An excellent episode. (First time since Joscha that I regret multitasking while listening at 1.5x)<br>Lex, you didn't shy away and you knew how to push back at the right moments. I think you found the right balance on this one; people don't expect a debate, but they know you are capable of much more than merely reading questions out loud.<br>Really impressed with Lee Cronin. It seems his intuition led him amazingly close to reaching the same conclusions as two actually revolutionary new theories. It would be interesting to see what he makes of them:<br>The Revolutionary Phenotype by J. -F. Gariépy on the origins of life<br>and The Zero-Point Universe by Ray Fleming on the ether and time.<br>At least the former is a must read for anyone even calming to be interested in the origins of life.<br>Sadly, as stupid as Lee claims to be, he isn't stupid enough to understand Sam's argument of free will. It is extremely simple, and that's partly what bothers people. The distinction between the predictable and the unpredictable part of one's actions is the illusion. The more you know of a state the more you can predict and vice versa. There is nothing that is inherently predictable or unpredictable; it is the observer who sees the distinction.