Patterner

We have machines that can differentiate different frequencies. For them, it's binary code. BLACK 00000000 00000000 00000000 RED 11111111 00000000 0000...

Another (unlikely) possibility is the rock subjectively experiences, but has no capability of expressing any behaviors. Maybe it's exactly what we thi...

Ludwig said, "The basis of rationality is the discovery of what brings success and what brings failure." If you try to build your hut's support beams ...

I wish I could remember the tv show I saw one time, lo these many years ago. Sadly, decades. One charter told another that she could remember much gre...

But therr are irrational proper. I wonder how many different reasons there are for that. The baby's brain grows/is wired as those things are happening...

I don't know. it never occurred to me to try. I just automatically start visualizing the events. I don't know how I would do it. Lol. "Ok, after I pai...

Yes and No. Yes, we know that it happens in the brain. No, we do not know HOW. That's the HPoC. I am the being having the subjective experience. That ...

You may have addressed it, but you are still using an inaccurate definition of the HPoC. As J pointed out early on: These things change various aspect...

Cool. At least we got one thing settled. :rofl:

I'm thinking maybe the capacity to think rationally is hardwired in. But we must learn how it works.

How do you approach this without visualizing? I will picture in my mind my exact movements, to whatever degree I'm able to remember, like trying to wa...

Can you give any examples of what might constitute a ground for someone's rational thinking or beliefs?

We maybe talking about different things. This sentence makes it sound as though you are physically checking the pockets. I'm talking about sometime la...

FTR, Bach did not write any symphonies.

Very interesting. I wouldn't know if I put it in a pocket, or wherever, if I didn't visualize. I wouldn't even know how to approach the problem.

That's fascinating. If the last time I'm sure I had my wallet was at the register in the grocery store, I'll picture taking my debit card out of the k...

No. They're usually in the neighborhood of $20/dozen.

Indeed. Darmok is one of the stupidest great episodes.

That makes sense. For certain things/in certain situations, like packing a suitcase, i would think thinking in words would be a hindrance. If I can't ...

I don't understand. Are non-physicals physically contained? Or are they non-existent? Non-physical, to me, means non-physical. I wouldn't see how the ...

But that does not explain consciousness. Why is the full input and output capabilities, connections with the biological organism, location in space an...

A wolf is a threat to a llama, no question about it. But if every such threat is evil, then the world is filled with evil, and has been since before h...

I very much wish I knew one of these people, so I could talk with them and ask many questions. I love this!! often enough, we try to transcribe the ex...

I think our special capabilities allow us to ignore the animal instincts. Obviously, that's not always a good idea. As you say, genocide. Otoh, they a...

I don't understand what you mean by "we cannot exclude similar skills that have developed differently in other creatures." What would be an example? Y...

No, certainly not 'evil.' But I think even 'bad' is a stretch. I wouldn't think we are safe with anything more than 'threat' and 'not threat.'

I don't see how this, or anything else, makes them evil. I also don't know how we know what llamas believe about them. "half the message" is an excell...

It's all very strange to think about, eh? Could someone telepathically share their experience with me without also sharing all of their memories that ...

Llamas believe all wolves are evil? The angles of triangles add up to 360 degrees? (Just bustin' on your for this one. :grin: )

:up: Rather, an interesting dilemma would follow from the idea of "experiencing what X experiences," if it was possible to experience what X experienc...

Could be. Is it possible that human language couldn't exist if we were not capable of abstract thought?

I've often heard that language shapes our thinking, and is literally responsible for aspects of how our brains become wired. If that is so, then there...

Is there anything we think that no other species thinks? Or do we think nothing that is uniquely human, but we're the only ones who have the language ...

Thanks. I should look into him. I know his philosophies were a huge basis of Julian May's Galactic Milieu series, which is an incredible scifi/fantasy...

Again, we could come up with a scifi idea that would work. But that's all it would be.

I believe you are correct. It seems to me interaction with others plays a huge roll in the development of our consciousness.

I'm not saying the universe has one unified consciousness that is aware of itself. Just that some parts of the universe are aware. It may be all that ...

It is perfectly clear to me. I am a part of the universe. We all are. Parts of the universe are aware of themselves, and of the universe as a whole. M...

I understood what you meant by "I don't have a body," and I agree. It's all one being. Everything develops together. My mind is what it is because of ...

Ok. But the thread is still about rational thinking in animals and people. It seems from the articles that many people think the dog still went there ...

I'm sorry about your cat. Over lost many over the years. One in particular hurt more than any other. It disappeared the same way Sammy did. I had many...

Yes, I would agree there's more to it than that. It is not rational to drop many different pairs of different objects from many different heights, and...

You give reasons it could be rational for the dog to go to the train station a decade after the man stopped getting off the train. And there obviously...

I'm not concerned with the scientific, technical side of things. You can think rationally without any of that kind of knowledge. Indeed. If that dog w...

A few posts ago, I said: "I think you can think rationally despite having wrong information." You can make rationalize decisions with inaccurate infor...

Can you think of a scenario with a rational thinker who doesn't know about gravity?

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I don't know what else it could mean. Walking off a cliff because you don't think gravity will affect you isn't rational. Going to a train station at ...

Rationality can't fly in the face of facts. You might have inaccurate information at some point, and think rationally based on that. But once you have...

A creature that can't test things might still be able to notice things. Like a dog can notice X happens every single day at a certain time, and base i...