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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: another hint of quantum consciousness
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:31:31 +1000
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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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
>>
>>> Just throwing harebrained ideas around leads nowhere.
>>
>> Agreed.  That's little more than high-brow bar-room chatter...
>>
> 
> 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.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney