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This low grade trolling won't help you.Hmm, seems I might have struck a nerve here
Which rule are you referring to?Again, I don't make the rules.
Publish the science, or no rational, educated person cares or should care.Which rule are you referring to?
A stretch? Yeah, probably. However, it is merely a point of viewSeems like a stretch to me.
James Tour does publish his scientific work, so what on earth are you waffling about?Publish the science, or no rational, educated person cares or should care.
You may have taken a personal and rather petty dislike to him because he doesn't share your beliefs, but there's absolutely no doubt he's an accomplished and acknowledged authority in his field, his scientific credentials are hardly to be scoffed at.Professor Tour has over 800 research publications, over 130 granted patents and over 100 pending patents. He has an h-index = 175 with total citations about 140,000. In 2024, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and he won the Rice University, School of Natural Science, Research Award for the discovery and development of flash graphene. In 2021, he won the Oesper Award from the American Chemical Society which is awarded to “outstanding chemists for lifetime significant accomplishments in the field of chemistry with long-lasting impact on the chemical sciences.” In 2020, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in the same year was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize for innovations in materials chemistry with applications in medicine and nanotechnology. Based on the impact of his published work, in 2019 Tour was ranked in the top 0.004% of the 7 million scientists who have published at least 5 papers in their careers. He was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2015. Tour was named among “The 50 Most Influential Scientists in the World Today” by TheBestSchools.org in 2019; listed in “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch.com in 2014; and recipient of the Trotter Prize in “Information, Complexity and Inference” in 2014; and was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, June, 2014. Tour was named “Scientist of the Year” by R&D Magazine, 2013. He was awarded the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, 2012, Rice University; won the ACS Nano Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society, 2012; was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, June, 2011 and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009. Tour was ranked one of the Top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade, by a Thomson Reuters citations per publication index survey, 2009; won the Distinguished Alumni Award, Purdue University, 2009 and the Houston Technology Center’s Nanotechnology Award in 2009. He won the Feynman Prize in Experimental Nanotechnology in 2008, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society for his achievements in organic chemistry in 2007. Tour was the recipient of the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching in 2007. He also won the Small Times magazine’s Innovator of the Year Award in 2006, the Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 Innovator Award in 2006, the Alan Berman Research Publication Award, Department of the Navy in 2006, the Southern Chemist of the Year Award from the American Chemical Society in 2005 and The Honda Innovation Award for Nanocars in 2005. Tour’s paper on Nanocars was the most highly accessed journal article of all American Chemical Society articles in 2005, and it was listed by LiveScience as the second most influential paper in all of science in 2005. Tour has won several other national awards including the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in Polymer Chemistry and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in Polymer Chemistry.
A decent one. Notice those resisting will keep adding constraints that are designed to define life as only the type of life with which they are familiar.A stretch? Yeah, probably. However, it is merely a point of view
Excellent!James Tour does publish his scientific work, so what on earth are you waffling about?
Is it though? Do you really believe a computer program is alive?A decent one. Notice those resisting will keep adding constraints that are designed to define life as only the type of life with which they are familiar.
By design.
The video I posted (just a single video, the other five are just preset sections of the video) is a challenge he made last year, to ten leading origin of life researchers, it consists of five fundamental questions about how certain essential kinds of chemistry could be accomplished in the lab, things that would have to occur in nature for life to arise.Excellent!
So i guess I misunderstood. These are not videos disputing the overwhelming scientific consensus?
Yes, I believe it's possible a computer program could meet the definitions of life.Is it though? Do you really believe a computer program is alive?
So it was just rhetoric.The video I posted is a challenge he made last year, to ten leading origin of life researchers, it consists of five fundamental questions about how certain essential kinds of chemistry could be accomplished in the lab, things that would have to occur in nature for life to arise.
Maybe look up the definition of life and then get back to me. I already have and they don't.Yes, I believe it's possible a computer program could meet the definitions of life.
Because as of this moment I really don't know how to define life. I don't think any of us do.
Which one? There are more than one.Maybe look up the definition of life and then get back to me. I already have and they don't.
So it was just rhetoric.
That's kind of what I thought, after a short viewing.
Why do you suppose he made.monetized youtube videos, Instead of surveying scientists?
So it's arbitrary to say living things respire, grow, excrete, reproduce, metabolize, move, and respond to their environment?Which one? There are more than one.
And all of them are arbitrary.
I know you disagree. But I also know you are handicapped by a set of magical beliefs that must be observed at all times.
So your disagreement is not compelling.
There are multiple definitions for hundreds of concepts, remember humans deal in abstractions, we abstract reality and create models from the abstractions, different people often abstract things in different ways for different reasons. There isn't a single specific definition for "thought" or "house" or "radio", it's silly to dwell on such irrelevancies, real thinkers and engineers don't care for this silliness.Which one? There are more than one.
And all of them are arbitrary.
I know you disagree. But I also know you are handicapped by a set of magical beliefs that must be observed at all times.
So your disagreement is not compelling.
A bacterium is alive, see if you can make one, just click the image for the article:Yes, I believe it's possible a computer program could meet the definitions of life.
Because as of this moment I really don't know how to define life. I don't think any of us do.
