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You don't say why. There's a certain knee-jerk reaction to "Guardian readers" amongst demented right-wingers, and your reaction means you get assigned to that category. More information might have got you off the hook.

They all do. The Guardian's political agenda is dead simple - they want to provide reliable information. They are human, so they fall short,b bt they don't do badly.

If you lack the skill to construct even a crude approximation to a rational argument, this would be a rational choice.

But it is what what John Larkin imagines the Guardian to be.

That's generalising from UK and US politics.

Europe goes in for proportional representation, multi-party democracy and coalition government. It work fine.

Australia hasn't got enough proportional representation, so it has a largely two party political system, with both parties split into factions, which means that most of the haggling goes on in private, between the factions, behind closed doors.

The Netherlands has more parties, and the haggling took place in public.

It did seem to work out better.

Stupid insults only advertise the stupidity of the author. You savor every "chance to be rude."

We could have interesting conversations, and even professional interaction, if you didn't have such a compulsion to insult.

We have an interesting magnetics problem that we were just brainstorming.

Far from it. I produce intelligent - and necessarily abrasive - responses to your stupid posts, which you'd prefer that I admired.

Perhaps we could, if you didn't have such an inflated idea of your own competence.

Do tell. Anybody who talks about "leakage inductance" doesn't have a lot of insight into how transformers work, and your "interesting problem" may be less interesting than you think.

I'd be happy to talk about it privately, if you can't post it here.

It's a pity that you don't know what words mean.

War is natural. Peace donesn't spring forth from the ground like grass; carefully maintained peace is synthetic, and therefore unnatural. "Si vis pacem, para bellum"

Religion is supernatural.

Visit a town square. People shopping, blinking in the sun. Children laughing, playing. If a stranger falls over, instantly people will rush in, and they are already calling 911.

Costa Rica is at war?

In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

~~ Gustave Gilbert

Empathy comes from our mirror neurons.

Religion appears to predate our species.

It seems nature already did. There are no signs of conflicts between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal where they overlapped. A hypothesis for the outcome is Cro-Magnon cooperative economics allowed Cro-Magnon to exploit the same resources more efficiently such as trapping and eating large game instead of rabbits and mice. Our co-evolution with dogs may have been helped by empathising with them thus better exploiting them and breeding dogs to enhance their empathy back to us.

Math proofs work on discreet principles which is what Goedel exploits. Humans may work on continuous principle. Discreet sets are smaller than continuous.

Empathising is a strong word. We can detect some of dog's social signals and they can detect quite a few of our. Empathy implies that we have a rough idea of what they are thinking, and we don't. What sort of aims they attribute to us will be even further off the mark.

How Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people interact is a total mystery. We haven't found any evidence of conflicts, but we've found very few remains of any sort - we do know that there was some interbreeding, and neither side may have been conscious that they were different species.

This is word salad. Maths work on continuous functions, and only branched out into discrete function with when Boolean algebra and set theory were invented. "Principles" in this context aren't mathematical entities.

Empathy means to feel what another feels.

Afer all we got all those smashed in skulls and skeleton marks from sharp edged stones.

You just have to find some excuse for your hate.

'Principles' in this context is the claim human behaviour is a logic.

So describe what you mean by continuous computability.

Either import continuity to computability or show no natural process are continuous.

And we can't feel what a dog feels - we haven't got the nose for it, to smell what they smell and know what it means to them, and they can't feel what we feel in terms of intellectual implications.

Which may just be funeral rituals.

Who?

No. I was objecting to John Larkin's claim that morality - principled behavior - has to be based on revealed religion.

Digital computation is of necessity discrete. Analog computation isn't.

Computation is just a subset of mathematics. There are lots of different sorts of mathematical proofs. Goedel's incompleteness theorem just says that there are always true statements that cannot be proved. This is irrelevant to this discussion, and has nothing to do with either continuous or discrete number systems.

The principles don't have to be axiomatic. If you can demonstrate that they make for a society that works better - more population growth, longer average lifetimes, better standard of life - you can demonstrate that they are empirically sound.

Analog computation is always continuous. All natural processes are discrete atoms coupling and uncoupling, so that at some level they are always discontinuous, but continuity is usually a practicable approximation.

Not exactly a self-flattering claim. Siri Cruise has made an ass of himself and John Larkin hasn't noticed.

Empathy isn't about thinking, it's about feeling.

Swill