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Old 04-03-2008, 01:03 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by David
Minsky's theorem doesn't tell you that the only relevant effect is NS, nor does it tell you if there is enough time for NS to create our biosphere.
Indeed.

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Chris likes to rubbish morphic resonance at least once a week, and I think he doesn't realise that theories often start off as tentative gropings after the truth.
I've got no problem with that.

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I respect Rupert Sheldrake because he doesn't pepper his ideas with a large theoretical superstructure that is not justified by the facts, he concentrates on exposing facts that suggest ?, but then falls foul of Chris for not having a complete theory!
Of course he does. In order to convince us in the long run, he's gotta start coming up with a theoretical superstructure. Until then he's a data miner.

~~ Paul
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