On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> >> >> I said it before I'll say it again, Aristotle was the worse physicists >> who ever lived. Full stop. > > > > > It was wrong, > Aristotle's physics was more than just wrong, it was stupid, and could have easily been shown to be stupid even in his own day. But unfortunately it was not. > > > but in science, > Science? Aristotle did no science, he like all the idiot ancient Greeks believed all he had to do is sit and think, and even in that he wasn't any good, his logic sucked. > > > it is an honor to be shown wrong when it leads to progressing in some > domain. > But it didn't lead to progress ! Aristotle's dumb ideas were held as unchallenged truth for 2000 years, physics would be more advanced today if he had never been born. > > > The point is that you seem to buy its theology, > Bruno, you really need to show some creativity and think of a new insult, you've been using the one about me being secretly religious for over a decade and it's starting to sound just a tad old. > > > The computations are done relative to the universal number doing the > universal computations, and this does not need anything physical. > And yet INTEL needs physical stuff like Silicon. Don't you find that odd? > > > You make Searle's error of believing that you are your body, but that > makes no sense with Mechanism. > Searle is almost as big an imbecile as the ancient Greeks were, and I do *not* believe I am my body, I am the way atoms behave when they are organized in a johnkclarkian way. >> >> And brains need matter that obeys the laws of physics. > > > > > Only material brain > Have you ever seen another type of brain? I haven't. > > The idea that it is the book which computes is just insane > I agree, and yet bizarrely whenever I say matter is always needed to make a calculation you keep pointing out this textbook or that textbook in an effort to prove me wrong. I don't get it. If you really want to prove me wrong start your own computer company and put INTEL out of business with your zero manufacturing costs. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
