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I think you can think rationally despite having wrong information. But, depending on the situation, you might run into problems. If you do, then ratio...

Yes. If it was originally showing up for a rational reason, and it was showing up for the same reason years later, the reason was no longer rational. ...

Right. The dog's behavior all those years after Ueno died is obviously not the result of rational thinking. Why not? If it has the ability to think ra...

Do you mean a decade after Ueno died? I'd bet your description of the dog's behavior is accurate when Ueno was alive. If the dog continued to act the ...

Just read it. Very cool. Thank you.

The article referenced in wiki says it was daily for a year while the man was alive, and the dog continued daily for eleven years until it died. Obvio...

Congratulations! Nothing feels like love. Dive in deep, and don't come out until they drag you away with horses! Be foolish and extravagant! And if yo...

I do not feel at all confident saying what the dog expects or recognizes. I could speculate that the dog ran into many people on a regular basis. I'll...

That's really awesome! Thanks!

Imperfect DNA replication. Which rarely happens. That's why the very very slow increments. I think single mutations aren't noticable. One base pair ch...

Exactly. Although some things, like a pile of sand, are definitely made up of tiny units, we can't define how many are needed for it to qualify as a p...

I don't suspect we could ever learn what actually happened. Especially if it's the second scenario, that our brain gained an ability that subsequent m...

I used a couple of specific examples to illustrate the very broad categories. I'd be surprised if there are examples is any non-human language of the ...

Some animals eat what they can find. Some animals can use a tool, if they find a good one, to help them get food. Some animals can make a tool to help...

I would be thunderstruck to learn this is true. Two examples jump quickly to mind, but I'm sure there are others. I can't imagine a non-human language...

Probably not all. Hehe. Anyway, I certainly hope it works out! Thank you.

Ironic for those who don't like it to use it to complain about it. But social media isn't all bad. Even if it's more difficult to have the kinds of co...

I don't see any other explanation having an easier time. One neuron? Two? A thousand? A million?

"Several years later"? Don't I wish! :rofl: I'm 60.

If anything I've learned from my own failures helps, then I'm happy. Love to you.

I've been accused of worse than that! :grin:

I suspect we agree on facts. We've all heard the numbers of the percentages of DNA we share with various species. It is truly amazing that the differe...

This robot would have consciousness, thanks to the kneural knet. PZs don't have any consciousness. Obviously, something like a kneural knet would be f...

My point is there couldn't be such a thing. As I've said before, just because we can say the words, doesn't mean we can conceive of them. Like a squar...

At 32:10 of the video on this page https://thepanpsycast.com/panpsycast2/episode83-1 Chalmers says:

No. I really like Chalmers. Most of the time. But PZs are just dumb. A planet that never had consciousness, but had our intellectual abilities, would ...

I didn't say any time we kill a human, we get charged with murder. And I gave examples of times we kill a human and do not get charged with murder. Wh...

Right. But millions of years ago, our brains took a leap that no other species has yet taken. We were one of many species that had some limited degree...

The brain's activity could do these things without any subjective experience/consciousness anywhere. And I'm sure we're making robots that prove the p...

Yes. But not my typo. Stupid Siri, or one of them.

Sadly, I don't know enough to understand your attempt. I'm reading all kinds of things. Haphazardly, since I'm just singing it. So probably unproducti...

Absolutely true in all respects. But I see the opposite. I see people denying there is anything different about us. As though any animal is capable of...

Right?? It seems to have done the job! :rofl:

I'm likely a bit older than you. BK commercial from late 60s-early 70s. Not sure I'm remembering it word for word, but... There once was a boy named N...

It saddens me that I can't find the Burger King ad about Nicholas, who would rather eat hamburgers pickle-less.

There is no worry or possibility that we will ever stop thinking. If there are answers, and we find answers to any number of questions, there will alw...

I'm free to do as I choose, regardless.

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If my analogy isn't good, can you answer the question anyway? Many people think these two things are mutually exclusive. It doesn't seem unreasonable ...

What if the either/or thinking is correct? There are either/or situations. A square circle is either/or. It's not both. It's booty a paradox. It's jus...

That's fine. But that wasn't the most important part. Walking certainly has an effect on physical events. How can it be epiphenomenal?

Henry Rearden's trial says it all.

According to the definitions I quoted earlier, epiphenomenalism says mental states do not have any effect on physical events. Walking is a physical ev...

I hadn't heard about whatever is happening in Alabama, and hadn't considered the test tube scenario. Thanks!

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Good points. But I'm wondering. We can say therr are just killings of people. For example, it's not murder when we execute a convicted murderer. Or wh...

What do you mean I didn't cover that? That's what I said in the third sentence you quoted. In short, either they're both murder, or neither is. (That ...

Yes, of course. If the law says it's murder, then it's murder. And the law says murder only applies when the victim is a human being. Kill someone's c...

No. It depends on your standpoint on the status of a fetus. We are only charged with murder if we kill a human being. If a fetus is a human being, the...

I think consistency is important.