Thread John Mikes
On 8/18/2014 4:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The laws will always assured the existence of computations in which you survive, and have that quantum MW aspects, but in some consciousness state we might live some "phase transition" between different physical realms. Obviously, we cannot get a physical

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-19 Thread John Mikes
Stathis: you wrote Aug.19: *"What we know is that the brain can generate consciousness. The brain is not a digital computer running a program, but if it can be simulated by one, and if the simulation is conscious, and if the program can be "run" in Platonia rather than on a physical computer, then

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-20 Thread John Mikes
#x27;response to relations'. A process. John M On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 8/20/2014 11:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 19 Aug 2014, at 21:49, John Mikes wrote: > > Stathis: > you wrote Aug.19: > > *"What we know is that

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-21 Thread John Mikes
ote: > > > On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, John Mikes wrote: > >> Stathis: >> you wrote Aug.19: >> >> *"What we know is that the brain can generate consciousness. The brain is >> not a digital computer running a program, but if it can be simulated

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-21 Thread John Mikes
in order to 'save', 'recall' and apply). How do we have any mentality that reflects into the output of our *brain*(function) (what I call the tool for such)? John M On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:40 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 8/21/2014 1:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >

Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-27 Thread John Mikes
widely used for 'computers' working in 'meanings and conclusions' of the SO FAR deciphered domain of our thinking - translated into softwares of that -still-embryonical tool of digital workings we call our existing Turing machine. Beyond that "The Deluge". I do not share t

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-28 Thread John Mikes
ut to the "substrate" it's >> running on. This seems to me a semantic confusion on the part of the >> article writer. >> >> >> >> On 28 August 2014 07:52, John Mikes wrote: >> >>> Wiki identifies the (non-artificial) base: >>>

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-29 Thread John Mikes
Russell: in your note *Yes, it does. And that might explain the Fermi paradox. It doesn'trule vastly distributed "hive minds", though. Perhaps our future is tobe assilimated with the Borg.* isn't there an *"out" * missing in the 2nd line after 'rule', or not? John M On Fri, Aug 29, 2014

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-30 Thread John Mikes
rt that the chances are still better to find oneself in a universe > where the life of civilisations is either nasty, brutish and short, or > involves us evolving into an "Childhood's End" style Overmind. > > > On 30 August 2014 08:25, John Mikes wrote: > >> Ru

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-09-01 Thread John Mikes
gt; Please could you explain what you think I'm saying, so I can attempt a > sensible reply to your comment? > > > On 31 August 2014 07:38, John Mikes wrote: > >> Liz: >> and HOW ON EARTH (verbatim: this one) would you know the entire World? >> Not to ask: what would yo

Re: Hal Finney

2014-09-02 Thread John Mikes
Is it some untold truth that sooner, or later we all gonna die? Never oocurred to me. What next? (Remember the discussion of the 2 fetuses whether there is life after birth?) I used to be a Ouijja-Board spiritist in college years (and later) ~70 years ago with friends, we did not cheat and never f

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread John Mikes
e aliens are AI? > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:19 PM, LizR wrote: > >> On the subject of AI dooming us, at least we have John Mikes' benevolent >> aliens looking out for us. Unless their aim was to get the AIs ... but why >> not build one themselves? (Come to t

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-09-03 Thread John Mikes
ll. And here come those "mundane" explanations you mentioned. JohnM On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:19 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 9/1/2014 2:21 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > YOU (anybody) cannot know what WAS before such 'colonization' and what > transpired into us (the Earth)

AI

2014-09-05 Thread John Mikes
After reading lots of repeats by otherwise smart people on the topic: do we have a concensus on this list (narrow target enough?) about some identification of * intelligence? * (forget Wiki!) I proposed the* 'inter-lego'* classic, meaning to *"read"* (=understand act out, apply, etc.) the meanin

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-06 Thread John Mikes
Chris: and why on Earth would you exclude the communication of plants etc. from the broad meaning of "language"? (They don't have a blabbermouth). JM On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *From:* everything-list@googl

Re: AI

2014-09-06 Thread John Mikes
t 8:06 PM, LizR wrote: > Jeez, and I thought intelligence was the easy one. But yes, using the same > definitions is important, a lot of megabytes have been wasted because > people don't agree on what something means (I won't mention free > will...oops.) > > >

Re: AI

2014-09-07 Thread John Mikes
that darn 'intelligence'). On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:47 PM, meekerdb wrote: > First we'd have to figure out what "means" means. :-) > > Brent > > > On 9/6/2014 1:48 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > Jeez - Liz, correction!!! > *( a lot of megabytes ha

Re: Fish can communicate and UNDERSTAND each other!

2014-09-09 Thread John Mikes
Steve: and why is it so remarkable? Communication keeps the world churning, inert singularities(?) would not survive. We (humans) imagine that our "language" (maybe the most sophisticated WE KNOW ABOUT) - i s - communication. I also question the difference spelled out (?) between instinctive and d

Re: Fish can communicate and UNDERSTAND each other!

2014-09-09 Thread John Mikes
Liz: instinctive or learned? our instincts are not 'god-given', they developed by learning. Then you use my favorite put-down word: "adaptive". I see no 'adaptation' as assigned to (evolutionary?) mutations. *How* would a creature recognize benefit/disadvantage ratios to DECIDE what is good for her

Re: Fish can communicate and UNDERSTAND each other!

2014-09-09 Thread John Mikes
r the typo *b*illion vs.* m*illion. (80,000 in 80,000,000,000) On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:34 PM, LizR wrote: > > > > On 10 September 2014 08:56, John Mikes wrote: > >> Liz: >> instinctive or learned? our instincts are not 'god-given', they developed >>

to: Samiya I

2014-09-10 Thread John Mikes
off-list e-mail to stay off from the usual misunderstandings by 'physical sciences' contemplations. Best regards John Mikes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Fish can communicate and UNDERSTAND each other!

2014-09-12 Thread John Mikes
TOPICAL sortiment. John On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:34 PM, LizR wrote: > > > > On 10 September 2014 08:56, John Mikes wrote: > >> Liz: >> instinctive or learned? our instincts are not 'god-given', they developed >> by learning. >> > > Yes, they

Re: to: Samiya I

2014-09-12 Thread John Mikes
; multiplecit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:42 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >> Samiya, >> thanks for the post - your interest by reading what I wrote. Your >> URL-stuff is much more involved than being answered immediately, so please, >> give

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-16 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno, although I donot want to participate in the discussion of Russel's paper, may I pick out a Brent(?) par : > > > > *(BrM)...I don't understand. How is having DNA relevant to > havingconsciousness? It is quite plausible that non-DNA-based forms > areconscious (eg a computer running a sui

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-17 Thread John Mikes
Quentin and other 'consciousness' imperatives: does that mean that if someone (temporarily) loses consciousness (e.g. by falling asleep, being anaesthesized, or blown on the head etc.) is equivalent of dying? How are we "resurrected" from death when we wake up to consciousness anewes? John M On We

Re: Do they or don't they exist? Is anyone familiar with this paper?

2014-09-27 Thread John Mikes
Liz: This is the 'other' John. - *They *(black holes and all other figments we 'believe' in our scientific (physcalistic etc.) WORLD(s) - D O - exist, if not otherwise: in our mind (whatever we call so). * In Reality? *(First tell me, please, what you call Reality?) . I agree with Brent's den

Re: [n.wildber...@unsw.edu.au: Video of Jim and Norman's debate on infinity]

2014-09-27 Thread John Mikes
Russell: I don't find myself apt to even 'read' such math considerations, surely beyond (above) my memories of the early forties when I last studied math. INFINITY, however, is a NOUN formulated from an adverb 'infinite' in improper linguistics in my opinion. Infinite may point to characteristics

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-05 Thread John Mikes
John, I promised not to ARGUE WITH YOU, so this is no argument either., Just a question: how do you know there is 'nothing else' beyond your tronies? even if Brent may call them "excitations of a more fundamental field" (excuse me, Brent). There may be more of such, more fundamental and more than j

Re: Is mathematics human thinking? WAS [generalizations_of_islam - God Matter]

2014-10-06 Thread John Mikes
Brent: thank you so much for formulating some of my potential (and not yet formulated) replies in a much better format than I could ever do. Chris seems to be "in reverse" - describing SOME natural observations do not mean Nature being created to FIT those observations (which are temporary, anyway

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-09 Thread John Mikes
find it remarkable that your Quran-quote extendes to geography discovered way after (into?) Hedzhra also the cosmology formulated during the recent times and chemistry of the last 100 years (ozon?) - maybe they are included only in the paraphernalia. I would love to read about the other animals as w

Re: UW fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal

2014-10-09 Thread John Mikes
Liz: How 'bout forgeting the reactor for now and use 'loose' fusion energy to push out hurricanes etc. from their balance? No more Tsunamis? Ninjas? THEN we may tame it into reactors for human use. JM On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:43 PM, LizR wrote: > I thought main problem with fusion is no-one can

Re: Are We Really Conscious? (NYT Article today)

2014-10-11 Thread John Mikes
Brent: who is - " W e " - ?? John M Those answers you quoted are at a lower level of 'knowledge-base" than we pretend to be at now. Evolution?? a snapshot in the sequence we happen to witness. Do we KNOW anything for sure about it (or anything else)? we THINK so. Well, we don't.. Evidence i

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-15 Thread John Mikes
t. So I do not condone the topic "GOD" in our (science-based?) discussions. Also: "THEOLOGY" (science based on the Greek God-word Theos=God) is strange to me. My wife said often: she envies the believers for their faith-based mentality. Agnostically yours John Mikes On Wed,

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-16 Thread John Mikes
started to "think" at the young age of 66. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 15 Oct 2014, at 21:42, John Mikes wrote: > > I read Bruno's ID about* theology* some times - never really comprehended > it. > I got the notion that he sorts und

Re: Are We Really Conscious? (NYT Article today)

2014-10-19 Thread John Mikes
Stathis, you wrote (among other things): *Whether I find it satisfactory or not is a different question. The point I was making is that people who find it satisfactory express this belief idea by claiming that consciousness does not exist. * IMO if not otherwise, it DOES exist in our 'minds' (th

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-19 Thread John Mikes
JohnKC: do you believe that IF the fixation on our embryonic digital machine of a 'bit' of info can be measured in units of our physical figment system, does INDEED C A US E (create) that information? Otherwise the calculation is not much different from observing a color. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014

Re: generalizations_of_islam - God Matter

2014-10-23 Thread John Mikes
Liz: I should object to the subject. How can Islm be GENERALIZED with their differences among their own shades? IS happily chops off Islamic heads if their sentiments diverge. Shia-s Sunnis are warring for 15 centuries and I would not volunteer counting the diverse shade-differences ('shady'?) JM

Re: "The Span of Infinity"

2014-10-26 Thread John Mikes
Brent, these guys are SO smart! They even knew how to convert infinity into a definitely lucrative career with awards and stuff. You know I am a layman - even forgot the 'stuff' of my Ph.D. and D.Sc. and am proudly agnostic. Of 'infinity' I lately wrote: I accept the adjective (and adverb?) inf

Re: "The Span of Infinity"

2014-10-27 Thread John Mikes
my 1st 1/2 century, until I learned to "think" better - for the 2nd half. I am glad my note triggered you into participating on this list, usually discussing more exciting (scientific?) terms than those godforsaken religious topics we get lately. Best regards John Mikes Ph.D. (chem), D

Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-10-31 Thread John Mikes
* *(Quantum theory is needed to explain how the universe works at the microscopic scale, and is believed to apply to all matter.) * 'Microscopic to what? to our human sizes? to the sub-Planck, or the galaxy-size extensions? Again my agnostic views: who knows what "worlds" do exist in qu

Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-11-01 Thread John Mikes
Spudy: did anyone ever realize a "contact" with those "other" universes, so you can decry a 'possibility' of such? Same for 'immortality': did anyone ever meet an 'immortal'? JM On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:23 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > Sent

Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-11-03 Thread John Mikes
said that, you, from my point of view-made > your point. If we're speaking of our species and its descendents, why not > go for the highest hanging fruit? > > > -Original Message- > From: John Mikes > To: everything-list > Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 3:09 pm > Subject:

Re: "The Span of Infinity"

2014-11-06 Thread John Mikes
I like to be on the lighter side with my posts. Have fun John Mikes On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:57 AM, wrote: > All well taken dude, but what you gleaned was available to the author of > the post peripheral vision the other side of a large living room or a small > garden. If you'd actu

Re: "The Span of Infinity"

2014-11-06 Thread John Mikes
te: > On 7 November 2014 09:33, John Mikes wrote: > >> BTW I like to be on the lighter side with my posts. >> > > Come to the dark side! > > Join us.don't be afraid... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: "The Span of Infinity"

2014-11-06 Thread John Mikes
oing science, be it >> financially supported, >> or just societally rewarding, I was active in 'that' domain for my 1st >> 1/2 century, until I >> learned to "think" better - for the 2nd half. >> >> I am glad my note triggered you into parti

Re: Fish can communicate and UNDERSTAND each other!

2014-11-06 Thread John Mikes
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: > John, > Your explanation of communication of apparently 'non-living' bodies is > interesting. Lately, I've been contemplating on a verse ( > http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=22&verse=18) which speaks > of WHOEVER is in the hea

Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-11-07 Thread John Mikes
d progress by showing them wrong? so we may 'believe' what is proven wrong - only? Then again John Mikes : > To: everything-list > Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 3:09 pm > Subject: Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact > Spudy: did anyone ever realize a "contac

Re: Are We Really Conscious? (NYT Article today)

2014-11-10 Thread John Mikes
Brent: how about functional relations? are they included into 'ontology'? (I evade the "o" ref. whenever I can, because it relates to our present inventory leaving out the influence of the vast uknown/unknowable contributing to our know world). BTW what I am asking is part of the Aris-Total (the to

Re: I assume everyone's up to speed with this?

2014-11-13 Thread John Mikes
s to become democratic. So: P E A C E ! I propose to let our beloved friend be happy in her devoted belief - I learned from her. John Mikes who tried several avenues of 'beliefs'. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:55 PM, LizR wrote: > On 13 November 2014 23:20, Samiya Illias wrote: >

Re: I assume everyone's up to speed with this?

2014-11-13 Thread John Mikes
is the only 'faith' I carry. And - at 93 - I do not experiment with new avenues for 'life'. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:52 PM, LizR wrote: > On 14 November 2014 11:40, John Mikes wrote: > >> Liz, I hope you do not want to mix Friedrich Nietzsche into this >> b

Re: "The Span of Infinity"

2014-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Dear Russell, I try to be polite and smooth in my communications not only with you. Here a question emerges in my mind: how diffrent is your perception of the MV (and the arising of such VERY human connotations) from the concept of 'GOD" in religious minds? Is the Schroedinger equation stuff diffe

Re: Two apparently different forms of entropy

2014-11-18 Thread John Mikes
Brent: you beautifully describe the *"...**arbitrarily many possible histories and different possible starting points. ..." - *all within human speculation and within the limited 'model' of the - so far - KNOWABLE inventory of our (scientific?) world(view). Entropy (any form of) is part of such. BH

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-24 Thread John Mikes
Play with words? OK with me. Just kindly circumscribe a "measure of intelligence" (including, of course, a definition of Intelligence you prefer). Am I 2.5 times more intelligent *than you*, or are you same *than me*? I still prefer the 'inter-lego' heritage, to be *mental* enough to READ between t

Re: Two apparently different forms of entropy

2014-11-24 Thread John Mikes
Or: the MWI of my NARRATIVE; as in the Plenitude's infinite equilibration (more than symmetry) 'similars' get to close for an equilibrated comfort, the formed knots(?) expose some complexity (forbidden!) that dissipates as it forms, YET in the process form a (transitional - complex?) world - callab

Re: real A.I.

2014-11-29 Thread John Mikes
Telmo: reasonable thinking. My wife Maria (almost as old as I am) had long ago her own ideas abou the "zookeeper" syndrom: we are kept here safe for SOME purpose *They* know, *We* don't. When we finished our usefulness it is out with us, as long as we are useful (unidentified) for THEM, we live. Th

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-29 Thread John Mikes
Richard: I enjoyed your chickenfoot reply, YET cannot subscribe for it's expansion to humans: GROUPS od humans seem to be more stupid than any level immaginable.; Well, that much for our kind. Respectfully John Mikes On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > It may

Re: And the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to…

2013-10-12 Thread John Mikes
Not being prone to any Nobel prizes, I watch them pretty objectively. Alfred Nobel established it due to his biting conscience: he wanted to eliminate ALL wars by inventing (and starting to manufacture) the stuff he deemed too aggressive to let people wage wars in his future: a wholesale production

Re: Note to Russell Standish

2013-10-12 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, I can't help it: I liked Richard's interjection. Arithmetics (even in your fundamental vision - I suppose) needs 'human logic' to propagate etc., no matter how the elements may be thought to pre-date humans. Does a stone, or the 'root' of a plant, a microbe, or a cloud follow (evolve? apply?

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-10-13 Thread John Mikes
that all those changes by the complexity-circumstances in Finnland would be duplicated by the changes in Russia, so the 'doubled' (clone???) changes into a different person. I leave it to the 'Everything' Friends to decide whether that person feels still like the other one. I wouldn

Re: The I Concept, Analytically

2013-10-14 Thread John Mikes
details of such 'mystery' when it becomes "PROCESS". "HOW WE THINK" is very personal. Respectfully John Mikes On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 10/12/2013 12:49 AM, freqflyer07281972 wrote: > > Yes, but you see, even the food we get from the resta

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-10-14 Thread John Mikes
e) it is not likely that > all > > those changes by the complexity-circumstances in Finnland would be > > duplicated by the changes in Russia, so the 'doubled' (clone???) changes > > into a different person. I leave it to the 'Everything' Friends to decid

Re: Trailing Dovetailer Argument

2013-10-14 Thread John Mikes
#x27;statistical'* dependent on the border-limits and the qualia we include in identifying the counted items, to *'probability' *and some more.) John Mikes On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > A first draft that I posted over the weekend. * > * > >

Re: Human Thought Can Voluntarily Control Neurons in Brain

2013-10-18 Thread John Mikes
nquisition. (Spinoza was luckier: he did not have to go that far, he was only 'shunned' by his Jewish brethren.) Is it wrong to try to KNOW (understand maybe) what we are talking about? John Mikes On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 18 Oct 2013, at 18:0

Re: And the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to…

2013-10-18 Thread John Mikes
'as first addition' TO the original listing. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:48 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > > The so called *Peace Prize* (maybe the No.1 as added to Nobel's >> original list) >> > > The Peace

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-20 Thread John Mikes
Brent: I like to write insted of "we know" - "we THINK we know" and it goes further: Bruno's "provable' - in many cases - applies evidences (to 'prove') from conventional science (reductionist figments) we still THINK we know. I don't think I use the term "T R U E" at all - in my agnosticism. You h

Re: AUDA and pronouns

2013-10-21 Thread John Mikes
for an Infinite Universal Machine. (I have imagination). As for now I am not (yet?) asking for a patent on this system. Have a good Halloween John Mikes On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 20 Oct 2013, at 21:03, John Mikes wrote: > > Brent: I like

Re: HUMANS all come FROM AFRICA: HERPES does not lie

2013-10-22 Thread John Mikes
ostic mind. The official 'professionals' don't like lay ideas penetrate their privileged fields. John Mikes - (classic) polymer scientist - ret. (As a European immigrant in the US I said several time that I am an African American, the ancestors of whom emigrated from Africa and I came

Re: HUMANS all come FROM AFRICA: HERPES does not lie

2013-10-22 Thread John Mikes
I read in Elain Morgan's (Oxford UK) "Aquatic Ape" book an enjoyable comparison between human characteristic and those of pigs. It is not about hybridization at all. Enjoyable reading stuff. (The book is quite different from th recent denigration of the 'topic' into the mermaids and creationist abe

Re: Douglas Hofstadter Article

2013-10-24 Thread John Mikes
Craig and Telmo: Is "anticipation" involved at all? Deep Blue anticipated hundreds of steps in advance (and evaluated a potential outcome before accepting, or rejecting). What else is in "thinking" involved? I would like to know, because I have no idea. John Mikes On Thu, Oct

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-27 Thread John Mikes
ousness is something different from what's going on indeed. Explained by physics? I consider "physix" the ingenious explanation of the figments we perceive - at the level of such explanatory thinking. It changed from time-period to time-period and is likely to change further in the fu

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-28 Thread John Mikes
??) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > On 28 October 2013 07:33, John Mikes wrote: > >> Allegedly Stathis wrote: >> *If consciousness supervenes on neurochemistry then the brain will be >> different if the conscious state is diff

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread John Mikes
no Marchal wrote: >> >> On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:05:52 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> > >> > On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:47, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> > >>

Re: Douglas Hofstadter Article

2013-11-01 Thread John Mikes
liz wrote (Oct. 24) to Craig: *What are inorganic atoms? Or rather (since I suspect all atoms are inorganic), what are organic atoms?* * * What are 'atoms'? (IMO models of our ignorance (oops: knowledge) about a portion of the unknowable infinite explained during the latest some centuries of human

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread John Mikes
oking D O W N on problems of them. John Mikes On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:49 PM, John Clark wrote: > Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered by many to be a > intellectual, in fact the leading intellectual on the Supreme Court, and > yet we get the following exchange between

Re: What do you do if your Obamacare is too expensive ?

2013-11-04 Thread John Mikes
As far as I - as a newspaper-reading stiff - know - it was Mitt Romney, not exactly as it was implemented - asked for by the dying late Sen. Ed. Kennedy at his last visit to Congress. Obama only kept the basic (capitalist?) format to let insurers and other investors (and lawyers) reap profit on th

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread John Mikes
Chris - Liz - Bruno Nov.6: * Are we organisms; or ecosystems? * Who cares? those are WORDS without proper meaning. OF COURSE WE ARE complexities (without knowing what they are indeed) and we follow the partial list of information we so far received. Try to figure it as "nations" (countries?) i

Re: Computers, code and consciousness

2013-11-06 Thread John Mikes
Bruno wrote No.6: *You have missed the discovery of the universal machine. * Was it a discovery, or an invention? Is thereO N E *discovered* machine for studying, or we just imagine how it should behave? On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 06 Nov 2013, at 13:48,

Re: Computers, code and consciousness

2013-11-07 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, could you kindly tell me how could I find a universal machine? (No joke). I would LOVE to listen to them. John M On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 06 Nov 2013, at 21:31, John Mikes wrote: > > Bruno wrote No.6: > *You have missed the discovery o

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread John Mikes
On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money, and that's the case today. There's nothing morally wrong with being rich, but it creates an ethical problem. Being much wealthier than oth

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread John Mikes
One more remark: the " H O N E S T " heirs? super-rich they may be? Do you find an honestly accumulated heirloom to inherit? Did they work productively/honestly to be 'rich'? JM On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:50 AM, John Mikes wrote: > On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wro

Re: Re: [4DWorldx] Is mass mental or physical ?

2013-11-10 Thread John Mikes
ticism is based on: The only thing we know is "We Don't". The rest is 'science' etc. we keep talking about. Belief, doubt, Nobel Prizes, etc. (And maybe: Bruno's "numbers"? applied by his (Loeb's?) universal machine). John Mikes On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread John Mikes
needs is fascism, socialism, or religion. Be careful with your words: they are mostly meaningless substitutes. John M. On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:50 AM, John Mikes wrote: > On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: > > On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Ther

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread John Mikes
PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/10/2013 1:06 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > Bruno and Brent: > > *Who are you to T E L L society what it needs?* > (BTW: I agree perfectly with your position). > > I had discussions on other lists in aspects of religion and gun-control > a

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread John Mikes
Liz wrote: (and I try to interject my remarks in plain lettering) *"Sequence is determinative because that's how the universe works. * I would say: "how WE explain the workings of the universe" (- rather Multiverse). * Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to da

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread John Mikes
Dear LIZ: More than ~2 million peer-reviewed articles approved the Bible stories beween 1599 and 2010. We call that 'religon'. (Numbers!!!) Does that make them true? Fossil fuel will not neccesarily run out: nobody will use them after our demise. And for nukes? I would say: O N L Y fusion! The '

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread John Mikes
Telmo and other 'experts': why does nobody even mention the geothermic energy app - available in huge Q-s and so far tapped only in (literalily) 'superficial' usage. The high pressure ultra-clean steam from a deepened modification of the exhausted oil wells may provide much much more energy than to

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Russell wrote: *For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including animpassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voicecompetition, what never seems to be discussed is the elephant in theroom of how much uranium resources we have. IIUC, if all fossil fuelpower pl

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
extraction with 2 pipes inserted: ONE for pumping DOWN the ultrapure (Si-free) water into a heat-exchanger at ~140+C environment, the OTHER to ascend the high pressure steam straight into the turbine. No deposit, as in NZ. JOhn Mikes On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:39 PM, LizR wrote: > On 15 November 2

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
gt; On 15 November 2013 11:39, John Mikes wrote: > >> Telmo and other 'experts': >> why does nobody even mention the geothermic energy app - available in >> huge Q-s and so far tapped only in (literalily) 'superficial' usage. The >> high pressu

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
. Ignorance is not a good argument for not considering (and asking). John On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > Hi John, > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:33 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > Telmo: > > unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another list... - it is

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
rote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Mikes > *Sent:* Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:33 PM > > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > >

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-17 Thread John Mikes
nto > the spinning turbine. If you used the steam from the well head you would be > replacing turbines every year or two. > > Chris > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Mikes > *Sent:* Satu

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-19 Thread John Mikes
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:41 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > Dear Telmo, oil wells went down deeper than previously estimated as > > feasible. Techniques are evolving. > > If 2, 0r 5 pipes are inadequate in transport capacity, use more. Ask the > > engineers - I also claim

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