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Why do you have moss growing on your back?

I wasn't making a case. But I'm sure someone on this forum is just waiting for a chance to not only disagree with you, but insult the fuck out of you....

I don't think that's unusual.

Yeah, I used to have border collies. I know how intelligent dogs can be.

I get the feeling you didn't read the post you responded to. We're trying to arrive at non-linguistic thought. If a dog uses language, then the dog wo...

If the dog thinks, "I shouldn't stay in the road." then it would appear that the dog is using language. We were trying to arrive at non-linguistic tho...

Ok.

See, when I mentioned this to Constance, she was like, 'Yea, Hegel.'. And I was like, to myself, 'Yea, she understands that without negation, there ar...

Thank you. :grin:

I mentioned before that it has to do with the inability to express negation without fairly precise symbolism that would qualify as language. If I were...

But that's in line with my suggestion that nonverbal mental content may be emotional in character. My belief that you have to protect people when they...

That sucks.

Would it be reasonable to guess that a dog, with very similar neuro anatomy and physiology to a human, is modeling without language? Could that kind o...

Is that what you were? Cannon fodder?

This comment doesn't follow from the article you posted, and why does this need to be in a separate thread from the main coronavirus one? Do we need a...

I don't think an aphasic person is really language-less, are they? People who recover report knowing what they wanted to say, but just couldn't access...

The word 'language' is based on the word 'tongue', and it frequently refers to a format for speech, but we can also use the word to refer to symbols o...

Still doesn't make sense. It needs to be something like: Americans will apply what they learned from the Taliban to American women. But that doesn't m...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B6j97ZvyuSc

I've had dreams that defied contextualization of the usual kind. Forcing it, an image appeared, but I knew some of the dream had slipped through my mi...

Sure. I don't either. But I was wondering about the memory of events. How do you remember that "the dogs cornered me when I went over to feed them" wi...

This is an example of understanding the world so as to understand individuals; "The founding texts rarely mentioned it, but white and male superordina...

Locking down creates immunity debt. So since we basically had no RSV season last year, it's booming now. The same is predicted to happen with flu this...

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Roe v Wade isn't a law. As I understand it, that's the problem.

Yeah. Native Americans on the east coast used Mayapple leaves to induce abortion. If you could fit that into your epic, that would bring some authenti...

I assume Roe will be overturned eventually. A woman in Texas could still get a legal and safe abortion if that happened. She just has to collect the m...

Yeah, I just need you to tell it like it's an ancient Algonquin myth.

In the beginning there was only one dark pink Rose-of-Sharon. But in the next season a light pink one grew beside and they lived in harmony, spring up...

But when you go to observe clouds and rocks, don't you think you might be influenced by your worldview? If you saw an indication of intelligence in ro...

Yep. 'In the depths of our hearts the light of God is shining on a soundless sea with no shore.'. --. Rumi I think you're making assumptions. It's not...

So why aren't clouds intelligent? Don't your observations show that they are? They don't dilly dally running in circles when they come to a low pressu...

But the earth also seems to remember that it's supposed to turn on an axis. Clouds remember that they're supposed to rain in low pressure zones. We as...

Good question. I'm guessing they mostly run on emotion. Their memory is emotional instead of intellectual.

How do you remember what you can't put into words?

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I lean toward trying to understand the world. That helps with understanding your neighbor.

Climatology and historical geography go hand in hand. In the 1920s they thought there had only been four ice ages. We now know those were just the lat...

Read Hanover's responses. He puts it better than I'm able to. Healthcare is not where we administer justice. That would be a path to a horrendous ethi...

In a way, yes. At least they don't outlaw music.

The US did a lot of that. I wonder if China picked up the technique from the US or if it was convergent evolution.

I think I read my allotment of free ones this month. They want cash. I have a subscription to the NY Times and the WS Journal, or I'd get the subscrip...

That article is behind a paywall, but I can't imagine the basic idea. Sometimes the bigger political beast takes precedence over treating humans like ...

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@"Hanover" Could you give your perspective on whether healthcare should be allotted according to the choices a person has made? So that if resources w...

You have to analyze it by demographic. Look specifically at a young woman's risks either way.

I hadn't heard of that, but yes, tobacco abuse produces a wide range of problems.

China creates large re-education camps where they electrocute people with cattle prods until they repeat the Chinese perspective correctly. Then they ...

Description for the poor American?

Which is just: who will adapt to climate change most successfully?