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The robot has been programmed to assess threats to its structure. As its impossible to program for everything, part of the program says if the unident...

Hi Janus, how do you know animals aren't self-aware of their pain?

Hi Pegasys, I'm a bit lost with your meaning here. Are you saying that centralised control of the masses by the government is analogous to holding bac...

What about if we designed a robot that could act scared when it saw a snake? Purely mechanical of course. Part of the fear response would be the hydra...

Thanks JupiterJess and Rich, I've read through the paradoxes. They would make a great topic for another debate. The arrow one you pointed out does hav...

OK, thanks Rich, I'll check it out.

Hi Jess, beats me. What are Zeno's paradoxes of motion?

So vision is active, not passive? We blast out a huge quantity of energy to illuminate the image? How do we then perceive it once it's illuminated? Th...

You crack me up Rich. What the hell is a reconstructive beam?

That's a pretty good position on the argument Pegasys, if I understood it correctly. The Quantum Mechanics argument that the mere act of observation c...

Sure Rich, I get it. The holographic field is a good way of visualising the atomic framework of objects and introduces a wave property that is otherwi...

Hi Sam, I think you're right. One thing that has become abundantly clear in this talk is that science is trying to punch way above its weight when it ...

Thanks Andrew, that's a good explanation. However, I want to go bit further than a Newtonian explanation. Words like impulse and momentum while provid...

That is true, or a unicorn could have made them. Science gets a little conceited with itself because it observes a little string of facts and marries ...

And what would be at the other end of this continuum of substantiality?

So, you are suggesting a sentient universe that permeates the physical universe?

Hi Rich, Can you elaborate on point 2? I don't quite understand your meaning.

I take your point that the two statements, as you chose to interpret them, are indeed incompatible. I also see you have provided a definition for God ...

Okay Metaphysician Undercover, I have your statement. I have glossed over it a bit too easily, so I'll take another look at it even though we are talk...

You're not Mike? Sorry, somehow I must have overlapped who I was talking too. My spatial analogy of time gives the sense that past present and future ...

Mike, We are getting into religion rather than God, but what the hay, this is fun. When I hold a meter ruler level with my eye, I do not see the lengt...

What we really need is a good definition of God, would you agree? Once we have defined what God is, then we can look for evidence of it? And once we l...

Hey Wayfarer, good to get your input. It seems that Lemaitre had a problem with where the discovery led. If he was petitioning the Pope not to drag hi...

But Mike, saying that science doesn't need to directly observe the thing conjectured, merely observe its effects, sounds an awful lot like a God theor...

Based on the premise that science relies on proof, can science prove that the universe is infinite? Surely they would need to go to the point of infin...

Thanks Mike, I appreciate your input. You've taken a very safe position: which is OK. I will counter by saying that in science there are laws and theo...

Hi Mad Fool, I like how you're trying to algebraically reason it out, but the logic breaks down at step 3 for me. Perhaps beef up your initial conditi...

Thanks for your ideas John, Part of the assertion I am making is that Evolutionary theory is seriously flawed. I can accept the random combination of ...

Jake you are right. I guess I am wondering if there is a way to internally change the atomic energy configuration of a stationary object so that it su...

Good answer.

Hi Bitter Crank, thanks for your response. Just a quick note on your comments of apoptosis, you are right that the organism will shed those parts of i...

Jake, you are right. "Want to" is a very leading term (or misleading term if you like) as it sneakily puts sentience into the sentence without thoroug...

Thanks for your comments guys. Like you guys, I love to debate too. So let's get into it. Galuchat, my first response to your comment about reductioni...