Curious comparison. Dawkins wants to explain human behaviour in terms of attributes of particles of human make-up that entirely lack such behaviour. W...
Yes. The way I would put it is that things are indifferent, whereas people at least, maybe animals, can be benevolent or malevolent. But if you are sa...
Memes as conceived by Dawkins are not knowledge but propaganda. We are vital to their survival not the other way round. But it was never a great analo...
Bizarre! I cannot continue this discussion, because I have no idea what you are referring to. Where is the uncertainty in the content of a text? What ...
I sort of get you, but then I just think you've changed the subject without changing the object. I was talking about the written information, not the ...
When I were a lad, there was none of this internet thing, we used to get all our information from books. The little local library would have a few hun...
Has anyone read this? http://abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf If so, can you give this poor ageing analytic white man the least idea of ...
Maximum measures? I think not. 1. Test care workers. 2. Do not send recovering patients back into care homes. 3. Do not leave residents with symptoms ...
Useless information. Like the most of your posts. Again, I have already gone into this. However, information that looks as useless as this can be usef...
Well I am not the statistician round here, But Shannon was dealing with distinguishing signal from noise. And indeed the way to do that is by repetiti...
Hume calls it 'habit'. I suppose you are saying that the sun has proved more reliable than me in the past. :sad: Or is there another difference? Every...
That was a longish post for me. How much information did it convey? My feeling is that repeating myself does not add to the information. But If anyone...
You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. You are blind. ...
Because I already have. About as clearly and graphically as could possibly be. Come back when you know how to read., No, actually, don't. Just stop ch...
Thanks, that's a very helpful clarification. Certainly as one grows up, one is likely to uncover the frailties of even the most benign parent, so that...
I wonder, respectfully, what difference it makes to you? For myself, I do not expect to be performing or witnessing miracles, so what I have from the ...
Indeed so. I gave the example of black pixels on the left and white pixels on the right as an ordered arrangement A chequerboard configuration would b...
And yet, by the magic of non-referential communication and with years of training, Mrs un knows how many sugars I Like in my coffee. And if it is not ...
I am old enough to remember when the UK kept applying to join the EEC as it then was, and DeGaulle (the ungrateful bastard) kept saying "Non." He was ...
Come back when you have the faintest idea what we're talking about. I won't be holding my breath. Hint: an image is what it is. It has no potential, a...
Philosophers agree about almost everything. That shit smells, that the sky is blue, that Trump is an idiot, that murder is wrong, that the egg predate...
My rose tinted spectacles take me back to the fifties in the UK. But even quite recently, The prime minister resigned when he called a referendum and ...
You may have to wait, but it is not a magic justice system I am proposing but the bite of reality. Perhaps you can fool all of the people all of the t...
Less of the 'us' there good buddy, and less of the 'them' too. If there was a conspiracy, then it could be exposed and defeated. But the case is worse...
You are cursed to have no peace and find no meaning until you think one kind thought. This truth is just the truth. But in telling you, I have made it...
I am telling you, Harry. I started this thread for that purpose. Imagine for a moment that no one ever told the truth. There would be no trust at all ...
Unless it happens to be the code that opens the vault at Fort Knox. Actually the third picture contains a quite staggering amount of information, it's...
No. the point is that I do not at this point distinguish information and disinformation because that is a matter of interpretation, not of information...
No. this is exactly the opposite of what I am saying. A disordered system contains more information than an ordered one. Your intuition is the opposit...
You are informing me of something, but you are wrong. What you offer as information is disinformation. But being wrong does not change the number of w...
Information increases as order decreases. For example: Imagine a square of 100 * 100 pixels each of which is either black or white. The complete infor...
I suggest a name change to "Life's Husband". We understand that life without death is cancer. endless growth, endless consumption, and the loss of for...
I agree our leaders have always been big fat liars, but I disagree we are more leery. Au contraire, we are much less leery; our leaders can now tell b...
Harry, I'm really struggling to make sense of your posts. What have you been led to believe? It is almost as if you are saying that because there is a...
Yes. I have been a bit loose with the term, and my ideas develop in discussion. So the core is the trust of a child that relaxes completely into the a...
That is the correct position. Scientists agree with you and so do I. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/we-still-dont-know-how-the-coronavirus-is...
Yes, I understand. It's a legitimate way of talking. What you describe is exactly that sophisticated measured provisional trust. 'I'll put some cash o...
I think you have hit upon the stumbling block for many here. This is the naivety of trust, that it does not occur to one to do otherwise. The veteran ...
Yes, if you have been betrayed by those you needed to trust, then the fact that you keep having to trust people causes anxiety. I don't say you should...
Excellent. This is where I want to start, with our inescapable mutual dependence. I switch the light on trusting that it has been wired up so it doesn...
I know if I am honest. If I can otherwise find the truth, I don't have to care about your honesty. I don't know who you think has found truth and lost...
Do you guys not walk down streets or buy stuff in shops? Of course you all do. So at every point you put your trust in others. You are playing at the ...
How much is too much? My milk provider has the power of life and death over me, because I drink the stuff without testing it. Think bus driver rather ...
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