On 9/4/2011 9:48 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Maybe that's because you don't know anything about abiogenesis.
I'm fine with abiogenesis,but it's reverse engineered so it doesn't
explain why biological organisms would experience themselves as a
separate class of phenomena than chemistry.
Biochemis
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
> You know, I was raised in the USSR where the official religion was atheism
> and materialism. The results were disastrous.
Um, I rather suspect the disaster was from having an official
religion, enforced by men with guns, regardless of whic
On Sep 5, 3:11 am, meekerdb wrote:
> On 9/4/2011 9:48 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
>
> >> Maybe that's because you don't know anything about abiogenesis.
> > I'm fine with abiogenesis,but it's reverse engineered so it doesn't
> > explain why biological organisms would experience themselves as a
> > s
On 04 Sep 2011, at 22:06, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/4/2011 12:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, meekerdb
wrote:
On 9/4/2011 8:32 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi
wrote:
On 04.09.2011 07:51 meekerdb said the following:
...
Hi Evgenii,
On 04 Sep 2011, at 18:30, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
A short remark. I have decided start with philosophy, as it is more
entertaining as mathematical logic.
I'm afraid you are wrong on this, with all my respect. Mathematical
logic is the most entertaining thing in the world (except
On 04 Sep 2011, at 20:24, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/4/2011 4:10 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Craig
Weinberg wrote:
Well, either the atoms got into the book by following the rules of
physics or they got there by magic. What other options are there?
This
does
On 05 Sep 2011, at 09:11, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/4/2011 9:48 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Maybe that's because you don't know anything about abiogenesis.
I'm fine with abiogenesis,but it's reverse engineered so it doesn't
explain why biological organisms would experience themselves as a
separate c
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess
that numbers could be probably considered as universals as well). A
simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equal to B? The answer is no, A and B are after all different
persons. Yet then the question woul
On 04.09.2011 21:30 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/4/2011 11:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 04.09.2011 17:30 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On 04/09/2011, at 11:25 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi
wrote:
On 04.09.2011 07:51 meekerdb said the following:
...
If that's what you're trying y
On 05.09.2011 07:59 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi
wrote:
Hence you could take the existence of people in the USA who
"believe in an immaterial spirit, distinct from brain
processes" positively. After all, they are working hard and
contrib
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that numbers
could be probably considered as universals as well). A simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equal to B? The answer is no, A and B are after all di
On 9/5/2011 12:16 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 04.09.2011 21:30 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/4/2011 11:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 04.09.2011 17:30 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On 04/09/2011, at 11:25 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi
wrote:
On 04.09.2011 07:51 meekerdb said the fol
On 9/5/2011 12:23 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 05.09.2011 07:59 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi
wrote:
Hence you could take the existence of people in the USA who
"believe in an immaterial spirit, distinct from brain
processes" positively.
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I
guess that numbers could be probably considered as universals as
well). A simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equa
On 9/5/2011 1:40 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that numbers
could be probably considered as universals as well). A simple example:
A
On Sep 5, 1:01 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> May be Mechanism will be refuted, but meanwhile it illustrates that
> some explanation exists. If mechanism is correct it does explains
> completely gravity, time, space, quanta, and it does explain almost
> completely the qualia, except for a gap,
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
>> Nothing really new has turned up in the physics underlying the brain
>> in over a century,
>
> I'm assuming you're just being thoughtlessly condescending here and
> not actually saying that physics has not changed in 100 years, or that
> th
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
>> Insofar as religion makes no predictions about the world it cannot
>> be proved or disproved. But when it does make predictions, for
>> example that the Earth is 6000 years old, usually believers cannot
>> say what evidence they would accep
On 9/5/2011 6:32 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 1:40 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I
guess that numbers could be probably considered as univ
On 9/5/2011 8:13 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 9/5/2011 6:32 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 1:40 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that
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