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Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 11:31 am
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 1:25 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 1:29 pm by Huggy Bear.)
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 1:44 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 1:49 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
Do you quote anything other than layman explanations of very wide ranging and complex subjects Huggy?

Morality. Reason. Both words laden down with thousands of years of baggage given you room to equivocate. You make an arbitrary distinction between having morals and morality for example.

You know if you do that then you can also find wikipedia links saying the complete opposite.

I mean you're putting in bold sentences starting like 'normally considered to be ...' as evidence.

You solve problems by reasoning about them.
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:11 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 2:12 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(May 25, 2018 at 1:44 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Do you quote anything other than layman explanations of very wide ranging and complex subjects Huggy?

Morality. Reason. Both words laden down with thousands of years of baggage given you room to equivocate. You make an arbitrary distinction between having morals and morality for example.

Look, if you want to argue with dictionary definitions, then have at it...

(May 25, 2018 at 1:44 pm)Mathilda Wrote: You know if you do that then you can also find wikipedia links saying the complete opposite.
Post them...
(May 25, 2018 at 1:44 pm)Mathilda Wrote: I mean you're putting in bold sentences starting like 'normally considered to be ...' as evidence.

Well you can't totally dismiss the fringe crazies that feel differently, hence the term 'normal', stating otherwise would be abnormal.

(May 25, 2018 at 1:44 pm)Mathilda Wrote: You solve problems by reasoning about them.
Really?

Does a calculator solve problems by reasoning?
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:22 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 2:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure does.  They;re called xnor circuits, a physical instantiation of propositional logic that allows boolean algebra to be translated into simple addition or subtraction.

Now, multiplication is harder, and requires a more complicated array......but, guess what........
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:40 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 2:43 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(May 25, 2018 at 2:11 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Does a calculator solve problems by reasoning?

If you arrange them into interconnected patterns with inputs and outputs and have enough of them then yes.

I mean, there's loads of artificial reasoning programs on wikipedia that can range from mathematical inference and proof theorem solving to logical inference.

And guess what, they're all powered by a computer, which if you check wikipedia does calculations.

And of course what we call a calculator is generally made up of smaller calculating units (check wikipedia about computer architecture).

Not that I know why you are saying reasoning is the another word for doing maths.
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:43 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 2:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They don;t call it an alu for no reason, eh, lol. Wink
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Or an fpu Smile
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:48 pm (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 2:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I prefer integrated architecture myself...though there;s definitely something to be said for parallel co-processing.
(...I think we've found our rock crushers.......)
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 4:42 pm
(May 25, 2018 at 2:48 pm)Khemikal Wrote: (...I think we've found our rock crushers.......)


We lost more than just a member with the disappearance of Alex K!
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