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5 in 200,000 is not a personal risk. It's the community's risk and it isn't small. It's only acceptable in the face of a pandemic. I was vaccinated la...

For a young woman, the risk of death by COVID19 is a tiny bit bigger than the risk of death by vaccine. It's just super basic medical ethics. Tell pat...

A young woman should understand that if she takes the AZ vaccine, she may die as a direct result. People occasionally end up in the hospital strugglin...

Good question. In a YouTube lecture, Christof Koch emphasized that the hardware they're thinking of is neurons, period. So the boundary is the surface...

It would probably help if the Chinese govt hadn't initially suppressed info in spite of the concerns of Wuhan doctors and have since remained opaque. ...

When does styling become profiling?

It's the one about Providence, RI. Veterinarians from all over the world go to Africa to dehorn rhinos so they won't get poached.

I think the constructivist approach is that Israel's rights emerge from the whole global soup. The world makes great powers for itself, but those powe...

Right. That's why its rights are backed by great powers. That's the political realist stance, anyway.

Nevertheless, if China or the US decided Israel shouldn't defend itself, it wouldn't. It's a regional power, that's it.

The first postulate is supposed to explain the existence of the first axiom: that consciousness is intrinsic, or independent of an observer. IOW, you'...

Oh, this is why the theory emphasizes causality within the system itself. Thanks for the explanation.

Without backing from a great power, Israel couldn't defend itself.

Realistically, their claim to the land is only backed by UN recognition, or the recognition of the entities who have global influence. The religious c...

Cool. Can you?

@"Isaac" Can you treat a neuron like a logic gate?

The trinity is Neoplatonic.

Unless we're in a black hole.

Thus is a fascinating sentence: "Note that these postulates are inferences that go from phenomenology to physics, not the other way around. This is be...

They speculate anyway. Watch more PBS Space Time on the YouTube.

True. When they talk about where the big bang came from, they're expanding the meaning of "universe".

Yes. Socrates is an Aristotelian substance because he isn't a dependent entity. That doesn't conflict with my point.

Aquinas advocated a mechanistic approach to the world, and final cause has yet to be jettisoned from science because it's embedded in biology. There i...

For the sake of distinguishing between the description of consciousness (axioms) and system requirements (postulates). Later.

The rest of the axioms are as follows per Tononi: Composition Consciousness is structured: each experience is composed of multiple phenomenological di...

I'll scoot through the rest of them. That first one kind of sets the frame.

I know. The i is right beside the o.

That was a sarcastoid directed at Janus, who asked me who fact checks fact checkers.

More engineering than science, but yes, cell phones are great.

So you agree with Tonini. Cool.

I didn't realize that was an issue. Jeese.

As long they didn't chew on the insulation.

2/3 of the 35,000 annual gun deaths in the US are suicides.

It's liars all the way down.

:up: Tonini uses the axioms to specify what he wants a target system to support. The first is that consciousness is intrinsic, by which he means: Else...

They're still protesting George Floyd's murder in Portland.

Must fact check the interwebs articles.

Yes, I'm aware of that problem. I want to understand the whole approach. Do you think the problem with calculating phi is insurmountable?

Could you explain how his outcome would have been different if he had? He believed a thing's essence can be examined without knowing whether a thing e...

Difficult to employ, as in you can't get there from here?

Up to this point he's been wondering if he could be tricked into a false belief. Now he asks if his belief in his own existence could be wrong. Is he ...

Why would Descartes need "Everything, which thinks, exists" to be true in order to infer his own existence from the fact that he's thinking?

As I said, I know what Hume said. I know the cogito wouldn't have bothered Schopenhauer, in fact it would have helped him make his point. So if you're...

Whether this is true or not, you do not ignore a passage where Socrates says it was shown. ???

It's vacuousness interested you enough to comment 8 or 9 times in this thread, and when asked for a few sentences on how a parade of philosophers ”lau...

I didn't see those. Sorry.

@"Apollodorus" asked why you ignore the fact that the text has S saying immortality was shown. You responded that you ignore it because he didn't show...

Actually you used this thread to write an essay. You didn't engage other viewpoints.

Had it ever occurred to you that you may not have understood the arguments?

I know what Hume said about it. Could you share how the others thought of it? I'm pretty familiar with Schopenhauer and I don't remember his mentionin...