Sydasis

If a person is taxed 100%, their income is irrelevant, no? it would be no different than having no salary at all. I suppose wealth could be defined as...

Thank you for the reply. I see nothing wrong with the term capitalism, personally. :) I acknowledge capitalism needs some regulation to ensure the wel...

I can't disagree too much with anything you said here. Sanitation, understanding germs, washing hands, etc, have been key to healthier living. I would...

I can't say I am a scholar in this material at all, so I value your insights here. The french revolution seemed to have an atheist component to it, as...

Thank you for understanding. That does seem to be the case from my readings, although it sounded like some of it paperwork overhead as well. It's not ...

I apologize if I use terminology or phrases that are offensive or sounding hateful. I am here seeking your help for greater understanding and clarity....

fascinating concept.

I apologize that I can't really reply to your comment in full, because I found it hard to tell what was sarcasm, what was sincere, and what was trolli...

Obamacare in 2010 was significant. PEW research indicates there is growing support for single payer health care in the USA as well: http://www.pewrese...

I acknowledge that a nurse does good, but a CEO can also do good. A talented CEO that's worth paying a small fortune too is able to execute on ideas t...

Perhaps that is the truth. I could just be overly paranoid here.

I'll need to find time to provide you a proper reply, but I should point out that I live in urban Canada; not the USA. Please see Canada and the incre...

Attack might be a bad word, as it reflects some of the internal bias I have here. Disagreements with some friends is the extent of personal attack on ...

I've been spending some time on a mothers/feminist forum, trying to come to better understanding of gender equality and the complete tangled mess of t...

I don't know. One aspect might be latency, as lets say we add enough latency to each fragment of the brain so that the time difference of each data ch...

I get my own semantics on this issue confused at times. Self awareness, consciousness, and the ability for active thought. I don't know

I wasn't even thinking of dreams, but I believe you may be largely correct. I was thinking of being awake, conscious, and when i explored "sensory dep...

Perhaps. Our brain is a complex map of layers of structures and neurons, and many of these systems I suspect have feedback loops. In machine learning,...

absolutely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading I think the required data is a minimum of 20-petabytes (assuming just the addresses of the co...

And yet to me it's hard to believe it could be explained any other way. death comes from life. Without death, there likely wouldn't be life, and life ...

interesting. Are other creatures capable of learning conscious in the same way then? Or is there something more to humans that allow us to have that c...

We are building systems that think; every day we make progress in duplicating our capabilities and more. I have no doubt we will one day be able to cr...

It's possible I used the wrong word, but I think I still stand by the choice in word. From the outside looking in, a virtual robot to us appears to no...

Is there any reason it is 18? I would of suspected any age would still be valid. What if the teenager had a child before turning 18; would that child ...

When I think of memories, I'm reminded of a RadioLab podcast that looked at those with short term memory loss. What intrigued me was that the human re...

Well, by today's viewpoint Jefferson would most definitely be a tyrant; I can't deny that he did some disturbing things. I suspect he had the capabili...

Pardon the pedantic nature of this reply, but I'm struggling to offer answers to your questions. Not an argument really, but I'm Canadian and as such ...

I don't quite follow.

Seems like a lot of wasted tax dollars, as those first 18 years of child care services aren't cheap. Do adopted parents get to make that choice, or on...

Based on the poll that just went up, it caused me to wonder if post-birth "abortions" would be considered a legitimate view point. Does the difference...

So just to be clear, a women starts to go into labor, however she gets last minute cold feet and decides she wants to abort -- that's included in the ...

I did have to tune it down a bit, yeah, which I recall being quite annoying. Mostly though, I found that the tune had moments were it couldn't be play...

Danse Macabre was one of the first songs I asked my violin instructor to teach me when I was a child. Anyways, really loving the music tastes in this ...

It's hard to defend someone who owned 200 slaves, as he himself admitted that slavery corrupted all men. Jefferson did inherit 52 slaves by his father...

Well, there are differences of course. Cancer generally will continue to spread, often killing the host. An embryo however usually becomes independent...

In virology class, I recall the definition of life being a talking point. Is a Prion or Virus a life form? The general scientific consensus seemed to ...

If I'm taxed heavily, but I don't feel my contribution provides me adequate representation, I will simply flock to another country.

As a youth, banning guns outright seemed like such an obvious solution to violent shootings, such as those at Columbine. Leftist propaganda films, suc...

Taxation without representation likely won't end well. Considering this though, those living off social welfare are not really being taxed... so do th...

The hormone in some birth control pills changes the lining of a women's uterus so that implantation of a fertilized egg is much less likely to occur. ...

Utilitarianism comes tied in my head with wealth distribution, but perhaps you're right. I see myself looking at this from a US vs THEM perspective, w...

In regards to your 'in built' or 'static' characteristics comment, I'd probably say the statistics of 1 in N I presented would incorporate those dynam...