Re: [FRIAM] If you have time to waste

2014-12-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
circa Wed Dec 24 12:53:56 EST 2014 cody wrote: Also, The console. appears to be a javascript console. for instance type rotate. Yep. It works great, actually. It seems to save the history of your commands across invocations. But the functions I define seem to disappear between

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
General relativity predicts gravitational waves. A result of that prediction, elaborate measurement techniques have been devised like computational filtering of observatory data (Einstein @ Home) or superconducting devices to detect polarization of the cosmic microwave background (POLARBEAR 2).

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread glen
So, did Nick mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct_validity ? On 12/26/2014 11:35 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: General relativity predicts gravitational waves. A result of that prediction, elaborate measurement techniques have been devised like computational filtering of

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: ``Well, my specific problem is that I think atheists and theists are delusional. They think they know things they cannot know. So, if Nick's point is that the concept of theist (or atheist) is too muddy to define validatable[*] tests for, then, as an agnostic, I would completely

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread Nick Thompson
Glen, Nice Wikipedia entry. If that is not what I meant, it certainly is what I SHOULD have meant. I have been sufficiently distracted by family over the last two weeks that I don't know what is what with this discussion To recap: if I remember, I first tried to find out if we are talking

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread Nick Thompson
Glen thinks that atheists and theists are delusional. My claim is that agnostics are non-existent. From which it follows, I guess that all humans are delusional. I am ok with that. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University