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That wasn't exactly what I was going for, but I think that is the correct interpretation of what was written. My idea was to have a character haunted ...

AFAIK there were no giveaways, apart from your talking about writing a messed up story. I guess you have a distinct personality and sense of humor, an...

Obvious ones: The good Samaritan Hanover The Frame Baden Small Gods GMBA

I already have a new idea. Lightning round, let's go!

But this is the opposite process. My emotions are immediate to me, what you call interpreting is encoding them symbolically into language. This encodi...

This is the part of your account I find objectionable. We cannot directly perceive someone else's internal state. There is a layer of indirection betw...

But the religious don't even base morality on religion. Rather, they use religious text as a very motivated Rorschach test, and then stamp the resulti...

There are 10^183 planck length unit volumes in the universe. Might this be nmax?

This path ends in the absurdity of the conscious paramecium or Roomba, and furthermore cannot account for the fact that our own conscious awareness is...

Melatonin is not really a drug, it is the hormone which regulates sleep, and is found in many plant sources. Even in Holland with its more regulated s...

I've had lifelong sleep maintainence insomnia, the only thing that works consistently is liquid melatonin when I wake up

The equation is unbounded. But is it unbounded in this universe? We cannot accelerate an object arbitrarily near to c, since that requires arbitrarily...

That last part... holy shit! :strong: :wink:

:scream:

I am truly, genuinely curious as to what is going on here. Is there a conceptual difference, so that we are talking past each other? Some kind of diff...

Damn, I wish I added, "I would not care because I am a p zombie"

You completely misunderstood, this is all just background I made up for my hypothetical question. No scientists in question, no such structure has bee...

Even though behaviorally it makes no difference, subjects might report a difference who have this structure temporarily knocked out. Perhaps there is ...

Are you a sociopath then? I do not. Is this projection?

Computers have memory, and they identify themselves, but they have no awareness. Think of a p zombie as a perfect computer simulation of how a human b...

How else can I interpret My OP was about "Loved Ones", so really it was your talk of loving teddy bears and sports teams that was a non sequitor.

Not necessarily lies, I apologize. I left out other possibilities. "Dissent" from universal expert consensus, i.e. climate deniers (are you one?), is ...

What is the size of the set of possible states of the universe? I suspect this is the true nmax. Would this be a number best expressed as x^y^z?

If all the energy of the universe were somehow marshalled to accelerate a single particle, what would its Lorentz factor be? I have no clue, but I sus...

In my imaginary scenario I have the power to stipulate whatever I wish. But please, "dissent" away. Is that you I see with the tin foil hat and cardbo...

That does not make it false. I am stipulating that p zombies are real in this scenario, and you still won't accept it. This is lying to yourself, just...

Try telling your partner you love them like you love your teddy bear or your sports team. These are not the same relationships, even if the word "love...

I know which story you wrote.

Doesn't love require connection? How can you connect with someone you know isn't there? Why the scare quotes?

An innocent person also deserves happiness and fulfillment, which the world offers, would you deny them this? Sophmoric argument.

No, p-zombies are a thought experiment, not the kind of thing that keeps most people up at night. If I had to put my "philosophy question" baldly, it ...

Yet, p zombies are thoughtless, as are you.

An asinine reply worthy of a p zombie.

:rofl:

Ouch, very acid comment, please don't be so basic.

Maybe I was feeling a bit salty. If vitriol was the intent it would have gone much worse.

I can reveal that the sentiment is mutual in your case :lol: Sorry, I decided to just convey my honest impression after finishing each story. It is th...

One difference between philosophy and science is that philosophy insists on logical certainty, which is a category error when applied to the empirical...

A somewhat convincing rendition of the genre, though for a Conan/He-man type one could wish for a little swordplay.

It started out promisingly enough, but I was soon smothered in a wall of exposition, it was a real slog to get through it all.

Good for what it is, I thought the writing was on point.

This actively resisted my attempts to read through it.

Weird little story. It was effective in building interest in the reader for what was going on. Too bad it was then left unsatisfied.

Reminds me of some of my own drugged out, nocturnal wanderings. I enjoyed it.

I think this established its setting and mood well, it held my attention to the end. Virginal overtones.

This unpleasant and homely story did little to attract me. I wasn't buying the ending.

A very unpleasant protagonist, this was a cool take on psychopathy. I didn't see the twist at the end coming. Nice eye for detail, Author (I will main...

I didn't really buy all the outpouring of empathy for Antoine in this scenario. That kind of killed the story for me.

This was a dirty, sleazy little story. Not bad at all.