Re: Virgin Birth

On 04 Nov 2015, at 22:38, John Mikes wrote: About the biological makeup of reproducing Brent Maker wrote: > >Biological theory says that sexual reproduction should halve the > >fitness of the organism as compared with asexual (or parthenogenetic) > >reproduction, so asexual reproduction

Re: Violation of Bell inequality. Last big progress.

On 04 Nov 2015, at 19:41, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​​>> ​We know from ​Gleason's theorem​ that in 3 spatial dimensions only the square of Schrodinger's wave (the Born rule), and not the cube or anything else, can yield a

Re: Carroll's Paradox

On 04 Nov 2015, at 18:35, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​If sentence X says "2+2=5" then sentence X expresses a numerical relationship, that association may or may not belong to the category "true" but it's certainly a

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pierz wrote: > > > On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:27:04 AM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pierz wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:20:32 PM UTC+11,

Re: Intelligent design - maybe?

On 04 Nov 2015, at 23:00, Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/4/2015 1:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Nov 2015, at 18:30, Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/3/2015 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Well, in machine's theology, the proof of the immortality of the soul by Socrates is valid, but is not

Re: Carroll's Paradox

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > ​>​ > it is true independently of me verify it or not. That is why I can say > that I am sure that Goldbach conjecture is true or not, that Riemann > hypothesis is true or not. I accept the excluded middle > ​I agree,

Re: Carroll's Paradox

On 6 November 2015 at 06:21, John Clark wrote: > > ​I don't confuse a damn thing. Neither a "​universal dovetailer" nor > anything else can write *ONLY* correct programs (or *ONLY* correct > anything) without the use of matter that obeys the laws of physics. > But those

Re: Fwd: experimental study contradicts global workspace theory

The study demonstrate that the P3b signal may well not be a neural correlate of consciousness, but doesn't contradict my understanding of the global workspace theory (that consciousness is a means for global coordination of the brain). It just shows that unconscious processing may involve global

Re: Virgin Birth

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:46:20AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > evolution of life. I think we do have evidence that with sex, the > evolution of species has been accelerated. > I don't think that is true, but even if it were, it doesn't explain why sex accelerates the evolution of species. If

Re: Virgin Birth

Rather than keeping on trying to explain this, if you're interested, take a look at Wikipedia's page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction It explains the problem, and various attempted solutions, including the one Terren mentions below, and others I've mentioned.

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 8:48:49 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pierz > wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:27:04 AM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pierz

Re: Virgin Birth

The reason sex evolved seems so obvious to me that upon hearing that there is no consensus, I fear I must be missing something. Asexual reproduction leads to organisms that can only adapt to changing environments as quickly as random mutation allows. And environments change much more quickly than

Re: Virgin Birth

That was my understanding too, Terren. Brent On 11/5/2015 6:52 PM, Terren Suydam wrote: The reason sex evolved seems so obvious to me that upon hearing that there is no consensus, I fear I must be missing something. Asexual reproduction leads to organisms that can only adapt to changing