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I think so. In essence, it's an active communication between specific neurons.

I think a physicalist would say it's an 'activity' of brain. Activities are non-spatial because they don't have a position, they are motions/movements...

^I agree on this, AZ is also not as effective as some of the other vaccines.

EMA's new statement. They hit at your worries and explain who seems to be at risk - women under 60. As previously, the prevalence is extremely low and...

I've just been going by EMA's conclusions thus far after their review of evidence obtained on over 11 million AZ vaccinations in the EU. They conclude...

Yes those are more common, but systemic coagulopathy involving lower platelets is associated with COVID. The coagulopathic state most associated with ...

I was saying they’d have more risk of clotting generally, not specifically VIPIT. I mean there are low platelet clotting conditions associated with na...

Sure, go for it if that's your decision; you have good odds for not getting severe form of infection. I appreciate your masking and distancing.

Well I think one would need to look at it from a population perspective, if you took 80 people of that demographic, 40 contracted covid naturally and ...

Thanks, I'll edit the post

The worrisome mechanism they mention is termed Vaccine induced prothrombic thrombocytopenia. It is counterintuitive, but it is a syndrome characterize...

From what you're mentioning now, that's a lot of risk being taken compared to vaccinating. It is of course up to you, but from a risk-taking standpoin...

It's possible and was discussed in the March 31st EMA update. We are still talking about a very low risk; in the 11 million AZ vaccinations across Eur...

Thanks I wasn't aware. I've read some more now, and it looks like there was a statement issued on the 18th of March by the EMA safety committee: there...

EUA is not just a political stamp, it involves rigorous safety, manufacturing, and efficacy standards. The difference is in follow up safety requireme...

Astrazeneca vaccine wasn't put on hold because of safety concerns or lack of efficacy, there was just a production error. They mixed up ingredients at...

No it isn't. You are not reading it in context of the example, see the sentence preceding the quoted ones. Behavior and function are decoupled in that...

I don't see why microstructure needs to impact the function in the way you describe. It's like the example I gave of the hard disk. Two hard disks hav...

Please explain specifically what you mean by function and operate. Like I said, if you mean generalized function of a specific brain tissue like olfac...

You are equivocating with the term 'function', using it here to mean what seems like a more generalized anatomical function , which is not directly re...

I think any true scientist would tell you nothing is ever proven. The best you can do is high confidence.

Thanks for posting your question Marax. I think the assumption in your first clause is incorrect. There are innate mechanisms for processing sense dat...

It sounds like you are making synonymous 'beauty' and 'like' with the parentheses comment. What do you mean by beauty in the OP? Things you like or th...

I think there's a lot going on feeling-wise when you first look at something new and beautiful. There's satisfaction and interest you feel from just t...

Sorry for the late response, anyway I'll respond now since I still grapple with issues raised in the OP. Firstly this is a strawman. My point doesn't ...

It's possible.

I remember the first time I heard, from a dearly valued friend I had feelings for, how much she loathed philosophy. Its irrelevance, seeming uselessne...

I don't see a problem with conditional rules . I would still consider them objective in the sense of mind-independent, but you could never guarantee t...

Why do you think we can’t describe the limits— it seems to me they can be describable, as I gave examples of in the earlier post with duck rabbit and ...

I think the bold is relevant here. The constraints on what possible structures you can define matter as they point out invariancies that are relevant ...

Why couldn't you have fluent conversation? I mean, as humans, we can appreciate how valuable a bone-toy is to a dog, how a nest is essential to the li...

Not every association is human specific. A bee, a rat. a dog, and a human all have to navigate around the front door of a house to get in a house. The...

I’m sorry if I’m taking your point out of context but I target it because it reminds me of the Hoffman argument, outlined in his TED talk. I don’t und...

Reminds me of the rabbit-duck.. Despite the geometric identicality, it presents differently depending on what's perceived as anterior vs posterior. I ...

That makes sense, I definitely agree with that. Yea unless there's an acknowledgment of the hypothesized and falliable nature of an a-priori quale div...

Well so then what do you make of mental modularity? Lesion studies, stroke survivor case studies, document highly specific perceptual defects- inabili...

I would figure 'what it's like to be X' involves the totality of first person experiences X is aware of, be it unguided thought streams or sensations....

Circular reasoning involves using your conclusion as a premise in the same argument. In order to form the conclusion 'there is no other source for ord...

To distinguish between usable and unusable calories is precisely to highlight the inefficiency. There is no fundamental reason why to make that distin...

Aristotle's entire framework of causation is just that, a framework. It doesn't necessarily map to reality. To give a real world example: There is not...

You've just decoupled 'intelligence', 'external agent', and even 'external cause' from 'designer'. How do you distinguish design from order?

First of all the argument is circular. Your discounting natural cases of order as having an alternative source of order depends on your conclusion tha...

You said it’d be illogical to think there is any source for order other than a designer. Your justification is that every instance of things we conven...

By the bolded's logic, the universe must be designed by a terrestrial animal capable of design. We have never observed anything intelligent enough to ...

I was not referring to the snowflake example, I was referring to the definition of design; he has not addressed that point.

I agree, we have no idea why the universe is the way it is. Why particles move at all. Why they move in characterizable ways. I think, however, theori...

No I don't think so. A clear example is energy loss going from trophic level to trophic level. Only 10% of the energy contained in an acre of grass is...

This example avoids the difference in our definition of design, and its influence on the arguments. If you agree with me that self organization is not...

I don't mean to be pestering, but what quantum mechanicals unknowns? All the quantum mechanics needed to understand basic subatomic interactions is we...