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		<title>The one about the English fox and the Australian rabbit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (F&#38;P-P) for keeping Australian rabbits safe from English foxes: The number of rabbits in Australia is unaffected by the number of foxes in England. That’s because the predations of the one on the other are all merely counterfactual, and possible-but-not-actual events do not exert selection pressures. [Follows Just-as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3617&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just-as story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Fodor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chapter 6, Many are called but few are chosen: the problem of ‘selection for’, Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini (F&#38;P-P) launch their ‘conceptual’ assault on the theory of natural selection. [Second in a series on Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s What Darwin Got Wrong, which began with Smear campaign] The chapter begins with a review of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3598&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smear campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted when my son gave me a copy of Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s What Darwin Got Wrong for my birthday. Not because I did think Darwin got anything significantly wrong but because I didn’t. I like having my opinions and beliefs tested. I had heard of Jerry Fodor but not Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3584&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Physics into physics won’t go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reinventing the Sacred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Turing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve read Chapter 4 of Stuart A Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred several times in the hope that I’ll finally get the point. But I still don’t. The chapter is called The Nonreducibility of Biology to Physics. But each time I read it I end up thinking that if he’s right that biology isn’t reducible to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3571&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not thumping but pumping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the frustrating things about Reinventing the Sacred is that it keeps flip-flopping between condensed accounts of areas of science and mathematics I don’t understand well enough and logical leaps which don’t seem justified. So I keep flip-flopping in turn between wondering if it’s my ignorance that’s the problem and wondering if the logical leaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3555&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reductio ad Professor Plum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself talking last time about a lot of things I don’t really understand: Alonzo Church’s proof of the ‘halting problem’ displayed by Turing machines, and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. All because Stuart Kauffman’s book Reinventing the Sacred leaves me cold and confused. [Fourth in a series on Stuart A Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3537&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heath Robinson goes to Church</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/heath-robinson-goes-to-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algorithm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alonzo Church]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halting problem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Gödel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked last time about left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. This was one of the examples of ‘emergence’ Stuart Kauffman mentions in his book Reinventing the Sacred. I now want to talk about his computing example, because I really don’t get this one. [Third in a series on Stuart A Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3514&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left over right and right over left</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/left-over-right-and-right-over-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke last time about what I thought was one of Stuart Kauffman’s points in Reinventing the Sacred. This was that although you could explain for example a sand dune in terms of subatomic particles (by way of grains of sand and then silicon and oxygen ions), you couldn’t do the same thing if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3503&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing the sand dune</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 10:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading Stuart A Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred. I agree with some of it, but with some of it I profoundly disagree. It could be that I disagree most profoundly with the profoundest part of it. The last few chapters are quite moralising. But it’s not really the sentiments I reject. Kauffman’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3478&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the side of the angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 06:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 1 May 2011 Pope Benedict XVI beatified Pope John Paul II, taking him one step closer to sainthood. This was on the grounds of nun Sister Marie Simon-Pierre’s miracle cure from Parkinson’s disease after she had prayed to the former Pope. Pope John Paul had himself suffered from the disease. They only need one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4613898&amp;post=3442&amp;subd=thinkingmakesitso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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