Knowledge & Illusion (for Romansh) (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 26, 2012, 23:25 (4461 days ago) @ romansh

Again an aside - is the oxygenated porphorin response a proxy for blood flow? Or is there some sort of doppler effect that is being measured.-The area that lights up is measuring blood flow as a proxy for that area's metabolism. Doppler is for untrasound measurementds of blood flow.-> Actually there is nothing to overcome. Without entropy there would be no life no death.-Not true. The body is programmed to have entropy, to die, as are individual cells (aproptosis).Theoretically if we could screw up programmed death we could live forever, as some scientists are researching.
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> But within the second law delta G in particular we law of mass action, the rate laws all nicely built in. So it is nice to know that you control the underlying chemistry, you can manipulate where equilibrium is and the rates that you approach that equilibrium. Interesting.-Yes. As long as we get energy input and not programmed to die, we won't.
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> But seriously, I sincerely hope your S&W is locked away in a secure gun cabinet next to your bed, and not in your bedside draw.-Mine is in the drawer. The dog won't use it, and my wife knows how. We live in a gated subdivision.->> Is this all of the Darwinian crap? -no, I was refering to all the crap produced by Darwinists about evolutionary psychology. I think Robert Wright has produced some reasonable stuff about societal rules developed by the hunter-gatherers. Read Alfred Russel Wallace because he lived with the natives, and he watched the animals. He had a much clearer view than Darwin who observed from a distance.