{"id":4929,"date":"2014-08-11T23:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2014-08-11T23:04:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:04:04","slug":"stephenb-sets-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/stephenb-sets-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"StephenB sets a challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

At UD StephenB stakes his claim<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Support the claim that one must always understand the context of a message in order to know that it is, indeed, a message.<\/span>Describe a specific context, the absence of which would make it impossible to know if a meaningful message consisting of 100 characters was designed by an intelligent agent.<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

Here’s 283<\/em> characters.<\/p>\n

`\"=`;\"_=\\%!;(\"_)=/(.)/;\"==++\"|;(\".,\"/,\",,\"\,\"“,\";,\"^,\"#,\"~,\"*,\":,@%)=(
\n\"!=~/(.)(.).(.)(.)(.)(.)..(.)(.)(.)..(.)......(.)/,\"“),\"=++;\".++;\".++;\"_++;\"_++;(\"_,\"\,\",)=(\"~.\"“.”\";\"\/\"%[\"?]\"_\"$,\":\"%[\"?]",\"“&\"~,\"#,);\",++,++;\"^|=\"“;`\"_\"$,\"/\":\";\"~\"*\"%[\"?]\".\"~\"*\"{#}\"%[\"?]\";\"$"\"^\"~\"*.>&$=`<\/p>\n

I read his challenge as saying any<\/strong> meaningful message consisting of 100+ characters is self-evidently designed and no understanding of the content is required to determine if the message is designed.<\/p>\n

As I can’t post at UD, perhaps StephenB would like to post here what he makes of the above potential message<\/em> and if it is indeed “intelligently designed”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At UD StephenB stakes his claim: Support the claim that one must always understand the context of a message in order to know that it is, indeed, a message.Describe a specific context, the absence of which would make it impossible … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}