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I'm familiar with now chess engines work, with the history of machine chess since the 1960's, and with the fundamentals of neural nets. Can you give a...

The globalists think so. There are countervailing trends. Nationalism and national populism are on the march. Brexit for one, the Trump phenomenon for...

I like that! Or as the late, great Howard Cosell once said to a reporter: "If ignorance is bliss, you, my friend, must be ecstatic!" First, there is n...

These are deep and interesting questions. Sadly I am not the one to discuss them with. My knowledge of religion and theology is very shallow. I mentio...

And you're doing it in the same place :-)

That's perfectly obvious, since it immediately suggests the question of how the RQF came to be. But we're flogging a deceased equine at this point.

Yes agreed. At one point I was going to link the Pauli exclusion principle but thought better of it, since it's a specific technical condition. We're ...

I only replied to what you said and did not investigate the context. You wrote: "Numbers are defined by quantity, not order ..." If you didn't mean th...

You're failing to distinguish between cardinals and ordinals. Let me give you a standard example. Consider the positive integers in their usual order:...

Not for the first time I'm sure. I tend to be a bit literal-minded, too much so for my own good. I can concede that, without necessarily agreeing that...

Right. Which is to say, Krauss has no ultimate explanation. I am not debating that at all. I'm debating Krauss's nonsensical claim that the RQF + the ...

How so? I thought physicalism is the belief that everything, including mind and all non-physical phenomena such as qualia, can be explained via physic...

Ok. I name-checked a couple of ID proponents and Darwin skeptics to meet you halfway and show that I am more open-minded that you may think. But I can...

That is exactly the physicalist position. The dualist believes there is "something else" beyond the physical.

Yes. Agreed. But Krauss has no ultimate explanation, just a description of a speculative next level down. And do note that the RQF idea is speculation...

To the extent that this counts as a post, you're right. I just wanted to say that I ran my eyes down to the end and didn't read whatever you wrote. 9/...

Of course. But in truth I don't actually visualize the seeds in the apple, I don't even think about them. If I chose to I could. I think my mental pro...

If one is a physicalist, then mind is ultimately explainable in terms of physics. I'm a pile of atoms and I have plenty of qualia and a rich internal ...

I do too.

It's unclear if you're talking about visualizations or reality. I can visualize an apple with a small unicorn in it. I have no problem doing that, I'm...

Oh I see I missed your point the other day and this is a good point. Yes even hard science is ultimately nonsense. There are no quarks. If you drill i...

Yes I completely agree. If somebody succeeds in implementing or instantiating actual self-awareness or consciousness or subjective experience in a cir...

The world blundered blindfolded into World War I. I've seen people say that global conditions resemble Europe before the Great War. It would only take...

I hope you'll check out some of the links I gave and google around for more. A lot of people have written pro and con about Krauss's book. I'm out of ...

Thanks. Filtering down process. Reminds me Like Huxley's The Doors of Perception. "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear t...

I'm back for another round, there being many statements here in dire need of clarification, rectification, refutation, and outright repudiation. It's ...

You could substitute a house cat if you prefer. Cats most definitely have sophisticated mental states. They have dreams, for one thing. That I assume ...

Perfectly agreed, perfectly obvious, perfectly well known to everyone. Don't you think? Also FWIW numerous studies show that memory is very unreliable...

Just a quibble with this statement as it's not relevant to the rest of your subject. But at this point I believe it's fairly common knowledge. I'm pre...

I don't feel that you're trying to catch me out. I just feel like I answered the question the best I can already and can't say much more. I gave three...

I think that if you look at the state of the world, what most people would do is the opposite of what they say they would do. Show me the money! https...

Haha. I read the title as inherently "good at birth." Like Octomom, who gave birth to octuplets. I think this is the old philosophical question of whe...

Light intensity can be measured by a simple instrument, for example a digital sensor in a camera. But the subjective experience of light or darkness i...

Speaking as someone who has had the experience of general anesthesia during a surgical procedure, I would say that there are times in life when consci...

But we all have a right to question everything. I don't follow your claim that there are subjects that we have no right to question. I'll try to keep ...

It wouldn't make much sense. Laurel is paired with Hardy, vanilla ice cream is paired with fresh hot apple pie, and Ricky is paired with Lucy (am I sh...

Krauss claims to explain how the world came from "nothing." But the only way to make this work -- and Krauss has admitted this in print -- is to chang...

LOL. Thanks for the chuckle.

I'm a big fan of Chomsky and Newton and I'm really enjoying the linked article and video. Thanks for posting.

You'd be the expert on that.

Consider these two statements: * A neuron contains axons and dendrites. * A neuron contains mental states. Now the word contains is being used in two ...

Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, which is very much like our wokester movement, lasted ten years. Fortunately Joe Biden is no Mao Zedong, and neith...

I have only read your OP. I asked you how you define a "non physical" and what means "neuron contained non physical?" Do you mean a neuron contains a ...

No joke, just didn't remember. I am afraid that's all way over my head physics-wise.

I think there was a recent thread on randomness, I don't remember if I participated. There's no evidence that anything in the world is random. Or the ...

I don't know the status of the 9/11 files. Thousands of government documents on the JFK assassination are still sealed after 57 years. Funny they'd st...

Because the government did a piss-poor, shoddy simulation of an investigation. Please see my post above containing the words of Hamilton and Keane, th...

As are Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton, co-chairs of the 9/11 commission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_9/11_Commission Do you really b...

I think the OP is trying to get at the non-physicalness of information. I'm not sure if the particularities of the diagram matter all that much. Re in...

Cosmology is a branch of physics. Ontology and metaphysics are branches of philosophy.