Re: Do you condemn Hamas?

On 6/8/24 21:55, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:30:11 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
 

On 6/8/24 16:45, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:54:42 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 10:43:15 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
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On 6/8/24 01:37, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:57:54 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
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On 6/7/24 23:11, Mike Monett VE3BTI wrote:

Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
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On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote:
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Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because
they are heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed
martyrs. So for Hamas, killing is always win-win.
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Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor
hell.
Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious brainwashing.
There is no afterlife. There is only this life. Don't waste it.
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Jeroen Belleman

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Learn how to do soul travel. It is the most important thing to
do this lifetime. It will give you absolute proof there is life
past this one,
and that you are immortal.

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I don't know what soul travel is, but I'm sure there is no
afterlife, just as there was no forelife. There is no soul. My
existence is the result of an uninterrupted sequence of
incredibly improbable events, going back billions of years into
the past, and I will cease to exist,
never to come back,
when some essential part of my body fails.
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While I'm certainly not looking forward to dying, I'm not afraid
of being dead. The need to believe in an afterlife is just
another of those weird religious ideas.
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Jeroen Belleman

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Well, I'm not religious at all but am convinced there's an
after-life. And that's not just so I can feel all warm and fuzzy.
I actually find the prospect deeply concerning. I'd much rather be
like you in outlook!

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How did you come to be convinced of the existence of an afterlife,
and what kind of experience do you expect to have?
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Jeroen Belleman

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I'm afraid that's *way* too big and off-topic a subject for
expansion on this forum!

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Designing electronics has obviously suggestions of quantum
consciousness, and even Einstein thought that QM was spooky.
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Don't give up on miracles quite yet.
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You have referred to quantum effects in the brain many times. In as
far as the brain is a chemical machine, and that chemistry is
basically a manifestation of quantum mechanics, I agree. In practice,
QM is just a level too deep in the abstraction stack. Somehow I
believe that that is not how you see it. Would you elaborate?
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DNA and RNA and other things aren't flat linear molecules as the
cartoons suggest. They are twisted and tangled into writhing balls. So
any sequence gets continuously and randomly rubbed against the rest of
the string. That's a quantum cross-correlation machine.

 
Hmm. I see DNA as a template for making molecular machines, enzymes and
such, that do useful things for living organisms. Useful things such as
transforming nutrients into suitable energy-carrying chemicals or
building blocks for cell components.
Pumps to move stuff into or out of cell compartments, and many other
functions needed to make a living cell thrive.
 
DNA doesn't do much by itself. It's the molecular machines that do the
work.
 
 

Much of technology, electronics in particular, is a miracle,
though not in the mystical or religious sense.

 
I like the Barrie Gilbert essay, "Where do little circuits come from?"
 
They are all out there in the infinite solution space, and it's hard to
explore an infinite space serially.

 
Hmm. When I design a circuit, I don't randomly jump through solution
space. I start with something simple, then identify limitations and add
or change things to address them. I may add bootstraps or cascodes to
reduce the effect of parasitic capacitance. Add buffers to reduce load
or output impedance effects. Add symmetry to tackle thermal or offset
issues.
Change or add components to tweak phase/frequency responses. Move
components around to reduce parasitics, or to profit from some
fortuitous beneficial one. And so on.
 
Basically I'll choose some promising starting point and then try to move
forward through the solution space, exploring interesting branches on
the way. Rarely I'll throw everything out and start over.
 
It's still a serial process. I can't see much of the space at once.
Maybe you can. So much the better for you.
 
Jeroen Belleman