"Pain is instructive." Read that in a book once, don't remember which one.
But pain really is what you make of it. "Damage sensor" or "threat
indicator" are such limited possibilities. Pain is "ecstasy," pain is
"erotic," pain is "illuminating," pain is a means to the transcendental.
Nick —
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wife's mind.
>
> AI does not have general intelligence, maybe it will never happen. But I
> think it's safe to say that in some narrow fields, like in the protein
> folding problem, AI is certainly more intelligent than humans. The important
> issue is that there is e
Poster in store announcing the end of the Downinders Propgram - government
payments to those affected by the radiation cloud from Nevada. Includes Arizona
north of Grand Canyon and most of Kane and Washington Counties in Utah.
davew
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, at 7:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> And
Highly recommend John Brunner's *The Sheep Look Up* for fans of ecological
disaster.
davew
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, at 8:28 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> ... unbending the psychonaut thread
>
>> And something will have to power the artificial magnetosphere after the
>> teraforming..
> ... as I unders
Not Pieter, but ...
Some small percentage of _*Type II *_diabetes is not preventable/controllable
with diet and exercise.
Similarly, of the 42% of the US population that is obese (9.2% morbidly obese),
some small subset is not preventable/controllable with diet exercise. (My guess
is less that
*"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a
philosopher."*
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> __ __
>> Who also said, "Love is a form of temporary insanity cured by marriage."
>> ---
>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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>> 505 670-9918
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>> __ __
>> On Mon,
dave west does not recall making such an argument: *"people who talk about
science are Scientismists, their God is Science."* Perhaps this is a straw man
of something he may have said? But even that feels weird. He might feel
comfortable with an assertion, ala Feyerabend, that the foundations of
dave west will be happy to do so, but would like to understand your motivation.
davew
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, at 7:45 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I wonder if Pirsig’s *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *was a thing
> for any of you, and if you would be intereste
n
> thompnicks...@gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2021 9:48 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"
>
>
> dave west will
Nick,
Like Steve, I was gravely disappointed in the book. I had been studying Eastern
philosophies for nearly thirty years when it was published so one level of
disappointment was the lack of anything new, even a new perspective.
The whole mental illness / introspection / Phaedrus persona / son
Daniel Suarez's book, Kill Decision, is a nice treatment of this scenario -
both "good" and "bad" guys.
But it is worthless, because the Taliban are now 'heads of state' and we are
not allowed to "hunt them down."
davew
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Nimble, weaponi
ommon even if derived from different roots.
davew
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021, at 7:50 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> Nick,
>
> Like Steve, I was gravely disappointed in the book. I had been studying
> Eastern philosophies for nearly thirty years when it was published so one
> level o
RE: Mysticism. Peradventure (archaic sense of the word) the following,
paraphrased from an honors class I used to teach at St. Thomas, would be of
interest to this group. (Sorry if disjointed — artifact of semester class to
single post.)
Everyone is aware how our perceptions, our knowledge, and
Glen stated:* "Shun the anti-vax. Stupidity must be painful."*
Is it correct to interpret this statement: anti-vax equates to stupidity in all
cases without exception?
Such an interpretation would certainly be consistent with the prevailing
rhetoric. And it very clearly delineates two groups:
Glen is very sensitive to potential misrepresentation/misinterpretation of his
words, as am I. I merely asked if Glen's sentences, which on their face seem to
equate anti-vax and stupid, should be interpreted that way. In a sense I was
trolling him because I know he would not make such a blanket
I live about thirty-miles from **Best Friends** — the largest or one of the
largest no-kill animal sanctuaries in the US. They also are the center of a
national network of shelters and and rescue operations.
One of the programs they have been promoting, throughout their network, the
past severa
From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 12:07 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side
>
>
> Glen is very sensitive to potential misrepresentation/misinterpretation of
> his words, as am I. I merely as
I encountered the following assertions but have not been able to confirm or
refute.
65% of Americans earning $500,000/yr or more are registered Democrats and 74%
of those earning $100,000 or less are Registered Republican. (Supposedly, IRS
is source, but I can find it.)
The 20 wealthiest Congr
Purely from my academic understanding of the subject; the Nick that is, at this
moment / in this incarnation, is a product of karma accrued and shed over
multiple instances of existence. Hence, what you are now is precisely what you
_deserve_ to be. All persons may have been created equal some u
gt;> __ __
>> “… and they are endowed by their Creator by certain rights, including life,
>> liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
>>
>> __ __
>> Where is John Dobson when we need him. Could somebody please forward this
>> note to him. I don’t ha
The most widely used drug for open heart surgery was discovered by a woman
researching zombies in Haiti. There were (probably no longer are) well
documented cases of zombies, people pronounced dead by physicians, buried, dug
up late that night and seen wandering around the village with severely
I reacted to the comic with the mental observation that, to me, conservatives
seem heaven bent on telling people what they *cannot* do or think; while
liberals are hell bent to telling you what you *must* do and think. (If you
don't do as they say you are, at minimum, stupid or, more likely, evi
Glen quoted BC Smith:
*"What does all this mean in the case of AIs and computer systems generally?
Perhaps at least this: that it is hard to see how synthetic systems could be
trained in the ways of judgment except by gradually, incrementally, and
systematically enmeshed in normative practices
mber 1, 2021 8:23 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] aversive learning
>
>
> Culture is online now, didn’t you hear?
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:12 AM
>
s that surround us. Fabians are (were?) progressives. Lefties
> seem to be more revolutionary, "radical", or nihilistic, as willing to
> throw bombs at government as your staunchest righty.
>
> That person in the comic is *not* a lefty, not by a long shot.
>
> On 8/31/
egaHAL generated obvious garbage.
>
> On 9/1/21 10:25 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> > Richard Gabriel has created software that can generate poetry in the style
> > of any poet. It also generates poetry that passes the Turing test in that
> > experts are unable to dis
Marcus, you seem to miss my point; perhaps just baiting me.
Honors at Highlands: this was part of a policy, stated publicly at a Board of
Regents meeting, "Highlands exists to provide degrees to Hispanic students that
could never obtain one at any other university. Honors degrees, curricula, and
A deep dive into the theory of reincarnation, Vedic version, reveals that the
individual IS " simply a node in a system of interacting forces." The material
aspect of that node, the incarnation, acts as a kind of inertial persistence -
the forces repeat, moment to moment' the highly similar body
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>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 6:09 PM Prof David West wrote:
>> __
>> Marcus, you seem to miss my point; perhaps just baiting me.
>>
>> Honors at Highlands: this was part of a policy, stat
Commercial airlines are 95% pilot-less. Even take-off and landing. Exceptions
for weather, some specific airports, and emergencies.
Davew
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Jochen -
>
> Yes, Amtrak is the primary passenger rail in the US. I believe there are
> myriad local
It seems somewhat limiting to, even partially, equate 'enlightenment' with
critical philosophy as this article does. The efflorescence of ideas, of
sciences (especially astronomy, math, and medicine), and arts that occurred in
the Islamic world long before the European Renaissance would seem a b
e, when, who,
> etc.
>
>
> On 9/10/21 3:58 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> > It seems somewhat limiting to, even partially, equate 'enlightenment' with
> > critical philosophy as this article does. The efflorescence of ideas, of
> > sciences (especially astronom
Glen: *Were I fully liberated, I'd be doing a lot more, and a lot more diverse,
drugs than I do.*
Diversity of *_*experiences*_*, not just drugs!!
davew
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021, at 10:29 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
> Yeah, well. Were I fully liberated, I'd be doing a lot more, and a lot
> more diverse,
Well channeled glen.
RE: Steve Smith's electro-stim experimentation> 90% of what is known and
written about such devices and the experiences they induce — far more than mere
pain relief — can be found in a totally "non-respectable" domain — sex. For
every TENS unit sold to someone like Steve, 1
aspirations, I'm hearing something
>>> more like homeopathy or law-of-similars since the "fly" in *fly agaric*
>>> comes from etymologically the habit of using it to poison flies by infusing
>>> it in milk to attract flies.Maybe th
urious
>>> (guardedly hopeful) that these things are maturing at a pop/commercial
>>> level faster/better than at the professional level. There may well be a
>>> crowd-sourced ensemble exploration underway right now.
>>>
>>> Regarding your *mus
Yes, the subject line is a bit of a troll aimed at professed behavioralists.
Using a single quantifiable measure - degree of diversity in brain activity:
People have a 'baseline number' established when "awake" and "aware."
People asleep, under anesthesia, in comas, or in vegetative states, have
The Colorado used to be navigable as far north as Las Vegas (more accurately
just below what is now Hoover Dam). Brigham Young used to ship long fiber
cotton to mills in Carolinas. So Rio Grande and ABQ might not be quite as silly
as it first appears.
Davew
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 11:03 AM,
Now that insurers are not forgiving copays or allowing coverage for the
unvaccinated can we expect an increase?
Davew
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 10:48 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
> Seeing the butterfly effect in hospital transfers for Covid-19 patients
> https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/20/hospital-transf
The biggest problem with western science since the enlightenment, is the myth
that pure science is morally neutral — that the science, e.g., making an atomic
bomb, is totally and absolutely separate from the dropping of said bomb on
Hiroshima.
The best morning of my trip to Istanbul was the one
that had that effect?
>
> n
>
> Nick Thompson
> thompnicks...@gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 25, 2021 4:33 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM]
"Apres moi, le deluge."
davew
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
>> I frankly can't imagine our "species" (Homo faber) surviving our own
>> short sightedness long enough to make it to posthumanism. I suspect
>> that Homo sapiens will survive the environmental apocalypse to come
Textbook knowledge:
*wu wei *is the Taoist close equivalent to Vedic / Buddhist "non-attached
action."The most often cited "description" of this idea is Arjuna's dilemma as
laid out in the Bhagavad-Gita. To qualify, an action must be "correct" based on
a perfect knowledge of all the factors aff
David Eric Smith wrote:
*"I cannot juggle hundreds of variables, and produce a result that would fail
_any_ test for randomness. I can conceive that maybe there are people smart
enough to do that, but cannot imagine any-wise what it would feel like to be
one of them."*
But . . . . every huma
Chuang Tzu's butcher did explain how he did it — "I just cut where the meat
isn't."
davew
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, at 7:03 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> As Yogi Berra might have said: all this talk about the ineffable, je ne sais
> quoi.
>
> The way that can be spoken is not the way, because the
The source of all evil is *'is'*.
This notion is implicit and semi-explicit in most mystical philosophies and is
explicitly applied to thinking in the works of Korzibski and the General
Semantics literature that was briefly popular and widespread a few decades back.
davew
On Tue, Oct 12, 202
Interesting sonification and visualization of black hole data: Mikromedas
AdS/CFT 001
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSBuKF5_Dk
davew
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Haven't done the DNA test, but did inherit an extensive genealogy simply
because that is what Mormons do. Nothing particularly notable (the brother of
William the Conqueror was an ancestor, the owner of most of the track across
Nevada — Ogden to Reno — was a relative). I visited most of the vill
the rights to take, keep, and use my dna for cancer
> therapy. So, maybe, 6 to one, half a dozen to the other.
>
>
> On October 17, 2021 10:06:54 AM PDT, Prof David West
> wrote:
>>Haven't done the DNA test, but did inherit an extensive genealogy simply
>>because
David Gelernter, noted computer scientist, creator of the Linda programming
language, victim of the Unabomber, general A+++le, and, undoubtedly, a Trump
supporter; once wrote an excellent book: *Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software
puts the Universe in a Shoebox ... How it Will Happen and What It
This seems like an appropriate point to recommend a small book:
*Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology*
David Graeber (asst. Prof, anthroplogy, Yale)
Prickly Paradigm Press [love the publisher name]
Chicago
www.press.uchicago.edu
www.prickly-paradigm.com
I believe that, within the book, some s
phers,
> we can better express the sentiment as "moral deserts", treating
> persons as ends, not means. We can be equivalent in our moral status,
> yet wildly different from every other perspective. Although this smacks
> of dualism, it doesn't have to be.
>
>
>
I do believe there is an inverse relationship between privacy and "importance"
especially if we include under the umbrella of importance being a rock star,
etc. or having a million followers on social media.
davew
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, at 8:37 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:
> Frank said:
>
I did 205 mph on a motorcycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats; decades ago of
course. Had I fallen off I would have been sanded down to the marrow of my
bones before I stopped sliding.
davew
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, at 3:31 PM, cody dooderson wrote:
> Driving 200 km/h sounds really scary to me. I
Pieter,
Your plans are admirable and exciting.I wish you the best in this endeavor. If
you would have any interest, I would be happy to share my experience in New
Mexico developing and delivering an industry award winning program — the
Software Development Apprenticeship.
We totally blew up th
eritus, Computer Science
> California State University, Los Angeles
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:40 PM Prof David West wrote:
>> __
>> Pieter,
>>
>> Your plans are admirable and exciting.I wish you the best in this endeavor.
>> If you would have a
*"Nature abhors a category"* sayeth Nick. But categories are but a mere
byproduct of an even more abhorrent practice — any use of "is." Category
assignment may leave an event of a thing writhing on the plain, but saying that
"X"
is an event of a thing kills it dead, dead, dead.
davew
On Sat,
t; 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>>>
>>>>> 505 670-9918
>>>>> Santa Fe, NM__
>>>>> __ __
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 10:58 AM Edward Angel wrote:__
>>>>>> I think the def
Before the thread leaves games for consciousness ...
A couple of years back, World of Warcraft passed the 1 billion player hour
mark. That is just one game. A survey somewhere around that time claimed that
self identified gamers averaged 30+ hours a week engaged in games. The low end
of the cu
Required reading for Nick (it's metaphors all the way down, you fuckers)
*Metaphor, A Practical Introduction,* 2nd Edition, by Zoltan Kovecses.
TOC
1-What is Metaphor
2-Common Source and Target Domains
3-Kinds of Metaphor
4-Metaphor in Literature
5-Nonlinguistic Realizations of Conceptual Metap
You would be surprised at what casinos can ban. Maybe even more surprised at
the, not necessarily AI, software tools they use to analyze video feeds and
pounce on any kind of statistically improbabilities. Most casinos in Vegas have
tools, like mandatory side bets with very low odds, that erase
those cities.
>
> Traveling to a completely foreign city like Pyongyang will expose
> "other" not-self in the same way trying to learn a new game or sport
> will expose "other" not-self.
>
> A discussion of self is meaningless without a discussion of scope.
&g
t;
> Traveling to a completely foreign city like Pyongyang will expose "other"
> not-self in the same way trying to learn a new game or sport will expose
> "other" not-self.
>
>
>
> A discussion of self is meaningless without a discussion of scope.
ll level of your table-peers
> increases until you either step up YOUR game or fail out of the game?
>
> I think of you as having a strong mix of technical approach, intuition, and
> likely to engage in the social-emotional game as well (e.g. bluffing).
>
> - Steve
>
Nick, get out your dagger repellent you Trumpist you!
I have heard, almost verbatim, your entire paragraph from the mouth of the
Donald, and seen the exact same notions discussed, ad nauseam, in Glen's
favorite newspaper, *The Epoch Times.* [Don't shoot me glen, it is a joke.]
davew
On Thu,
ritten
> it will have been us that let it happen.
>
> N
>
> Nick Thompson
> thompnicks...@gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:39 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* R
I posted on the "woke math" movement a couple of months ago with a link to the
curriculum guide. Stating that there is a single answer to a math problem is
"white" and therefore "racist." The Scientific Method is "white" and therefore
"racist." It is an interesting document, albeit quite long. I
“*Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research
program—a possible framework for testable scientific theories.*”
Karl Popper.
I like this distinction but immediately wonder if it might provide some
analytical / research means that could be app
ou) take to be the referent for the tag
>> “Darwinism”. The term has gone through so many hands with so many purposes,
>> that I am hesitant to engage with only the term, without a fuller sense of
>> what it stands for in the worldview of my interlocutor.
>>
>> Thanks,
(or what do you) take to be the referent for the tag
>> “Darwinism”. The term has gone through so many hands with so many purposes,
>> that I am hesitant to engage with only the term, without a fuller sense of
>> what it stands for in the worldview of my interlocutor.
>>
&
An experiential (400 mike trip):
In the beginning there was Nothing — the Singularity. Then a quite literally
impossible differentiation occurred; setting of a chain reaction of
differentiation and hence Something(s).
This experience parallels the Taoist dictum that from One came Two, from Two
d marijuana in 1966. Given my background it's
> tempting to understand the intense ones as unconscious memories of birth.
>
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 4:38 PM Prof
Vermont was an independent country with its own currency and army, before
joining the U.S., so it might be an interesting option. A kind of counterpoint
to Texas; the other independent country that became a state.
davew
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, at 8:19 AM, glen wrote:
> https://insurrectionindex.or
glen is describing the actual situation in Europe. I went to a lot of events
where there was a table by the entrance where you could test the drugs
(including heroin and opioids that remain very illegal there) you would be
using at the event (and afterwords). This prevented both overdoses (you k
Buddhism (mostly the Theravada branch) recognizes four sexes: male, female,
hermaphrodite, and anaphrodite. Hermaphrodite does not mandate dual sexual
apparatus and the category includes: gays, transsexuals, cross-dressers, some
variations of bisexuals, and, most famously, the Thai kathoeys or "
"I wonder how many of us are back in lockdown and aren’t telling each other?"
CDC head on one of the Sunday news shows; responding to some comments made by
earlier by Sotomayer about Covid (convoluted intro because I forgot name and
which show), stated that 78% of those dying or having severe pr
Came across this quote recently and it reminded me of several conversations
with Frank and others about "pure" mathematics.
*"Thank God that number theory is unsullied by any application."* Leonard
Dickson
Similarly for "pure" science, Hertz spoke of his research as, *"of no use
whatsoever, ju
ta Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 3:53 AM Prof David West wrote:
>> __
>> Came across this quote recently and it reminded me of several conversations
>> with Frank and others about "pure" mathematics.
&
I seldom use ellipses except at the end of a sentence or phrase, with the
approximate meaning of 'etc.' or "blah blah blah," or "fill in the blank(s)"
davew
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, at 1:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On 1/22/22 2:10 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
>>> trigram analysis of my writing migh
Thich Nhat Hanh was Vietnamese and his teachings reflect the context of
Theravada rather than Mahayana Buddhism and a pedant would notice differences
and nuances that are important to scholarship, but not germane here.
The four levels of consciousness is quite useful and accurate as it is. Some
about "the
> self" or ego or whatever it is. It's more difficult to imagine a
> plurality of selves. But I think of it in terms of the parallelism
> theorem, that even if I literally can't multitask, be more than one
> self at a given time, I can swap betwee
It has been known for a long time that the most effective means of birth /
population control was educating girls, followed closely by empowering girls,
e.g., with micro-loans to start businesses. I remember studying this topic way
back in the 80s in my anthropology graduate program.
davew
On
for a long time that when
>>>>>> girls get educated and women hold jobs outside the home they are much
>>>>>> more likely to control childbearing. However, the culture must change
>>>>>> everywhere, and it happens quite slowly with lots of pushb
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife. Excellent read, more for background on water
and the kinds of things people WILL do to access it, than the story line.
*In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective,
assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern
In California there is a movement (ballot initiative I think) that will
basically put the billion dollar rooftop solar industry out of business by
giving public utilities exclusive rights for green power in the form of wind
farms and large solar arrays. Keeps the inefficient distribution grid t
Hey ... if Feyerabend is among your faves, why do you give me so much s..t when
I challenge science? Is it personal? Bet it is.
davew
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, at 12:36 PM, glen wrote:
> No relation at all! I chose that theorem arbitrarily just to
> distinguish when I post from my newly configured
hael Valentine Smith in Robert Heinlein's novel
"Stranger in a Strange Land." CAW remains a small but vibrant religion.
davew
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, at 3:54 PM, glen∈ℂ wrote:
> On 4/16/19 11:52 PM, David West wrote:
> > I am currently in Amsterdam - probably moving h
ist, other more
>> "conventional" routes might be found.
>>
>> In my never-ending quest for handholds for my scrambling optimism for a
>> future for life, our species, our culture, I am grasping...
>>
>> - Steve
>>> Glen,
>>>
>
Last colonoscopy I was thoroughly anesthetized but totally conscious. In
recovery room, doctor explaining he had removed three minor polyps and I
interrupted to say I thought I counted four. Shocked look on his part then told
me the fourth was more like a skin tag. The anesthesia did prevent fee
Just finished Thomas K. Disch's, Camp Concentration, first published in 1968 .
Very dystopian future. My pleasure reading ti came from the dozens, perhaps as
many as 100, words encountered for the first time. Unusual, obscure, sometimes
archaic, (e.g. orthoepy) and yet the author put these words
ional/usage variants) that are confirmed in
'flush' and that increases your understanding of the latter. The excluded parts
of the Venn diagram prevent them from becoming true lexical synonyms.
davew
On Sun, May 5, 2019, at 9:04 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> Just finished Thomas K. D
I am going to plug into this conversation at a posting from Nick, and attempt
to pose an answer to his question about why "we" 'cannot' or 'refuse to' offer
a modicum of enlightenment. I would hope that others shred, or improve, my
argument, but only Nick can say if it approximates an answer for
I remember, a while back, frequent discussions about causality at the "mother
church." My memory is that those issues were never 'resolved'; perhaps because
we did not have Judea Pearl's - Book of Why - to provide us with a formal
mathematics to explain all of causality.
dave west
==
Daniel Suarez’s latest book, Delta-V, is great read - lots about the junk in
orbit, the futility of Mars, and the viability of asteroid mining. Even has a
Musk type ‘hero’.
dve west
On Mon, May 27, 2019, at 9:12 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
>
>
> I was born "under the rising sign of Sputnik" in
Doing some reading on quantum consciousness and embodied mind and came across
these items:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-human-eye-could-help-test-quantum-mechanics/
https://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282
(A Rebecca Holmes from Los Alamos Natl. Lab
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Prof David West
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> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Prof David West
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> Nick said:
> "I was taught this fasc
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