Re: another hint of quantum consciousness

From	Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: another hint of quantum consciousness
Date	2024-09-15 15:31 +1000
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On 15/09/2024 12:26 pm, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:35:59 -0700, Don Y
> <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/14/2024 12:28 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>> Discoveries happen by diddling with the problem, trying out different
>>> things to see what happens. Once you have a collection of observations,
>>> some theory will form of how it all fits together. You test the theory
>>> by doing more experiments. If these experiments keep confirming your
>>> theory, then, and only then, can you claim to have discovered something.
>>
>> To be clear, you design experiments that *challenge* your theory,
>> not experiments that hope to *confirm* it.  "Proof" always remains
>> elusive; DISproof is what you are looking for.
> 
> No.  If one imagines an equation that describes the period of a
> planetary orbit, and tests it in all available cases, it's rational to
> assume it's true.
> 
> Let someone else find a counter-case. They will usually try.
> 
>>
>>> Just throwing harebrained ideas around leads nowhere.
>>
>> Agreed.  That's little more than high-brow bar-room chatter...
>>
> 
> Ideas are the starting point of theories. Or circuits.
> 
> No ideas results in few of either.

And if you have very few new ideas, you do tend to over-value the few 
that you do come up with.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 08:13 -0700
  Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-14 16:20 +0000
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 10:29 -0700
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-14 19:48 +0000
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 05:48 +0000
  Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-14 13:03 -0400
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 10:33 -0700
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-14 14:38 -0400
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 12:02 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 21:28 +0200
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 14:35 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:26 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:31 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:17 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 16:40 +1000
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:18 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:41 +1000
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-15 11:24 +0200
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 21:37 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:45 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 12:00 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 16:45 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:42 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 16:57 +1000
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-15 18:54 -0400
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:03 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:28 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-15 18:46 -0400
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 16:41 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:06 +1000
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:25 +1000
  Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 19:36 +0200
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 11:08 -0700
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 21:18 +0200
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:39 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 20:03 -0700
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:56 +1000
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 10:53 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 21:27 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-15 16:44 +0200
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 01:03 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:48 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-15 17:03 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:19 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-16 07:59 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-17 02:14 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-18 17:07 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-19 14:16 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-19 14:17 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:08 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 23:42 -0400
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:53 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-15 11:32 +0200
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 09:02 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:25 +1000
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 20:19 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 23:44 -0400
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 21:00 -0700
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 05:30 +0000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 17:07 +1000
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 17:04 -0400
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:43 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 23:28 -0400
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 20:53 -0700
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 09:08 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 13:19 -0400
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 11:47 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 15:00 -0400
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-16 01:21 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-16 08:14 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-17 02:06 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-17 04:57 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-17 07:25 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-15 23:48 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 18:06 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-16 13:02 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:39 +1000

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