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Well, almost the mind anyway.

Does invoking Skinner close the gap between everyone's ideas? Operant Conditioning links both the mind and semiotics. "B. F. Skinner was one of the mo...

Yes, and it has collective attributes.... OK, the boat is right side up now, but I'm still in the middle of the ocean. Thanks for explaining your idea...

That's why you said it could be considered the mind.

Oh, like my God OP?

Ok, there is something faintly tangible in the mist, but I'm going to need to dwell on it (and ask questions). I'm blurry still on the distinction you...

I haven't got the concept, so I can't flesh it out in my mind. The theory is of perception. It is all out there (direct realism) and the brain constru...

OK, well that makes sense. I can buy the field and understand the idea of direct realism. The public, shared memory fields seem a bit loose. Perhaps b...

Hi Rich, not quite through the paper yet. I like the idea of continual motion even in static environs, and of global velocity. The discreet v continuo...

Semeiosis and operant conditioning.

I think I've got it. Matter appears as matter because the waves are vibrating so fast we can't see them- matter is the blur of the rotating cube?

How do they make this leap, Rich? "As the process velocity of B is raised further, the fly transforms to a near motionless fly with wings barely movin...

I checked out the details of binary fission, but there was nothing there that showed the incorporation of DNA strands. The process is tightly controll...

I am still looking into the cockroach intracellular parasite story, and it is indeed similar to the mitochondrial story, but it does not serve to stre...

It's good to see you putting it out there, Rich. I'll take a look and get back to you about my thoughts.

Hi Bitter Crank, I guess you're right about the idea of God as a creative force being out there, but where I change the story a fraction is by suggest...

Is that your definition of mind, Rich? How would you describe mind in your own words?

Yeah, I have no problem with that if it is the case that we have not actually observed any motion but only a snap shot through the telescope. Our time...

Can't talk long as I'm at work. The resultant red shift intensity would be relative to the speeds of objects. It could be that they are both red shift...

So our entire assumption about the universe expanding is based on one interpretation of a bit of red in a telescope when there seems to be other inter...

In summary, we can define God as a Creative or building force innate within us all, that causes life to grow itself and enclose itself within higher l...

Nothing wrong with driving cabs Wayfarer. I heard of a guy that once worked in a Patent office. You won't believe his story. To answer the question th...

So in your scenario you have mitochondria running between host cells while down regulating the expression of their genes? It's an interesting idea, ex...

Sounds interesting. I'll check it out.

And they both managed to find each other and hook up in the wide and deep oceans of the world? You would need a massive concentration of both. Let's t...

Well there's inside the body alongside our cells and there's inside the cell itself. The bacterial flora of our gut are not inside our cells, unlike t...

Yeah, it's an interesting question. When you consider that the US has spent more than the rest of the world combined on its military year after year a...

It seems a little commonsensical that we asign the meaning of our experiences to our experiences doesn't it? Like when I'm stuck behind a slow car, I ...

Who are you talking to? Was the muon comment for me or for Rich?

Hi Apokrisis, nice try, but your explanation falls a little short for me. Come on, you can do better than that. It was now safely tucked inside? Was i...

Don't forget to post the Nobel Prize to Australia.

Yeah, I hear you Rich. But if the theory of the expanding universe is so pathetically weak, how has it come to pass as the accepted model. I'm no phys...

We have a law of thermodynamics that says all things will tend toward entropy, and the theory holds well. Then we have this situation where the law is...

I'm not arguing he saw the red shift Wayfarer. I'm arguing that the red shift does not necessarily imply an expanding universe. Maybe all of the galax...

I agree. If we were arguing over the tenth decimal place of some constant then maybe we would have something. But the foundation of the theory of our ...

I'm outside of American politics, but we may be looking at this similarly. What's your take on the boundary breach idea?

Can you elaborate on that response. You seem to be implying that I have based my assertions on what you said.

Sorry to steal your thunder. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Have you watched any of Varoufaki's stuff? I chose this one at random, I haven't see it, but he tends to repeat his message over and over. He talks ab...

I think this was the premise behind the Selfish Gene book by Richard Dawkins. I believe his contention was that altruistic actions serve to promote th...

If we look at the evolution of life from cycles to systems etc, there was a time when each was king. It was top of the heirachical chain, and then it ...

Yeah, I think I see where you're going. Compared to say the 50s, where we were in charge, in tight control of our resources, there is a lot more entro...

Are women also polygamous in this world? Fair is fair after all.

The eternal battle between the heart and the mind. Your decisions, I am sure, use logical algorithms although you may have a say in which folders you ...

There is no need for the United States to panic. Even if we are drifting away, we'll still look after you guys.

Hi Streetlight X. Not exactly sure what you mean by that statement. I think its a good insight. There's a lot of detail, and I was reading quickly so ...

Hmmm. What I think we've observed is red shifted galaxies relative to us. It could be that those closest to the centre (we need a centre for a big ban...

No, I'm not invoking any new laws or rules. It's still about the red shift. It's the perception, because of the red shift, that that the galaxies are ...

How do they verify that everything is moving away from everything, rather than everything is moving away from us. We haven't gone to the galaxies to o...

Doesn't it seem a bit strange that it's all based on the red shift? It's equally arguable that its contracting. You would observe the same thing, espe...