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Why is that?

I'm just not very good at this. Wondering about any specifics.

People in different areas have had to face different circumstances and challenges. Desert nomads know how to live under conditions that would kill peo...

What are the criteria?

Yup. Also low self-esteem, since I can't resist quoting Northern Exposure. :grin: Low self esteem is the root cause of practically all the pain and mi...

The best way is to not be offended. You do that by realizing you're talking to a bunch of anonymous people who, if you learned their names, would be t...

Oh! I didn't realize. I just thought it was a typo.

That's excellent! You should change your name to Banjo!

Good luck with that. :grin:

I don't know if you failed according to Aristotle, or anyone roast. I'm saying the reason the 8 ball moved is the physical impact of the cue ball, and...

I think you are making my point. "If we think of something as simple as a football..." We're thinking. Doesn't thinking involve thoughts? Can we think...

I don't know exactly what you have in mind, but consciousness seems outside of the scope of mathematics.

It is. It doesn't. The world is filled with things people chose to make that would not exist if not for our minds. This is why we have always differen...

I was just saying that the links in the chain of events you listed represent two very different types of cause. I wasn't intending that to be an argum...

Well, I certainly appreciate you trying to understand me! Let me try to make things a bit more clear. 1. Consciousness and Subjective Experience are t...

If that's what you value, knock your socks off! :grin:

Sure. But doesn't every action, even inaction, constrain things one way or another? Aaron Judge hitting the ball is a constraint, because he prevented...

That's how you broke it down in your OP. I was just replying to the parameters you gave. Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. :grin: No, ...

I don't think the asteroid and Hitler were constraints. The asteroid prevented the continued evolution of dinosaurs by wiping them out. Or, iirc, it w...

Argh! My last word was a mistake. I meant to say: Are you saying actual information is information that is being processed? If it is not being process...

Nice OP! I've only looked at the Chain so far. My initial thoughts are... The 8 ball went into the pocket because the cue ball hit it. It couldn't hav...

Are you saying actual information is information that is being processed? If it is not being processed, it is potential energy?

Doesn't the fact that people have sequenced Neanderthal DNA, among other groups, say it is still information?

We seem to be going a bit off topic. I was about to start another thread so we didn't hijack this one. Then I realized it's your thread. :rofl: So all...

What is the form of there information in the DNA of a dead organism? What is the form of there information in a book that is sitting in a box in the b...

I don't understand what you're saying. Particularly "the verbal Information". I don't know if you're answering my question. Is the order of the bases ...

I meant someone hacked your account and is posing as you, but gave thself away by not doing the footnotes.

First of all, I suspect you are a hacker, because I have never seen Gnomon post without footnotes. :rofl: I think I disagree. I believe DNA is informa...

Yes, I agree about what an idea is made of. My bullet points are a general idea of what I think. So you think to fall into the category of "idea" it m...

I guess there are different types of ideas, and some are more complex than others. I think the complexity of the idea of justice is getting in the way...

I just posted this on another thread. It certainly fits here. Obviously, nobody is going to agree with me. :grin: But this might be my answer. The bra...

You're right. But 's video is damn cool!

I agree.

Which adjectives apply to the mind? How does this sound? The brain is a physical object. There is activity in the brain. Our consciousness of - that i...

I was going to bring up A Man Without Words. Someone here brought him to my attention several months ago. Ildefonso was born totally deaf. Nobody ever...

The first step in thinking is language? Nothing prior to language is considered a step in the developing of thinking?

I am imagining a visual scene. I don't suspect that scene has been recreated in my head. And, even though I don't have any personal experience with br...

No. I'm trying to think of it that way now, but not having any luck.

I believe the idea is that the mind is a physical process. It's a verb. As is a basketball game. What color is a basketball game? How much does it wei...

In Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam write: I think that's pretty good. The very basic idea that, perhaps,...

Yes. That's how we communicate.

We did communicate something. With the use of signs. Still, I had information in my mind, I wanted it in your mind, I took actions that I hoped would ...

I do. I think consciousness is one of the properties of matter. I do not think physical properties are the only kind of properties of matter. I don't ...

I will continue to say the universe is not comprised only of physical. Depends on your wording. Does mass have the ability to warp spacetime?

Do I even have to point out that saying no does not make the claim false? Your proclamations are as groundless as anyone's.

Yes!

Disagree. I mean, I'm the one saying particles subjectively experience, eh? :smile: I suspect you are talking about mental abilities. I think those ar...

Edit. Didn't mean to post yet.

Consciousness is the property by which matter subjectively experiences. Just as mass is the property by which matter warps spacetime. (Not sure "by wh...

Your command of English is leaps and bounds better than my command of any language other than English. Well done.