Re: another hint of quantum consciousness

On 15/09/2024 12:26 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:35:59 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
 

On 9/14/2024 12:28 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

Discoveries happen by diddling with the problem, trying out different
things to see what happens. Once you have a collection of observations,
some theory will form of how it all fits together. You test the theory
by doing more experiments. If these experiments keep confirming your
theory, then, and only then, can you claim to have discovered something.

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To be clear, you design experiments that *challenge* your theory,
not experiments that hope to *confirm* it.  "Proof" always remains
elusive; DISproof is what you are looking for.

 No.  If one imagines an equation that describes the period of a
planetary orbit, and tests it in all available cases, it's rational to
assume it's true.
 Let someone else find a counter-case. They will usually try.
 

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Just throwing harebrained ideas around leads nowhere.

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Agreed.  That's little more than high-brow bar-room chatter...
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 Ideas are the starting point of theories. Or circuits.
 No ideas results in few of either.

And if you have very few new ideas, you do tend to over-value the few that you do come up with.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney