Re: NYTimes.com: Switzerland says it will freeze Russian assets, setting aside a tradition of neutrality.

2022-03-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
> Stalin: "Always accuse the enemy of exactly what you are doing." That seems to be their current playbook indeed. Telmo > > I am not sure if these statements are related, but it seems that it may be > so. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Telmo Menezes > To: Everything List >

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 4:00 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 12:17:43 AM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/1/2022 1:59 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8:14:31 PM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: But before we can assess whether something h

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Tomas Pales
On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 12:17:43 AM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On 3/1/2022 1:59 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8:14:31 PM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > > > But before we can assess whether something has a consistent description we > need to specif

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 1:59 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8:14:31 PM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: But before we can assess whether something has a consistent description we need to specify the description precisely. With a vague description we may be missing an inconsistency

Re: An Ululation. Who Stole the Sabbath? WHAMP-the-Ingrate

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Now are you arguing against me or the Harris Poll I just cited?? This is the way 62% of those polled supposedly stated. My sense of things since you are  ignoring  Obama's statement to Lavarov in 2012, and during Obama's watch Putin actually did chip away at Ukraine and Georgia. This was in the

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 7:58 AM John Clark wrote: > Brent Meeker wrote: > >> > >> * > Every deterministic theory requires that the universe began in one >> and only one very specific initial condition.* > > > Incorrect, none of the others demand specificity, none of the others are > picky about i

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Tomas Pales
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8:14:31 PM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: But before we can assess whether something has a consistent description we need to specify the description precisely. With a vague description we may be missing an inconsistency lurking somewhere in it or there may appear

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 1:18 PM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:13 PM Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/1/2022 12:58 PM, John Clark wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: />>> Every deterministic theory requires that the universe began in one and only one very specific initial condi

Re: An Ululation. Who Stole the Sabbath? WHAMP-the-Ingrate

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 1:11 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: One thing I am really confident of is you will not persuade your fellow North American continent dwellers that Vlad would have undertaken this war under Donny's Watch, No, Donny paved the way for him by withholding military aid to

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:13 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 3/1/2022 12:58 PM, John Clark wrote: > > Brent Meeker wrote: > > >> * >>> Every deterministic theory requires that the universe began in one >> and only one very specific initial condition. * > > > >> Incorrect, none of the others deman

Re: An Ululation. Who Stole the Sabbath? WHAMP-the-Ingrate

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Can a photon ever be immobilized? Frozen in motion at absolute zero. The human dream since time, immemorial! -Original Message- From: Philip Benjamin To: everything-list@googlegroups.com ; goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2022 10:41 am Subject: RE: An Ululation. Who S

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 12:58 PM, John Clark wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: /> Every deterministic theory requires that the universe began in one and only one very specific initial condition. / Incorrect, none of the others demand specificity, none of the others are picky about initial conditi

Re: An Ululation. Who Stole the Sabbath? WHAMP-the-Ingrate

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
You and your ideologically elective memory deciding as Al Gore intones, some Inconvenient Truths. Obama and the Hot Michttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/us/politics/obama-caught-on-microphone-telling-medvedev-of-flexibility.html Hunter Bidenhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/27/hunter

Re: NYTimes.com: Switzerland says it will freeze Russian assets, setting aside a tradition of neutrality.

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
V.I. Lenin "The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize."  Stalin: "Always accuse the enemy of exactly what you are doing."  I am not sure if these statements are related, but it seems that it may be so.  -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes To: Everything List Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2022 11

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread John Clark
Brent Meeker wrote: > > * > Every deterministic theory requires that the universe began in one and > only one very specific initial condition.* Incorrect, none of the others demand specificity, none of the others are picky about initial conditions. No other cosmological theory needs the univer

Re: WAMP's Fallacies on Conscious AI & Climate Change

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Climate change is a real problem and having said this, AT NO TIME has there ever been a threat to humanity as nuclear war is. Climate was chosen by the Elites because it was something they could all agree on, with (to their thinking) the nuclear threat diminished.  Putin looks to be a wakeup ca

Re: WAMP's Fallacies on Conscious AI & Climate Change

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
The problem is not that we are burning Fossil Fuels which is not, despite the volumes that volcanoes produce, AINT doing the atmosphere any good. The Problem is we seem to have no working alternative to Fossil fuels, as Fission has pooped out for operational safety reasons, and despite all the n

Re: Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
So what are you Nords going to do when Vlad appears? Apparently, Vlad is not as I once thought seeking to rebuild the Soviet Union, but seeking to rebuild some sort of Czarist empire, if I believe what I read? Do you folks have enough AT-4's to stop Putin's Armata's? I recall that during Vietna

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I cannot help but think that because of of limited telescopes and neutrino detectors and the like, that we are still missing what is going on in the Universe. I am not trying to say, "here be dragons," but suspect that there will be, "Here be anomalies in specific and reliable laws that we meas

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Good to hear from you Jason, long time, no hear. I always enjoyed your articles and liked how you were able to apply physics to philosophy, in a helpful way. Please continuing article-making and rock-on!  Spud -Original Message- From: Jason Resch To: Everything List Sent: Mon, Feb 28,

Re: Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
An optimist! There's one in every crowd.  -Original Message- From: smitra To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2022 5:56 am Subject: Re: Ukraine NATO membership may not all be that relevant in practice. Russia isn't performing all that well in Ukraine. Sweden and Fin

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 2:42 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:07 PM Brent Meeker wrote: Determinism just means a future state of the universe can be calculated from the information in a previous date, but it says nothing about the initial conditi

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2022 2:40 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 1:47:04 AM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/28/2022 4:08 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 12:15:39 AM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/28/2022 1:29 PM, Tomas Pales wrote:

RE: An Ululation. Who Stole the Sabbath? WHAMP-the-Ingrate

2022-03-01 Thread Philip Benjamin
[Philip Benjamin] 1.Rest mass of photon is believed to be or "known" to be zero. When is or where is a photon at rest? 2. Nobody can deny that photon may have a mass at an INDETERMINATE decimal place. "In the case of coherent oscillations, the coupled photon behaves as a massive particle wit

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:07 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > Determinism just means a future state of the universe can be >>> calculated from the information in a previous date, but it says nothing >>> about the initial condition of the universe. Superdeterminism says in >>> addition that out of

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-03-01 Thread Tomas Pales
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 1:47:04 AM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On 2/28/2022 4:08 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 12:15:39 AM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> >> On 2/28/2022 1:29 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 9:47:2