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I think this is the view of British Empiricists, but I don't know how to line it up with the idea of embodied consciousness.

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Could you be more specific? I'm not following. Can you have consciousness without any content? Can you have content without consciousness? If there's ...

Mood is definitely influenced by bodily function. I work in healthcare, so I routinely use emotion, feeling, and mood to assess things like CO2 level ...

How would you describe the difference?

Trump supporters aren't in the majority, though. Trump has never been able to control what information Americans have access to the way Putin controls...

I think you're talking about the firehose propaganda technique. The aim is to devalue truth by continuously changing the official story. Trump doesn't...

I know it's terrible. I think he's going to crash land in jail this time. :starstruck:

I hear you.

I don't think there's a conflict. Descartes was the quintessential rationalist. This doesn't mean he thought all knowledge is a priori. :up:

It would be so gratifying to see him go to jail, probably for the rest of his life since he's 77.

Is it normal to be an asshole in Denmark? AI: "No, it is not considered normal or acceptable to be an asshole in Denmark. Danish culture places a stro...

That's a lot to deal with. Hope she does well.

A British woman goes to jail for a aborting her child too late.. It was around 32 weeks, and could have easily survived outside the womb. :grimace:

True, but when we pick up the pieces, maybe we'll remember the things we dreamed of before it all fell apart.

Once upon a time there was a god And he was alone And this was a wound. Out of the wound came a child who was born separated from her creator And this...

I read that if Trump is elected, he could make it go away. We shouldn't allow the president to control the DOJ. It puts one person above the law, and ...

Probably not worse. In the 1970s there was a lot of focus on reducing pollution and managing the environment intelligently. A lot of that is still in ...

No, but it's profoundly shaped what we are as a species today: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0a9b4a791eb6db13a17c4b70bbc1db2d-pjlq If we pivo...

One challenge for a theory about rock consciousness is that it would conflict with our present worldview. That means it would stretch the meanings of ...

I think a lot of what you said was logical, though. The internet is a funhouse mirror. Thanks for the insights!

Exactly. The world is just full of marks waiting to be played.

I was also disappointed that even outlets like CBS would occasionally spin and report falsehoods with the aim of ridiculing Trump. And MSNBC and CNN? ...

I'll butt in because this issue has been on my mind lately. I believe the reason ridicule of Trump and his supporters energized his base was because t...

:up: During the 1980s, did you have a sense of a change in zeitgeist to moral ambiguity? How were the 80s different from the 60s and 70s? So it's not ...

AI says: I am you, so you probably can't outdo me. https://i.imgur.com/TkP8tqL.jpg

Proto-capitalists came into existence around the time of the crusades. They brought back goods from the middle east and sold them to nobles and clergy...

Just trying to figure the world out. Why all the angst toward "wokeness" and elitists? Why is the base of the Republican party made of blue-collar wor...

The Neutral Party: I believe Frank misspoke here. Traditionally there was a functional relationship between the European nobility and their serfs. It ...

In the future I'm going to write all my thoughts in the form of a dialog so people won't try to pigeon hole me. It might take me a while to address al...

I don't advocate execution, by the way.

I know, people being prosecuted for breaking the law. It's terrible.

Can we crucify him?

:grimace:

But he didn't incite a riot at Parliament, suggesting that the rioters should execute the vice-Prime-minister. Is there a vice-Prime-Minister?

He's still incredibly decent compared to Trump.

Vison is partly data from your eyes, and partly the operation of your brain. It's possible to sort of separate the two. If you've ever done drawing, y...

A tyrant is a dictator, like the former president wanted to be, but utterly and completely failed to be.

I don't trade currency futures, but it's the same principle. You need some volatility to make a profit. Fundamentally, you need a strong demand to cre...

Socialism is a threat to volatility. Sometimes the voters start heading in that direction and have to be turned back around.

I don't really understand what you're talking about, though I'd like to. It sounds like you're picking out a particular Victorian crowd as the exempla...

Since I started trading forex, I noticed this: you can't make much of a profit without volatility. You need ups and downs. Hopefully it doesn't get so...

Bingo!!!

Velveeta was specifically designed to provide nourishment in a post apocalyptic, radioactive world. It was meant as a provocation to the USSR. It says...

Thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis.

What is that thing the dog is holding?

I had some conch once. Sauteed in butter. It was yummy. How is the Honduras economy doing?

They have a big fishing industry, so sample their fish?

That looks really delicious. It would be a good way to sample their fish.

Peru. Machu Picchu.