[extropy-chat] PLAIN OLD PHYSICS

[John K Clark]

"Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>

> Until a bit over a century ago, scientists would have scoffed at
> the idea of RADIOACTIVITY.

A century ago some scientists did scoff that new physics was required to
explain observations, but certainly not all! Using the Physics known at the
time the sun couldn't be older than 50 million years and was probably
less than 10, perhaps less than two; there was just no energy supply that
could make the sun last longer. However Geologists and Biologists
absolutely insisted the Earth was at least 500 million years old.
There is no such contradiction between theory and observation in
the case of intelligence or Qualia.

    John K Clark