This is reposted essentially as is from sci.physics etc. Now, I wonder
if "logic" can provide any interesting insights into the problem:

Here's my humorous take on science and politics, modified from my recent
posts to NG alt.fan.rawilson and Backreaction blog:

My subtle quantum psi powers* tell me that the LHC did indeed "destroy
the world" last week, but it doesn't matter anyway ...!? "The" world
didn't get destroyed because there are so many of them according to the
Everett-DeWitt "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics. In the MW
theory, each instance of random possibility branches into entire new
universes expressing every option. (Like, whether Schr

On Aug 6, 4:41 pm, "Don Phillipson" wrote:

Nothing like a good ol' pedagogical hairball like that to be brought
up again for a vote, as another of those unquestioned truisms that
come to be regarded, around academe, or in the dark, smoky haunts of
wi-fi hotspots nearby, with all the honor, authority, and pedantic
patina of a Euclidean theorem.

As well it should have been, for very good and just reasons which, in
view of the increasing vapidity of this thread will hardly be intuited
in a million years.

And why? Why, oh, why, but WHY should this be?

On Jul 24, 2:55 pm, "Anopheles" coolcats.net.au> wrote:

Heh. Can a leopard change his spots, or a rattlesnake his diamonds?
See here, old boy, what I was just the other day having to say in
reply to a post entitled, "The Truth is Anti-Semitic" after I had
changed that title to "The Truth is Anti-Human" . . .

From: "Just Me" gmail.com>
Subject: Kant and the Serpent
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:14 AM

If some people are like, truly, actually, totally, or more like
basically a bunch of rattlesnakes under all the stupid looking
backward baseball caps, and the crumby looking tattoos, the vain
looking ear, eye, nose and belly-button rings; the flappy-ass, dumb
looking, too-long-to-be-shorts--too-short-to-be-long pants they got
hanging off their ass . . .

Proposal for ‘Continuing Commentary’ on the L. Jonathan Cohen
symposium, 'Can Human Irrationality Be Experimentally Demonstrated?',
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4:317-70, 6:487-583, 7:735-38,
10:311-13.

Doubts about “the standard picture”

If one assumes, as I do (2006), that feelings of worthlessness are a
maladaptive byproduct of the evolution of rationality, then it
seems to follow that what Edward Stein (1996) has referred to
as “the...

Proposal for ‘Continuing Commentary’ on the L. Jonathan Cohen symposium,
“Can Human Irrationality Be Experimentally Demonstrated?’, Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 4:317-70.

Doubts about “the standard picture”

If one assumes, as I do, that feelings of worthlessness are a
maladaptive byproduct of the evolution of rationality (Roberts, 2006),
then it seems to follow that what Edward Stein (1996) has referred to...

Being Rational

[quote]
The concept of rationality, one might say, is incorrigibly
elusive... I believe it is fair to say that in philosophical discussions
of rationality, there is a sense in which we do not "know what we are
talking about" and can never do so, if what is demanded is a concise
definition (Max Black).
[unquote]

If one assumes, as I do, that feelings of worthlessness are a
maladaptive byproduct of the evolution of rationality, then it seems to
follow that what Edward Stein has referred to as "the standard picture"...

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