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This is interesting. You guys are offering hypothetical advice. If Ivy truly wants advice she will say what the issues are.

Was just thinkin bout anthropic principle and Reg goes ahead and mentions it. It must mean something. It can’t be a coincidence.

I’d say if randomness is at play the clockwork metaphor does not work. It is a metaphor for determinism. Great way to test determinism…play that shit back DJ. It is a question as much for science as it is for…[Read more]

Robert i agree with much of what you’ve written. Not all of it.

The conclusion that we are unimportant? check.

You wrote i am in the god camp of omniscient possibility. That is the best way to insult me! But i think it is a non sequitur. At least i cant see how a clockwork universe depends on our appreciation of its intricacies. it either is or…[Read more]

Davis, the analogy is a construct. It does not mean that you are describing something beyond the construct.

But i like the metaphor u used for determinism…clockwork universe. And i am asserting that the sophistication/complexity of the life in that universe does not alter the operation of the clock.

Dictionary says…an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities…some synonyms…choice, option, alternative, preference..CHOICE suggests the opportunity or privilege of choosing freely.

Thus in common usage the word CHOICE and UNCONSCIOUS are indeed at odds. We may be no different from a paramecium,…[Read more]

Robert, can’t agree. That is solipsism. Whether we are cognizant of how things will unfold has no bearing (in most instances) on how they will unfold.

Unconscious choices? That is a contradiction. I cant comment on random code replication issues cuz i aint got that knowledge cuz i didn’t go to college.

Davis, i can’t see how complexity obviates determinism.

Also, the notion of choice makes sense only in the context of consciousness.

Simon, the but for ( for instance, but for a Denovisan taking a shine to a homo sapien 122,ooo years ago this occurrence would not be) causation is endless. On the other hand it is gravity alone that accounts for the ball”””””””’s falls. Kind of reminds me of legal analysis of causation. In this instance gravity is akin to proximate cause.…[Read more]

Nein, nein, Wittgenstein, the sun will rise right on time.

I used the search function for New Scientist but that article does not appear.

Our minds work outside causal reality? WTF? I would like to know what makes you think so. Even it were so and i in know way concede it is so, it does not follow or establish that there are gods, irrespective of whether those imagined entities operate causally. Btw…[Read more]

Yeah, i have read about that council, other councils and about precursors. That is not what i am asking you. Step outside your comfort zone and answer me…CONCEPTUALLY, why is there any validity to any of it? Again a text can not authenticate itself. Is there any rational reason to believe that what has been handed down whether in its original…[Read more]

Michael, are you sure you are not dogmatic in this opinion and more importantly in your approach to reality? You take great care to differentiate your views from those of mainstream Christianity. How do those differ? Both mainstream and Michael-think spring from authority and doctrine and are held/cherished as cocksure.

Once a person has fully…[Read more]

What a shitty way to live Michael.

I gather that putative evidence that contradicts your understanding is rejected. The evidence is either specious or intended to deceive. Isn’t that a bit myopic though to assume that we are IT. Is there anything deceptive or contradictory about life in other parts of the universe? It may be imagined that life…[Read more]

So aliens are nonexistent because they would be supernatural?

Michael, if we were visited by super-intelligent aliens and compelled to answer yes or no as to whether history attests to the accuracy of the prophecy of the book of revelation on pain of execution for an incorrect answer how would you answer?

Jody, your blandishments and breezy way will scarcely ingratiate yourselves into our good graces. Your absence is unexcused. God is listening and watching so ya better watch out.

Maybe god’s brain is in his ass. Certainly the believers have shit for brains.

Adults who can’t see it is make-believe…what a mind fuck!

Perhaps Michael and Doc Bob are one and same.