Curt Doolittle

Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

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    http://www.euro.who.int/en/countries/ukraine/news/news/2017/09/ukraine-20-reduction-in-smokers-since-2010/_recache

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-05 09:48:00 UTC

  • The results of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) recently released in Ukrai

    The results of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) recently released in Ukraine reveal a 20 % reduction in smokers over the past 7 years. Following WHO recommendations, Ukraine has strengthened its anti-tobacco legislation resulting in this reduction in the proportion of the population smoking.

  • DEFINITION: “SCIENCE” Science: the use of logical and physical instrumentation f

    DEFINITION: “SCIENCE”

    Science: the use of logical and physical instrumentation for the purpose of eliminating ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit from our free associations by the systematic attempt at falsification (survival) of criticism in eight dimensions of actionable reality: categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal, fully accounted including scope and limits, and coherent across those dimensions.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-17 09:45:00 UTC

  • Time is a man-made unit of commensurability to measure change in the physical wo

    Time is a man-made unit of commensurability to measure change in the physical world. It is useful in coordination, measurement (with the goal of drawing patterns), etc. but it is no more “real” than a yardstick. A yardstick or other measure of the physical world is merely a reference point with which we can more precisely communicate information with one another, and is not in and of itself a facet of nature outside of man’s conception.

    TIME

    1 – The rate(velocity) of entropic change in the universe, at current density and rates of expansion, at our current velocity relative to others.

    2 – Human perception of the order of episodes (memories) of change in the universe.

    3 – A standard measurement of the rate entropic change in the universe at human scale.

    4 – We do not yet know if time has any meaning prior to the big bang, or when the universe has sufficiently cooled that expansion has ceased, or what occurs after expansion has ceased.

    CYCLICALITY

    Early man was unable to perceive changes other than cyclical, because he lacked methods of recording events such that he could perceive development (progress).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-13 22:41:00 UTC

  • I am a scientist. The function of science is to eliminate ignorance, error, bias

    I am a scientist. The function of science is to eliminate ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit from our speech. The fact that you have confidence in intuition and less so in reason, is merely because you lack the ability to reason and the knowledge required to.

    What you ‘believe’ is a measure of your stupidity : how much more evolution you require before converting from animal to human.

    if you choose various beliefs, you are merely choosing to demonstrate your lack of evolution.

    The question is whether humans continue to domesticate you, whether humans enslave you, or whether humans exterminate you. Since you animals cannot win against humans if we choose to enslave or exterminate you.

    The only alternative is cooperation under natural law. Under which you can believe what you wish as long as you do no harm to the commons with it.

    Which is nearly impossible.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 13:51:00 UTC

  • “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”–Charles Darw

    –“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”–Charles Darwin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 05:02:00 UTC

  • DIMENSIONS: CONSTANT RELATIONS Physical vs Logical (pure) Constant Relations. So

    DIMENSIONS: CONSTANT RELATIONS

    Physical vs Logical (pure) Constant Relations.

    So think more of the various ‘polyhedrons’, where the number of dimensions equals the number of sides, and that each side relates to both it’s own sides and some other polyhedron’s sides.

    So there is a difference between spatial relations (limited to 3/4d) physical relations (like the branches of a tree and its roots), and informational relations (like the internet nodes, or brain structures).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-31 12:14:00 UTC

  • The interesting question is, given that it appears that space-time is ‘something

    The interesting question is, given that it appears that space-time is ‘something’, and that particles are products of space time, then what causes the density of the original collapse?

    If we understand the expansion(explosion), then what is the cause of the contraction(collapse)? I mean, would buy the un-experience-able alternate (or invisible) universe theory if the ‘cold’ or ‘dark’ matter was offset by the hot and light matter, and that the cold matter will ‘take over’ from the hot matter and cause the collapse.

    That would make sense to me. that explains black holes and dark matter. This whole ‘dimensions’ thing is merely a way of thinking about that equilibrium then I’m ok with it. If there is some other ‘universe’ I just …. that seems like a common cognitive bias or error that humans get in the bad habit of using: duplicating a story that you don’t understand rather than simplifying the story by solving what you don’t understand.

    Again. I am not so much looking at any particular evidence other than that humans demonstrate a consistent set of biases, and scientific discoveries a consistent set of ‘refutations of biases’.

    And so if I simply look at what we do see in physics, and apply parsimony to the theories, and discount the usual biases, then the simple answer is more likely in the simple direction than any other.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-31 09:59:00 UTC

  • SCIENTISM IS PROBABLY A COMPLIMENT In science we use the term parsimony to provi

    SCIENTISM IS PROBABLY A COMPLIMENT

    In science we use the term parsimony to provide decidability. We do so because it is a human cognitive bias to pile complexity on a prior rather than to abandon a prior. So parsimony demands we abandon priors and seek simpler solutions rather than double down on failed investments.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-31 09:16:00 UTC

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    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40719743

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 20:17:00 UTC