Ruth & Rindler (General)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 10, 2013, 16:35 (3918 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:It's a hot topic. And no-one knows the answer. Your point about "solid" patterns is dealt with by both sceptics:
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> NUNEZ: We humans are pretty good at trying to make sense of things and excel at developing new tools for such purposes. You are giving examples for cases in which mathematics does work apparently in nature. But, how about all those cases for which it doesn't, including for making precise weather predictions? -Nunez is now in never never land. Weather is not a fixed physical pattern. The controlling parameters are so confusing there are folks who believe the Earth will roast while for the past 17 years there is no change in overall temps. Straw man argument.-
> BUTTERWORTH: Numbers are not necessarily a property of the universe, but rather a very powerful way of describing some aspects of the universe. -That is exactly the point. Numbers fit the most important aspects of telling us much of the origin of our reality.
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> dhw: He who twaddles others' beliefs doth himself deserve a twaddling. (Old Agnostic Proverb)-Nunez needs a twaddling. Perhaps old agnostics also.