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OK, I'm with you now. So if we could backward construct the object into a blueprint and verbal model, we might have an insight into the creator of it?

What is? Are you able to answer a simple question like proving that something was man-made Jeremiah? Come on, turn on that Common Sense for me. Let's ...

You never know Sam. Well, maybe never is too strong a word. :)

Well, not a science claim, but it would fall on that side. They're working toward it.

Sorry, do we know each other? You've never seen those things? You need to get out more. Yes, that's right. When I think of God, I think of the person ...

A composite concept, situation or system? Still not sure what you mean. Juxtaposition? Can we apply it to figuring out how to distinguish is something...

The nature part, I can kinda see. The obligation part I have a real problem with. I think mankind has done enough conquering and dominating. I think i...

How does that work?

Hi T Clark, there was a doctor of sorts on TV talking a few months back. He said he'd spent his life working with patients on the edge of death (actua...

Hey, Galuchat, what do you mean by human verbal modelling? If we could figure out a system of classifying what it man made v natural, we could apply i...

I don't think you can call a sleeping person unconscious. Their external senses are purposefully reduced in capacity. When we sleep our brain goes thr...

I've been reading up a bit on the formation of carbon chemistry at the year dot, and have to say that while we might be able to get to nucleic acids a...

Does this go here, or should I do an OP? Philosophical Discourse As a school of philosophy, which I like to think of this Forum as, I believe the true...

This is an interesting revelation. We can imagine an organism growing like a ball until the problems of waste removal and nutrient supply become too c...

I couldn't care less either way, so long as we can have some fun with it.

But I guess what you guys REALLY want to know is, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

This surfacing would not have been easy though. Entropy would have had a field day with the temperature and pressure. It is hard to believe a smooth s...

And of course what better cell to trust in forming your group of cells then yourself. Replication is selected for strongly. Of course there is a lot o...

Of course you also have your cooperative cell groups forming: gap junctions, diversification of function depending on position relative to the surface...

Life must surface.

So, if we say successful protocells can be formed this way, and then the environmental drivers began to wane, we could see how 'accidentally' selected...

Oh, its actually quite straight forward. I was overlooking that proteins can of course have hydrophobic surfaces. This article explains the formation ...

So we have cycles out there, and the reactants are running low. How do they sense this? Sure there would be a decrease in the product that feeds into ...

If its been a while since you looked at it, this is a great link to explain what I mean. Jump to 3:15

Doesn't my ribosomal explanation account for the existence of DNA? That's great we have an expert in the house, but it doesn't make your logic or my l...

I have to disagree with you here, although I can see from your religious background why you are guarding words like creation and evolve. A drop of rai...

As to the origin of the ribosome, it's one more lower doll in the stack of Russian dolls.

Hi Wayfarer, I think that like all languages, semiotics in terms of a biological language evolved from the patterns created, and not the other way aro...

The driver could have been the gradual winding down of vents or the population explosion of variant molecular cycles. The necessary constraint of reac...

No, I've given myself an out. The initial heat death of the ocean, or local environment at least, is what I am arguing should have caused life to wind...

You could argue that the removal of the reactant creates a concentration gradient for further reactant to move into that space- until the heat death o...

Maybe, if the material objects in the world are the signs moving about, entropy and negentropy are the slope of the road. We can use levers to push th...

If we throw the thin sheet of semiotics over the universe, so that rather than being full of disparate items with interactive properties they all beco...

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I would also like to know what happened and why.

I had two polls up - one to do with the future of physics and the other to do with the possibility of a 5th force. Both have disappeared.

Still trying to find out what happened to my polls. Send a mail to my inbox please or talk here. I'm easy.

I agree, but I only anthropomorphized humans, which I think we can both agree is OK. It is human kind that is assuming purpose, in this OP I am only a...

Nah, it doesn't. I've already watched it based on your recommendation. It is an interesting concept with appeal, though one whose finding and conclusi...

Ok, the fluctuations of a field creates particles or energy knots. But how do we relate waves back to the single being composed on may particles withi...

Yes you do. :) I do understand what you mean by creativity expression in the world. No two people are alike. I am still not clear on the reason for yo...

Is there just one mind? Is there one mind that is infinitely divisible? Are there completely separate minds? How do we get a union of minds (squillion...

But I observe it evolving logically. If someone stands on a tree branch that is too thin, it will break, they will fall. Arguing over the premise does...

I can move spatially and the memory goes with me even though it is supposed to be deflected back out into the matter field.

What is our substance? Two painters bumping into each other share a different substance to the canvas. If we are in and part of the matter field, how ...

So are you arguing that irrationality undermines the premise that life evolved along logical and predicable lines?

And yet I can walk down the street and bump into someone. I get the idea of being connected to nature and life. When you stand on top of a high mounta...

That's right, its a crazy thing to do, but it can be understood logically. The immediate satisfaction of eating the chips outweighs the possible futur...

But if we are painting on the canvas we are separate from the canvas, so what is the substance of us? If we are in the canvas, then what separates our...

Just to respond to that, it is through directed games such as this one that fundamental truths (at least to satisfy our own logic) can be discovered a...