On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote:
Hence you could take the existence of people in the USA who
believe in an immaterial spirit, distinct from brain processes
positively. After all, they are working hard and contribute to
prosperity.
In any case, I do not
On Sep 4, 7:10 am, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, either the atoms got into the book by following the rules of
physics or they got there by magic. What other options are there? This
does not
On Sep 4, 2:24 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
And no just to theories of consciousness. When Newton was challenged to
explain the
cause of gravity he replied, Hypothesi non fingo. What we think of as
successful
scientific theories are ones that have descriptive and predictive
On 9/4/2011 9:48 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Maybe that's because you don't know anything about abiogenesis.
I'm fine with abiogenesis,but it's reverse engineered so it doesn't
explain why biological organisms would experience themselves as a
separate class of phenomena than chemistry.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote:
You know, I was raised in the USSR where the official religion was atheism
and materialism. The results were disastrous.
Um, I rather suspect the disaster was from having an official
religion, enforced by men with guns,
On Sep 5, 3:11 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/4/2011 9:48 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Maybe that's because you don't know anything about abiogenesis.
I'm fine with abiogenesis,but it's reverse engineered so it doesn't
explain why biological organisms would experience
On 04 Sep 2011, at 22:06, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/4/2011 12:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
wrote:
On 9/4/2011 8:32 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru
wrote:
On 04.09.2011
Hi Evgenii,
On 04 Sep 2011, at 18:30, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
A short remark. I have decided start with philosophy, as it is more
entertaining as mathematical logic.
I'm afraid you are wrong on this, with all my respect. Mathematical
logic is the most entertaining thing in the world
On 04 Sep 2011, at 20:24, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/4/2011 4:10 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Craig
Weinbergwhatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, either the atoms got into the book by following the rules of
physics or they got there by magic. What other options
On 05 Sep 2011, at 09:11, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/4/2011 9:48 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Maybe that's because you don't know anything about abiogenesis.
I'm fine with abiogenesis,but it's reverse engineered so it doesn't
explain why biological organisms would experience themselves as a
separate
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess
that numbers could be probably considered as universals as well). A
simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equal to B? The answer is no, A and B are after all different
persons. Yet then the question
On 04.09.2011 21:30 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/4/2011 11:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 04.09.2011 17:30 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On 04/09/2011, at 11:25 PM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru
wrote:
On 04.09.2011 07:51 meekerdb said the following:
...
If that's
On 05.09.2011 07:59 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru
wrote:
Hence you could take the existence of people in the USA who
believe in an immaterial spirit, distinct from brain
processes positively. After all, they are working
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that numbers
could be probably considered as universals as well). A simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equal to B? The answer is no, A and B are after all
On 9/5/2011 12:16 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 04.09.2011 21:30 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/4/2011 11:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 04.09.2011 17:30 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On 04/09/2011, at 11:25 PM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru
wrote:
On 04.09.2011 07:51
On 9/5/2011 12:23 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 05.09.2011 07:59 Stathis Papaioannou said the following:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru
wrote:
Hence you could take the existence of people in the USA who
believe in an immaterial spirit, distinct from brain
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I
guess that numbers could be probably considered as universals as
well). A simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is
On 9/5/2011 1:40 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that numbers
could be probably considered as universals as well). A simple example:
On Sep 5, 1:01 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
May be Mechanism will be refuted, but meanwhile it illustrates that
some explanation exists. If mechanism is correct it does explains
completely gravity, time, space, quanta, and it does explain almost
completely the qualia,
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
Nothing really new has turned up in the physics underlying the brain
in over a century,
I'm assuming you're just being thoughtlessly condescending here and
not actually saying that physics has not changed in 100
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote:
Insofar as religion makes no predictions about the world it cannot
be proved or disproved. But when it does make predictions, for
example that the Earth is 6000 years old, usually believers cannot
say what evidence they
On 9/5/2011 6:32 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 1:40 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I
guess that numbers could be probably considered as
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