Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

[meekerdb]

On 5/4/2015 7:08 PM, LizR wrote:
On 5 May 2015 at 12:01, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net 
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
    On 5/4/2015 11:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
    On 04 May 2015, at 15:08, Telmo Menezes wrote:
    On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List
    <everything-list@googlegroups.com 
<mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> wrote:

        I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you shall view my last, 
number
        26th, the last one.


    Ah there you are! And you are not the only one from this list commenting 
there,
    it's a small world.

    My bet on computational after-lives is that we are in one already (an 
infinity of
    times), but this is completely transparent to us.

        This kind of thing is interesting to me. I tend toward the materialist 
stuff
        since it seems to have potential. The mentalist stuff seems unreliable 
because
        people who have NDE's or trances have not come back with information. 


    I would say that the important distinction is between communicable and
    non-communicable stuff. Science is about communicable stuff, but there is 
personal
    value in exploring the internal world -- although it won't get you a nobel 
prize
    or even any sort of recognition.
    This is because there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics (not mentioning 
Theology).

    But you can have the Nobel prize of literature, and some text does indeed
    quasi-succeed, perhaps, in communication a bit of the uncommunicable. Then 
you can
    communicate a part conditionally, like if I am consistent then I can't 
justify that
    I am consistent, and the inetnsional variants.

    Bruno
    You can get a Templeton, which is for merging science and religion and is 
worth more
    than a Nobel.


Do you mean it's worth more in monetary terms, or in terms of kudos, 
respectability, etc?

$$  It's actually specified in the grant establishing the Templeton foundation that the 
prize shall be bigger than the Nobel prize.

Brent

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