On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:46 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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Quite the collection of hockey sticks!
http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/IGBPSecretariat/great-acceleration-2015/1
Humanity's tendency to self-destruct?!!! The
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On 1/15/2015 3:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
It is the reason why I stopped, a long time ago, to qualify myself
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:32 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
Clearly one cannot disbelieve in God without knowing, or at least having
an idea of, what God is.
I would go further and say one cannot disbelieve in God without knowing, or
at least having an idea of what reality is, for unless
Brent,
I think this message might have slipped past you in your inbox, but I'm
curious what your answers are.
Jason
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How would you define
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:18 AM, 'Roger' via Everything List
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I have to admit I have a hard time going with the
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
If you never change your mind - why have one?
Excellent saying! I might have to quote you on it. :-)
Jason
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Michael Gerson: Modern science: Design of the divine?
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WASHINGTON — The biographer Eric Metaxas recently made waves by arguing that
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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I've been reading some of the responses to the Edge 2015 question What do
you think about machines that think?:
http://edge.org/contributors/q2015
Lee Smolin's contribution contains the following statement:
So let us hypothesize that qualia are internal properties of some brain
processes. When
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:46 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via
I am sure, not that your summaries listed are not accurate, but they pale into
comparison, from a religious-ideology pov, with the followers of sharia. Even
on a per capita basis, I will argue that these guys are now the heavy hitters
for intolerance and violence. And, tomorrow it may be the
The only thing about Larry Krauss that I like is his sketching out a conjecture
for faster than light travel.
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On 16 Jan 2015, at 5:18 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
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Roger,
If you focus a speed-of-light Coulomb force wave to a point, you produce a
point particle that has no property except charge. If you have a charge, you
have a source of Coulomb force. This is the tronnie. Its charge is either
plus or minus e. Three tronnies can combine to make a
On 1/17/2015 2:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:32 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com
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Clearly one cannot disbelieve in God without knowing, or at least having an
idea of,
what God is.
I would go further and say one cannot disbelieve in
On 1/17/2015 3:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
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On 1/17/2015 2:29 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain definite value,
which is either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9?
If so, would you still believe this if you knew that this number is too difficult to
ever compute by anyone in this
Some interesting short essays.
http://edge.org/contributors/q2015
Brent
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
What is behind the idea of the sun, what exactly is the sun? I don't know
but I do know that the sun is not the heat on my face nor is it a image on
my retina nor is it a idea in my mind, it is something more fundamental
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
I guess all those statues that the Egyptians and Babylonians carved were
of the set of Godel numbers that were sentences of arithmetic. It must be
tricky making a statue of Godel numbers, but somehow they pulled it off
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything
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I am sure, not that your summaries listed are not accurate, but they pale into
comparison, from a religious-ideology pov, with the followers of sharia.
How many Afghanis, Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans,
On Saturday, January 17, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 1/17/2015 2:29 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain
definite value, which is either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9?
If so, would you still believe this if you knew
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:32 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
Clearly one cannot disbelieve in God without knowing, or at least having
an idea of, what God is.
I would go
On 1/17/2015 2:35 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
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Some interesting short essays.
Thanks, they do seem interesting. Also topical, on this subject: AI experts
around the globe are signing an open letter issued
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On 1/17/2015 2:29 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a
I'm assuming it because he states it explicitly. He specifically
distinguishes what can be observed from the outside from additional
internal properties. He specifically brackets qualia with the extreme
case of the latter as paradigmatic examples of the unobservable. I
suggest you read the whole
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On 1/17/2015 2:36 PM, David Nyman wrote:
I'm assuming it because he states it explicitly. He specifically distinguishes what can
be observed from the outside from additional internal properties. He specifically
brackets qualia with the extreme case of the latter as paradigmatic examples of
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:33 PM, PGC multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote:
A fair question.
I'm not so sure about that. The question presupposes ironically that
violence is a justified response to insult.
I observe a empirical fact, Muslims behave like homicidal imbeciles when
their religion is
On 1/17/2015 9:25 AM, David Nyman wrote:
I've been reading some of the responses to the Edge 2015 question What do you think
about machines that think?:
http://edge.org/contributors/q2015
Lee Smolin's contribution contains the following statement:
So let us hypothesize that qualia are
There's a whole organization, the Machine Intelligence Research Insitute (Google MIRI)
which seems to do little except think about how to ensure that a superhuman AI is
friendly - which I'm pretty sure is provably impossible.
Brent
On 1/17/2015 2:20 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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On 1/17/2015 2:29 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain definite
value, which is either 0, 1,
On 1/17/2015 4:08 PM, John Clark wrote:
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In Russell's Theory of Nothing he says that the informational content of
the
universe was entirely present at whatever juncture we call the
meekerdb wrote:
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In Russell's Theory of Nothing he says that the informational
content of the universe was entirely present at whatever
Roger,
I have a question for you.
Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain
definite value, which is either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9?
If so, would you still believe this if you knew that this number is too
difficult to ever compute by anyone in this
On 1/17/2015 9:03 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Which is fine if you want to dissemble.
Why do you take the Abrahamic God to be the canonical definition?
Not canonical. There's no one with the authority to issue canon law on the meaning of
English.
There are 7 billion people on this Earth
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There's a whole
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:12 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 1/17/2015 9:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is
true?
the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0
the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 1
the
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
In Russell's Theory of Nothing he says that the informational content of
the universe was entirely present at whatever juncture we call the BB.
And early in Big Bang when the cosmic fireball was at the Planck
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Roger,
I have a question for you.
Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain
On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 1:12:20 PM UTC-5, spudb...@aol.com wrote:
The only thing about Larry Krauss that I like is his sketching out a
conjecture for faster than light travel.
Agreed. Krauss kind of irritates me, too. His book title A universe from
nothing: Why there is
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Roger,
I have a
On 17 January 2015 at 23:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I agree, with such a constraining definition of internal it would seem
that no interaction with the world or other people is possible. It would
only be consistent with a brain in a vat, dreaming the world.
I don't see what
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:50 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
early in Big Bang when the cosmic fireball was at the Planck
Temperature of 1.41*10^32 degrees Kelvin how does Russell propose the
information was encoded?
High temperature means there are lots of states energetically
It is sad to see, for France has such a heritage, but it seems there is
diminishing actual functioning Free Speech rights in France; when scores of
people are getting arrested and thrown into jail for unpopular free speech,
which in France has now become the new Orwellian thought crime of
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On 1/17/2015 9:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is true?
the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0
the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 1
the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 2
the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal
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