> > to the more interesting questions as to
> > whether or not the ALife experiments going on now are simulation or
> > instantiation. :)
>
> not re: cognitive science,
> one of the noggin scratchers in this house is when you take the rules
> of "living things" and apply it to fire.... passes way too many of the
> tests to be just dismissed outta hand


Yeah, I love that. I was asked not to come back to a Sunday School class
once as a snotty pre-adolscent when I insisted that the smilarity between
fire and life proved that life was a natural process, just one step up from
fire (Creationist Sunday School teacher)

Without an external force accelerating it you mean?  Aye, who
knows?  Probably some weird relativity thing.  I mean, the one that
gets me is that two photons heading toward each other are still
only closing at a speed of c and not 2c.  Whereas, two trains
travelling at 80kph heading toward each other are closing at
160kph.  Really, I wonder what sort of drugs Einstein must have
been on to postulate all of this, and even more: what sort of drugs
the Creator must have been on to build it thusly.  

Well, you know there are whole communities of creators, not just one. All
you have to do is look at Australia, and you *know* the teenage godlets were
smoking something behind the wall the day of the "create a new creature"
exam

Laurie the evidence is right there Phoenix


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