A modern theodicy based on noise

2013-07-07 Thread Roger Clough
A modern theodicy based on noise Leibniz developed a theodicy based on his two logics of necessity and contingency, where contingency or lack of order is responsible for the sometimes chaotic nature of life down here. Even so, Leibniz said, since God is good, he made the best world possible from

Re: Which one result in maths has surprised you the most?

2013-07-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Now for me the most surprising thing is "Homotophy type theory" that unifies spaces, proofs, computations and category theory in a different foundation for mathematics. Redefine a proof as the existence of paths that connect objects in a space with homological properties, but not distances. It is c

Study Links Autism With Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy

2013-07-07 Thread Roger Clough
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/study-links-autism-with-antidepressant-use-during-pregnancy/ April 22, 2013, 11:57 am Study Links Autism With Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy By KJ DELL'ANTONIA A cautiously worded study based on data collected in Sweden has found that “in utero

Neuroscience about Newton

2013-07-07 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Lovely quotes from Michael S. Gazzaniga, Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain that show how physics is made. “I can’t Believe My Eyes! In moment-to-moment activity, the interpreter [in the brain] is always dealing with the changing inputs from sites in the brain where a

Re: Which one result in maths has surprised you the most?

2013-07-07 Thread Richard Ruquist
That 1+2+3+4+5+..to infinity equals minus 1/12 On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > Now for me the most surprising thing is "Homotophy type theory" that > unifies spaces, proofs, computations and category theory in a different > foundation for mathematics. Redefine a proof

Re: John Leslie's 'Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology'

2013-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jul 2013, at 04:41, meekerdb wrote: On 7/6/2013 3:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Atheists are usually just slightly more dishonest when talking like if science was on their side, which is a mockery of what is science at the start. Atheists think science is on their side because the com

Re: Hitch

2013-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jul 2013, at 07:28, meekerdb wrote: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/06/god_is_not_great_christopher_hitchens_is_not_a_liar/ I love Christopher Hitchens. I agree with many points. He is more an anticlerical than an atheist to me ... Bruno Brent -- You received this message bec

Re: John Leslie's 'Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology'

2013-07-07 Thread meekerdb
On 7/7/2013 6:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Jul 2013, at 04:41, meekerdb wrote: On 7/6/2013 3:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Atheists are usually just slightly more dishonest when talking like if science was on their side, which is a mockery of what is science at the start. Atheists think

Re: Hitch

2013-07-07 Thread meekerdb
On 7/7/2013 6:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Jul 2013, at 07:28, meekerdb wrote: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/06/god_is_not_great_christopher_hitchens_is_not_a_liar/ I love Christopher Hitchens. I agree with many points. He is more an anticlerical than an atheist to me ... Everybod

Re: Hitch

2013-07-07 Thread Kim Jones
On 08/07/2013, at 10:45 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 7/7/2013 6:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> On 07 Jul 2013, at 07:28, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.salon.com/2013/07/06/god_is_not_great_christopher_hitchens_is_not_a_liar/ >> >> >> I love Christopher Hitchens. I agree wit