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I assume you consider your own thoughts to be based on logic. Your brain generates those thoughts. You have labeled your brain a simulator. I take it ...
April 23, 2022 at 08:29
I think they are entwined not separate. From: https://www.newscientist.com/definition/quantum-field-theory/?msclkid=8db02db7c2dc11ec801ce7d9673dde45 Q...
April 23, 2022 at 08:16
Your typings here seem to indicate a lack of conviction on your part. Is your brain offering you illogical simulations then? Shall we now drop the unh...
April 23, 2022 at 08:03
YOU are real but your brain is a simulator. Give me an example of YOUR brain simulator in action during a typical awake period when you experience the...
April 23, 2022 at 07:55
The logic that YOU claim YOUR brain simulator, simulates!
April 23, 2022 at 07:48
So YOU are real but YOUR world is a simulation? So YOUR gods are real and simulated?
April 23, 2022 at 07:46
So is your life a simulation? If human brains can only produce simulations then human experience is a logical simulation, according to your logic. Is ...
April 23, 2022 at 07:38
I think the fundamental is movement. Spacetime is motion. Not moving is relative. A particle is a disturbance/movement of a field/bit of spacetime. Ti...
April 23, 2022 at 07:31
You have not demonstrated such detailed knowledge so far. You just called the human brain a 'life simulator.' Is your brain a simulator? is it an emul...
April 23, 2022 at 06:58
That's another exchange! I don't hold with any posit that the human 'mind,' exists beyond the human brain. Are you a dualist? Thanks for your nice com...
April 23, 2022 at 06:39
So has every member of this Forum I reckon. Try to combat your negativity.
April 23, 2022 at 06:33
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I hate to throw an old favourite at you Javi but you asked for it!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
April 22, 2022 at 14:44
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Each other? A pigeon? A non-existent god? Your earlier self? An individual human can be very very strong indeed both mentally and physically. Our ment...
April 22, 2022 at 12:44
Do your qualifications and years of experience in the field of neuroscience and biological engineering convince you of this or is it just your opinion...
April 22, 2022 at 12:28
If it walks like a.....squawks like a ......and talks like a......then it is a neuron.
April 22, 2022 at 09:38
I refer you to my previous response!
April 22, 2022 at 09:25
Well here's a start: https://www.brainfacts.org/Brain-Anatomy-and-Function/Cells-and-Circuits/2019/Build-a-Neuron-011819?msclkid=c0d93ab2c21c11ecac9c0...
April 22, 2022 at 09:23
Who confirmed this viewpoint to you? god(s)?
April 22, 2022 at 09:05
This is completely inaccurate! When you use terms like 'push' or 'external program,' you have to be very clear about the context. External to what? th...
April 22, 2022 at 09:04
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I like your OP, I think it's well balanced and I agree with the main points you make, especially regarding theism. I think many humans build many wall...
April 22, 2022 at 08:41
The future projections of transhumanism are grounded in material reality. Your comment on DNA is valid but there were many before DNA and RNA were dis...
April 22, 2022 at 08:12
Well said! :clap:
April 22, 2022 at 08:00
You just repackage the same points again and again. The brain contains static data at any time instant. static just means unchanged (yet). Based on th...
April 22, 2022 at 07:56
You offer me nothing new to discuss. You just reheat and repackage trivia.
April 21, 2022 at 18:38
Yet you dismiss transhumanism based on such an elementary current technological level in computing science and you ignore the tiny green shoots of qua...
April 21, 2022 at 17:13
No because it provides a current guesstimated answer to the trivial question 'can the memory capacity of a computer equal that of a human brain?' that...
April 21, 2022 at 17:05
2.5 petabytes is a guesstimate based on input from neuroscientists. People ask hard questions, others do their best to answer them. Your comparison of...
April 21, 2022 at 16:59
But your sensor system did, it just took a while for your processors to confirm the data input. Some people don't always say ouch or scream out, the i...
April 21, 2022 at 16:55
Two transhumans would hopefully be as diverse in observation as humans are. Its hard to know for sure UNTIL THEY EXIST. I take it you are typing about...
April 21, 2022 at 16:49
So do you now withdraw your suggestion that 'all of your life is engraved on your brain?'
April 21, 2022 at 16:41
Understanding is not objective it is subjective. An observer may see a particle's properties based on their reference frame and another observer will ...
April 21, 2022 at 16:39
I have met similar people. How big was the page, how much writing was on it? etc. And even if she could memorise a standard sized book page of text qu...
April 21, 2022 at 16:33
So you have good peripheral vision, you were not 'unconscious,' perhaps your 'awareness,' functionality was not paying adequate attention to the resul...
April 21, 2022 at 16:28
It a matter of the context in which you use the terms. No human can recall all sensory input they have received since birth. That's the fact that I am...
April 21, 2022 at 16:21
My point is that it is not evidence of an eidetic memory. I don't accept that it's evidence of photographic memory either as the two terms are traditi...
April 21, 2022 at 15:38
I do not claim to be 100% atheist, neither does Dawkings but you claim to be 100% polytheist! You win the dogmatist award. I do engage in belief syste...
April 21, 2022 at 15:22
To answer with a little more detail. This is not evidence of an eidetic/photographic memory. Perhaps he has a snapshot capability at best. Espionage a...
April 21, 2022 at 15:14
Yeah :roll: and if you were thinking of a song and it suddenly comes on the radio then that's the gods, servicing your consciousness or perhaps not. W...
April 21, 2022 at 15:06
You are just confirming my view of your proposed polytheism.
April 21, 2022 at 12:23
It doesn't have to be, you can save it in backup archival, external electronic memory if you want to. You can make as many backup copies as you like b...
April 21, 2022 at 12:21
You type as if you understand the full workings of the human brain and no one currently does. People with pacemakers is a beginning. You are just sayi...
April 21, 2022 at 12:14
Yeah but unlike the, if existent, then totally vile, gods, we have to understand and accept that with great power comes great responsibility. No sorry...
April 21, 2022 at 12:07
That is a very simple sentence and does not reflect the complexity involved. Its as simplistic and vague and meaningless as god made Adam from the dus...
April 21, 2022 at 11:33
Based on what convincing, scientific, empirical evidence? Survival is the result of the process. The fact that a result or consequence occurs in the n...
April 21, 2022 at 10:52
Yes it is 'necessarily determined,' we have shown how we can MAKE it happen in our genetic manipulation of dogs, sheep, cows etc. I think you are tryi...
April 21, 2022 at 10:29
Not an area of interest for me but a quick internet search produced: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0004.031?view=text;rgn=main#:~:text=Le...
April 20, 2022 at 19:51
No it's not. Scientists often try to communicate with the public in less 'elitist sounding scientific terminology.' It's the same idea as saying the E...
April 20, 2022 at 19:43
What do you mean by 'to program consciousness?' Perhaps you could give an example of this future 'transhuman' system you are trying to describe here? ...
April 20, 2022 at 18:39
I started programming computers with assembly codes and then soon moved onto BBC BASIC. Late 1970's. I then moved on to writing compilers for a while....
April 20, 2022 at 09:45
This is a very skewed logic in my opinion and It makes very little sense to me. So we both ask questions but we don't agree on the answers. We have a ...
April 19, 2022 at 18:25