Curt Doolittle

Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

  • “Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entir

    —“Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined. Collectively, all those transistors consume more electricity than the state of California.”— Mark P. Mills

    Longer Version

    —“The invention of the transistor-based logic engine, the integrated circuit, turned 60 this year. Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined. Collectively, all those transistors consume more electricity than the state of California. The rise of transistors as “engines of innovation” emerged from Moore’s Law. And we’re still in its early days: paraphrasing Mark Twain, recent reports of the death of that Law are greatly exaggerated.”— Mark P. Mills

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-30 00:18:00 UTC

  • WHAT DEMARCATES SCIENCE FROM NON-SCIENCE? Now what demarcates science (due dilig

    WHAT DEMARCATES SCIENCE FROM NON-SCIENCE?

    Now what demarcates science (due diligence) from non-science(failure of due diligence)?

    *Testifiability*

    Try to falsify that statement.

    ( Let me help you: you won’t. Science has simply been a branch of the law all along. )

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-26 23:09:35 UTC

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  • WHAT DEMARCATES SCIENCE FROM NON-SCIENCE? Now what demarcates science (due dilig

    WHAT DEMARCATES SCIENCE FROM NON-SCIENCE?

    Now what demarcates science (due diligence) from non-science (failure of due diligence)?

    *Testifiability*

    Try to falsify that statement.

    ( Let me help you: you won’t. Science has simply been a branch of the law all along. )

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-26 18:09:00 UTC

  • “Lake Toba is the site of a massive supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 th

    —“Lake Toba is the site of a massive supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago,[2][3][4] representing a climate-changing event.

    It is the largest-known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years.

    According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make-up of the human worldwide population to the present.[6]

    It has been accepted that the eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3 to 5 °C (5.4 to 9.0 °F), and up to 15 °C (27 °F) in higher latitudes. Additional studies in Lake Malawi in East Africa show significant amounts of ash being deposited from the Toba eruptions, even at that great distance, but little indication of a significant climatic effect in East Africa.[7]”

    Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba) is a large natural lake in Indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) long, 30 kilometres (19 mi) wide, and up to 505 metres (1,657 ft) deep.

    Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with a surface elevation of about 900 metres (2,953 ft), the lake stretches from 2.88°N 98.52°E to 2.35°N 99.1°E. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.[1]

    Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more accurate identification of 74,000 years ago as the date.[5] “—

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-23 15:38:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-16 17:46:00 UTC

  • I can explain the current competing theories of dark matter, explain the underly

    I can explain the current competing theories of dark matter, explain the underlying problem fairly simply, the foundations of mathematics,d provide an explanation for the failure of 20th century economics and philosophy and a thousand other things that are over your head. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-03 17:28:42 UTC

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    Surprise Discovery Reveals Second Visual System in Cerebral Cortex: Mouse Study

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-03 16:59:00 UTC

  • “Curt, is your field (philosophy) art or science?”— Francesco Principi As I un

    —“Curt, is your field (philosophy) art or science?”— Francesco Principi

    As I understand my work, given that science is an extension of the law, these are the three options:

    1) Law, Sciences(Logics/Mathematics), Measurements. -vs- reality, competition, and testimony w/ warranty THE TRUE (EXISTENTIAL/REAL) – I consider this a ‘a science’.

    -vs-

    2) Philosophy, Literature, History, -vs- sophism, justification, and deceit w/o warranty THE IDEAL – I consider this an ‘art’.

    -vs-

    3) Theology, Scripture, Mythology -vs- supernaturalism, authoritarianism, and deceit w/o warranty THE FANTASY(IMAGINARY) – i consider this a ‘fraud or deceit’

    In other words, I am not sure that the old versions of these terms have any meaning. I consider philosophy that which is yet unsolved in the narrow sense, OR the imagination of possible worlds (fantasy literature) in the broader sense.

    So in the narrow sense I see philosophy closed (completed), and what was philosophy of ‘the big questions’ are solved. In the broad sense of imagining and reconstructing relations that we might prefer or that might be good, there will never be an end to that category of philosophizing.

    As far as I know theorizing about the true and possible has replaced philosophizing, and theorizing completely under testimonialism has replaced the limited theorizing of the 19th and 20th century sciences.

    So I tend to say I am a philosopher of natural law because it is all people can understand in the historical context of the available term.

    But, technically speaking, what I understand that I am doing is the science of the law. Which in itself I think is what natural law must eventually mean. Where natural law and the laws of nature are separated only by conscious choice.

    And so I don’t see any difference between science and law other than warranty. And as we have seen, science without warranty of due diligence is largely pseudoscience. and pseudoscience is just another term for fraud.

    So as I understand it, truth = law, and all else are sub-grammars of that law if that is all that is required to solve that problem, or deciets that violate that law.

    1) The Physical Laws (invariability),

    2) the Natural Law (decidability),

    3) History, and Literature (meaning), …

    … are the only non-false domains and methods of inquiry remaining.

    Drug addicts defend their habits. There are many ways of drugging the mind. Lies are the most common of them.

    And stoicism, family, oath-feast-festival, and our nation of all those that came before, all those that are, and all those that are yet to be, are the cure for that addiction.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-02 16:27:00 UTC

  • I have written a 14 tween argument that is pretty much the current state of the

    I have written a 14 tween argument that is pretty much the current state of the science. I’ve asked you one simple question: SO WHAT? And you can’t answer with other than statements that I don’t understand the material – (as you do). but then, you don’t know the history of SC.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 14:54:57 UTC

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  • ( TRP purchased on Amazon, kindle, delivered, read, understood. ) All of us work

    ( TRP purchased on Amazon, kindle, delivered, read, understood. ) All of us working on constructivism now – having left correlation behind. JF, me, Wolfram. Same pattern in Bio, Thought, Mathematics. Chemistry already there (easiest). Should be interesting to discuss AI. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-20 01:06:45 UTC

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    Millenniyule 2018: J-F Gariepy. https://t.co/upjPmdE2CM

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