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	<title>Divine Neutrality</title>
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		<title>The Problem of Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a &#8220;Problem of Evil&#8221; when there is no God? i.e. Is there evil in the world? Can any act be said to be evil, the concept being completely subjective? Do people who do evil agree that they are doing evil? Why then do they do it? What does evil mean? David Hume, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=6&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measurement Problem 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are Stephen&#8217;s cogent remarks reprinted Marvin&#8217;s reponse follows it: The point you make, namely, that you &#8220;cannot believe that an intricate mathematical subtlety can be at the bottom of the conundrum that something about the nature of making a measurement demands a re-zeroing of the state of the universe&#8221; is one I take issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=16&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The point you make, namely, that you &#8220;cannot believe that an intricate mathematical subtlety can be at the bottom of the conundrum that something about the nature of making a measurement demands a re-zeroing of the state of the universe&#8221; is one I take issue with. On the contrary, I believe that it is exactly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=3&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Splittings of the Universe</title>
		<link>http://ghasty.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/splittings-of-the-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow the answer to these questions must be explicable in terms other than it &#8220;comes out of a subtle result on the structure of Hilbert spaces&#8221;. Stephen says: It would be nice, but I&#8217;m not sure that it &#8220;must be&#8221; explicable so easily. We really lack the intuitions and therefore the vocabulary here in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=15&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measurement Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rovelli&#8217;s work is 2006. see http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002. When I think about it I don&#8217;t see how he solves the measurement problem. He solves Schroedinger&#8217;s cat. Idea: The cat measures the radioactive decay by dieing or not. But you can&#8217;t talk about the cat until you interact with it by opening the box. I like Rovelli&#8217;s notion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=14&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ant&#8217;s World View</title>
		<link>http://ghasty.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/ants-world-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interesting thing about suicide bombers is this: that they are so dedicated to their community &#8211; islam, anarchism in a former time &#8211; that they kill themselves for it. Let us distinguish the practice from the mechanisms by which they are persuaded. The mechanism requires a world view &#8211; a belief in the supernatural, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=13&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Is Life Worth Living?&quot; asks William James</title>
		<link>http://ghasty.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/is-life-worth-living-asks-william-james/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Is Life Worth Living? by William James James says: &#8220;Pessimism is essentially a religious disease.&#8221; He clarifies thusly: This &#8220;is why I call pessimism an essentially religious disease The nightmare view of life [arises from] the contradiction between the phenomena of Nature and the craving of the heart to believe that behind Nature there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=12&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economics Animated</title>
		<link>http://ghasty.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/economics-animated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very impressed by http://www.youtube.com/v/SA1f2MefsMM This is as fine an expostion on economics as I have ever seen. Unfortunately the enthusuastic narrator speeds up his speech exactly where he should be slowest &#8211; in the more complicated later sections. This leaves me with the impression, unfortunately, that some hype is involved in his exposition. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=11&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>.swf embed</title>
		<link>http://ghasty.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/swf-embed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The code below does not insert the .swf file. &#60;embed src=&#8221;http://chesters.org/marvin/RandomWalk/walkDsplay.swf&#8221; quality=&#8221;high&#8221; bgcolor=&#8221;#c0c0c0&#8243; width=&#8221;360&#8243; height=&#8221;360&#8243; align=&#8221;middle&#8221; allowScriptAccess = &#8220;sameDomain&#8221; type = &#8220;application/x-shockwave-flash&#8221; pluginspage = &#8220;http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&#8221;/&#62; &#60;/embed&#62;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=10&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>just checking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK This is my first blog post. Just testing. Let&#8217;s see what happens. Wondering whether can post mathematical equations, flash animation&#8230; Answer: Can&#8217;t post animations (.swf files) but can link to them. Here&#8217;s a link: http://chesters.org Here is an elfi drawing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghasty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2242855&amp;post=9&amp;subd=ghasty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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