[ExI] Free will was: Everett worlds

[William Flynn Wallace]

Absurd - a word meaning 'away from the normal'.  I suggest that there is
nothing whatsoever normal about anything that goes on in this chat group.
bill w

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:53 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> It is trivial to show that since a word in isolation is completely
> meaningless, and adding another meaningless word won't help, we can show by
> induction over the dictionary that language acquisition is impossible, and
> that therefore this email is completely absurd.
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 1:40 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> So you, John, admit that you have no idea how to define abstractions.  Is
>> that right? You don't use a dictionary, you can't tell anyone what love is
>> because the physical examples I sent won't work, I suppose?   bill w
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:32 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:43 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I am not a linguist, but of course there is a problem defining
>>>> abstractions such as love.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Forget abstractions, without physical examples even something as
>>> concrete as well ..."concrete" would have no meaning. Without physical
>>> examples ET could not get any useful information out of the OED, It would
>>> just be one big exercise in useless circularity.
>>>
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