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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p>Steve writes:<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>< </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#191919;background:white'>She starts out with simple Materialist/Vitalist contrasts but alludes (nearly) to Marcus latest snark: <i>"</i></span><i> Simulate from first principles: <a href="https://www.vasp.at/">https://www.vasp.at/</a> ><o:p></o:p></i></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>What’s odd is this idea there is something about nature that can’t be described in a repeatable way, such that a digital computer could simulate it, in principle. Paradoxically, to defend that idea, one would have to describe an experiment that could illustrate counter examples -- concepts that could not be said. It is obfuscation by construction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>