The test of simplicity is important, particularly when we need to choose one among several redundant explanations. But the test of Occam's razor loses its ...
Stephen, I see your concept of backward causation as understandable only if one takes your emphasis on feeling and self-reference to their ultimate conclusion....
In a message dated 3/1/03 11:21:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... First, permit me this passing shot at Occam's razor. Intentionality (as a primary affect and a...
This is just a short footnote to one of our earlier topics (not that it demands additional comments). Recall the paper on backward causation by Wharton (pdf...
Stephen, Regardless of is the panphsychism being knowable or not-knowable and being true or false, what would be the reason to practically accept it as an...
In a message dated 3/2/03 10:20:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, damir@... ... It would not be accepted as an axiom, but it could be as a personal choice. ...
In a message dated 3/3/03 11:03:14 PM Pacific Standard Time, damir@... ... Damir, It does seem that when we find our own Gödel sentence, we recognize ...
In a message dated 3/5/03 12:49:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, damir@... ... You have assumed that we "disagree". But you have not provided reasons why ...
In a message dated 3/9/03 1:45:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, damir@... ... In the same paper, backward causation is used to explain non-locality which is...
On page 219 of "Global Brain", Howard Bloom writes: "... Less than a second after a false vacuum burped this cosmos into being, entities like quarks and...
While I haven't finished reading it. The paper The Unity Theory of Evolution that is. I developed a question right off the bat. In the abstract it mentions...
In a message dated 3/21/03 6:53:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... I Don't believe evolution is a random process either. Randomness is a process, and as a...
A Darwinist description of evolution can be found beyond plants and animals; Darwinism is given as an explanation of chemical evolution, in the wiring of brain...
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In a message dated 4/8/03 3:09:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... It is true, calls for introversion coming from those that are most extroverted tend to fall on...
In a message dated 4/8/03 3:15:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... It is true, the timid deer that is being hunted by a hungry lion might grow painfully angry...