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Old October 23rd 18, 02:54 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Bill[_9_]
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Default Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:01:35 +0200, Paul Schlyter wrote:

On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:34:39 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote:
If so, you have it completely wrong. There were FOUR cases, not

one,
where patients at a hospital died and lost sudden weight upon death.


If you erase all applications and all other software from your
computer, how much weight would it lose?

If the human soul has weight, computer software must have weight too.
We all know computer software exists, but how much does it weigh?

And it's the same with books. Take a book which contains a great
novel, a true masterpiece. Compare it to another book which just
contains random gibberish. Both books have the same binding, the same
paper quality, the same number of pages, the same amount of ink of
the same kind. They are identical in all respect except the vontents:
a masterpiece novel VS random gibberish. Do they have the same
weight? Doesn't that masterpiece novel by itself weigh anything at
all?

To summarize: does organization have any weight, or is it weightless?



MacDougall had an interesting idea, and he did the best he could with
what knowledge, and technology, was available to him. Unfortunately,
his knowledge of human physiology, and the technology avaiable to him
were woefully inadequate to perform the sort of experiment he wished to
conduct with any measure of reliability.

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