The 1950s were rich for the US because oil could be extracted and delivered with an EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) of 100 to 1. The fuel c...
Sure, at school, there often is too much stress on regurgitation at the expense of teaching critical thinking. But the question here, on a philosophy ...
I didn't view the youtube clip, but having skimmed it, I think Jacque Fresco is either misusing the term, or I'm mishearing it. A Gaussian curve is ju...
Jeez, I gave Tour points for being upfront and honest about his metaphysical prejudices. I then pointed out the obvious flaw in his reasoning. Thousan...
The statistics in operation is powerlaw, not gaussian. The current economic system is predicated on free growth with no mean restricted wealth. That i...
Yep. That was the joke. I googled him too. His line is that he is a messianic jew who thinks it is important to read the Bible every morning and medit...
I'll repost a longer explanation I gave elsewhere that explains the basic point Hoffman makes in Life's Ratchet. It details the instability or dynamis...
Where's the difficulty? The molecular dynamics of non-life is ruled by the laws of thermodynamics. There are a lot of reactions that are energetically...
The guy is a creationist. So he would say that. No doubt he is well-intentioned but his reasoning is pretty faulty. For instance, he says it is a prob...
The simple answer is the semiotic one. When we talk about that x factor, we are talking about the information that regulates the molecular dynamics an...
Try to keep up Rich. Infodynamics is information and dynamics. Has been all along. They morphic resonance and project onto the astral plane of hologra...
Peter Hoffman's Life's Ratchet is another good new read if you want to understand how informational mechanism can milk the tremendous free energy avai...
It might have begun being about substance ontology vs process ontology, but now it seems to be about abiogenesis. I have no idea what you mean to crit...
Check out Nick Lane's The Vital Question. He makes a good case for alkaline hydrothermal vents. You start with a chemical situation that has all the r...
Just like you say, it's all a great big quantum hologram. Far out, man. Now to remind you again, the OP is about the specific question of the transiti...
But it didn't just happen. And there are now many "shreds of evidence" that constrain speculation about how it did happen. As you say, religion is rel...
Again, you are showing your basic confusion about the epistemology of science. Like any exercise in rationality, it starts by treating any grounding s...
But the materialists are acting on concrete models here. The field of abiogenesis has moved on from your "chemical soup" parody by 65 years. So you ma...
No. If science were arguing for "spontaneous everything", it would be offering a concrete model. You would have something you could actually critique ...
You seem to be lost as usual. The question was about the transition from non-living to living. So how to get from chemistry to biology. If you have so...
Yeah. But you don't appear to have a clue about what science claims. Chemistry might well regard "a soup" to be in a lifeless and mindless state, as t...
For a laugh, can you find a recent paper from the field of abiogenesis which makes such an out-dated claim? I mean it has been 65 years since Miller a...
Alternatively, the fact that there is a "relatively normal range of moods" fatally undermines structural pessimism as it shows that what is natural is...
But in 100 years, it has narrowed down the options vastly. Which can't be said of any other approach to "knowing". Perhaps you ought to read some up t...
Now you are on to the quantum mysteries of how light acts as both a particle and a wave. The photon emitted by a radiating atom goes in every directio...
The behaviour of the light doesn't change. It is scattered in every direction off illuminated objects. But the arrangement of pinholes and image formi...
In the case of a camera or our eye, we would have to accept the idea that the image is somewhere on or in the lens, and that light from the outside sh...
Hey, when you put it like that, you have an argument that works. SSRI's are a famous Big Pharma example of selling the public on the notion that depre...
Yep, society is like biology in that it diversifies as it feeds off an entropic gradient. These pesky ESS evolutionary scientists you complain about t...
As a social theory, that applies to all human activity. Churches and all the other theatres of ideas. The difference of course for science is that it ...
So the article can be summed up as saying everyone working on evolutionary theory agrees the glass has water sitting to the halfway mark, but then "vi...
Remember also that Bergson was speculating long before the machinery of DNA was discovered. So after DNA, you have a problem that the ability to repli...
It is as much ideology to proclaim evolutionary equality or multiplicity as it is to assert winners and losers. There is so far only one species that ...
Life exists to accelerate entropification. It creates dissipative pathways to cool the universe faster. Of course it's contribution in cosmological te...
Because I don't have a problem crediting nature with purpose, even if it is not much of a purpose in being the general tendency to entropify. So ordin...
Where was "the mind" said or implied? I have no problem at all if you understood me as talking about mindfulness as the concrete action of modelling t...
Panpsychists do often just say that it is the special structure of nervous systems and brains - whatever that is - that explains why you get the step ...
I would start by reminding that I would see consciousness as a process and not any kind of "stuff". You do think of consciousness as a stuff - substan...
The simple difference would be that the artificial doesn't have the means to make itself. Nature makes itself whether that be at the level of rivers c...
If a leaf eating possum suddenly appears, that creates a selective advantage for trees to have poisonous leaves. Then eucalypts having evolved toxins,...
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