Religion appears to be the reason for most large and lasting wars.
Not many would disagree, but to me it's like saying that maths is the reason why I got a bad grade in algebra... :)
Okay!
P.S. Is that why you got a bad grade in algebra?
Solving for something unknown with a minimum number of clues is one of my heart's delights. I actually did okay in algebra; if I had not, can you imagine me trying to blame mathematics itself? All the correct answers to any mathematical questions predate the inquiry with their existence (the same is said to be true with answers from God)...
edit: More than the ultimate mathematician, I think God is like the ultimate physicist :)
So what, then, of free will, if we're all subject to 'immutable laws' with regard to our behavior? Is free will merely another form of 'wishful thinking'? Are the choices I make illusory in the sense that I'm somehow constrained by natural laws to always make the same choices regardless of circumstances?
So what, then, of free will, if we're all subject to 'immutable laws' with regard to our behavior? Is free will merely another form of 'wishful thinking'? Are the choices I make illusory in the sense that I'm somehow constrained by natural laws to always make the same choices regardless of circumstances?
In my humple opinion I think all our responses are in response to stimuli how ever 'complex'. Sometimes the circuity gets flawed due genetics or enviornmental factors. I believe some day we will be able to analyze complex stimuli and determine what response.
Great article Chipper !
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
So what, then, of free will, if we're all subject to 'immutable laws' with regard to our behavior? Is free will merely another form of 'wishful thinking'? Are the choices I make illusory in the sense that I'm somehow constrained by natural laws to always make the same choices regardless of circumstances?
In my humple opinion I think all our responses are in response to stimuli how ever 'complex'. Sometimes the circuity gets flawed due genetics or enviornmental factors. I believe some day we will be able to analyze complex stimuli and determine what response.
Great article Chipper !
Edit: Sorry the word 'flawed' is not the right word. I can't seem to think what is the right word. It makes you wonder about words like punishment and retribution. Also sorry for the double post
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Solving for something unknown with a minimum number of clues is one of my heart's delights.
Oh absolutely.
I haven't had to solve equations for many years, but I still clearly remember that feeling of absolute enjoyment when everything just clicks into place. At school, I never had a penchant for languages and thus poetry was wasted on me, however I could equate the enjoyment expressed in poetry by others with my own experiences of mathematical equations. Yes, it's fair to say that I was a strange child.
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My wife is an algebra teacher and I sure wish, I had paid more attention in class.
The correct teacher makes all the difference in the world. Up until my final two years at school I could find no enjoyment in mathematics, which in our education system was grouped to include all the disciplines (algebra, geometry, trig & calculus). I attended a different school for the last two years of my schooling, where I was blessed with the best maths teacher on the planet.
I read Dr. Lovelocks hypothesis (which has been upgraded to theory by many scientists) many years ago and found it quite intriguing and downright fascinating. It is as advanced dissertation about homeostasis on a planetary level.
The name "Gaia" was taken from Greek mythology as the Earth Goddess...and the bottom line is that it is not wise to mess with mother nature...she will fight back to recover balance.
Here is link on a Hypothesis that I believe has some merit and requires further study about the significance of Humanity on this planet.
I think that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,SJ, antedated all this by his "noosphere" hypothesis which goes back to the Fifties, well before Internet and the World Wide Web. Unfotunately, he is ignored by most people and also by his Church (he was both a paleontologist and a Jesuit priest).
Tullio
Okay, I'm dumb and the ships
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Okay, I'm dumb and the ships would probably splatter all over the place, but I was just wanting to get back to Uncle Albert's Theories.
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Solving for something unknown with a minimum number of clues is one of my heart's delights. I actually did okay in algebra; if I had not, can you imagine me trying to blame mathematics itself? All the correct answers to any mathematical questions predate the inquiry with their existence (the same is said to be true with answers from God)...
edit: More than the ultimate mathematician, I think God is like the ultimate physicist :)
You betcha. I think you are
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You betcha. I think you are exactly right. My wife is an algebra teacher and I sure wish, I had paid more attention in class.
So what, then, of free will,
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So what, then, of free will, if we're all subject to 'immutable laws' with regard to our behavior? Is free will merely another form of 'wishful thinking'? Are the choices I make illusory in the sense that I'm somehow constrained by natural laws to always make the same choices regardless of circumstances?
Study hints that fruit flies have free will
RE: So what, then, of free
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In my humple opinion I think all our responses are in response to stimuli how ever 'complex'. Sometimes the circuity gets flawed due genetics or enviornmental factors. I believe some day we will be able to analyze complex stimuli and determine what response.
Great article Chipper !
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: RE: So what, then, of
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Edit: Sorry the word 'flawed' is not the right word. I can't seem to think what is the right word. It makes you wonder about words like punishment and retribution. Also sorry for the double post
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Here is link on a Hypothesis
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Here is link on a Hypothesis that I believe has some merit and requires further study about the significance of Humanity on this planet.
Gaia
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: Solving for something
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Oh absolutely.
I haven't had to solve equations for many years, but I still clearly remember that feeling of absolute enjoyment when everything just clicks into place. At school, I never had a penchant for languages and thus poetry was wasted on me, however I could equate the enjoyment expressed in poetry by others with my own experiences of mathematical equations. Yes, it's fair to say that I was a strange child.
The correct teacher makes all the difference in the world. Up until my final two years at school I could find no enjoyment in mathematics, which in our education system was grouped to include all the disciplines (algebra, geometry, trig & calculus). I attended a different school for the last two years of my schooling, where I was blessed with the best maths teacher on the planet.
RE: Here is link on a
)
I read Dr. Lovelocks hypothesis (which has been upgraded to theory by many scientists) many years ago and found it quite intriguing and downright fascinating. It is as advanced dissertation about homeostasis on a planetary level.
The name "Gaia" was taken from Greek mythology as the Earth Goddess...and the bottom line is that it is not wise to mess with mother nature...she will fight back to recover balance.
Freedom of Speech is a cherished right in every democracy and democratic institution.
RE: Here is link on a
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I think that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,SJ, antedated all this by his "noosphere" hypothesis which goes back to the Fifties, well before Internet and the World Wide Web. Unfotunately, he is ignored by most people and also by his Church (he was both a paleontologist and a Jesuit priest).
Tullio