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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (Yesterday, 04:34 PM)
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Well strangely you don't really need to understand biochemistry or biology to explore this subject. Genes are basically digital - C, G, A, T. The chemistry of...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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Silence Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:35 PM)
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I find the evidence lacking at this stage, but refutations based on thought experiments such as the one above are embarrassing for the debunker. Using pure, n...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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The idea that the government is keeping something like this secret is just totally absurd. There's no motivation to do so.
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To help visualize why, Diamond urges p...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (Yesterday, 04:51 AM)
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To me "natural law" is just shorthand for reliable patterns of regularity, as there are too many issues with the idea of natural laws. As such the only...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
| David, reading your last 2 posts, I didn’t find any disagreement with my viewpoints to comment upon.
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-15, 11:36 AM)
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This matters because people are more likely to accept parapsychology if they realise just how dodgy 'real' science is regarding things that obviously matter ...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-08, 09:23 PM)
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This seems more like a point against Reductionism than for Emergence?
If Chemistry is not reducible to Physics, then even less reason to think Consci...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-08, 08:01 PM)
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If you do, so might I. I don't want to be the only one looking for counter evidence to balance the debate only to have it hand-waved away because everybody els...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-08, 04:47 PM)
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sbu,
I am enjoying your straightforward comments. The case for emergence and its limits is not well understood. If you are serious about exploring the s...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-08, 12:41 PM)
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But we cannot use this evidence scientifically because it is so flimsy and debatable. You might not think so because you fill your boots with one-sided "eviden...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-07, 10:52 PM)
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There is no evidence that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.
The so-called evidence usually cited is just correlational, in a sense that...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
| I found another reference explaining that it’s the approximations to Schrodingers equation the pre-supposes the molecular structure, that’s why the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is relevant in this c...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-07, 10:49 AM)
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I find that article to be peculiarly vague, but obviously you found it enlightening, so let me ask you:
What exactly does emergence in chemistry actually me...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-07, 11:37 AM)
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How far can one reduce before one finds literally nothing?
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Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is lowest known level of reduction.
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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Reductionism became particularly popular during the highly fruitful development of physics in the 20th century. In this context, quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics became paradig...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-04, 05:51 PM)
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Well I wouldn't rule either out but I don't think you are really setting up the bar in a balanced way here.
These monster sightings take place in m...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-04, 02:31 PM)
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This is an old debate of course, between adherents of scientism and more open-minded proponents of a non-materialist reductionist view of reality. It's a m...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-02, 04:31 PM)
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It's the Guardian, so you can guess how it goes. I won't bother to quote from it.
The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that ma...
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Thread: A conventional explanation for the sense of being stared at? Or not.
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| The so-called replication crisis in multiple science disciplines means we need to have a lot of verification studies using more modern designs to confirm results. One very important change to previous...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-20, 09:02 AM)
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When I very first got into PSI related topics, NDEs whatever, I had horrible panic-disorders in regards to my mortality. A growing pain I guess that hits everyon...
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