Re: Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb a= not or anti, so atheist is not a theist or is an antitheism. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal A life form is a soul of some type. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-10, 11:51:49

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal A life field is similar to Sheldrake's morphisms, Leibniz's substances or L's monads or L's souls. The physical is that which is extended in space. Dreams, like mind or ideas, are not extended in space, so not physical. The rest I agree with you on. [Roger Clough],

Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:33 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2013 4:23 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Do you think there can be something that is intelligent but not complex (and use whatever definitions of intelligent and complex you want). A thermostat is much less complex

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Space and time may be only on the mind in the Kantian sense. I don´t find that space must be independent of the mind. space and time may be the way we perceive a space-time manifold which is pure mathematic and nothing else. Maybe we can see space out there and we can think on geometry in a

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Bruno: - As I tried to show in robotic Truth, religion is a neccesity for the operation of social beings. For all machines, actually. Even when isolated. the robotic truth can be approached by introspection when the machine complexity is above the Löbian threshold. That´s absolutely

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
The Universe ( as a whole) is a Double World: next to Matter World ( a few % of whole mass of Universe) exist Vacuum World ( with more than 90% of whole mass of Universe). Question: How can the more than 90% of Vacuum Mass in the Universe (dark mass, dark energy, quantum virtual particles,

Re: Re: Sensing the presence of God

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal OK. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-10, 12:04:54 Subject: Re: Sensing the presence of God

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:21 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Charles Law is appropriate at or near absolute zero , because this law belongs to the particles of ' ideal gas' , it means that these particles can exist in the absolute vacuum: T=0K. no, not OK -- You

Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 11, 2013 12:27:54 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/10/2013 9:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:33:06 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/10/2013 4:23 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Do you think there can be something that is intelligent but not complex

Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains viaacomputer

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Due to their universal perceptions, monads should be extremely complex. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver:

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi socra...@bezeqint.net I don't believe that you can explain perception without God (or something like Himn, perhaps Universal Mind) being the observer. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the

the precipitation of solids from mind

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Thanks. I am finally beginning to understand your concept of dreaming machines. A fertile idea, which, when understood, makes comp seem more realizable. The inverse process --producing solids with structures by a process such as the precipitation of ice crystals in a glass

Re: Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brainsviaacomputer

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist For the umpteenth time, monads are not physical, they cannot be some kind of product of EM waves. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: I don't believe that you can explain perception without God And how do you explain perception WITH God except by saying God just did it? If the God theory could actually explain something and not just chant God did it I'd go to

Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
M-M did find that the speed of light was independent of direction. If there were an aether, and light propagated through it as a wave, and since the earth would be moving through the ether, then light should travel at different speeds in different directions. But it didn't. So either

Yet another interpretation of the M-M experiment.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Yet another interpretation of the M-M experiment (that light travelled at the same speed regardless of direction) is that as the Bible says, the earth is fixed, and presumably the aether with it. So no relative motion problem. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a

Re: Re: Re: Are EM waves and/or their fields physical ?

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist The monads are not BEC's, because presumably BECs are physical. Monads aren't [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver:

Re: Are EM waves and/or their fields physical ?

2013-01-11 Thread Spudboy100
Is experimentation even theoretically possible at the Planck length/width? This could effect EM, and, of course also impacts your Light post. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Quantum Suicide and World War 3

2013-01-11 Thread Spudboy100
Reminds me of an old short by Larry Niven, called All the Myriad Ways, where a police detective tries to uncover why radom murder-suicides are happening, (That world is where scientists discover how to travel to different Earths) and had discovered one, where the Cuban War was just a wet

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Physicists often do experiemnts on crystals at 0 oK or near there. There is no such thing as nearly zero just as there is no such thing as nearly infinite or nearly pregnant; the Third law of Thermodynamics says that you

Re: Sensing the presence of God

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 19:30, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 7:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 19:37, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: I sense God's presence. That's nice, but how do you know (and more important how do

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread Spudboy100
In a message dated 1/11/2013 2:27:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, jasonre...@gmail.com writes: 1) Choose some religion, it doesn't matter which 2) Find an idea some adherents of that religion put forward but almost no one seriously believes in or is easily shown to be inconsistent 3) Assume

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
What is vacuum? =. The problem of the exact description of vacuum, in my opinion, is the basic problem now before physics. Really, if you can’t correctly describe the vacuum, how it is possible to expect a correct description of something more complex? / Paul Dirac ./ # The most fundamental

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Empirical proofs can be ostensive. But I prefer not using proof for that. It can only be misleading when we do applied logic. I prefer to call that empirical evidences. So I think the two kinds

Re: Sensing the presence of God

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:08, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 22:03, meekerdb wrote: On 1/9/2013 7:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 13:18, Roger Clough wrote: According to Plato, all love, all truth, and all beauty comes from

Re: Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
Hi Rog, Crystals are not gases- req'd for Charles law to apply. Rich On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Richard Ruquist Physicists often do experiemnts on crystals at 0 oK or near there. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever is

Re: Re: Re: Are EM waves and/or their fields physical ?

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
BEC condensates may contain any kind of particle, not just physicsl particles. However, we presume that the mathematics is more or less the same for all BECs and therefore we can come to understand BECs with physical experiments. Presumably monads are particles, seeing that they are discrete and

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 11, 2013 12:02:57 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.net javascript:wrote: So either there's no ether, or light has a fixed velocity. No, light has a fixed velocity with or without the aether, it's a experimental result

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2013 12:02:57 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.net wrote: So either there's no ether, or light has a fixed velocity. No, light has a fixed

Re: Why you should do the unexpected bet in front of a QS experiment ?

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:37, Quentin Anciaux wrote: It's not working just fine if *repeated* occurence of such *extremelly low probability* occurs. I recall that you are the one who insisted for fixing a final world/ date in which we evaluate the theories (MWI, ~MWI), without any forward

Re: Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brainsviaacomputer

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
Right. Monads are below the quantum level and you have argued, correctly I think, that not even quantum waves are physical. However, monads may have a complex structure as you say below snipped and string theory derives what that complex structure looks like including the super EM flux that may be

Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 2:12 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:33 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2013 4:23 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Do you think there can be something that is intelligent but not complex (and use

Re: Quantum Suicide and World War 3

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 21:43, John Clark wrote: Perhaps the Quantum Suicide experiment has already been performed and on a global scale. After Hugh Everett developed the many Worlds interpretation in his doctoral dissertation he was disappointed at the poor reception it received and never

Re: Sensing the presence of God

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:05, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 17:03, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Jan 2013, at 13:26, Telmo Menezes

Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:28, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2013 1:58 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Craig, I tend to agree with what you say (or what I understand of it). Despite my belief that it is possible to extract

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 8:37 AM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net mailto:rclo...@verizon.net wrote: I don't believe that you can explain perception without God And how do you explain perception WITH God except by saying God just did it? If the God theory

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 11, 2013 2:02:40 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2013 12:02:57 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 10:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2013 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Empirical proofs can be ostensive. But I prefer not using proof for that. It can only be misleading when we do applied logic. I prefer to call that empirical

Re: Sensing the presence of God

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What are its tenets that you believe on faith? That there is something different from me. But you have evidence for that - if you can figure out what is meant by me. I think you need faith to make data into evidence. That would vitiate the

Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 11:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:28, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2013 1:58 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Craig, I tend to agree with what you

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: What we call light is a visual experience. EM radiation below the visible range is felt as heat. This means that the entirety of the character of the EM is defined by the receiver-transmitter relation. That's Feynman-Wheeler emitter/absorber theory

Re: Quantum Suicide and World War 3

2013-01-11 Thread John Mikes
Everett's daughter was right in the sense of a lithothese (double negation = positive answer) translated into * I don't want to be WITHOUT my father * The rest is interpretation. JM On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:14 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: ** Reminds me of an old short by Larry Niven,

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 11, 2013 4:45:39 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/11/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: What we call light is a visual experience. EM radiation below the visible range is felt as heat. This means that the entirety of the character of the EM is defined by the

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 2:17 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 1/11/2013 2:27:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com writes: 1) Choose some religion, it

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 2:25 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2013 4:45:39 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/11/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: What we call light is a visual experience. EM radiation below the visible range is felt as heat. This means that the entirety of

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 11, 2013 5:45:19 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/11/2013 2:25 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2013 4:45:39 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/11/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: What we call light is a visual experience. EM radiation below the visible

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 9:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/11/2013 2:17 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com wrote:

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-11 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Book ‘Dreams of a final theory’. / By Steven Weinberg. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 / Page 66. ‘ Most scientists use quantum mechanics every day in they working lives without needing to worry about the fundamental problem of its interpretation. . . .they do not worry about it. A year or so

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2013 11:35 PM, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Book ‘Dreams of a final theory’. / By Steven Weinberg. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 / Page 66. ‘ Most scientists use quantum mechanics every day in they working lives without needing to worry about the fundamental problem of its