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So now your argument is that anything that uses glucose must have a survival advantage? Why do you think that?

Your argument was as follows: 1. The brain is a high energy organ. 2. High energy organs are likely to have survival advantage. 3. The brain produces ...

Do you know of research that picks mental activity out from the rest of the CNS's activity an evaluates it for calorie usage? I don't even know how so...

The brain is an obligate glucose consumer, yes. The brain does more than think, though. It directs the neuro-endocrine system, which controls blood pr...

Organisms may have features that have no evolutionary benefit.

@"Hanover" My own grandmother lived on the side of a cliff where every spring it rained so hard that everyone would hold onto tree trunks while the to...

I do. Then I use it to wash my car and I put the drippings in the bird bath.

I've been doing the Japanese bath thing where you take a shower first and then soak in a 110 degree tub. I listened to Brian Eno while soaking. It's a...

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Newton was accused of introducing mysticism into physics with the idea of gravity. He protested that he didn't know what it was, but was just pointing...

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Woe. I just learned that if you want to add a link, you can just highlight the words you want to turn into a link, and then hit the link button, and t...

And I appreciate this. You don't have to think of experience as a collection of ghosts, though. You can just note that you do see red, and leave it un...

Nice. :grin:

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If you stopped at the light because you saw that it was red, seeing was the cause and stopping was the effect. How can the effect be part of the cause...

I'm just asking what the justification would be for "for us, there is no direct knowledge of reality." What prompts you to say that? What's the ground...

Probably not that they would become a satellite of China, but that's the reality.

"Chromium oxide was referred to as viridian when it was first discovered. It earned its name from its chemical composition, which is 55.4% chromium, 4...

I guess the question then, is: how do you know this?

It's chromium oxide green.

Finland joins NATO https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Hand_-_Middle_finger.jpg

The Penguin is very treacherous.

... where he was met at JFK by Cat Woman and the Penguin. They drove to Trump Tower where they met the Joker

Could be the same guy?

It was a poem. Mom was schizophrenic Bad genes took a toll Dad died at 51 under a cruel dark sol

:lol: I used to listen to "Ball and a Biscuit" on the way to work.

There was a woman with a genetic disorder that causes the cerebellum to disintegrate. She felt nauseous and wanted support behind her back. She said "...

I need it. My house has become a den of red, black, and white. I don't want curtains that cause me to reach for the word "red." I need red curtains. F...

It shouldn't be. It had a specific meaning that we do well to keep in mind because it was associated with a disaster we don't want to repeat. Using it...

Or gravy train. It's excellent gravy.

Could be. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/cT9qyH2qIHpbns2FvL1DDQbeS5U=/576x384/smart/filters:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublis...

There was no secession. Secession is when a state leaves the union.

Fascism is specifically about nationalism and an aggressive military. The ills of corporate rule are not correctly called "fascism ". It's just the da...

None of which rules out the experience of redness. In fact, your view is more consistent with first person data than opposed to it. I can't either. We...

It could have been: "what's that red thing over there?"

I don't think so. "The post box is red" is the answer to some question. Understand the question, and you'll understand the answer. Ultimately all theo...

There's nothing random about his posts. They're very consistent and logical. If you familiarize yourself with fascism, you'll see that his view is exa...

There's absolutely nothing fascist about his agenda.

They could if they wanted to.

It's not their job to collect taxes. They do receive public funds for public works, though.

Those are toll roads. They do collect funds, they just don't call it taxes.

Not forever, though. It will be remembered that he attempted a coup.

Word crimes were as far as it could go because the Joint Chiefs of Staff were determined that his coup wasn't going to succeed. Don't really need a de...

But you could triangulate the height of the walkers with some distance data. I think that would qualify as direct. The greatest argument for indirect ...

Trump's punishment will probably be a small fine that he won't even notice.

Exactly!

Okey dokey.

I also think it's funny. But then, I'm a raging nihilist.

Oh, by "meaning" you mean an all purpose definition.