Just for Matt? No, all of us...Meditate (Introduction)
by David Turell 
, Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 00:05 (4812 days ago)
Just for Matt; Reducing Darwinism to math theory
by David Turell , Monday, November 07, 2011, 14:58 (4744 days ago) @ David Turell
Just for Matt; Reducing Darwinism to math theory
by David Turell , Monday, November 14, 2011, 18:04 (4736 days ago) @ David Turell
Chaitin's struggles:
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/darwin.pdf
Matt, any thoughts?
Lee Spetner (very orthodox Jew) says no way, so far:
http://journalofcosmology.com/JoC16pdfs/23_Spetner%20-%20Copy.pdf
Just for Matt; Fascinating Math
by David Turell , Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 00:31 (4602 days ago) @ David Turell
http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-things-you-didnt-know-about-math-I'm sure you know all of this.
Just for Matt; Fascinating Math
by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, March 30, 2012, 08:29 (4600 days ago) @ David Turell
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/20-things-you-didn2019t-know-about-galileo-"Einstein was Galileo's biggest fan. "All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it," wrote Einstein. "Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics—indeed, of modern science altogether."-So if Galileo got it, and Einstein got it, how come modern scientist like Hawking and Dawkins don't get it? Mathematics without observation have absolutely no relevance to reality.
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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.
Just for Matt; Fascinating Math
by Matt , Friday, March 30, 2012, 18:22 (4599 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/20-things-you-didn2019t-know-about-galileo > > "Einstein was Galileo's biggest fan. "All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it," wrote Einstein. "Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics—indeed, of modern science altogether." > > So if Galileo got it, and Einstein got it, how come modern scientist like Hawking and Dawkins don't get it? Mathematics without observation have absolutely no relevance to reality.-Well, I would argue precisely the opposite: your observation implies that both Dawkins and Hawking start with equations and then ignore observation... this isn't what happens. They derive equations to explain observations. Your observation is better applied to "pure" math guys like me, who say "Only the side of the penny I see is copper colored." -Which, though pedantic also serves to deliver as much truth as possible.-Natural Scientists (like the two you mention) are *driven* by observation. Science isn't about truth, its about model building, and building robust models.
Just for Matt; Fascinating Math
by David Turell , Friday, March 30, 2012, 18:50 (4599 days ago) @ Matt
Natural Scientists (like the two you mention) are *driven* by observation. Science isn't about truth, its about model building, and building robust models.-Just like string theory. Very pretty math and no proofs by observation. Robust! Ha!
Just for Matt; Fascinating Math
by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, March 30, 2012, 22:21 (4599 days ago) @ David Turell
Natural Scientists (like the two you mention) are *driven* by observation. Science isn't about truth, its about model building, and building robust models. > > Just like string theory. Very pretty math and no proofs by observation. Robust! Ha!-Explain to me how the theory of acceleration is more than a model? I dare you. String theory is out. No physicist of note I've heard of has ever said that String theory IS reality nor failed to admit that there is no current way to test it.-The word "proof" is pointless in science. (It's the ONLY word of note for mathematicians.) I've come to a recent conclusion that the entire idea of "truth" is meaningless in science. You see a phenomenon, you create a model that explains it, and the life or death of the model is its ability to accurately predict events in the real world. -We should be on the same page here. For most people, the fact that a model accurately reflects reality is "truth" but since we admit that science never ends, then we can never truly say that we've arrived at "truth." Only "what's true given known observations." -None of this should really be "new hat" but I've had recent conversations elsewhere where this exact topic has come up. -If you have a scientific mindset, you gave up on the idea of "truth" a long, long time ago.
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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"
\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"
Just for Matt; Fascinating Math
by David Turell , Saturday, March 31, 2012, 14:44 (4599 days ago) @ xeno6696
> Matt: The word "proof" is pointless in science. (It's the ONLY word of note for mathematicians.) I've come to a recent conclusion that the entire idea of "truth" is meaningless in science. You see a phenomenon, you create a model that explains it, and the life or death of the model is its ability to accurately predict events in the real world. > > If you have a scientific mindset, you gave up on the idea of "truth" a long, long time ago.-Does this approach allow the computer model results to be so acccepted as offering accurate predictions? The following suggests how life got its starter materials, and it must be true because we have life on Earth. Only problem is that all the curent analysis of meteorites finds only a smidgen of the stuff needed.-http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46898620/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T3Yu5PBSRjA
Just for Matt? No, all of us...Meditate
by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, November 08, 2011, 00:45 (4743 days ago) @ David Turell
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128271.900-heal-thyself-meditate.html
I feel the pain of this every time I stop doing it...
Got to get to zazen!!!
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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"
\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"