On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, meekerdb wrote:
> On 9/25/2013 8:54 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, meekerdb wrote:
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>>> On 9/23/2013 3:00 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:11 AM, John Mikes wrote:
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>> Telmo:
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On 9/25/2013 8:54 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/23/2013 3:00 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:11 AM, John Mikes wrote:
Telmo:
would you have (by any chance...) a brief identification of something
that
comes to your mind whe
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Subject: Re: Scientists claim discovery of life coming to Earth from space
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:43 PM, meekerdb wrote:
> On 9/23/2013 12:16 PM, John Mikes wrote:
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> Why do you hold 'computational resources' as fu
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, meekerdb wrote:
> On 9/23/2013 3:00 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:11 AM, John Mikes wrote:
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>>> >Telmo:
>>> >
>>> >would you have (by any chance...) a brief identification of something
>>> > that
>>> >comes to your mind when speaking
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:43 PM, meekerdb wrote:
> On 9/23/2013 12:16 PM, John Mikes wrote:
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> Why do you hold 'computational resources' as fundamental to being alive?
> Computation is a human mental peculiarity - an 'evolved resource' by 'being
> alive' (whatever that means).
>
>
> In the sense
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:16 PM, John Mikes wrote:
> Telmo, thanks for your effort of replying.
> However... (there is always one):
> You haven't seen ALL and the BEST robots, have you?
I admit my ignorance, of course.
> Batteries are some
> primitive gadgets for a starting line of development.
On 9/23/2013 3:00 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:11 AM, John Mikes wrote:
>Telmo:
>
>would you have (by any chance...) a brief identification of something that
>comes to your mind when speaking about " l i f e " ? (And please, forget
>about the"bio" of this Earthbound Ter
On 9/23/2013 12:16 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Why do you hold 'computational resources' as fundamental to being alive?
Computation is a human mental peculiarity - an 'evolved resource' by '_being_ alive'
(whatever that means).
In the sense of writing equations and numbers down or doing arithmetic.
On 9/23/2013 12:32 PM, John Mikes wrote:
I have a profound respect to Dawkins, but why should I believe him?
Why would you restrict the 'genes' to those (physical worldly - conventional scientific)
measurements that show a 'match' to the 'parents' similarly superficially mapped genes?
That's a
I have a profound respect to Dawkins, but why should I believe him?
Why would you restrict the 'genes' to those (physical worldly -
conventional scientific) measurements that show a 'match' to the 'parents'
similarly superficially mapped genes? All 'networks' go infinite with
branching further and
Brent - REPRODUCTION - in our 'biology' there is only one strain that
reproduces: the prokaryotes by mitosis. In most(?) heterosex procreation
you take TWO DIFFERENT ENTITIES and by combining some products of them you
CREATE a third one, not identical to any of the "procreating" parents.
Biolog
Telmo, thanks for your effort of replying.
However... (there is always one):
You haven't seen ALL and the BEST robots, have you? Batteries are some
primitive gadgets for a starting line of development. What is "deeply"? And
what is that 'energy' you invoke? (And: YES, they CAN rebuild damaged part
On 9/23/2013 11:49 AM, John Mikes wrote:
Brent - REPRODUCTION - in our 'biology' there is only one strain that reproduces:
the prokaryotes by mitosis. In most(?) heterosex procreation you take TWO DIFFERENT
ENTITIES and by combining some products of them you CREATE a third one, not identical
On Monday, September 23, 2013 12:45:00 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote:
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>
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> For 'life', in contrast to 'being alive', I'd add reproduction. That's the
> real defining
> characteristic of life.
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>
You don't have to reproduce to be alive though, and any chain reaction can
be considered reproduction.
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:11 AM, John Mikes wrote:
> Telmo:
>
> would you have (by any chance...) a brief identification of something that
> comes to your mind when speaking about " l i f e " ? (And please, forget
> about the"bio" of this Earthbound Terrestrial Biosphere).
> (To identify " live
discovery of life coming to Earth from space
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:52:41AM -0700, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> Damn there goes pangea lol
>
Just to be persnickety, Pangaea is the name given to the last
supercontinent, ca 300Mya. What you are thinking of is panspermia, the idea
that li
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:52:41AM -0700, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> Damn there goes pangea lol
>
Just to be persnickety, Pangaea is the name given to the last
supercontinent, ca 300Mya. What you are thinking of is panspermia, the
idea that life was seeded from space.
Cheers
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Telmo:
would you have (by any chance...) a brief identification of something that
comes to your mind when speaking about " l i f e " ? (And please, forget
about the"bio" of this Earthbound Terrestrial Biosphere).
(To identify " live " is a bit easier I think.)
John M
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8
amasinghe Director of the Centre for
Astrobiology, University of Buckingham.
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Unfortunately this appears to be bs:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/09/20/136220/alien-life-story-of-dubious-provenance-goes-viral
(but what do I know!)
Best,
Telmo.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Chris de Morsella
wrote:
> Seems like the Pangea hypothesis might have gotten some evide
Seems like the Pangea hypothesis might have gotten some evidence... wouldn't
say this is conclusive though, but it is intriguing.
-Chris
Scientists claim discovery of life coming to Earth from space
Scientists from the University of Sheffield believe they have found life
arriving to Earth from
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