Also, I do not underestimate your intelligence, Albus. Contrarily, I find a man with as much research and conviction as yourself quite refreshing. A debate like this has been fantastic exercise for my mind and I quite enjoy your company.

But I agree. Let us discuss how to better fill the many empty buildings in downtown. Let’s be serious. A visitor to Antigo feels like they’ve stepped back into the early 70′s. It’s time to update more than just the wiring and the faces. We need a whole new way of viewing things and operating as a council and a new direction for the city.

I guess we just have different ways of approaching problems. Let’s start a new topic, about filling all of Antigo’s empty business spaces with incubator business projects. Maybe the common council can apply for a billion bucks or two in economic recovery funds to finance the projects…. under my direction….

6 trillion brain cells, with neurons and support cells (glia). Bump up the number of possible connections. Now, think “parallel processing”. We’re talking peta-flops of computing power. Now think how big a computer has to be in order to play a decent game of chess against a human. First you have to max out what biological processes can accomplish before you need to worry about applying quantum mechanics to the problem.

i agree that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. however, there have been countless scientific claims that were not proven for decades if not centuries after someone had claimed it must be true because, even without evidence, the fact remained that everything else didn’t match up right without this.

that’s the basis of this theory (which i’m not apparently the first to contemplate) is that there is no measurable data to support the speed at which the mind sometimes discovers things nor how personality problems are explained in all cases. Occam’s Razor was a good point though it can be utilized in more than one means. Sometimes the simplest idea is the one that’s the hardest to believe because we don’t have the foundation to build the idea upon yet.

The only “sciences” on which I am personally “spiteful” are the pseudo-sciences, the false sciences, the junk sciences, and their superstitious brethren. Remember, it is not I, but Einstein who did not believe in quantum mechanics. I have a full grasp, appreciation, and admiration for quantum mechanics, and contemplate happily a universe populated by bosons, muons, hadrons, and wavicles. I did not object to quantum physics per se, but only to your attempted application of it to explain phenomena that you have only imagined, and cannot demonstrate.

When you claim that your argument is valid because science doesn’t cover everything that could be known, you are using The Appeal to Ignorance (Argumentum Ad Ignorantium) — see Table #5 at http://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Books/Logic.htm — That just doesn’t cut it, Semperfi. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So, again, what have you got to show us?

You said, “If you cannot branch yourself into understanding what natural laws of physics states mathematically must exist, multiple realities, than you’re limiting your knowledge to only small bits of half truths.” Good advice, Semperfi. You should consider following it.

By the way, rumors of my lack of scientific knowledge are poorly substantiated, and really should not be accepted at face value.

Quite coarse on sciences on which you personally seem to be objectively spiteful. I don’t know why you seem to not believe in quantum mechanics, but the truth of the matter is that we’re always lacking in the evidences of true physical nature because we keep forgoing the reality that at the basis of all physics is quantum mechanics on the subatomic level. And we know that all particles can exist in multiple places based on the limited tests we’ve been able to do with what very few tools we have that can even begin to measure them. However, we now know that the elemental tables cannot simply be divided in what is magnetic and what is not because we can manipulate the physical aspect of an element on a scale so small the naked eye cannot see but it can alter the magnetic properties of the matter. Look up metamaterials if you would like to know more.

For as much as you know, Albus, there’s a wealth of more recent scientific research that confirms much about antimatter, quantum mechanics, and particle behavior that we never knew before. The funny thing about quantum energy is it exists in all places at once and only takes the one path. If you cannot branch yourself into understanding what natural laws of physics states mathematically must exist, multiple realities, than you’re limiting your knowledge to only small bits of half truths.

So, why don’t you come up with a pseudo-scientific breakthrough device to monitor all this quantum energy flowing subconsciously between imaginary multiple associative personalities?

You could use those magic medallions that are supposed to protect cell phone users from electromagnetic radiation. They should be able to pick up the radiation from quantum energy level shifts.

Or maybe a small glass vial of iWater that resonates in pattern with the quantum information flow. Just hold it up to a black-light bulb and watch the thoughts flow by.

Or how about a homeopathic remedy — take a drop of sweat generated by all that brain energy, dilute it in a couple of gallons of water, take a drop of that diluted water and dilute it in another couple of gallons of water and Presto! Magic quantum brain energy facilitator eye-drops! You’ll be rich!

Better yet, get a chiropractic adjustment to clear the subluxations between your personalities, and they will be able to report on their processes first-hand! Then we’ll have all the facts on the matter.