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It sounds like this is a deal breaker for you.

Michael Caine was really cool, though.

ha!

:up: Yep. It's raid, exploit, and dump. State governments are helpless. Can't go on forever, tho.

It gets down to -40F there. What's fair go?

Could you expand on that?

Their approach has been to try to determine which parts of the brain are actually involved in consciousness. It's not the whole brain. Remember, they'...

Hmm.

We have one of those in North Dakota. What's yours like?

Well you have that tracking chip in you now. It might be interfering.

Useful fiction=metaphor

https://www.visiblebody.com/hubfs/learn/assets/glossary/nervous/nervous-system-central.png

Australia has an amazingly robust and dynamic culture. How did that happen?

I think its kind of the opposite. He starts with phenomenal consciousness and is trying to derive a system that would produce it.

That's so cool! Thanks! So we talked about the postulate that covers the intrinsic character of experience: the spec being that the system must have a...

This is a legit question. If we stop thinking of people in terms of justice, what do we lose?

We all made it to 2021. How bout that?

The Dunning Kruger effect is not that the unskilled think they're better than the skilled. They just think they're better than they are. And 180 is ma...

He favored nonviolent resistance, so he probably didn't care. :up:

But statism couldn't help itself. So-called "black codes" restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and m...

It doesn't make me choke if it's bullshit.

Since it was done with war power, the jurisdiction ended at the MD line. Yes, sometimes state power is the only way to accomplish some good, but once ...

thanks. compliments make me choke, though. :grimace: can't handle it

count me in, then

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I doubt there will be any progress. We'll never know. That's unfortunate because if it was a lab leak, it would be an opportunity to review protocols ...

Yes, the bloodbrain barrier is a filter. I realize the CNS is not a parasite. It just kind of looks like one from a certain angle. I will be moving on...

Was the emancipation proclamation statist?

Humanity in general. It makes a fascinating plot. The mind zeroes in on it like a moth to a flame.

I see what you're saying. The IIT approach would be like starting with the assumptions that we digest food and that some parts of the body are causing...

Paul didn't write those letters. It was some other guy named Paul.

Texas democrats walk out to stop voter suppression

I understand what you're saying. The body comes as a package. If we want to know which parts drives blood pressure, we can pick out the heart and kidn...

We perceive change. That's basically what time is.

The zombie apocalypse rule is that when you detect that your neighbor has been bitten, shoot them in the face. I know, I've seen a lot of the training...

Sure. You need some way to keep the brain alive. We can take over the functions of the heart, lungs, and kidneys with machinery. Hospitals do it every...

But we could probably wait until the zombie apocalypse is actually upon us to start thinking in those terms.

I don't think Christianity tells the average person how to live. It's for people who are so consumed by bitterness that they've become complete asshol...

Dark energy is at the root of the present crisis in cosmology. The crisis (having to do with conflicting measurements of the universe's expansion) pro...

It's not obvious to me that consciousness requires a system in possession of a liver. That it needs a power source, yes. Since there's a certain amoun...

The idea is to be able to make predictions about whether a system is conscious. I'm not sure how they would test it, though. I guess the assumption be...

You need to look at the data broken down by demographic. Young women have a much lower incidence of severe illness with COVID19.

You folks are in a different situation. You need high vaccination rate so you can open your border. Still, I think the people in charge of public heal...

So far the variants haven't been a problem. If the spike protein changes significantly, they would have to make another vaccine. That wouldn't take lo...

A lot of states are at around 50%, right. That plus immunity from infection has to put us pretty close.

Vaccines are tested on a specific timeline derived from past experiences with vaccine development. If a problem appears with a vaccine, such as deaths...

I think in the process of reacting to them, you've become similar to them in some respects, namely the adoption of a political lens and disregard for ...

Cool. Thanks.

But there's no consciousness associated with your liver, in fact consciousness doesn't even require a cerebellum, but if we cut the brain in half, we ...

You're wrong. Look it up.