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tama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-08 07:55 AM
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<<<Someone who can explain why you experience something in a repeatable and testable fashion - and not just based on some gross interpretation one formulates at the time.>>>

An anarchistic and a critical thinker does not take the word of some expert as word of God. He trusts his own thinking skills and experiences and seeks also second and third opinion from other experts. And he certainly does not take criterion of "repeatable and testable fashion" as Word of God, just word of some experts who like all experts are known to be also wrong. So when Heraclitus says that "one cannot step twice in the same river", why presume that Laws of Nature are immutable and eternal, rather than dynamic system that can and does change, more like habits than laws. Especially when cosmologists have found out that values of "constants" have indeed changed during the history of Universe.

And let me ask also you this question that seemingly made Random Australian go away, to clarify your own position:
"So is your position is that atoms bouncing against each other create the emergent epiphenom of mind, which then creates math that miraculously accurately describes not only the classical bouncing that it is mere product of and to wich mind and math are supposed to reduce to, but also quantum waving and pointing - which below classical limit is supposed to have nothing to do with brains and mind?"

Sorry, but I don't find such hypothesis logically consistent at all. To me it sounds utter bullshit.
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