Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-13 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: One told me: I see in my diary that I predicted (in Helsinki) that I would be at both places, but I see now that this was wrong I predicted? In such a situation that would only be a half truth, it would be much more

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/11 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: We always feel that we are a single person Yes but the copy that walked out of the duplicating chamber with you (or perhaps you are the copy and he is the original, no

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
In john mind, if you can encounter (only in principle) your doppelganger, then probability lose meaning (comp though experiment), if you can't (MWI) then probability make sense... yeah... totally logical ! And for comp I said only in principle... because you could reconstruct the second one 100

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on various quantum states. Your detailed nature is never duplicated. Every fork is a change from your previous state. If comp supports MWI, why

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Dec 2013, at 18:10, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: We always feel that we are a single person Yes but the copy that walked out of the duplicating chamber with you (or perhaps you are the copy and he is the original,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Dec 2013, at 17:19, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Then you can't say that you will survive anything. We die at each instant OK, but then you can't say that survival is important, or that the word means much of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread meekerdb
On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com mailto:yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on various quantum states. Your detailed nature is never duplicated. Every

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 12, 2013, at 11:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on various quantum states. Your detailed

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread meekerdb
On 12/12/2013 12:57 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 12, 2013, at 11:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com mailto:yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: In Everett it's always obvious who I'm talking about when I use the personal pronoun you, it's the only other fellow in the room with me; but in Bruno's thought experiment there is a man standing to the right of the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:10 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 12:57 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 12, 2013, at 11:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread Jason Resch
Any time John Clark pretends that he does not understand or believe in first-person indeterminancy, refer him to his own post where he admitts to understanding it and believing in it: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/5PR1FXp_CSU/PnuTSn_82PwJ John Clark: So yes, subjectively the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 22:36, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on various quantum states. Your detailed nature is never duplicated. Every fork is a change

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
On 13 December 2013 06:00, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on various quantum states. Your detailed

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
On 13 December 2013 10:27, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: In Everett it's always obvious who I'm talking about when I use the personal pronoun you, it's the only other fellow in the room with me; but in Bruno's

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread meekerdb
On 12/12/2013 2:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 December 2013 06:00, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com mailto:yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
On 13 December 2013 13:07, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 2:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 December 2013 06:00, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, In

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread meekerdb
On 12/12/2013 4:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 December 2013 13:07, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 2:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 December 2013 06:00, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:36

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
On 13 December 2013 14:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The result was lack of frequency dispersion for gamma rays. So it was assuming some interaction between photons and the discrete units of spacetime. That seems pretty tight. Assuming the interpretation is correct, at least.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread meekerdb
On 12/12/2013 5:12 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 December 2013 14:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The result was lack of frequency dispersion for gamma rays. So it was assuming some interaction between photons and the discrete units of spacetime. That

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
Thanks, I will have a go at understanding those. -- 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 it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-12 Thread LizR
Having had a go at following the first paper, I will have to give in and just accept that lack of dispersion indicates lack of quantum foam. It seems ironic that quantum theory is supposed to explain what happens at small scales compared to relativity, but now we have what looks like an

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:45 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2013 2:07 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2013 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Dec 2013, at 22:53, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 8,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2013, at 18:03, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: You're avoiding my question. Why don't you also reject the MWI? If I am reluctant to answer your question it is because I've already done so many times in the past, but if you

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2013, at 20:03, meekerdb wrote: On 12/10/2013 12:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Do you agree that in Helsinki we have: Probability(I will feel to be a unique guy in an unique city) = 1 (assuming comp and all the default assumptions) ? It has the same problem. It is just moved

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: You're avoiding my question. Why don't you also reject the MWI? If I am reluctant to answer your question it is because I've already done so many times

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Then you can't say that you will survive anything. We die at each instant OK, but then you can't say that survival is important, or that the word means much of anything at all. and comp is made trivial, 'Comp is not

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: We always feel that we are a single person Yes but the copy that walked out of the duplicating chamber with you (or perhaps you are the copy and he is the original, no way to tell and no reason to care) also feels like

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread meekerdb
On 12/11/2013 12:23 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:45 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2013 2:07 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2013 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Dec 2013, at

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 08:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't disagree with any of that. But by providing a with an id prior to the fork and then testing after the fork you are effectively modeling a soul that is not duplicated but rather belongs to one of the copies and not the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
Liz, In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on various quantum states. Your detailed nature is never duplicated. Every fork is a change from your previous state. If comp supports MWI, why should your ID ever stay the same since you are constantly forking with or

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:24 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp is the belief (hope, assumption, theory) that you can survive when saying yes to a doctor who proposed to you a digital computer brain

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:57 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/11/2013 12:23 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:45 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2013 2:07 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2013, at 18:45, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I mean what everybody mean by computationalism in the cognitive science Bullshit. Comp differs from computationalism in that comp includes all the silly (and

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2013, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 12/9/2013 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Dec 2013, at 22:53, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes you must also reject the MWI, because you live Who is you? Telmo's

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2013 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Dec 2013, at 22:53, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes you must also reject the MWI, because you

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: You're avoiding my question. Why don't you also reject the MWI? If I am reluctant to answer your question it is because I've already done so many times in the past, but if you insist I will do so again. The Many World's

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2013, at 13:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: Comp is computationalism, and I pretend (at the least) to derive the consequences from it. So, if you want to act like a scientist, just accept the definition given, and show a flaw in the derivation. The very fact that you don't act

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2013 12:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Do you agree that in Helsinki we have: Probability(I will feel to be a unique guy in an unique city) = 1 (assuming comp and all the default assumptions) ? It has the same problem. It is just moved from you to I. What does I refer to. I can

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2013 9:03 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: You're avoiding my question. Why don't you also reject the MWI? If I am reluctant to answer your question it is because I've already done so many

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2013 2:07 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2013 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Dec 2013, at 22:53, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Dec 2013, at 21:34, John Mikes wrote: Bruno wrote Dec.06 to John Clark: What about comp-immortality? have you an argument which makes you sure that your consciousness is not related to your computations in arithmetic? That would be a case you seem to know better than us. Excuse

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Dec 2013, at 22:53, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes you must also reject the MWI, because you live Who is you? Telmo's post was only 63 words long but the pronoun you was used 8 times, that's almost 13%.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: On 12/8/2013 1:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: No, it's a simple matter of using different words for different things and not muddling the distinction. The Abrahamic religions make a positive virtue of faith: Whoever wants to be a Christian should

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You are the one making systematically a confusion between the 1-view and the 3-view. For several years now Bruno Marchal has accused John Clark of that, but John Clark would maintain that there is not a single person on

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You are the one making systematically a confusion between the 1-view and the 3-view. For several years now Bruno Marchal has accused John Clark

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread meekerdb
On 12/9/2013 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Dec 2013, at 22:53, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes you must also reject the MWI, because you live Who is you? Telmo's post was only 63 words long but the pronoun

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread meekerdb
On 12/9/2013 1:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Dec 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: On 12/8/2013 1:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: No, it's a simple matter of using different words for different things and not muddling the distinction. The Abrahamic religions make a positive virtue of faith:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-09 Thread John Mikes
Hi John, I am not sure I understand. You ask me the question I was implicitly asking to John C., it seems to me. I am not proving the non existence of something (comp-I), but its existence (in the comp theory). Bruno *My apologies! I am frequently perplexed by the position-lined discussion

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 19:40, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It looks like some atheists are condescending with the people. They act like thinking that the people are so stupid that they should be allowed to believe in Santa Klaus. But that attitude keep such

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:05, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:09, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 1:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But we know already that the universe, whatever it is, cannot entirely understand itself, notably because no machine can ever completely understand itself. That depends on it being digital and infinite.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 19:59, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:55, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:29, meekerdb wrote: On 12/5/2013 1:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Dec 2013, at 13:13,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:11, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 1:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Dec 2013, at 09:06, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 11:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is subjective is the appreciation, or not, of the term theology, and that is subjective indeed, but it could

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Dec 7, 2013 3:51 pm Subject: Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ? On 07 Dec 2013, at 17:37, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp-I = Comp-Immortality. I know what a bull is and I know what shit is so I know what bullshit

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:48, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:13, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/8 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:05, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Dec 2013, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/8 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:05, meekerdb wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 5, 2013, at

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/7/2013 12:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:48, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:13, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp is the belief (hope, assumption, theory) that you can survive when saying yes to a doctor who proposed to you a digital computer brain transplant. If that were all comp meant I would have no problem with it, but I

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp is the belief (hope, assumption, theory) that you can survive when saying yes to a doctor who proposed to you a digital computer brain

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
As I've shown numerous times now, what you assert below is plain lies. While I can agree sometimes with things you say, I cannot let such obvious lies pass through. Quentin Le 8 déc. 2013 17:24, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Bruno Marchal

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread John Clark
Telmo Menezes you must also reject the MWI, because you live Who is you? Telmo's post was only 63 words long but the pronoun you was used 8 times, that's almost 13%. When it is necessary to hide behind personal pronouns when a philosophical idea regarding duplicating machines and personal

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: what you assert below is plain lies. While I can agree sometimes with things you say, I cannot let such obvious lies pass through. But you've just let such obvious lies pass through. You haven't specifically challenged

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/8 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: what you assert below is plain lies. While I can agree sometimes with things you say, I cannot let such obvious lies pass through. But you've just let such obvious lies pass

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread John Mikes
Bruno wrote Dec.06 to John Clark: *What about comp-immortality? have you an argument which makes you sure that your consciousness is not related to your computations in arithmetic? That would be a case you seem to know better than us*. Excuse mewhat kind of 'argument' do you require to

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Dec 2013, at 17:24, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp is the belief (hope, assumption, theory) that you can survive when saying yes to a doctor who proposed to you a digital computer brain transplant. If that were

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes you must also reject the MWI, because you live Who is you? Telmo's post was only 63 words long but the pronoun you was used 8 times, that's almost 13%. When it is necessary to hide behind personal

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-08 Thread meekerdb
On 12/8/2013 1:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: No, it's a simple matter of using different words for different things and not muddling the distinction. The Abrahamic religions make a positive virtue of faith: Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his Reason. ---

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/6/2013 11:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is subjective is the appreciation, or not, of the term theology, and that is subjective indeed, but it could also be related to strategy. My difference with Quentin is on that point. But I have already hidden the wording theology for a long

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 18:21, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/6 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 18:22, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/6 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Samiya Illias
Jason, please see: http://can-you-answer.com/ particularly: http://can-you-answer.com/CanBahaisAnswer/canBaAns.htm On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/6 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:48, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:13, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: A religion is based on dogma,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:50, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Can you refute comp-I? No I can not because of the IHA principle. Comp-I = Comp-Immortality. Bruno John K Clark -- You received this message because you are

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:55, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:29, meekerdb wrote: On 12/5/2013 1:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Dec 2013, at 13:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I repeat the cult of men to men is the most primitive and

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: A

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:23, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 10:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is no science. There are only field of inquiries, and humans having a scientific attitude. Scientific attitude is field independent. Research can be refrained only by abuse of authority. Genuine

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 21:31, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Well John not you nor I are believers in QI but there seem to be plenty on this list. I neither believe nor disbelieve in quantum immortality, I am not ashamed to

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 23:04, Quentin Anciaux wrote (to PGC) So your world discovery quoted above is already too dogmatic; even to a Wiki-Taoist. Are you saying we can't ? Yes, one hypothesis of science, is that the world is understandable... if it is not, all of what you're saying is

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 09:06, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 11:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is subjective is the appreciation, or not, of the term theology, and that is subjective indeed, but it could also be related to strategy. My difference with Quentin is on that point. But I have

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/12/6 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com Science comes from latin and means knowledge... if some wants to use science as a cover for something else, that doesn't redefine what it is... science is an attitude towards pursuit of knowledge... Thank you. The victims of sectarianism in the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp-I = Comp-Immortality. I know what a bull is and I know what shit is so I know what bullshit is. I know what immortality is but I don't know what comp is so I don't know what comp-Immortality is. John K Clark -- You received

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What about comp-immortality? That's what I'd like to know, what the hell is comp-immortality? How does it differ from regular run of the mill immortality? Your homemade words acronyms and phrases are getting out of hand. have you an

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/7/2013 12:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It looks like some atheists are condescending with the people. They act like thinking that the people are so stupid that they should be allowed to believe in Santa Klaus. But that attitude keep such beliefs strongly in the hand of the authoritative

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/7/2013 12:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:48, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:13, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/7/2013 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 19:55, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:29, meekerdb wrote: On 12/5/2013 1:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Dec 2013, at 13:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I repeat the cult of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/7/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/7/2013 1:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But we know already that the universe, whatever it is, cannot entirely understand itself, notably because no machine can ever completely understand itself. That depends on it being digital and infinite. Brent -- You received this message because

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread meekerdb
On 12/7/2013 1:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Dec 2013, at 09:06, meekerdb wrote: On 12/6/2013 11:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is subjective is the appreciation, or not, of the term theology, and that is subjective indeed, but it could also be related to strategy. My difference with

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 17:37, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Comp-I = Comp-Immortality. I know what a bull is and I know what shit is so I know what bullshit is. I know what immortality is but I don't know what comp is so I don't know what

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread spudboy100
, or a Neanderthal, perhaps? No, is an acceptable answer, but I am always interested in crap like that. Sincerely, Mitch -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Dec 7, 2013 3:51 pm Subject: Re: How can a grown

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 17:58, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What about comp-immortality? That's what I'd like to know, what the hell is comp-immortality? How does it differ from regular run of the mill immortality? Your homemade words acronyms

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 18:30, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I repeat my question, why add useless wheels within wheels that explain nothing to otherwise nice theories? To take into account the discovery already made by

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 18:35, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: you can not live without a form of religion Speak for yourself, I've been living without religion since i was 12. Without fairy tales. Nice for you. But religion

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 18:36, Richard Ruquist wrote: I believe in science. That is my religion. Yes. Religion is no more than the idea that science put some light on *something* beyond ourself. As Einstein said : religion without science is blind, science without religion is lame. Bruno

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 18:38, Quentin Anciaux wrote: A religion is based on dogma, That is your dogma. Religion is based on experience and dialog for the founder of science and modern theology, which is forbidden since about 1500 years. Bruno science is not, hence science is not a

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:11, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Dec 2013, at 16:24, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Alberto, I agree with you that religion cannot be avoided in this sense. Here's a funny example: The Leipzig

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:13, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion. Some religions may be, that

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Dec 2013, at 19:15, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not a religion. Some religions may be, that

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