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in thread "Soil and Blood: A Defense of Magical Dirt Theory":

I agree with much of what you say, but I wish you hadn't called it "A Defense of Magical Dirt Theory." In my understanding, "magical dirt" specifically means all soil, no blood.... 1y ago

I agree with much of

BAP has said more than once that he considers some of Ray Peat's concrete advice to be bad. I never got into Peat, even to investigate beyond a glance.... 1y ago

BAP has said more th

Whitehead's heart was in the right place, but there's a problem of trying to jump to the desired end while skipping the intermediate steps. This always risks jumping to woo.... 1y ago

Whitehead's heart wa

Absolutely. Thermodynamics is definitely a major component. Two books I think contribute here:... 1y ago

Absolutely. Thermody

The problem isn't with speaking of the unknown. Man has always done so in poetry, for which I have the highest esteem. The problem is with conflating this with science. Speaking of the unknown is, by definition, not science. 1y ago

The problem isn't wi

This, and the discussion following in >>1663 of the mathematical vs. the quantitative, is exactly along the lines of what I meant.... 14mo ago

This, and the discus

This is just false. It's a strawman. Only a mathematical physicist afflicted by bad philosophy, or a stupid one, would say such things. There are very simple explanations of all those common sense statements that are perfectly consistent with modern physic... 14mo ago

This is just false.

To be clear, I'm not denying that there are hard materialists, some them quite loud. What I'm describing as false is that the bad conclusions actually follow from mathematical physics. I'm objecting to your attribution of them to... 14mo ago

To be clear, I'm not