GENIUS FORUMS

<t><span style="color:white;">Anna: I don't quite understand the difference between the idea that, say, particles are caused (which I am sure they are) and that their subsequent behavior may be undetermined.</span><br/> <br/> The behavior of particles is far more interesting than their creation. Acc...

<t><span style="color:white;">Jimahaz: Well explain to me how we could possibly understand something that doesn't have a cause.</span><br/> <br/> Non-determinism can be understood mathematically. Like a deterministic model, say meteorology, a non-deterministic system consists of states and transitio...

<t><span style="color:white;">Jimhaz: Being as we are caused beings and have minds that react only to causes, anything that we can therefore possibly investigate or imagine must have a cause, otherwise there would be no effects that we could possibly recognise.</span><br/> <br/> You did not provide ...

<t><span style="color:white;">David: Since a particle necessarily depends on a destructive force not being there at the moment of its birth, this is enough to show that it cannot arise independently of causal conditions.</span> <br/> <br/> Bilge. Bosh. Bunkum. Flapdoodle. The existence of a particle...

<t><span style="color:white;">Zoetrope: An infinite circle is therefore... a straight line!</span><br/> <br/> Unfortunately the conclusion is wrong. You said earlier:<br/> <br/> <span style="color:white;">The curvature of a circle's circumference decreases as the size of the circle increases. For ex...

<t><span style="color:white;">Anna: Life is devoid of life if it arises out of the inanimate automatically when certain chemicals happen to get near each other. Like putting a car engine together, finally putting in some fuel and then turning on the ignition system. I do not call that life. If that ...

<t><span style="color:white;">Anna: Oh, Thomas! What I meant, was, what is it?</span><br/> <br/> Oh, in a scientific way; not in an existential way...<br/> <br/> <span style="color:white;">Anna: Is it anything?</span><br/> <br/> I can't see any meaning in this question.<br/> <br/> <span style="color...

<t><span style="color:white;">Anna: It is not obvious at all. I am clueless. If you know several possible answers, then out with them. Love is much easier to understand than life.</span><br/> <br/> Basically, life is all about transformation. In order to bring about transformation, both mind and mat...

David, if you pretend to speak anything remotely resembling truth you should be able to prove it and tell me which souls I have murdered. While you are at it, you could explain us what a soul is. I thought you didn't believe in souls!?

Thomas

<t>Wet dream? Killing souls for my pleasure? Seems you are getting a bit huffy, David. <br/> <br/> It must have been that remark about australopitecus.<br/> <br/> Oh well, forget about it.<br/> <br/> <span style="color:white;">David: The only way that a woman can become spiritual and wise is by redu...

<t><span style="color:white;">David: This is classic misogny, of course - reducing woman to the status of a toy. For most men, that's all that women are - multi-knobbed bits of fun. The evil of this outlook lies in the way that it pressures women not to develop consistency in their thinking and beha...

<t><span style="color:white;">Paul: Macho Thomas comes up with an internet oldie. Yes, women are great, aren't they?</span><br/> <br/> I don't see the macho part. I imagined being offered those two devices at the same price. I would definitely buy the one with the colorful buttons, because it seems ...

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So what about part 2 and part 3, David?

Should you have decided to discontinue the book, I must congratulate you on that idea.

Thomas

<t>Mattfaust: ...am guessing it will take more than 6 reads before the real picture is uncovered. How important (or potentially important) is Nietzsche on the path toward Enlightenment?<br/> <br/> I recently ordered "Zarathustra" from Amazon. About twenty years ago I read the German original version...

<t>David: I already knew, when writing the book, that it would have no impact upon you or your kind.<br/> <br/> Perhaps that is exactly the point. You are writing this not for "me and my kind". Then I must wonder for which kind of people you are writing. Do you have any particular demographics in mi...

I can't say that I have found anything new in the book. The thoughts and ideas expressed are basically those we have discussed in the past years. I can't help to register a certain stagnancy. There is a decisive clinging to "traditional" themes, such as that of causality, determinism, empt...

<t>Dan:As to PDF, I have to admit I entirely dislike the format.<br/> <br/> PDF has the advantage that it is platform independent. I would have been able to access it on my Linux machine. Others would be able to read it on their MacIntosh. One could even load it onto a PDA and read it at the pool.<b...