Recent content by Bartholomew

I know why.

Ah, what shall I haunt next?

It all arises from the sloppy attempt of human beings to shuffle objects into neat categories. It's a semantic debate, no more.

The game might end in a draw.

Hedons, please read the discussion as it is going on before putting in your two cents... T@P, for that to be true the train would have to be coasting and not braking. If it's stopping from the friction each car makes with the ground and not because of one car pushing against another, that's...

I guess you're right, the word "formula" is used in two different senses. The second sense is according to the original formal definition of "formula," and the first sense is according to an analogous idea of formula for the set of connectives in question. I looked on mathworld.wolfram.com...

The evolutionary logic is not always in the interest of the organism. It's in the interest of the organism's genes, and the organism is not identical with its genes. In any case there are always inferior mutants who do not conform to the optimal behavior for propagating their genes, so their...

From what I've read, fluid IQ (reasoning skill) has been increasing, and static IQ (knowledge) has been decreasing.

We do what we do because we have been programmed to do it by our genes. It would be possible for our genes to program a brain to always reference back to personal interest, but is it likely? Would you say that a computer program is doing what it does because the action is in itself interest...

All the players would refrain from shooting if they had that option. If 1 kills 2 or 3 then the other of 2 or 3 would be obliged to shoot at 1. Similar reasoning goes for 2 and 3; assuming that each player's strategy is to maximize his own probability of surviving, each player would skip his turn.

The conclusion is "qualia are observable" (which is best interpreted as "some qualia are observable"). Ex(xeO & ~(xeQ)) means "some things that are observable are not qualia," which is not what you want (in fact, it's nearly the opposite).

Somebody's going to tell you...

Yesterday I went out to the power line trail by my college and stood in the falling snow in the forest. The snowflakes crackled as they fell past the cable overhead. The snow gathered thickly on my hair.

I once read that stephen hawking's iq is around 180.

Why are you working with odds instead of probabilities? Not sure whether you're right or wrong. For each 3 person cycle when you have all 3 people, player 1 shoots at player 2. If he hits player 2 then his chance of surviving the 3 person cycle is (1-z) since z will then shoot at him. If...