> On 19 Jul 2019, at 22:47, Dan Sonik <danialso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 6:17:56 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> It is OK to be critical. I always welcome this.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>  
> But you are a bit short of argument. You seem convince by John Clark’s posts. 
> At least John Clark told us where in the reasoning he thinks there is a 
> mistake, but has not yet been able to explain it, or convince anybody.
> 
> On the contrary, I just think the criticism has fallen on deaf ears -- 
> reading some of these threads puts me in mind of those unfortunate 
> individuals who are struck with agnosia. No matter how blatant and paramount 
> the input for people with this condition, they simply pass it over, unaware 
> of what is right under their noses. 
> 
> So, if you understand his critics of the step 3 in the 8-steps version of the 
> Universal Dovetailer argument, you are welcome to explain it to us. If you 
> want, I re-explain the argument, but most people in this list have no problem 
> with it, so you might insist, or just read it here:
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html 
> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Firidia.ulb.ac.be%2F~marchal%2Fpublications%2FSANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEfo8XeSgWTqK6OJMQHTel31OtZbQ>
> 
> Sure, I'll take a crack. Referring to your paper... 
> 
> "Computationalism", or "comp" for short-- the idea that 1) our brains are 
> made of some digitally fungible units


That is already a bit implicitly physicalist. Once, I suggested to abandon the 
expression “made of” because it is misleading. But OK, I will not cut the air. 
Computationalism is just the digital version of Descartes mechanism. Once 
(informal and colloquial) version is that there is no magic nor use of any 
actual infinities in the brain (that will entail later that there are some 
infinities at play for the mind, soul or consciousness).



> (at a level of description which is unknowable)

Yes, although that is proved later.


> such that if some or all of it were replaced it would make no difference to 
> that individual 2) computers themselves are equivalent at some level of 
> description (Church Turing hypothesis) 3) arithmetical realism -- true 
> statements about numbers are true absent any observers. Step 1: 
> Computationalism implies the possibility of teleportation "in principle" -- 
> that, according to you, is sufficient to prove your conclusion.

I prove only at step 1 that computationalism entails the possibility of 
(classical) teleportation. (I am unsure which conclusion is alluded here).
To be clear, I never try to prove computationalism to be true. It is my working 
hypothesis. I study the consequences, and show them testable and well tested by 
QM (which proves nothing of course).


> Step 2: Consider the difference between the first and third person 
> perspectives, where the third person perspective is ascertained from a record 
> contained in a personal diary.

By an observer which does not enter the cut-and-copy bow. The important point 
here is the definition of the first person view, which is the content of the 
diary that the candidate take with him in the teleportation box. That plays an 
important role in the sequel.
The first person is also the content of a diary. It is 3P operational 
approximation of the first person experience: the personal diary content. 
Everett use something equivalent.
In step two: a delay is intrigued in the reconstitution, and the point is that 
the delay is measurable in the 3p view, but is able,nt from the 1p diary: the 
first person is not aware of the delay. That is used again in step 4. You seem 
to have pass this.




> Step 3: Assume you are a person being teleported -- you are told beforehand 
> you will be teleported to either Washington or Moscow, with a 50 50 chance. 
> The question is then put to the person about to be teleported -- where will 
> YOU end up... 

“You” in the indexical first person sense, which means here, what will be 
written in the personal diaries.



> 
> As far as I can tell there have been two main criticisms of this thought 
> experiment up to this point. 
> 
> First, the question "where will YOU end up" is poorly formed in a 
> counterfactual world of duplicating machines.

Why? You will push on a button. You assume mechanism, so you know you will not 
die, and you know that with mechanism, you cannot survive being in two cities 
and seeing simultaneously the two cities, so it is quite natural to ask 
yourself where you could feel to be after the experience.

There are no relevant counterfactuals here. Everything is simply factual.




> There is no more YOU if YOU can be copied. There has to be a You-1 and a 
> You-2, and the use of basic pronouns (that have evolved in a world absent of 
> perfect duplicating machines) elides this distinction. 

But we agree, in the 3p description,  that you-1 is still you, and you-2 is 
still you too, but in a different “incarnation”. 

This shows that in Helsinki (the place where you decide to do the experience, 
and try too predict what your experience will look like in your 1p view, which 
exists by computationalism).

If you just say that there is no more YOU, then we die in the duplication, and 
thus also in the simple teleportation, and thus you cannot say “yes” qua 
computation to the digitalist doctor and Mechanism is false.



> 
> The second problem seems to be that computations absent any form of 
> instantiation don't "DO” anything


But that is the case only in step 7 and 8. Up to step 6 the computations are 
all physically instantiated. You jumped to step 7 here.
Should I guess that you are OK with the first 6 steps?



> -- in order for a computation to be performed, it must be instantiated in 
> some hardware, and therefore the domain of physics is larger than the domain 
> of mathematics,

Assuming a physical primitive universe. But you cannot invalidate a reasoning 
by adding an hypothesis not there. That is not valid.





> because the details of implementing a Turing machine in the real world are 
> just as if not more important than the kinds of computations you will end up 
> feeding it.
> 
> Over and above these criticisms, however, is the recurrently identified 
> insistence on using words with completely arbitrary definitions that do not 
> map to how most of the rest of the English speaking community use them -- 
> God, theology, machine, materialism/primary matter as examples -- and it 
> seems that this move signals a bit of bad faith on your part, or at least a 
> willingness to obfuscate in order to avoid inconvenient (and yet quite 
> legitimate) counterpoints many have raised over the years. Again, I am 
> reminded of agnosia sufferers. 
> 
>  
> About Aristotle primary substance, I am not sure I understand your remark. I 
> discuss this on many groups on antic philosophy, and, you are the first to 
> make this very astonishing remark. You might need to revise Aristotle's 
> “Metaphysics” which is all about this  (beware the different translations 
> though).
> 
> I'm not sure what is so "astonishing" about the remark.

I think I see the point. You might have thought that I said that Aristotle is 
the one introducing Materialism (as used in philosophy of mind), but I say only 
that Aristotle introduced “weak materialism”, the metaphysical assumption that 
an irreducible physical reality exists all by itself. There has never been any 
evidences for this, and that was exactly what Plato is all about. Aristotle is 
a reaction to Plato, and a vindication that physics is part of any fundamental 
theory, like most believe today. That is the point that we have to abandon when 
we assume digital mechanism, but that is after step 7 or 8.




> Seeing a flying saucer land and 5 little grey beings come out? That would be 
> astonishing to me.

That would astonish me too, but not be conceptually important. It is just 
discovering that we have neighbours.



> A world where we could be teleported from Helsinki to Moscow? Astonishing.

Technologically, but conceptually banal when we assume Digital Mechanism.



> Making a possibly incorrect claim about Aristotelian hermeneutics... eh, not 
> that astonishing. And I think you might have meant to say "review" rather 
> than "revise," -- to revise is to edit something with the goal of making it 
> clearer or better. I wouldn't want to take on the job of editing Aristotle 
> (although, God knows, he did need an editor). If I recall correctly, 
> Aristotle thought the world was made of 5 elements, each telelogically drawn 
> to their own place in the natural order of things. So that's 5 substances, 
> not one -- it's not a monism, and therefore to conflate it with materialism 
> and continually refer to it as Aristotelian belief in primary substance seems 
> a bit careless. The modern notion of matter has no telos.  

It is WEAK materialism. The belief that we have to assume a physical universe. 
The idea that we cannot explain matter without invoking primitive, assumed 
matter, be it earth, fire stare and air, or any element of the same material 
nature.

It is the belief that Pythagorean have to be false, as for them matter has to 
be explained by numbers, and indeed they begun to explain geometry with 
numbers, something pursued by Descartes, etc.




> 
> 
> Concerning Craig Weinberg, we have agreed on everything. He just choose the 
> option “weak-materialism” instead of mechanism, but seem to understand there 
> incompatibility.
> 
> I would say here that you grossly mischaracterize his ideas as "weak 
> materialism"…

I don’t think I have ascribe weal materialism to Craig Weinberg. I don’t see 
where or what you allude too. On the century, his approach is 100% coherent 
with the consequence of mechanism.



> but if you are going to go off using words in special ways (as is your wont), 
> then no one can stop you. His website is called "Multisense realism." As far 
> as I can tell, he argues for the ontological primacy of sensation diffracted 
> across multiple modes of interpretation-- not sure how that can be put in the 
> "materialist" box. Sounds more like a brand of idealism to me…

I have never claim that Weinberg is weak, still less not weak, materialist. His 
multisense realism is quite comparable to the 8 modes of the self implied by 
incompleteness. My work shows that the universal number in arithmetic get the 
same non materialist insight. Yet in a more mathematically precise way so that 
we can test Mechanism and the immaterialist consequences.




> 
> Most of its philosophy is very close to what I extract from the theaetetus’ 
> definition of knowledge, when applied to Gödel’s provability predicate (which 
> I motivate either through thought experiments or by referring to Plato). We 
> opus quasi everyday since the dialog on Facebook, as Craig seems to prefer.
> 
> Glad to hear! (what is "opus quasi"?)  

A mispelling (aggravated by the automated spelling corrector) for “we discuss 
this quasi everyday since we dialog on this on Facebook).



> 
> Please, explain John Clark’s argument, if you understand it. Brent has 
> acknowledge having no problem up to step 6, and is unclear (or undecided 
> perhaps) on step 7.
> 
> 
> See above.  


Above you say that we die when we are multiplied, but that contradict the 
working hypothesis. If you don’t die in a simple teleportation experience (step 
one), you cannot die because a copy is made at a distance, that would involve 
non local action at a distance, which makes no sense if we assume that 
mechanism is true and that the substitution has been well chosen.




> You might ignored like many that all computations occurs in already a tiny 
> segment of the arithmetical reality: the truth of the sigma_1 sentences 
> (which is indeed equivalent to a universal dovetailing).
> OK, that's what you say. (??) Not sure how it's relevant to the objection 1) 
> counterfactual worlds with teleportation devices need clearer ways of 
> referring to those who are duplicated.

That is why the UDA reasoning should be seen, like originally, only as a 
motivation for the translation of this in arithmetic, where the notion of first 
and third person leads to 8 important nuances imposed by incompleteness. The 
UDA is for the young people. It asks for a minimum of good willing, and a 
dilate for hand waving type of Sunday philosophy.
If you mean what you say above, we die at step 3, and you leave the digital 
Mechanist frame.





> 2) Computations don't compute anything without something on which to compute 
> (paper and pencil, a machine (in the commonly used sense, not in your 
> neologized sense), a brain). 

Wait we arrive at step 7, and don’t add a new hypothesis, which looks like a 
string metaphysical commitment in an entity for which no evidences have were be 
given (just brainwashing since Aristotle, I would say).




> 
>  
> That is required for step seven. This is well known by logicians since almost 
> Gödel’s 1931 paper. That makes the believer in “Matter"forced to explain how 
> their “Matter” can influence or interfere with the statistics on computations 
> which are run in arithmetic (where “run” is taken in the sense of Church, 
> Kleene, Turing, etc.
> I think the main "leap of faith" that you make (and many others simply can't, 
> because it appears absurd) is somehow thinking that the completed 
> computations are already "out there,”


You seem to not have study Gödel’s 1931 paper and the 1930s paper which 
followed, or Emil Post anticipation, or any paper in Davis Dover “Undecidable” 
or any textbook in theoretical computer science.

If you agree that 2+2=4 implies Ex(x+2 = 4), or more simply that the equation 
x+2=0 has a solution in the integers, then you have to believe that the 
computations all exists in arithmetic. Peano Arithmetical proves the existence 
of those computations, like it proves the existence of the prime number.





> in some sort of Platonic superspace.

Not at all? Realism in arithmetic is only the statement that you have no 
objection to what is taught in primary school. That is why I insist all the 
time to use “realism” instead of “platonism”, which I keep only for the 
metaphysics.

You need only the arithmetic without which we cannot define what is a digital 
machine, and that is needed to define Digital Mechanism.

*All* papers in physics assumes the same amount of arithmetic (actually most 
assumes much more powerful mathematical hypotheses).




> Perhaps this is what the implication of AR is, although it seems a somewhat 
> stronger claim than just AR. This takes far more suspension of disbelief than 
> assuming (and then getting actual, real world consequences from) a material 
> world that needs to be engineered in order to deliver the results we expect 
> from our computations. You can't build something with only equations,

Of course. The arithmetical reality is provably beyond all theories and not 
obtainable from any system of equations.

Even a theory as powerful than ZF, or ZFC + large cardinals can only scratch 
the arithmetical reality, and cannot avoid the non standard model.

After Gödel we just understand that we know about nothing about numbers and the 
arithmetical reality, and we know that this is forever. We know that there is 
an infinity of surprise, and with mechanism, that there is an infinity points 
of view that the number can develop relatively to those surprise.

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem sign the breakdown of all reductionist 
conception of number and machine, and a fortiori of man (assuming mechanism).



> and all the computations being "out there" are as good as none of them being 
> out there if you can't distinguish correct from incorrect ones.

A theory can be correct or incorrect. A computation cannot. It is just an 
activity of a machine. It might be different to what you expect, like if there 
was a bug, but that is dependent of what you want.

Eyud Shapiro debugging algorithm illustrate this well. You can consider that 
the program correctly computing the factorial function is a bugged version of a 
program computing the Fibonacci number, and you can debug it automatically, 
from samples of inputs outputs, until it computes fibonacci.

The notion of correct, non correct is for the theories, or the asserting 
machines.





> And the only way you can distinguish them is by actually building a real 
> machine made out of stuff of some kind and go ahead and run the computation 
> and wait for the answer. This has been mentioned multiple times, but again, 
> agnosia. 

You assume a irreducible physical universe; but you cannot invoke a 
metaphysical assumption not present in a theory to refute that theory. That is 
simply not valid. That is like a creationist saying that the theory of 
evolution is all nice and well except that it fails to account for most 
statement in the bible.



>  
> Seeing how previous threads go, I am holding little hope in persuading you 
> that your thought experiment does not establish what you want it to,

You need to work more on the step 3 issues. You say that after the duplication 
“YOU” does not exist anymore, but this means that you died in the process, 
contra the Mechanist hypothesis.

Or, if you don’t die, the only way to avoid the indeterminacy is by claiming 
that you will feel to be at both city at once, but that will need some 
telepathy hardly compatible with the idea that the level of substitution was 
correctly chosen.

So, do you die or not in the step 3?





> (i.e. we are eternal computations in an ever unfolding dovetailer algorithm) 
> but that's fine... the thinking and writing process is fun and it would be 
> really cool if it were true (but it probably ain't). And I could be full of 
> shit myself, so there's that. 

Thanks for showing some hope toward a possible understanding,

Bruno



> 
> All the Best,
> 
> Dan 
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 19 Jul 2019, at 05:18, Dan Sonik <dania...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>> 
>> Bravo PGC. Very Well Said. 
>> 
>> Delusions of reality as based in a purely mathematical scheme will never 
>> amount to a "theory of everything..." 
>> 
>> Just another quaint, historically bounded, and deeply ontologically 
>> committed idea with absolutely no practical relevance, much like Thales' 
>> commitment that "all is water" or Anaximander's idea of the "apeiron" as a 
>> metaphysical absolute. Sounds great on paper... try to do something with 
>> it... well, that's a Turing TarPit right there. 
>> 
>> And just a further comment to Bruno's constant use of "Aristotelian 
>> assumption" of "primary matter." Can I have primary source citation, please? 
>> From what I recall of my Aristotle, a fair bit of it, I can't even once 
>> remember him talking about "matter" in the ordinary, "post-Cartesian" sense 
>> of the term. And you know why? Because he didn't have that distinction in 
>> his lexicon!!! In his metaphysics, he talks of "particulars," not "matter" 
>> per se, unless you think this is based on his idea of one of the four forms 
>> of causation. And he argued that all four need to be present before a thing 
>> comes to be (efficient, formal, teleological, final). Nowhere does he 
>> mention the very modern (i.e. post-Descartes) idea of "matter" in this 
>> metaphysic. 
>> 
>> Please defend your claims philologically, and not by way of obscure 
>> mathematical formula supposedly designed to lead us to some sort of ultimate 
>> Platonic conclusion. And also not by way of convenient redefinitions of 
>> common words (God, matter, machine) that leave most people in a dust of 
>> confusion. (but maybe that's your intent?)
>> 
>> I can already feel you writing... "but the hypothesis of mechanism dictates 
>> that ... x must be y.... " ... "numbers must have dreams, and they must be 
>> us... " the hypostases of the ultimate one talked about by plotinus (which 
>> numbered 8) must be the only way if we assume mechanism... " 
>> 
>> ENOUGH! 
>> 
>> Your rhetoric and constant pompous references to your previous posts have 
>> chased many great minds away from this list. (Craig Weinberg comes to mind.) 
>> And I mostly come here to see John Clark constantly body slam you with 
>> respect to the question of hardware implementation of computations... which 
>> you never answer... like a true cultist... "Go back to step 3" -- fuck step 
>> three. There are no matter duplicating machines. There is no "absolute first 
>> person perspective"... referred to by a pronoun "I". And even if there were 
>> a matter duplicating machine, it would have to be made of "matter" (pace 
>> John Clark) and so couldn't simply just happen by virtue of the mathematical 
>> formalism. (Remember Pythagoras? See where he ended up? Not because what he 
>> said was true... because it was ANNOYINGLY FALSE) Therefore, your mind 
>> experiment is done as far as practical consequences. So what? Who cares? 
>> What are we even doing here?
>> 
>> God bless John Clark for fighting this nonsense. 
>> 
>> Remember what this list was meant to do -- CULTIVATE THEORIES OF 
>> EVERYTHING... NOT "Cultivate what conforms to Bruno's idea of a Theory of 
>> Everything Is." 
>> 
>> And, please, no disrepect to any of the other participants on this thread. I 
>> have followed you all for so long (10+) years that you are all family 
>> (including Bruno, you silly bastard)
>> 
>> I love the salutary conclusions that seem to emerge from your speculations, 
>> Bruno, I really do... but so much effort has been dedicated to trying to 
>> make you see that you have blindspots (Brent Meeker, John Clark, Craig 
>> Weinberg) and you never modify your theory to cover them, you only insist 
>> that they don't understand your genius plan. 
>> 
>> Let me ask you: if you are the only car traveling in a certain direction 
>> (let's call it North) and you encounter multiple cars traveling at other 
>> directions (namely, South), are the other guys driving in the wrong 
>> direction? Or are you? 
>> 
>> And before anyone charges me of just dropping in uninvited, my claimed 10+ 
>> years experience a lie, I have posted here before, in different guises. I'll 
>> leave it up to the readers (if they're interested) in figuring out who I am.
>> 
>> Doesn't matter now, though, my anonymity is blown. 
>> 
>> Please be kind (or not, this is the internet, after all...) 
>> 
>> Anyway, I found it irresistible to drop in and let you all know I love you 
>> all and this forum, and Bruno too for being so god damned STUBBORN!! But 
>> it's looking like you might need to re evaluate some stuff? 
>> 
>> Go ahead, cut me up in the comments...    
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 5:06:10 AM UTC-5, PGC wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:58:31 AM UTC+2, telmo wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, at 00:37, Bruce Kellett wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:55 AM Bruno Marchal <mar...@ulb.ac.be <>> wrote:
>>> On 16 Jul 2019, at 13:44, PGC <multipl...@gmail.com <>> wrote:
>>>> On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 1:53:11 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I don’t understand well what you say. 
>>>> 
>>>> Nobody, including yourself, understands what you say generally.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Just tell me what you don’t understand specifically, and avoid ad hominem 
>>> attack. It bores everybody, and distract from the thread.
>>> 
>>> That is just bullying, Bruno. You accuse everyone who disagrees with you of 
>>> ad hominem attacks.
>> 
>> That is a lie and you know it.
>> 
>> All of us can read. I saw the ad hominem remark applied to Bruce's posts by 
>> Bruno multiple times. Read what Bruno said: "Just tell me what you don’t 
>> understand specifically, and avoid ad hominem attack. It bores everybody, 
>> and distract from the thread." He admits to not understanding and then 
>> assumes authority and my consent to solicit his advice as some high priest 
>> of theories of everything. You approach someone like that in the real world, 
>> them always forcing their game on you, anybody with self-respect would tell 
>> him to take a hike: I don't buy high priest discourse and refuse to 
>> participate in folks' delusions of themselves. That's the ad hominem.
>>  
>> And you should be ashamed of yourself for saying it. I challenge you to find 
>> one instance on this mailing list where Bruno accused anyone of ad hominem 
>> without having been directed insulted: "pee pee theories", "you don't make 
>> sense", "nobody knows what you're talking about", etc etc. I know you won't 
>> produce this example because it doesn't exist, and I also know that you will 
>> just avoid the topic and focus on the next insult / patronizing comment.
>> 
>> Well, I have been participating in this mailing list on and off for more 
>> than one decade, and more or less the only original ideas being discussed 
>> here come from Bruno. I have witnessed multi-year threads discussing what he 
>> is saying in great detail, so clearly some people must have some idea of 
>> what he is saying.
>> 
>> Interpersonal discourse is never this simple. On an open list you guys whine 
>> about dissent while lamenting lack of loyalty to Bruno for having "more or 
>> less the only original ideas here". That insults every participant including 
>> those of us who've found their way here without agendas of grooming 
>> followers into some professorial trip of personal mysticism presented as 
>> truth writ large. 
>> 
>> As if the list existed only in virtue of Bruno's generosity towards lesser 
>> people. I disagree because I've seen original thought from Telmo and most 
>> participants, while seeing the list as a place for folks to practice and 
>> enjoy banter with disagreement and dissent on theoretical/scientific topics. 
>>  
>> 
>> What this conspiracy type arguing performs discursively: Of course, targets 
>> for confidence tricks and conspiratorial discourse have blind faith in 
>> "debate/discourse" of their guru. Targets of such discourse are always 
>> framed as experts on the correct side of a victimized history. That's the 
>> poisonous reward: compensation at some later point, which is similar to the 
>> afterlife promise from any exploitative discourse. Cult charlatan territory 
>> is what this discourse toys with. In an age of disinformation you don't cede 
>> to believing what you read. You criticize or leave.
>> 
>> No need to worry because nobody's here for your loyalty. You can keep 
>> sipping the kool aid of choice from the one guru of pure mathematical truth, 
>> originality, and perfection. Nobody will take that away from you because 
>> what's left to take? You've already given it all away. Including in recent 
>> weeks admitting to replacing notions of evidence with emotional appeals to 
>> the "correct, truthful attitude" along with disqualifying your and other 
>> members' own originality here today. Bruno's originality? I interpret 
>> history independently and see no evidence beyond speculative mathematical 
>> philosophy and a combinator result. Duplicating, machines, quantum logic, 
>> immortality all standard stuff with a few precisions on details. But 
>> original? Read more and at least try to test your own assertions. There's 
>> not much here and everybody here can do better.
>> 
>> As if Bruno's approaches were the only thing under the sun. Get out there, 
>> question everything, and get after things. Don't believe what you read but 
>> read more outside zones of comfort. Do your thing. Read other things than 
>> internet chat! If you want platonism as metaphysics, then go out and fight 
>> in your local city councils and beyond. Realize your abilities to find and 
>> rally more consensus for your cause, its implication to the world and other 
>> people; and get out there. Instead his discourse in this setting implies the 
>> pursuit of the right attitude by sitting on our butts, playing professor 
>> uninvited, reading only his posts, the whole day splitting hairs in forums 
>> instead of getting behind whatever you feel strongly about and reaching out 
>> to the world.
>> 
>> Don't talk to me about debating issues: debating for what? Aristotle's 
>> alleged "physicalism" on which so much of the "debates" with John are 
>> linguistically based, enjoys no scientific consensus. Matter with Aristotle 
>> is an unclear and inconsistent notion throughout Aristotle's writings. Folks 
>> should justifiably be irritated when being sold such a bill of goods. All 
>> except the credulous of course. Forcing incompleteness to mean "soul" in the 
>> Christian sense, immunity from reductionism while uttering statements about 
>> gods and their wills with assumed scientific authority, admitting that 
>> nobody can make such statements while making them constantly, blasting the 
>> list with truth assertions day in and day out.
>> 
>> "I don't truth you so you don't truth me"  somebody quoted in recent weeks. 
>> Rightfully so because its insulting and rude: how stupid does he assume list 
>> members to be? That's not original thought, it's synonymous with confidence 
>> tricks for credibility in linguistic terms. Robbery with rhetorical tricks. 
>> Scientific contributions on the other hand are what they are: contributions, 
>> not statements of truth or some correct metaphysics or attitude. The 
>> humility he admonishes everybody for not having: a double standard by his 
>> own discursive measures.
>> 
>> And I'll counter the "boring" argument as poor aesthetics from folks outside 
>> their fields. Theoretical topics and their discussion can be abused. To deny 
>> the possibility of such is too innocent for you guys. It belongs on the 
>> agenda if this list is public and free. 
>>  
>> Maybe the limitation is on your side?
>> 
>> You insist on rigor when you talk to Bruno (as you should), and then you 
>> side with someone who produced exactly zero arguments, that writes long and 
>> incoherent rants
>> 
>> Who rants the most here? Who has the time for the highest number and longest 
>> posts? Who writes as though they had to correct every thought and split 
>> every hair with other members?
>>  
>> that aim only at insulting Bruno for personal reasons. Unlike John Clark for 
>> example. Say what you will, but I have never seen John Clark side with 
>> bullshit just because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Give me a break 
>> here. You are about as far from having a scientific attitude as I am from 
>> becoming the next Miss Universe.
>> 
>> You are right. Miss Universe is at least expected to have a brain of her own 
>> and answer questions her own way!
>> 
>> On an open list everybody's opinions matter, just like in democracy. Deal 
>> with it or whine and practice conspiratorial discourses in private. No buy. 
>> Not interested. Be as polite as you say you are instead of unleashing 
>> motherly assaults, theological rants on ideal attitudes, when folks are 
>> skeptical on matters religion and theology or employing bizarre rhetorical 
>> tricks dismissing alleged statements as physicalist and stupid. We're people 
>> beyond ideologies. Not reducible to written statements on chat forums as 
>> virtually all this discourse assumes. Chat fundamentalism. Immunity from 
>> reductionism? Lol
>> 
>> The woo woo is decadence. Show me instead. I show what I parse to be 
>> discursive intent because that's what interests me with science: what do you 
>> mean? what kind of world does that paint? Is it beautiful? Is it joyous or 
>> are you just getting off on posting in public? Independent, no side for me. 
>> Salt for everyone. PGC
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