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I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10. Two seconds later, I'm thinking of the same number. It's commonly accepted that the sort of thing I just de...

So those who thought experience is something static and eternal were wrong. It doesn't present that way.

I don't think his conclusions follow from his own introspection. I think he works backward from certain ontological commitments. But if you notice fro...

He allows that humans see and hear and so forth, but denies that there is any conscious experience associated with those functions. What is taken for ...

Or maybe qualia is the source of both. Honestly, I think grappling with the meaning of that word takes us away from what Dennett wants to say. He's de...

Yay!!

If I'm reading Bloomberg correctly, elderly people were specifically refused access to intensive care in the first months of the pandemic. Some of the...

Bus vacations would be loony. I understand the desire to get back to normal, though.

If a quale is a note and experience is a cohesive symphony, is it that there is something artificial and partially false about breaking experience apa...

I'm sure the vacation didn't help, but I think it's possible that the virus was quietly spreading through the summer. Mild cases can go undetected. I ...

Its making me wonder if another mutation has taken hold. I'm sure somebody's checking.

I think from contact to symptoms is around 5-7 days. In the hospital we stop treating infected people as if they're contagious after 21 days (though I...

Female socialism is ten times worse than the regular kind.

But the two go hand in hand. For instance, we outlawed child labor because it led to a kind of slavery. Education requires economic security for the s...

This is just like 100% wrong.

Almost. :smile:

Idaho if she'd like it there or not.

Those poor people: https://www.royalalaskanmovers.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/haines-alaska-blog.jpg

I'm sorry.

... Why didn't you move to Alaska or some place like that? Just curious.

I think we'll have to wait a couple of weeks to speak to that. This is true. We know it fairly well now. Still, when it decides to kill, it kills. The...

Then they're useless. Now that I've worked with people who were in NY and got the whole holy fuck story, yes, I could tell you why the mortality rate ...

Yes. We were intubating anybody who needed more than 6 L/m of O2 when this all began. We reversed course around June? July? We dont intubate anybody w...

Wait, what timeframe did this study cover? I'm in contact with people all over the country and nobody is getting results like that.

As always, it's a joy to chat with you.

I think it was in jama, but with all your time in the ICU, I'm sure that number doesnt surprise you. :roll:

Not all ventilated covid people have lung damage. Put your spectacles on, Isaac.

No. There's a 60% mortality rate for any patients who end up on a ventilator for covid related lung damage. It's bad.

I think you should write to Reagan and tell him this arms race has to stop!

This is the graph for France. Per CNN, the number of elderly europeans infected is rising.

If you're making claims about the metaphysical, does that show you're a believer?

Europe looks worrisome

A famous victim. Isnt that a metaphysical statement?

I think it has to do with love. As if: when we light candles for George Floyd, can we light one for all the others who have been forgotten? Like that.

:up:

I have a thing for silent, forgotten victims. I dont guess it's really a matter of morality, though. Actually I dont know what it is.

I think morality is a massive engine of emotion. Take away the absolutes and things get sketchy.

A delusion is a brick wall...

Woody Allen made a movie called Crimes and Misdemeanors in which a guy has his girlfriend murdered, but never experiences any adverse consequences. Do...

This is an ancient perspective that usually sees evil as a matter of acting against nature. The effect is a loss of vitality. A drawback of this view ...

I think the most important issue is transitioning to clean energy and devising strategies for survival in a more volatile climate. We're likely to hav...

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Strength is brutal and weakness breeds chaos. What's the way out?

And it means that society in general either accepts it, isn't aware of it, or condemns it, but doesnt know what to do about it. I think it means it ri...

How do you see the US being punished for its wrongs?

I think we've all been gratified to see that he wasnt bright enough to pull off what he seemed to want to. So yay for whistleblowers.

You can vote for Trump. That's fine.

That's great that he had a positive message. Unfortunately, his approach has been shown by evolutionary biology to be wrong. We don't have to daydream...

Cultural appropriation?

Could you be just a tad more racist please?