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“Revolution in Thought: A new look at determinism and free will"

We see the information of past events in the present. Information is conveyed in light, pressure waves, airborne molecules, etc. You can poke a hole in a piece of cardboard and project an image of the sun onto a flat surface....or invert a monocular and get a larger, clearer image that shows sunspots.
 
DBT said:
We see the information of past events in the present. Information is conveyed in light, pressure waves, airborne molecules, etc. You can poke a hole in a piece of cardboard and project an image of the sun onto a flat surface....or invert a monocular and get a larger, clearer image that shows sunspots.
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Already discussed with her at FF. In one ear, out the other.
 
DBT said:
We see the information of past events in the present. Information is conveyed in light, pressure waves, airborne molecules, etc. You can poke a hole in a piece of cardboard and project an image of the sun onto a flat surface....or invert a monocular and get a larger, clearer image that shows sunspots.
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Where our eyes acquire that information, convert it to nerve impulses conveyed to the visual cortex, processed and represented in conscious form: we see an image of the sun.
 
peacegirl said:
The logic that light travels and therefore it takes time to get to our eyes has made this theory feel airtight. But in this rare case, science may gotten it wrong.
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Or, far more probably, the crackpot science denier has gotten it wrong.

Betting on a cow to win the Melbourne Cup is a very poor idea.
peacegirl said:
Either one will inevitably result in abject ignorance.
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Yep. Who that is is yet to be determined.
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It really isn't. Everyone knows but you.
 
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