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Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive? |
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Gavagai!
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Lulu have replied saying they cannot see what I can as far as plagiarism goes in his book. They also suggest I carry through on my threat to contact the publishers of the websites where material has apparently been lifted.
I have also provided a link to this thread. |
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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Spirituality and science
"I am the first in the world who wrote a link between spirituality and science“ Adrian Ferent
For the first time. you will see links between spirituality and science on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ZkR78-g74 |
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So he's started a new thread to deflect from being caught out in the last one for extensive plagarism?
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My Evolution theory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eiwx...ature=youtu.be “Darwin developed his Evolution theory on animals, I developed my Evolution theory on people” Adrian Ferent "What did Darwin not understand? The evolution of consciousness" Adrian Ferent |
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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Oh good, he set the video's comments to moderated. Hurray self-inflicted echo chambers!
But at least he didn't disable ratings yet. |
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor |
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Hi, alfa1, thanks for the link.
I especially liked the background colour and and also that you resisted the temptation to overlay a cheesy planetarium-type of soundtrack on your video. Now about the details I have just one nit-picking question: Why do you postulate the existence of God? |
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We have a limit - the existence of God
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan |
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Gavagai!
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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My Consciousness equation!
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Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein all gave us equations that described various phenomena in a quantitative way, allowing us to make accurate predictions, some of which were extremely surprising. Such mathematical models are essential to the technology that we are using now.
I put it to you that your consciousness equation is useless in telling us anything about the phenomena of consciousness and therefore can quantitatively predict absolutely nothing about it or any related phenomena. It is quite simply utter gibberish with no value to anyone. |
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For our money "IN WHICH GOD DO YOU TRUST" Much worse than the Question not asked, is the Answer not Given Don't accept an answer that can't be questioned - God is Surperfluous A society fails when ignorance outweighs knowledge Science doesn’t know everything, but religion doesn’t know anything Life is so horrent and also so beautiful, but without it there is nothing |
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Do you know a better Consciousness equation?
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1) Chemicals
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OECD healthcare statistics http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,33..._1_1_1,00.html 2010 Data UK 9.6% of GDP of which 83.2% is state expenditure = 8.0% of GDP from taxes US 17.6% of GDP of which 48.2% is state expenditure = 8.5% of GDP from taxes |
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Not really an equation, more of an algorithm...
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OECD healthcare statistics http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,33..._1_1_1,00.html 2010 Data UK 9.6% of GDP of which 83.2% is state expenditure = 8.0% of GDP from taxes US 17.6% of GDP of which 48.2% is state expenditure = 8.5% of GDP from taxes |
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Gavagai!
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I made a time machine out of a cardboard box with drawn-on dials and buttons. Do you know of a better time machine? Your equation is just as useful at describing consciousness and its evolution as my "time machine" is for going back to meet that dude Socrates.
Your equation is completely useless at describing consciousness or its evolution. |
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Yesterday upon the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. |
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Seeking Honesty and Sanity
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"Safety Not Guaranteed" is a little indie film not far removed from this discussion.
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Illuminator
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