Russell Standish wrote:
> > I'd be interested to hear it. Here's something else you could look
> > at...calculate the median annual income for all humans
> alive today (I
> > believe it is around $4,000 /year), compare it to your own,
> and see if
> > you are anyway near the median. I predict
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:52:23PM -0700, Jonathan Colvin wrote:
>
> That's quite an assumption. *Do* all conscious things ask this question of
> themselves? Babies don't. Senile old people don't. I'm not sure that
> medieval peasants ever thought to ask this question, or pre-literate
> cavemen.
Almost the right answer. In fact, if you download the population of
countries from the US Census bureau, throw them into a histogram, you
will find that the distribution is best fit with a power law, with
exponent -1 (my best fit was actually -1.05, but it was -1 within
error). This implies that th
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From: "Jonathan Colvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Russell Standish'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "'EverythingList'"
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 09:52 PM
Subject: Reference class (was dualism and the DA)
Russell Standish wrote:
> > > >(JC) If you want to insist that "What would it be like
> to be a bat"
> > > >is equivalent to the question "What would the universe be like
> > > if I had
> > > > been a bat rather than me?", it is very hard to see what the
> > > > answer could be. Suppose you
>
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