Hi meekerdb 1) Materialists don't have any dogmas. Just ask one of them. 2) quanta are not materials. 3) materialism cannot accept empty space, since it isn't a material.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/4/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-04, 03:14:17 Subject: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so. On 1/3/2013 11:47 PM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > Most scientific publications are based on the 19th century religious cult of > materialism, > which dogmatically rejects mind and spirit for atheistic purposes (not > reasons, there are none). Do you have any citations showing where this dogma is written down? > > It cannot deal with fields at all, Ever hear of quantum *field* theory. > for example the theory of relativity, since that > theory asserts that there is no such thing as space (and yet it works). General relativity is a theory of metric space. > M does not > believe in fields, for they are anathema: immaterial, purely mathematical. > So of course monads and morphisms are nonsense to a materialist. > He lives in a fantasy world. You must be living in some other world to think scientist cannot deal with fields - a concept they invented. Brent > > > [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] > 1/4/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Russell Standish > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2013-01-03, 18:32:37 > Subject: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so. > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:46:20PM -0500, Richard Ruquist wrote: >> While you may investigate such things you will be at a loss to publish >> them except on the internet. Even the Cornell internet archives >> arXiv.com refuses to publish such results or such thinking. The last >> person to get such thinking published on arXiv was Nobelist Brian >> Josephson almost a decade ago http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312012. >> >> Thankfully Peter Gibbs has created a similar list vixra.org where >> almost anything rejected by arXiv can be published, for example my >> last paper http://vixra.org/pdf/1101.0044v1.pdf >> Richard > I'm sceptical of Sheldrake's explanation in terms of "morphic fields" > (or even monads). It makes no sense. However, the empirical effect he > observed may well stand. We should probe such results, test for any > methodological flaws, and if they continue to hold up, look for > alternative explanations that might work. > > Of course it is a hard row to hoe. A few years ago, I had some > empirical results that literally flew in the face of neutral evolution > thoery > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evolution). I > could not get these results published, and got treated by scorn by > journal referees. Then after about a year of thought, I worked out the > mechanism - in the end it was quite a simple, but nevertheless real > effect. This time, the paper was accepted without question. > > You can see the resulting paper at arXiv:nlin.AO/0404012 > > In spite of thise result having quite profound implications for > things like the "molecular clock" idea, AFAIK, nobody has investigated > whether anything like this happens in real biology. > > It does also stand as an example of what is required to publish > contra-paradigmatic results. > > Cheers > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
