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I don't need any science to tell me that if you buy a new garden hose, it will rain everyday for a week straight. It's the nature of reality.

Janus was saying that people in developing nations should be vaccinated because otherwise new strains will evolve there that will subsequently threate...

Yea, mine. I'm suspicious of the pharmaceutical industry. I understand concerns about taking the vaccine.

It's always been in the middle of nowhere and it's always been pretty desolate.

I think it's much the way its always been. It looks like a section of the moon.

This is Afghanistan. Let's not lose perspective here. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/An_aerial_view_of_a_mountain_range_in_...

Well let's not do that then. It's not a Disney movie. It's more of an Ingmar Bergman film. Or maybe Nicholas Cage's version of Color Out of Space.

Wait. Aren't you skeptical about the value of vaccines? If not, when did you change your mind? You sure as hell were a few months ago.

I think that's just accidental.

They have been.. I think the AZ vaccine is the best option for developing nations because it doesn't have to be frozen and it's substantially cheaper ...

It would tear a new butthole for Sydney if they ended the lockdown now. They'll have to meet it in the middle: infections and vaccinations will both i...

Which is why it's a priority to stop it in the US. We do more replication of the virus than anyone else, so we're the danger to the world.

Have you glanced at a comparison of American covid statistics to just about anybody else? The only reason the US hasn't generated the Omega Death Vari...

Meanings require some context. It doesn't have to be an ideal context kept frozen in a vault in Paris.

Why lockdowns don't work for the delta variant. :grin:

If you're a strong externalist, which I think you must be if you're thinking Wittgenstein ruled out any sort of representation, then there is no seman...

Did Wittgenstein actually critique language in general? Or just suggest that much of language use is game-like?

cool

Holy shit, it's about to get real in Spain.

It seems obvious that speech involves representations, although maybe not as primitive? Some portion of human cognition is speech that never makes it ...

Spain could blow up at any time. We're on standby.

A Promised Land Barack Obama found it at a used book store

Materialism will sink slowly from view with a few fringe elements holding out until it appears again some decades or centuries from now, born fresh fr...

Yep. Apparently it's the only way to survive there.

Google Afghanistan meth.

I read they expanded to meth.

Probably. I think the Taliban is like organized crime. They control the traffic of heroine and meth, right?

American ones are crazy. Like actually crazy.

Yes, Isaac explained this. I thought Pop was saying enactivists agree with that. Thanks for the heads-up.

They're amoral, misanthropic, dangerous lunatics. American ones are anyway.

Yes. But this isn't metaphysics exactly. It's that conservation of information has turned out to be the crux of a problem with the way we understand b...

https://youtu.be/OFWCbGzxofU

This is your starting point? Why? I mentioned before that metaphysics isnt my bag. I don't really have a lot of philosophical baggage. :razz: No metap...

I think meaning is supposed to be a constituent of semantic information. So how can it create meaning? In physics it's more like the history of an ent...

Do I get a tax break for adopting it?

Meaning requires a context, true. Say a siren is blaring. We can't know the meaning without knowing the context But is context necessarily in the form...

This sounds like a theory of meaning. The average theory of meaning is a labyrinth. Atomic meaning can't work. Holistic meaning doesn't work. Meaning ...

Yes. We don't think of consciousness as being of uninterpreted data, but rather of data plus meaning in some context. Data plus meaning equals informa...

I'm just not seeing the relationship. I think ”information” is being used in two different ways here. The physics usage is closer to the idea of data....

:smile: Ok.

It's just not related to ITT or physics. As long as you recognize that, you're good.

Ok, but that isn't related to IIT, or the way physicists think about information.

An event that has only one possible outcome has no associated information.

This thread has become a free for all.

Describing the natural world as probabilistic is a category error. Probability is about prediction. The concept of determined events is baked into inf...

They've been fixing gerrymandering through the courts.

Harvey explains it. Mark Blyth is good too.

So where did "information is a lack of energy" come from?

Wait, what? When did this happen?