[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, descriptions of Brahman, and the Turing test. (no way to tell!!)

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that we can't tell if our will is free or not; leaves the > door open for an ironic paradox: we can act AS IF our will is free, > even if it isn't, and not be the worse for wear. We can't even tell > i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, descriptions of Brahman, and the Turing test. (no way to tell!!)

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some of the ongoing discussions in this forum elicit a possible > interface with the Turing test (below, entry copied from > Wikipedia). Briefly, the person being tested sits behind a screen > in which answers

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backward causation through time.: MMY and Hawking.

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" > > wrote: > > > Q's lesson: think twice before messing with the past. an > > > alternative pas

[FairfieldLife] Re:the Teacher recertification course

2006-06-19 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > wrote: > > > > Gina, it kind of blurs together. 100 millionaires courses. Rajas > > for a million, rajas for 500k. Re-certification, de- > certificatio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olmstead on "quantum metaphysics"

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" wrote: > > > > Critique of the "What the Bleep" movie, featuring Hagelin and other > > proponents of "quantum metaphysics". (his pic featured...): > > > > http:/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olmstead on "quantum metaphysics"

2006-06-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Critique of the "What the Bleep" movie, featuring Hagelin and other > proponents of "quantum metaphysics". (his pic featured...): > > http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-10-01.html > Another "proof" of the power

[FairfieldLife] Michael Shermer debates Deepak Chopra

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
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[FairfieldLife] Olmstead on "quantum metaphysics"

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
Critique of the "What the Bleep" movie, featuring Hagelin and other proponents of "quantum metaphysics". (his pic featured...): http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-10-01.html Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new e

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backward causation through time.: MMY and Hawking.

2006-06-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" > wrote: > > Q's lesson: think twice before messing with the past. an > > alternative past may turn out worse than the "real" past. > > It's occurred to me to

[FairfieldLife] Free Will, descriptions of Brahman, and the Turing test. (no way to tell!!)

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
--Here's the Wiki paste-in: Turing test >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence", it

[FairfieldLife] Free Will, descriptions of Brahman, and the Turing test. (no way to tell!!)

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
Some of the ongoing discussions in this forum elicit a possible interface with the Turing test (below, entry copied from Wikipedia). Briefly, the person being tested sits behind a screen in which answers to questions are given, posed to (either) a real person OR a very intelligent computer. Ju

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backward causation through time.: MMY and Hawking.

2006-06-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" > wrote: > > > > -> > > > Unlike the MMY/Hagelin/Chopra "Unified Field" hypothesis which > any > > > reputable physicist with half a brain would find laughab

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
The great surrender, death and rebirth, the holy insurrection, dwarfing the ego's flailing as Chomolungma dwarfs a pebble. Godspeed! You have outdone yourself! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In > FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandci

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --(below, can I refute the MMY/Hagelin/Chopra "Unified Field" > theory?). I don't have to refute what's self-evident baloney!. [...] > > And its not "a field" that is considered "the Unmanifest" but "The" > Un

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Free Will, you only think you have it" - rest of article, quotes and summar

2006-06-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
It is the only question worth thinking about. High five for posting this! "What the mathematicians proved is this: if you have the slightest freedom to choose the axes [in the representative experiment involving the spin of a particle] and order of measurement, then particles everywhere must also

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backward causation through time.: MMY and Hawking.

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -> > > Unlike the MMY/Hagelin/Chopra "Unified Field" hypothesis which any > > reputable physicist with half a brain would find laughable; Like Sparaig, I'd be interested to know *why* you find it laughable (no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To Be Free will only cost you every concept and belief you hold to be > true. > > Will. It will happen just wait. > > Tom T > The great surrender, death and rebirth, the holy insurrection, d

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backward causation through time.: MMY and Hawking.

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q's lesson: think twice before messing with the past. an > alternative past may turn out worse than the "real" past. It's occurred to me to wonder (fancifully) whether the fact that we never seem to be able to na

[FairfieldLife] Congrats, Carolina!

2006-06-19 Thread cardemaister
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[FairfieldLife] Re: "Free Will, you only think you have it" - rest of article, quotes and summaries.

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's the first part of the article, and then underneath, selected > quotes and summaries of the main points: [brackets, mine]. Meant to say, many thanks for posting this! Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Free Will, you only think you have it" - rest of article, quotes and summaries.

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Kochen and Conway stress that their theorem doesn't disprove 't > Hooft's theory. It simply states that if his theory is true, our > actions cannot be free. And they admit that there's no way for us > to tell.

[FairfieldLife] Backward causation through time.: MMY and Hawking.

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
-> > Unlike the MMY/Hagelin/Chopra "Unified Field" hypothesis which any > reputable physicist with half a brain would find laughable; MMY has > come up with a very brilliant (one among many, since I'm not - per se - > a MMY basher, or Pope basher for that matter) idea/observation > regardin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
--(below, can I refute the MMY/Hagelin/Chopra "Unified Field" theory?). I don't have to refute what's self-evident baloney!. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" wrote: > [...] > > I'm also plannin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
To Be Free will only cost you every concept and belief you hold to be true. Will. It will happen just wait. Tom T Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Hik1AB/bOaOAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] "Free Will, you only think you have it" - rest of article, quotes and summaries.

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
Here's the first part of the article, and then underneath, selected quotes and summaries of the main points: [brackets, mine]. Free will - you only think you have it > > 04 May 2006 > > Zeeya Merali > > Magazine issue 2550 > > Underneath the uncertainty of quantum mechanics could lie a deeper >

[FairfieldLife] Re:the Teacher recertification course

2006-06-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gina, it kind of blurs together. 100 millionaires courses. Rajas > for a million, rajas for 500k. Re-certification, de- certification > course. Re-cert started with having people pay and come in > residenc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital It’s working like a charm. I just bought a simple mono audio cable at Radio Shack and connected the headphone jack on my cheap $9 Wal-Mart tape recorder to the mic jack on the front of my PC. Using Audacity and with a little fid

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I'm also planning on presenting some summaries of other recent > articles, from New Scientist and Scientific American; that tend to > support a basis for a "New, New, Physics" as opposed to the "New > Physics"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread matrixmonitor
--Thanks, I'll get back to you in about 2 hrs to copy more of the article. The idea that scientific inquiry could have a bearing on free will is a new twist to me, since I thought it was solely a philosophical question. OTOH, Einstein and others were fascinated by the question raised by Bishop Be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Walker kids They were heading for http://www.bonnaroo.com/2006/ __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LIN

[FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
Cool, geek audio talk! I use a Motu digitizer into Sound Forge cuz I don't multi-track and only need two stereo mikes. I may move to Logic someday if I decide to go with more mikes. For live shows I use a stereo miked Sony mini disc recorder. The thing is tiny and holds a gig at CD quality. It

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
It's a miracle they're alive. They're going to have to put up with the comment I heard ad nauseam after breaking my leg - but not my un-helmeted head - in a motorcycle accident: "You're lucky." --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wind Side Story

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Wind Side Story on 6/19/06 1:20 PM, cardemaister at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.windside.com/ Cost? U.S. Distributor? How many or how large a one needed to power a house? __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http:/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > >>I¹m taking tabla lessons and I record them. How can I patch a regular analog > >>tape recorder into my Mac or PC so as to create

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-19 Thread Bhairitu
sparaig wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I¹m taking tabla lessons and I record them. How can I patch a regular analog >>tape recorder into my Mac or PC so as to create mp3¹s of each separate >>rhythm I¹m studying? What hardware and softwa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teacher recertification course

2006-06-19 Thread gimari03
Doug, Thanks much! I'll dig around next week or so.. am on the road right now. Appreciating the navigational tips. later g :)) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gina, it kind of blurs together. 100 millionaires courses. Rajas > for a milli

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Rolling Stone" article full of ca-ca

2006-06-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Monday, June 19, 2006 10:27 a.m. EDT > Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2004 Voter Theft Theory Debunked > > > > Cleveland's leading newspaper has checked out a new article by > Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that Republi

[FairfieldLife] "Rolling Stone" article full of ca-ca

2006-06-19 Thread shempmcgurk
Monday, June 19, 2006 10:27 a.m. EDT Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2004 Voter Theft Theory Debunked Cleveland's leading newspaper has checked out a new article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that Republicans "stole" the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, and concluded that Kennedy's story is "no

[FairfieldLife] Wind Side Story

2006-06-19 Thread cardemaister
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Walker kids on 6/19/06 12:17 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you've been in an accident a little more serious than a fender-bender, you relize how fast accidents occur and how thing happen much faster than your reaction time's ability to correct them. Man

Re: [FairfieldLife] Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Peter
Once you've been in an accident a little more serious than a fender-bender, you relize how fast accidents occur and how thing happen much faster than your reaction time's ability to correct them. Many people seem not to realize that in a rollover accident at high speed, your odds of getting ejected

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 6/19/06 10:24 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How people can drive without seatbelts is beyond > > comprehension. > > > I�m such a fanatic that if I�m driving from the Amoco station to > Everybod

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread mahdeealoo
Could you plaease post an address where we might send financial aid? Thanks --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > 6.18.06 > > Jennifer just arrived down there (Sunday). I spoke with her and > Will Hamilton who is also down there in Tenn

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only thing that need cooling down at wikipedia are the > overheated brains of the Christian fundamentalists and other > idiots that holds this article hostage. > > The problem did not start with a lot of mate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-19 Thread Bhairitu
Use the audio line-in on your PC or Mac. You can use the free Audacity program to record, edit and create the MP3 files. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Rick Archer wrote: >I¹m taking tabla lessons and I record them. How can I patch a regular analog >tape recorder into my Mac or PC so as to c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Walker kids on 6/19/06 10:24 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How people can drive without seatbelts is beyond comprehension. I’m such a fanatic that if I’m driving from the Amoco station to Everybody’s, right across the street, I’ll put my seatbelt on. __.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread Peter
How people can drive without seatbelts is beyond comprehension. --- dhamiltony2k5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 6.18.06 > > Jennifer just arrived down there (Sunday). I spoke > with her and > Will Hamilton who is also down there in Tennessee. > Timmy, the boy > who was driving was ou

[FairfieldLife] Walker kids

2006-06-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Hi, 6.18.06 Jennifer just arrived down there (Sunday). I spoke with her and Will Hamilton who is also down there in Tennessee. Timmy, the boy who was driving was out of surgery for puttting his arm and shoulder back together on the weekend. Multiple breaks put back together with pins and s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teacher recertification course

2006-06-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Gina, it kind of blurs together. 100 millionaires courses. Rajas for a million, rajas for a 100k. Re-certification, de-certification course. Re-cert started with having people pay and come in residence and then loosened up to just sending money in and only a phone call and signing papers to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-19 Thread Vaj
On Jun 18, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Rick Archer wrote:Thanks. I don’t have an iPod and I’d rather no buy one. Can I just go to Radio Shack and buy something that would let me patch my cheap tape recorder into my Mac or PC? If I accomplished that step, what software would I need to edit the audio tracks