Re: programming bomb-testing experiment on a regular computer

On 25 Mar, 14:26, "nando_rontel...@xxxxxxxxx"
<nando_rontel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gee if it were as simple as you say it is, then how come quantum
mechanical experts like for instance Feynmann refer to it as a
mystery?

Because it is a mystery. I've even said it was. We know what happens
but not why - it's just you don't understand the what in this case.
Why a photon acts like a particle and a wave is unknown - it is a
mystery. That it does and how it does it is known. Much like we know
what gravity does to a very high degree but we don't understand what
it actualy is.


The sinus waves are only illustrative to help people who
don't understand along the way in understanding. But the real thing
has mystery built into the explanation, the mystery of it going way or
another in the event, a decision by any other name if you will.

No, that's not the mystery. The mystery is why it behaves as it does.

But like I say it is, is what it is. So now why don't you point the
way to some randomness fingerprinting module, preferrably in C++ or
some other language with pointers to hardware addresses. So we can
detect the live bombs, detect the paying slotmachines etc.

Why? I have no idea why you need to do anything in hardware at all.
You'll have to explain as so far I can't see any corolation between
the concept of you taking a random feed from and the experiment. The
probabilities in the experiment are very very simple.

Since this is all based on foresight, it has nothing to do with
Dawkins version of evolution.

Okay you're just getting your self more lost not. Go back and look at
the experiment and understand it. Understand what part the sine waves
(what are sinus waves?) play in the experiment. Also understand that
all elements in the experiment are effectively passive. This
experiment has nothing to do with evolution, and Dawkins has no
special version of evolution but is explaining how it works in terms
of an algorithm, which I thought you'd like.


As before, it is absolutely antithetical
to Dawkins interpretation that viable organisms get "selected" prior
to being "tested".

That's like saying rocks and pebbles can seperate prior to going
through a seive. Makes no sense.

This quantum mechanical argument is the reason why
that article I referenced previously talked about evolution as an
"informed and reasoned process", and that natural selection didn't
play any role at all in it.

Didnt see that article and evolution without natural selection is
either breeding or eugenics - one of which is a science and one is
pseudo science. Be very careful here, you could end up becoming the
thing you've accusing others of.

Stew Dean

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