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  1. LegionOnomaMoi

    Peer-Reviewed: Adam and Eve- 7000 years old family

    ...cont'd "Because few studies have been done, the discrepancy in rates could simply be a statistical artifact, in which case it should vanish as sample sizes grow larger, notes Eric Shoubridge, a molecular geneticist at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Another possibility is that the rate...
  2. LegionOnomaMoi

    Peer-Reviewed: Adam and Eve- 7000 years old family

    The peer-reviewed papers don't actually make any such claims. BTW, I've attached the full Nature article to this post. As for the Science piece, I've made the full article available below. Please point out where the proof or evidence you refer to is: "RESEARCH NEWS Calibrating the Mitochondrial...
  3. LegionOnomaMoi

    How Did the Universe Come to Be?

    The big bang is a singularity. It is a point at which the field equations of general relativity breakdown because the would-be solution(s) are singular. Unlike singularities in cosmology or GR or even in field theory more generally, the big bang singularity is unique because whatever methods one...
  4. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    Fine. But you made your point in relation to or opposition to mine. And my point concerned the assumption of freedom of choice (the ability to do something such that one could have done otherwise) as a foundational assumption of empirical science. My point related to the underlying logic we use...
  5. LegionOnomaMoi

    Brains, Information, Consciousness

    You have to be a bit more careful with respect to at least some of these terms. For example, this: ...is quite true. It is generally agreed among physicists and cosmologists and the like that one can regard all physical systems in terms of or as information. One potential advantage to this...
  6. LegionOnomaMoi

    Gravity vs Mass

    In general, we don't distinguish carefully between the use of words like "theory", "model", etc., in the sciences. Most of the popular literature and discussions on the differences are overly-simplified bunk that groups like the AAAS have been trying to eradicate from textbooks along with the...
  7. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    That's not what Primas asserted. His point (and mine, and others, increasingly so in recent years due in particular to closing loopholes in the various proofs of Bell's theorem) is that it is a basic principle of scientific experimentation that one can...well.. actually do experiments in the...
  8. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    III) We now know quite well that properties do not reduce to their most elementary constituents as reductive mechanism would have it. Firstly, there is the fact that the arrow of time is seen to arise most basically and fundamentally from the asymmetry that arises in the statistical properties...
  9. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    It seems to me that here and elsewhere determinism is taken at least in part to mean a kind of physical determinism of the type espoused by Laplace; namely, that 1) At any given time the state of the universe consists of all the locations of all of its material constituents in their most...
  10. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    But this is demonstrably not the case, at least not as stated, or at least it is not sensical or coherent enough to be meaningfully true. If there were a single kind of determinism, then its opposite could be non-determinism/indeterminism of various kinds or indeterminacy. Randomness, however...
  11. LegionOnomaMoi

    Why I like science

    Not entirely sure how this is the case or could be. People in recent centuries have perhaps given greater wait to what we might call mythologies than did those who are commonly identified with various mythologies (esp. e.g., the Greeks and Romans and other "pagans" from antiquity whose...
  12. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    I am not concerned with any particular scale of physical phenomena, although were I to draw on those scales that I think most relevant to make the points I have then most examples would be from astrophysics or at the least the macrophysics of (classical) statistical mechanics and thermodynamics...
  13. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    Because causality only goes in one direction (at least, your type of causality seems to; philosophers and scientists from Aristotle to theoretical biologists like Robert Rosen would disagree as Aristotle included teleological causes as a category of causation Rosen among others see anticipatory...
  14. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    The point is that this philosophical doctrine is not actually much of a philosophical doctrine insofar as it conflates a simplistic Aristotelian causality with the kind of physical determinism we get from differential equations corresponding to physical laws. There are several problems. The...
  15. LegionOnomaMoi

    Some thoughts about evolution vs creation debates

    It cannot be that when science in fact emerged out of particular schools of conservative religious thought and through the work of certain religious "fundamentalists". It is certainly true that religious conservatives have and continue to oppose much or most of basic scientific tenets and the...
  16. LegionOnomaMoi

    Some thoughts about evolution vs creation debates

    Historically, yes. Today, no. As I said, neither I know anybody else relies on the initial theological assumptions underlying the development of such fundamental concepts as the principle of least action when calculation Hamiltonians or Lagrangians. Nor is it only theological or even religious...
  17. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will Vs Determinism

    The entire argument rests on this premise, and it is false. Not just because it is grounded in two notions that are ill-defined separately and more so together (randomness can be caused; "completely random" can be opposed either to the kind of pseudorandomness of RNGs as opposed to actual RNGs...
  18. LegionOnomaMoi

    Researchers Prove Plants Produce Ultrasonic Squeals When Stressed

    That hasn't stopped the lead author from making claims based on the preprint in the peer-reviewed literature (see attached). While the attached paper is more cautious in many of its claims (as it is primarily a review of existing literature that conveniently ignores a great deal of criticism in...
  19. LegionOnomaMoi

    Researchers Prove Plants Produce Ultrasonic Squeals When Stressed

    There is indeed much we do not know and much we are learning. This "research" (the original paper is here) is mostly a barrier to knowledge and to further studies. Hopefully, it will have to be significantly improved before it is published if it is at all (currently, the article is in preprint...
  20. LegionOnomaMoi

    Some thoughts about evolution vs creation debates

    To quote myself: And yet much of the fundamental work today in e.g. particle physics, cosmology, chemistry, and modern physics more generally relies foundationally on mathematical structures and a corresponding view of the mathematical formulations of the laws of nature that was inherited from...
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