N.Wells
Posts: 1836 Joined: Oct. 2005
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Quote (NoName @ Sep. 06 2014,06:26) | It is not at all clear that Gary counts as intelligent under his own "theory". It is questionable on the basis of his 'fundamental path' that holds an intelligence either gets a 'good enough' result or guesses a new approach. Gary gives consistent evidence that he does not consider the results of his posting history here or elsewhere satisfactory. Yet he fails to come up with a new approach -- we're still seeing the same tropes, and the same errors, and, especially, the same basic approach, as was used initially, 5 or more years ago. So, is Gary 'intelligent' on the basis of his own "theory"? It seems not. |
By his not-a-theory, he has the same "molecular intelligence" and "cellular intelligence" as an amoeba, plus whatever "multicellular intelligence" is implied in getting to the level of a rutabaga or a mushroom. Beyond that he cannot say, given that he provides no units for intelligence and no operational definitions that explain how to measure it.
Given that's he's got about five basic responses (randomly spin off a music video, squirt out a cloud of word salad, post his diagram, whine, switch from model to not-a-theory depending on whichever is not under attack), he's about four responses ahead of a mushroom. Given his love of fearlessly making assertions based on things that seem to him like they ought to be correct but which aren't, his working approximation of reality is worse than his bug's. For example, over on the NCSE blog, at http://ncse.com/blog.......0015843 Quote | The observation that water becomes denser as it cools leads to the hypothesis ........ even though liquid water did become denser as it cools. In this case hydrogen bonding needs to be explained or there is a contradiction that makes no sense at all. |
Yes, water becomes denser as temperature drops anywhere in the range of 100 to just below 4 degrees C, but it becomes progressively less dense as the temperature drops from just below 4 degrees C to 0 C, because at those cool temperatures the water molecules no longer have enough energy to randomize themselves, so intermolecular forces ("hydrogen bonding") begin to dominate and start to orient the water molecules into a slightly more expanded than usual arrangement that get locked into place when the water freezes into ice. If you start with the correct facts about how the density of water changes with temperature and the nature of the water molecule, then you aren't surprised by floating ice.
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