Gary Enfield

Hi Wayfarer We seem to be talking at cross purposes here, despite you quoting me.... While there may be doubt about whether the underlying nature of t...

Hi Pop To be precise, this will not be a new phenomenon as we do not have the ability to alter nature. All we have revealed, at best, is a capability ...

Hi Waferer Sadly, I cannot see how your replies clarify what your point is. Perhaps you could say it more clearly or directly? In saying this... ... y...

Dear Wayfarer I'm really not sure of the point you are trying to make? At face value, your comment is misplaced as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle ...

Hi Pop Thanks for the pointer to these authors. Because I have a lot on my plate at the moment I won't be able to follow through with them in the shor...

Hi TMF (sorry I find it uncomfortable to use your web name) I understand what you say, but I think that it's entirely possible for objects that are de...

Hi litewave I'm not sure that's correct, because if it were, we would be able to have laws that precisely define what happens in each circumstance, an...

Hi Litewave That is effectively the logic on which the philosophy of Determinism was founded - a total belief in the Laws of Physics & Chemistry which...

All Can I ask that from now on, we please confine this topic from now on, to the subjects of - the use of probabilities, or - Dualism vs Monism, or - ...

Hi Tres Bien This is an interesting point, which returns us to the theme of this topic - thank you. The mathematics involved in the Laws of Physics an...

Pop / Counterpunch I have been distracted from the site for a few days, but on returning I have been fascinated by your conversation, and I think we a...

Hi Counterpunch I raised the issue of awareness in molecules because it was mentioned in one of his books, along with the scientifically proven eviden...

Hi Counterpunch I don't have any problem with Finipolscie using a pseudonym. He clearly shows where his facts originate, and either his ideas are logi...

Hi Solarwind Is there an article you can point me to, to explain this... hopefully in a way that non-specialists can understand? The only things I hav...

Hi Counterpunch Like you, I think we are all hypothesising because there are no proven answers. Objects either have to carry an intrinsic set of chara...

Hi Sophisticat My comment was about the principles of science which have achieved the status of Laws. I don't deny this, and the use of probabilities ...

Hi Litewave As I mentioned to Kenosha Kid, in relation to your quote below, while it may be possible to guess some ways in which a result has been ach...

Hi Counterpunch Thanks for the tutorial on how to use some of the features. I'm still experimenting! Re: your comments, you have an interesting viewpo...

Hi Kenosha Kid As you acknowledge, I do not object to the use of probabilities, because they are the best tool that we have, but I think we both now r...

Hi Counterpunch Like you, I believe that strict causality underpins the vast majority of the physical environment – at least at the level we occupy. M...

Hi Counterpunch and Kenosha Kid Thanks for your well considered responses. I was beginning to get worried that this subject, which is a fundamental un...

Dear 'God Must Be An Atheist' Your beliefs are clearly Materialist/Determinist and that is fine, but they are not the only beliefs. As long as there a...

The core idea of 'emergence' is that something like the 'underlying stuff of existence' (Matter/Energy) comes from something else. That 'Cosmological ...

Dear MadFool I think you ought to research more. Consciousness has not been explained, and while we do see that neurons receive and transmit electrica...

Pop I am now confused. Your early posts seemed to be saying that there was no awareness needed and that everything could be achieved by 'self-organisa...

Again, since my last post, there seems to be an avoidance of the points that I made. You have not provided any examples which challenge my assertion t...

Pop - I think that evolution is a classic form of self organisation, but self organisation builds structures over time. It is not a factor that resolv...

Re-reading some of the posts - can I just add that there is a vast difference between the mechanical and unthinking replication mechanisms which copy ...

Sorry - it isn't practical for me to respond to people individually so I will try to cover off a few points collectively. There seems to be a fair amo...

counterpunch - who are you replying to? My post did not refer to consciousness, or bats and balls, but responded to the point in the opening premise a...

Sorry - but chemistry says that DNA is no more than a template to produce components. It has no logical capacity/capability. It also does not describe...

Firstly, let me say that Auto Response, (as you describe it), still has to have a cause based in the Laws of Physics and Chemistry, according to scien...

I think that Christophe Finipolscie hit the nail on the head when he he explored this subject in his 2nd book. He firstly argued that consciousness is...

I try to boil these questions down to basics. From what I have read, philosophically, there are only 2 possibilities: 1 - Existence and time had a beg...

Hi Spyroe I can't tell if you're being serious or not by your post, as 'shape' isn't a thing in itself - it's an outcome or consequence from something...

Hi jgill Yes, I agree that if one formula doesn't produce the right outcome, another is required. But the point made in the book, (and I think it is c...

Tim - taking your analogy, you either have to admit that there were 2 more children in your sister's family than you ever knew of; or that she had sud...

Hi Zelebg Reading the Wikipedia articles, or indeed reading the book I referred-to, you don't see the underlying maths. But there is lots of evidence ...

Hi 3017amen The underlying nature of 'chaos' theory is our inability to predict something. In terms of traditional philosophy, Determinism says that w...

Hi Tim I live in the UK normally, but I'm visiting the US at the moment. The book is certainly on Amazon UK, and I also see it on Kindle. There is a l...