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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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sbu Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:53 PM)
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You know that I completely disagree with the notion of 'proof' when using this argument. A proof is a logical argument that demonstrates that a proposition is true...
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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: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival
Post: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on...
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ZhEsWoQnc
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A spontaneous After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a bereaved person unexpectedly perceives the deceased person. This ma...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
| 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 DNA. However try not to think of that as a l...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 07:16 PM)
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As for Complex Specified Information (CSI) according to Dembski, I basically agree with his definition, it being "...an "explanatory filter": one can recog...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-21, 05:30 PM)
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For me, the improbability of RM+NS producing complex systems like human biology doesn't necessarily imply direct evidence for discarnate entities. A plausible nat...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-18, 09:48 PM)
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I believe I can succinctly summarize your message as follows: 'Since human DNA couldn’t have evolved by chance, there must be a greater meaning.' It’s a compellin...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 08:04 PM)
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Good summary description. I would just add that this is just the protein coding portion of DNA. There is still all the non-coding DNA, which has progressiv...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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Silence Wrote: (2024-04-18, 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, ...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-16, 06:48 AM)
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No, biochemistry and biology are too far removed from my field. However, I do support science seriously contemplating the existence of irreducible phenomena, as t...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-18, 08:20 AM)
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To help visualize why, Diamond urges people to try a thought experiment.
If you sent that spacecraft to our closest neighbor star, Alpha Centauri, it would ta...
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Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...
| Quick update on Tesla's newest software update to its self driving tech.
They pushed out a revamp (supposedly based on the emerging LLM tech) to all Tesla owners and gave a free month's worth of "s...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-14, 07:45 PM)
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"50 to 100 years"? I hate to be a pessimist, but I don't think the facts support that, at least judging by the lack of much progress so far of a lot of ev...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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| When looking at the trend, the direction of travel, I won't attempt to look into the future. However, it does seem that the ability to simply speak openly about having had such an experience has alre...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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LotusFlower Wrote: (2024-04-14, 07:54 PM)
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I agree, I don't even know if we'll have the answers in thousands of years (If humans are still alive by then) just because the tricky nature of proving s...
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Thread: Refuting Strong Emergence
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-12, 02:51 PM)
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While greatly appreciating Chalmers professional work, I have a different view. For me, consciousness doesn't emerge from the physical environment. Nor doe...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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| I was most struck by this Parnia quote from the article; I've never heard him make such a bold prediction before.
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Parnia, the resuscitation specialist, who studies the physical proce...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-09, 11:18 AM)
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My point is that it's an ontological assumption that all chemical properties follow from physical properties. This assumption underlies the reductionist approach ...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-09, 11:18 AM)
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My point is that it's an ontological assumption that all chemical properties follow from physical properties. This assumption underlies the reductionist approach ...
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Thread: AI megathread
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| Where the Rubber Hits the Road: ISA =/= Microarchitecture Gap (https://multisenserealism.com/2023/05/12/where-the-rubber-hits-the-road-isa-microarchitecture-gap/)
Craig Weinberg
https://multise...
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