<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><i>"Are you advocating that the unproven and preposterous should be considered factually valid"</i></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><i><br></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><i>-Ross Evens, recently</i></span></div>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">No--why do you immediately assume a confrontational stance? We are just lollygagging around the topic. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Don't you think it's alright to allow for the possibility that quantum mechanics, which describe our entire universe, might be a factor in human cognition? Your denying it on logical grounds (based on ever-changing axioms) is worse than our considering it <i>because</i> we know that the axioms will change. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Penrose might be too hopeful, but all you have against his "science might be magic" faith is your "science musn't be magic" faith. Denial just as categorical. A lot of things we have today would be magic to people of the past. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Maybe I support the possibility because I <i>want</i> it to be true. But it seems like you <i>want</i> it to be false. Why?</span></font></div>
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