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    William Peters, Shared Death Experience Science |544|

    I find informational processes real and since we live in the so called "information age" maybe they will be better assimilated into our fundamental worldview. Sorting things, events and processes into causal chains is important. Again, correcting the conflated ideas leads to logical results...
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    William Peters, Shared Death Experience Science |544|

    The last part kinda sounds like a biblical day, but as a metaphor it really works for me. Reductionism has benefitted physics as a methodology. But a new paradigm is emerging where physics is not end all, be all. Now information science is doing the new and groundbreaking heavy lifting...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    The idea being defended is that the activity of mind can be examined under a methodological system of measurement that is similar to the materials based measurements of chemistry and physics. Conversation, as the passing of instructions and messages has a formal standing in two sciences, the...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    Evolutionary science has worked in the context of metaphysical materialism since the time of Darwin. Darwin himself did not. Darwinism as detailed by Charles Darwin maintained a primary role for mind and postulated mental evolution. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man/Chapter_III...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    If the natural language of life is chemistry - then this makes sense. If the natural language of life is more than chemistry and includes information, both formal and semantic - your statement is clearly false. I have complete respect for chemistry's role in our physical environment and...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    Let's try this again DNA "speaks" thru mRNA and tRNA and a large array of other molecules. If epigenetic messages change histones and or regulatory proteins in future generations - they have changed the "conversations" that DNA can have in future generations. Are you aware that the opinion...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    This is simply not what I am reading in modern literature. That flat denial that there is no heritable change from epigenetic signalling - is promoted by those conservative theorists who likewise - are still having trouble letting go of the metaphysical stance of Weismann. Here is a recent...
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    Science Is Not What You Think - new book

    Of course, you are right. My wording is poor. I am not blaming the public for thinking Dawkins is talking capital T truth. My worldview forces my opinions to see the structural data patterns (where truth tables can test logical inferences) from the distilled narrative. The public relies on...
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    Science Is Not What You Think - new book

    In the context of two levels - science is about logical truth (small t). The "truths" - as answers to yes/no questions - can be combined into truth tables. Truth - (capital T) is a concept of metaphysics. I am not qualified to discuss the narratives of philosophy in depth. Being truthful -...
  10. Stephen Wright

    Science Is Not What You Think - new book

    Science works at at least two levels. The data gathering, measuring and observing vs the narrative of explanation. The public view is on the narratives. My focus is on the data gathering work of the main body of scientists. Your points are all about the narratives of science. I see my...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    I mean that intent, surprise discovery and feedback-over-time; each and all inform the informational tools of living things. Best I steer you to how I have been informed and not ramble around with my own take on things. http://www.darwingenome.net/molecular-strategies.html
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    I see this context cellular mechanisms- one where physical cellular mechanisms are the only pathway to new and useful phenotypes - as exactly the the "range bound" thinking that leaves the issue unaddressed. The importance of epigenetic activity is not in its physical chemistry...
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    Critiques of Science as Currently Praticed

    Thanks for asking. In terms of science, mind needs to be addressed as a measurable phenomena. I am strongly against metaphysical materialism. However, mainstream methodological materialism works in practice and I can correlate with the simpler ideas of leading thinkers in research. With...
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    The Big Bang Never Happened

    Charlie, not your fault, but we won't get along. I can decipher your meaning, but its literal statements are imprecise. My answer is - yes there is a logical trail of inferences that connect z values of redshift to data about the movement of celestial objects. I never implied different. I...
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    Evolution, an irreplicable lightning strike , or an unavoidable lightning bolt in a thunderstorm

    Interesting article. My radar goes up when reading science commentary and I read terms like "basic physical quality". There is a measure of "quality of life", but afaik there is no concept or category called basic physical qualities. Thermodynamics is about order and organization. And while...
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