From: posting-system@google.com Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:28 AM To: brian@holtz.org Subject: Re: Hawking, Penrose: Our universe, highly unlikely. From: brian@holtz.org (Brian Holtz) Newsgroups: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: Hawking, Penrose: Our universe, highly unlikely. References: <29c16047.0201070954.2a4fb14f@posting.google.com> <200201161813.KAA03035@lsil.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.236.1.8 Message-ID: <29c16047.0201171128.29f4f98a@posting.google.com> "Paul Filseth" wrote > > You've again said nothing to rebut my sentence's assertion that > > of all the Turing-equivalent computational substrates, Life is > > a potentially confusing or misleading one to choose because it > > "just so happens to also support a menagerie of subsystems that > > people talk about in pseudobiological terms." > > That's true; I haven't. Thank you. > > Do you counter-assert that this could *not* reasonably be perceived > > as confusing or misleading? > > I do not counter-assert what you suggest. Thank you. I'll rebut Paul's off-substance comments about my alleged uncivility and unfriendliness offline -- unless someone else here agrees with Paul that I "do not appear to understand the difference between friendly debate and unfriendly debate". -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net