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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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"Life is achingly beautiful and creative once you free yourself from the mind-numbing shackles of neo-Darwinian dogma."
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Mae Wan Ho
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-23, 11:56 PM)
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The existence of very large amounts of meaningful, functional organisation manifesting specified complexity and associated information is what has to be ex...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-22, 10:59 PM)
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I'd like to expand a little about the idea of Complex Specified Information (CSI). Typically we think of CSI as the information contained in protein-coding D...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (Yesterday, 03:23 PM)
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Curious - did you mean that Information Science doesn't exert "force" as used in physics, or that these Information...objects? entities?....have no cau...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 03:39 PM)
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In these ideas, design of function with life is supposed to be some sort of fundamental natural action as defined in information science, with no real acco...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-18, 07:39 AM)
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Yeah, psi immediately comes to mind.
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In response, what is required is a jump to the end point, where a process model of the interaction of mind and matter woul...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-18, 04:51 AM)
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For me the link doesn't work, but I believe this is the article (https://scitechdaily.com/beyond-biology-scientists-uncover-a-universal-missing-law-of...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels occur with stars, planets, minerals, other complex systems; When a novel confi...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-16, 05:09 PM)
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This thinking seems to be attempting to resurrect the "natural selection of naturally occurring variations" or in other words "survival of the fittest' mec...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-16, 04:46 PM)
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I believe this misinterprets Darwin's views. See my previous response to Brian. Darwin believed that natural variation plus natural and/or sexual selection...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-15, 04:27 PM)
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I find that hard to believe, given Darwin's great efforts to find an unintelligent mechanism to explain evolution that did not involve a God or other spiri...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-15, 04:10 PM)
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So according to this, how do minds evolve?
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Mind is an abstraction. Scientifically, mental phenomena are studied as information processes. Infor...
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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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I am less pessimistic than you because I really see science being questioned more and more in the mainstream press and on YouTube.
One of the things I lik...
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Thread: Refuting Strong Emergence
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-10, 07:05 PM)
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But surely what you are talking about is very different from the strict definition of "Strong Emergence".
And once we accept "laws" we then have to...
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Thread: Refuting Strong Emergence
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-09, 05:49 PM)
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Refuting Strong Emergence (https://multisenserealism.com/2023/06/14/refuting-strong-emergence/)
Craig Weinberg
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 06:41 PM)
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Thank you for your kind words, StephenW. I suspect others might be growing weary of responding to my comments, so I'm considering taking a lengthy break. :)
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Max_B Wrote: (2024-04-08, 05:05 PM)
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The point I was making concerned your chemistry claims. I was suggesting that failure to predict poorly isolated macro molecular structures using quantum chemis...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 01:02 PM)
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I totally agree. Please believe me, I really hope for the immortal soul for myself and everybody else. The threshold of evidence for convincing me is just not qui...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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The foundation of empirical information is that it is measurable. Subjective experiences of Psi should be embraced, each event can create data points in the...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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Laird Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:46 AM)
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True, but the main scenario in the article - leaving a cafe before it gets shot up - seems to fit the second category. How, based solely on subconscious cues in...
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