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Before eight, children don't integrate sensory information
Mon, 5 May 2008 05:21:51 -0700 (PDT)
Young children rely on one sense or another, not a combination,
studies find
Unlike adults, children younger than eight can't integrate different
forms of
sensory input to improve the accuracy with which they perceive the
world around
them, according to a pair of studies reported online in Current
Biology on ...
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Re: Nice point
Sun, 4 May 2008 21:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
On May 4, 10:31?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 4 May, 09:52, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 3, 10:24?pm, n...@webtv.net (The Averdein Building) wrote:
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> > > >What makes an infinite regress 'insane'? What makes
> > > > a regress 'infinite'?
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Re: Nice point
Sun, 4 May 2008 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT)
On 4 May, 09:52, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 3, 10:24?pm, n...@webtv.net (The Averdein Building) wrote:
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> > >What makes an infinite regress 'insane'? What makes
> > > a regress 'infinite'?
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> > So you're not a fan of parsimony? To each his own.
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> As the man said, things shoul ...
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How Michel Nostradamus stopped the Randi- Dawkins- Myers Corp
Sun, 4 May 2008 09:38:28 -0700 (PDT)
http://thomashawk.com/hello/209/1017/1024/Johnny%20Cash%20Finger.jpg
And PZ Myers, you self-deluded insignificant NUTCASE...
the ORIGINAL *KING OF TERROR* VIDEO.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsOqPDkIZY
the *MODEL* of mental health:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zBEbfiaZTfc
"Look at the ANGLE OF T ...
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Re: Nice point
Sun, 4 May 2008 01:52:17 -0700 (PDT)
On May 3, 10:24?pm, n...@webtv.net (The Averdein Building) wrote:
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> >What makes an infinite regress 'insane'? What makes
> > a regress 'infinite'?
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> So you're not a fan of parsimony? To each his own.
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As the man said, things should be as simple as possible - but not
simpler.
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> >Why roll over and di ...
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Re: Nice point
Sun, 4 May 2008 01:46:05 -0700 (PDT)
On May 3, 10:24?pm, n...@webtv.net (The Averdein Building) wrote:
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> >The notion of a 'random' or, alternatively,
> > 'uncaused' result that neverthess
> > shows statistical regularity is a
> > nonsensical one. There is no need to
> > ponder any QM or other reality, the
> > mathematics is sound.
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> If yo ...
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Re: Nice point
Sat, 3 May 2008 15:24:07 -0500
>The South African phrase 'Ja, well, no, fine' comes
> to mind. You quote Carnap, but I think he wasn't
> much given to mysticism.
??? Shouldn't expect a reason for a non sequitur, but I especially can't
fathom why this one (mysticism) would even cross your mind in regard to
logical positivism or that era of ...
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Coming out as a bugger
Sat, 3 May 2008 09:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
The topic of homosexuality continues to occupy far too many column
inches. Here's a recent example:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/03/do0303.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
To me, what people wish to get up to in the privacy of their own homes
is entirely their affair, so long as ...
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Not the age of globalisation...?
Fri, 2 May 2008 06:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 2, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Cognitive Age
By DAVID BROOKS
If you go into a good library, you will find thousands of books on
globalization. Some will laud it. Some will warn about its dangers.
But they?ll agree that globalization is the chief process driving our
age. Our lives are being transformed ...
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Nice point
Thu, 1 May 2008 00:05:47 -0700 (PDT)
I don't really want to get into another long, and fruitless discussion
on quantum mechanics. However there was an interesting article that I
read recently, I think in the New Scientist, though I don't have the
reference.
I liked the point made about hidden variables. A mathematician was
quoted as saying that it ...
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