From the BBC's science podcast The Infinite Monkey
Cagehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc
:
Philosophy is to physics as pornography is to sex. It's cheaper, it's
easier and some people seem to prefer it.
—R
FRIAM Applied
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote:
From the BBC's science podcast The Infinite Monkey
Cagehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc
:
Philosophy is to physics as pornography is to sex. It's cheaper, it's
easier and some people seem to prefer it.
/Philosophy is to physics as pornography is to sex. It's cheaper,
it's easier and some people seem to prefer it.
/
Modern Physics is contained in Realism which is contained in
Metaphysics which I contained in all of Philosophy.
I'd be tempted to counter:
/Physics is to
Richard Feynman said, Physics is like sex. It has useful
applications, but that's not why we do it.
An enterprising physics professor at U Texas Austin, who did lots of
innovative things to induce more students to major in physics, made up
lots of T-shirts with this quote. They were very popular.
In fact, one could draw a parallel in my just-posted query between
physics on the science side, and fundamentalist Christians on the
other side. Both have a tendency, carried to extremes by some
proponents, of claiming omniscience. Perhaps that Omni is the clue.
Omni - science. Thou shalt
One things many philosophers might point out in response to such an assertion,
is that we don't have a very good handle on the notion of determined'. In
fact, there are quite a few big-named dead white guys, who would say that
physical causality and mental causality are equally illusory (and by
Alan Costall, by way of Eric Charles Sez:
/naive realism leads to physics, and that physics undercuts naive
realism, leaving the whole thing a big mess
/
It's a bit wordy for a Zen Koan but I think he's on the right track!
One things many philosophers might point out in response to
One specific question: how does gmail work with mail clients? Phone client,
Tablet client, laptop client, desktop client? Think thunderbird, safari,
mail.app ...
I ask because gmail is not a standard IMAP system, its a google hybrid.
-- Owen
So lets hear your experiences with Gmail and how you like/don't like its
features!
The worst problem with Gmail is PRIVACY - you don't have any. You must
assume that each and every email which passes through gmail is archived
indefinitely (the copyright being with google).
- Sarbajit
On Sun,
An interesting point. So which webmail providers, ISPs *etc.* should we
trust not to violate our privacy? And how do we know to trust them?
—R
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote:
So lets hear your experiences with Gmail and how you like/don't like its
Interesting note on information and uncertainty...
Information is Uncertainty. The two words are synonyms.
Shannon called it uncertainty, contemporary Information theory calls
it information.
It is often thought that the more information there is, the less
uncertainty. The opposite is the
Hmmm . . .
I would say this just slightly differently -- the amount of information an
observer gains from observing an event is equal to the decrease in uncertainty
the observer has from observing the event (e.g., if I am almost certain an
event will occur, I gain almost no information from
fascinating dynamic view of all asteroids found from 1980 to 2010,
orbiting mostly from Earth to Jupiter, growing to well over 0.5
million: Rich Murray 2011.06.05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqC1QjlVUYk
6:41 video of continuous discovery of asteroids in the region of
Earth's night sky, mostly
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