Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, That's just your interpretation and you apparently ARE UNABLE to find any authoritative sites to confirm it. Yes, of course the mass interior to a BH collapses into the singularity but that doesn't mean it vanishes from the black hole. Looking at Carroll's Wiki Bio it seems that a lot o

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread LizR
I imagine this is he: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll That took a good 5 seconds! On the subject of a BH not containing matter, surely that depends on whether there really *is* a singularity inside it? If it's a genuine singularity, as GR suggests, then any original matter that went

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 3:36 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, I did read the Wikipedia page, and frankly I don't buy your interpretation that proves 1. and 2. below though I'm trying to keep an open mind. It proves that no mass is *needed* inside a BH, that the gravity alone, in the absence of matter (y

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, PS: If geometry doesn't make clocks slow then what does? Edgar On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:17:56 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Brent, > > But the twins DO AGREE on whose clock ran slower. > > So I don't see your point if you use the twins as evidence... > > Edgar > > On Monday, J

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, But the twins DO AGREE on whose clock ran slower. So I don't see your point if you use the twins as evidence... Edgar On Monday, January 27, 2014 3:27:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/27/2014 7:48 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Jesse, > > > > First this doesn't have anything to do wit

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Let me ask you some questions to clarify what you are saying here... To make it simpler assume two observers, A and B. A is stationary on the surface of a hugely massive planet. Now B plummets past him in free fall. Consider the situation as B passes A just before he hits the ground. I

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/28/2014 1:47 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > Supposing there is a "ground of all reality", as some would nominate the >> strings of string theory and others computations of a universal dovetailer, >> why would suppose in advance that this GOAR

Re: Modal Logic (Part 2: From Leibniz to Kripke)

2014-01-28 Thread LizR
On 29 January 2014 08:29, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Liz, Others, > "Good morning Professor Marchal!" > > In the general semantic of Leibniz, we have a non empty set of worlds W, > and some valuation of the propositional variables (p, q, r, ...) at each > world. > > And we should be convinced th

Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, again a post FYI, not because I necessarily believe it. Edgar Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe A new cosmology successfully explains the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy; but only if the universe has no beginning and no end. As one of the few astr

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, I did read the Wikipedia page, and frankly I don't buy your interpretation that proves 1. and 2. below though I'm trying to keep an open mind. And I'm not going to go by what 1 person, who I don't even know and who is presumably your friend says via an email. Again I challenge you to pr

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 29 January 2014 05:39, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 8:37:04 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: >> >> On 27 January 2014 16:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> Do you think Barack Obama is conscious? If you do, then in whatever >> >> sense >> >> you understand that, can the Ch

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 12:45 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Perhaps I'm missing something but I read the Wikipedia article and several others (eg. http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schwp.html) and reread Chapter 13: Inside Black Holes of 'Black Holes and Time Warps' by Kip Thorne and NONE of those sources

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread David Nyman
On 28 January 2014 18:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: That's because the theory prevents the truth about it from being accessed. > The theory of comp is blind to its blindness, and demands to be refuted > only by those wearing blindfolds. To test fairly, you would have to take > off the blindfold, but

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Perhaps I'm missing something but I read the Wikipedia article and several others (eg. http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schwp.html) and reread Chapter 13: Inside Black Holes of 'Black Holes and Time Warps' by Kip Thorne and NONE of those sources say what you are saying, namely that 1. Mat

Modal Logic (Part 2: From Leibniz to Kripke)

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Liz, Others, In the general semantic of Leibniz, we have a non empty set of worlds W, and some valuation of the propositional variables (p, q, r, ...) at each world. And we should be convinced than all formula, with A, B, C, put for any formula, of the type [](A->B) -> ([]A -> []B)

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:05 PM, LizR wrote: > I hope those are real quotes. There are quite a few fake Einstein quotes > floating around the web. > They were real, real enough to provoke a furious response from thousands of American hillbillies in the 1930's such as: "Professor Einstein, I be

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> But Jason I want to ask you a direct question, and this isn't rhetorical >> I'd really like an answer: If there is no all encompassing purpose or a >> goal to existence and if the unknown principle responsible for the >> existence of the uni

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 8:37:04 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > On 27 January 2014 16:07, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > >> Do you think Barack Obama is conscious? If you do, then in whatever > sense > >> you understand that, can the Chinese Room also be conscious? Or do you > think > >>

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 28 Jan 2014, at 13:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:23:02 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, January 27, 2014 5

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 4:20 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, No, those are entirely different effects. You need to understand the difference. My proposed black hole effect is not as you suggested but due to the uneven Hubble expansion of space around galaxies. The effect Brent is proposing has nothing to

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 14:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:09:33 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Jan 2014, at 07:52, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 17:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:24:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 28 January 2014 10:59, Cr

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 1:47 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Supposing there is a "ground of all reality", as some would nominate the strings of string theory and others computations of a universal dovetailer, why would suppose in advance that this GOAR is infinite, transcendent(whatever that means),

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 1:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But it refers to an immortal person, and singular at that. Yes. Singular. that the main contribution of the Parmenides: the rise of monotheism and the rise of monism. The idea that there is a unique reality. That is the motor of the fundamental inqui

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 1:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That would be like attributing importance to a name, at a place where precisely we should not attribute any importance. I would use "tao", that would make the results looking new-age. Use any another name, people will add more connotations than with the

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The problem is that once you suppress "God", you will make Matter into a God, and science into pseudo-religious scientism, with his train of authoritative arguments. why do you think the FPI is still ignored by most scientists? To say "I don't believ

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread meekerdb
On 1/28/2014 12:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Yes, and most of the time, such eliminativism is a progress. WE eliminate the terms of the obsolete theories, like phlogiston, or like the cold and hot atoms of Lavoisier, or the N rays, etc. Just as an aside, "N rays" is now used to describe neutron

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 13:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:23:02 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:57:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On S

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:46 AM, meekerdb wrote: >> >> On 1/27/2014 2:32 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:09 PM, meekerdb wrote: >>> >>> On 1/27/2014 12:12 PM, Platonist Guitar Cow

Re: Modal Logic (Part 1: Leibniz)

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 23:57, LizR wrote: On 27 January 2014 06:11, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 Jan 2014, at 01:56, LizR wrote: On 25 January 2014 23:56, Bruno Marchal wrote: if p is true (in this world, say) then it's true in all worlds that p is true in at least one world. You need just

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:46 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/27/2014 2:32 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:09 PM, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 1/27/2014 12:12 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: >> >> So sure yeah, there's no limit to what you can do when you elimin

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 27 January 2014 16:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> Do you think Barack Obama is conscious? If you do, then in whatever sense >> you understand that, can the Chinese Room also be conscious? Or do you think >> that is impossible? > > > Yes, I think that Barack Obama is conscious, because he is diff

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:09:33 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 28 Jan 2014, at 07:52, LizR wrote: > > On 28 January 2014 17:35, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: >> >> On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:24:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: >> >>> On 28 January 2014 10:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:52:47 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 28 January 2014 17:35, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: >> >> On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:24:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: >> >>> On 28 January 2014 10:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> I think that 0+1=1 already requires conscious

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:23:02 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:57:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, January 25, 2014 1

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No, those are entirely different effects. You need to understand the difference. My proposed black hole effect is not as you suggested but due to the uneven Hubble expansion of space around galaxies. The effect Brent is proposing has nothing to do with the Hubble expansion. It seems to b

Re: A humble suggestion to the group

2014-01-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Jason, The wiki doesn't seem to be working :( I get a 404... Cheers, Telmo. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > Russell, > > Yes, I also tried to salvage what was available from the web archive, but > unfortunate it looks like the archiver never found the wiki to begin wit

Re: Kevin Knuth's emergent spacetime

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 01:51, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Folks, Check out this paper by Kevin Knuth. In it he shows how one can obtain space-time (and its Lorentz symmetry in the limit) from interactions between observers and some basic relational algebra. http://fqxi.org/data/essay-conte

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 07:52, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 17:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:24:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 28 January 2014 10:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: I think that 0+1=1 already requires consciousness. If we assume that from the start, then all f

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 6:15:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:28, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 26, 2014 5:18:53 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 25 Jan 2014, at 15:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sa

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:57:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:36:11 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 26 January 2014 01:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> Bu

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 10:19, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 22:08, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:48, LizR wrote: After all my lessons in logic, I feel duty bound to point out that Einstein only said that he didn't believe in a personal God. From that, one cannot deduce that he th

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:57 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/27/2014 7:17 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:38 PM, LizR wrote: > >On 28 January 2014 09:21, Jason Resch wrote: > >> But Jason I want to ask you a direct question, and this isn't >>> rhetorical I'd really like a

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 10:16, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 21:59, Bruno Marchal wrote: Concepts like God, Matter, Universe are very useful, as long as their precise sense are free to evolve, like any other concepts. To stuck a concept in one theory is just like assessing that theory. I kn

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 10:13, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 21:48, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:05, LizR wrote: I hope those are real quotes. There are quite a few fake Einstein quotes floating around the web. They were real, but taken out of the context. But they made my point

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Oops send a message by mistake, sorry. Comment below. On 28 Jan 2014, at 05:57, meekerdb wrote: On 1/27/2014 7:17 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:38 PM, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 09:21, Jason Resch wrote: But Jason I want to ask you a direct question, and this isn't rh

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2014, at 05:57, meekerdb wrote: On 1/27/2014 7:17 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:38 PM, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 09:21, Jason Resch wrote: But Jason I want to ask you a direct question, and this isn't rhetorical I'd really like an answer: If there is no a

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread LizR
On 28 January 2014 22:08, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:48, LizR wrote: > > After all my lessons in logic, I feel duty bound to point out that > Einstein only said that he didn't believe in a personal God. From that, one > cannot deduce that he thought you *can *believe in a non-p

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 23:38, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 09:21, Jason Resch wrote: But Jason I want to ask you a direct question, and this isn't rhetorical I'd really like an answer: If there is no all encompassing purpose or a goal to existence and if the unknown principle responsible

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread LizR
On 28 January 2014 21:59, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Concepts like God, Matter, Universe are very useful, as long as their > precise sense are free to evolve, like any other concepts. To stuck a > concept in one theory is just like assessing that theory. I know only > atheists to stuck the God conc

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread LizR
On 28 January 2014 21:48, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:05, LizR wrote: > > I hope those are real quotes. There are quite a few fake Einstein quotes > floating around the web. > > They were real, but taken out of the context. > > But they made my point. Einstein is a believer, but

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:52, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 06:46, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > You seem to take the Aristotelian (naturalist, materialist, physicalist) theology for granted. I've said more than once that Aristotle was the worst

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:48, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 06:07, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 17:18, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 Bruno Marchal wrote: > John should read the book by Jammer on Einstein's religion. 2/3 of that book is really informative about Einstein's

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:20, meekerdb wrote: On 1/27/2014 12:21 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:51 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > I use the exact same definition of life that MILLIONS of people on this planet once use

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:05, LizR wrote: I hope those are real quotes. There are quite a few fake Einstein quotes floating around the web. They were real, but taken out of the context. But they made my point. Einstein is a believer, but out of confessional religion. Like Gödel. Bruno

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 21:48, meekerdb wrote: On 1/27/2014 9:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: "it was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 19:56, meekerdb wrote: On 1/27/2014 3:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:55, meekerdb wrote: On 1/26/2014 9:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 27 January 2014 17:31, meekerdb wrote: On 1/26/2014 6:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 27 January 2014 14:08, meekerdb wrote: On 1/26/

Re: Would math make God obsolete ?

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 19:55, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: > There are undecidable statements (about arithmetic)... There are true statements lacking proof. Yes. > There are also false statements about arithmetic the proof of whose falsehood is

Re: Would math make God obsolete ?

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 17:30, Brian Tenneson wrote: Some basic.questions. When you say PA, do you mean the set of all theorems entailed by the axioms of Peano arithmetic? Yes. In some context it means only the axioms, but often I use the same expression to denote the axioms and its logical co

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2014, at 19:43, meekerdb wrote: On 1/27/2014 2:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 02:08, meekerdb wrote: On 1/26/2014 3:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I have provided the definition. Should I repeat? God is the transcendental reality we bet on, and which is supposed to