1) Hating whitey wrote:
"I guess I would have to refer to myself as a reductionist."

2) Aurino wrote :
"That's good, we haven't had one around since Alex left."

3) Hating whitey wrote:
"I think existence can be reduced to neural responses to environmental stimuli."

4) Aurino wrote :
"Everything can be reduced to something. The real question is, so what?"


Responses from Careful Universe
1) Remember folks, it's just a 'guess.'

2) According to Aurino,that is. But it's not whether you are a reductionist, but how far past all the warning signs you take your reductionism.

3) He thinks it can be done. But will he demonstrate his own theory step by step to that conclusion. After all, that's what reducing does... but he probably won't....If only he would try to do so and prove me wrong...but then we would easily point out the obvious flaws in the way his model translates to biochemistry and cosmological physics. That reductionist assertion is lazy-minded BUNK, and we already have plenty of that on this forum. So you are in the right place. BUNK-land.

4) "The real question is, so what?" This should have an internet acronym. "TRQISW?" Good point, Aurino!

Warm but not hot,
Mike

• This is getting interesting.... - darwinpoodle - April 10, 2002 - 12:43 UTC
  • Perhaps so - aurino - April 10, 2002 - 13:05 UTC
    • Ah a literary critic - darwinpoodle - April 10, 2002 - 13:34 UTC
      • No, just a cynic - aurino - April 10, 2002 - 14:02 UTC
        • I disagree - harvey1 - April 10, 2002 - 14:20 UTC
          • Harv's still trying to elucidate his FIRST idea - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 17:09 UTC
  • It's more universal than capitalistic - yanniru - April 10, 2002 - 13:47 UTC
    • Social Darwinism??? - darwinpoodle - April 10, 2002 - 14:21 UTC
      • It's not Darwinism - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 17:16 UTC
        • see, I can't spell so nice eether - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 17:18 UTC
        • see, I can't spell so nice eether - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 17:18 UTC
      • Meritocracy is based on merit - yanniru - April 10, 2002 - 19:30 UTC
        • also, he assumes I've had it heaped on me - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 19:48 UTC
        • Meritocracy - darwinpoodle - April 10, 2002 - 19:58 UTC
          • People who use the dictionary have more merit - carefuluniverse - April 11, 2002 - 00:44 UTC
            • Rabies... that is so... classy of you - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 14:14 UTC
              • Go back home to your yard, poodle - carefuluniverse - April 11, 2002 - 17:00 UTC
                • You are not very smart are you? - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 20:00 UTC
          • Privilege in other countries - yanniru - April 11, 2002 - 14:45 UTC
            • Richard - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 15:53 UTC
              • Please - yanniru - April 12, 2002 - 15:47 UTC
            • Yanniru claims to be married to a PhD counselor, not to be one - carefuluniverse - April 11, 2002 - 21:37 UTC
              • Nobel Prize Quality - yanniru - April 12, 2002 - 15:50 UTC
                • Rabbi Spinmeister, please curb your convert ! - carefuluniverse - April 13, 2002 - 02:00 UTC
                  • Here is your Nobel Prize - yanniru - April 13, 2002 - 20:48 UTC
                    • Beautiful - darwinpoodle - April 14, 2002 - 01:13 UTC
                    • Define rational and irrational? - spazcon - April 14, 2002 - 04:20 UTC
        • In case you didn't see it the first time... - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 14:37 UTC
          • ignoring your definition which is not in the dictionary... - carefuluniverse - April 11, 2002 - 21:40 UTC
  • Scott, where do you get the right to use Darwin's name as yours? - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 17:08 UTC
    • If you must know... - darwinpoodle - April 10, 2002 - 18:04 UTC
      • I don't think you're black. Ralph David Abernathy was black. - carefuluniverse - April 10, 2002 - 20:00 UTC
        • Corrections - harvey1 - April 10, 2002 - 20:07 UTC
          • True, that's false. False Right Left and all because Harv says - spazcon - April 10, 2002 - 21:03 UTC
        • Are you jealous? - darwinpoodle - April 10, 2002 - 22:48 UTC
          • Not fragile - harvey1 - April 10, 2002 - 23:22 UTC
          • re: All is relative - harvey1 - April 10, 2002 - 23:34 UTC
            • John Horgan - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 14:27 UTC
              • RE: - yanniru - April 11, 2002 - 15:21 UTC
              • I read it - harvey1 - April 11, 2002 - 16:13 UTC
                • What about society? - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 19:46 UTC
                  • That's sociology - harvey1 - April 11, 2002 - 19:57 UTC
                    • Maybe.. - darwinpoodle - April 11, 2002 - 20:28 UTC
                      • The cash cow died - yanniru - April 12, 2002 - 16:06 UTC
                    • ...but earlier he said 'to find genius, follow the crowd' - carefuluniverse - April 11, 2002 - 21:49 UTC
                  • your society IS like that - carefuluniverse - April 11, 2002 - 21:47 UTC
                    • Society - darwinpoodle - April 12, 2002 - 14:34 UTC