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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1000)	9/22/2000 9:21:21 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Yet, here on ol' planet Earth, there is a phase lock It's the old anthromorphic principal. There are lots of planets, some too big, some without a moon to stabilize, some with no heavy metals. If life is to arise and evolve enough to be intelligent it will be on one of the planets that is stable, that doesn't freeze or fry the inhabitants to extinction, and hasn't been hit so often by meteors that the life can't take a few million years breather. No, it's not surprising at all that Earth is such a special place. I'm also not surprised that the galaxy is not awash in old radio programs from alien cultures. There are a lot of things that have to be just right to result in 4 billion years of relatively stable evolution, and consequently the organisms that talk about such things are found in such a stable place. TP

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1000)	10/20/2000 12:31:53 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Re: I believe that anomaly is the 1/f signature. It is not a white (Gaussian) noise. The randomness of the universe is not spectrally flat. My model of this is memory. Outcomes are not blindly random 50/50 rattlings of pachinko machines. [...] I'm almost certain that memory is intrinsicly related to consciousness. The better your memory, on average, the "smarter" you are. I'm not sure I'd agree with your last statement. After all, sharks, jellyfishes, and dragonflies, e.g. have all a pretty good genetic memory --indeed they're all life forms who have not evolved for, say, the past 200 million years.... Yet, I'm not sure they're smarter than mamals who happen to pop up only about 50(?) million years ago. As regards nature's randomness, perhaps we should think of some biological Benford's Law: mathworld.wolfram.com