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Yeah, but since that's not a sufficient reason to accept all matters which seem obvious prima facie, it hardly stands alone without further justificat...
December 12, 2020 at 13:28
Then why bring it up? The second is not just a simile for the first. There's a world of difference between merely asserting a 'phenomenological layer'...
December 12, 2020 at 13:16
Where has any scientist reduced minds to brains?
December 12, 2020 at 11:05
What could 'have to' possibly mean here? I don't understand your use of the term when discussing 'practical differences'.
December 12, 2020 at 10:47
Yeah. It was a great idea for a thread, and, Dennett's frequent invocation of neuroscientific principles (especially section 5), justifies the introdu...
December 12, 2020 at 10:26
I've already been through this with @"schopenhauer1" in a previous thread. He can give no answer as to why avoiding the imposition of inconvenience an...
December 12, 2020 at 10:21
Thus only works as an argument if you assume the only consequence of 'complexity', as you diplomatically put it, is negative side effects. It's not. S...
December 12, 2020 at 07:47
How does the number of Covid deaths impact on the likely efficacy of the vaccine as a means of reducing them (together with collateral deaths from pan...
December 12, 2020 at 07:37
No. According to the NYT who broke the story... They outright hid and lied about a negative trial to maintain sales, and it's absolutely not a one off...
December 11, 2020 at 21:23
The context of 'effect' was the global decease in deaths due to the pandemic and it's collateral damage. Obviously I didn't mean to claim that it woul...
December 11, 2020 at 20:30
Edited I could list the full rap sheet, but it's common knowledge which has already been publicly written about at great length, there's little point ...
December 11, 2020 at 19:44
Pfizer. 2004 Cereblex, trials showed evidence of elevated risk of heart problems and they withheld them. $894 million in lawsuits. Didn't even break t...
December 11, 2020 at 19:41
Well, it didn't stop them with Neurontin, Genotropin, Bextra, Detrol, Lipitor, or Rapamune...all of which were proven to have been based on false info...
December 11, 2020 at 19:28
Ah! This would be the same FDA whose paid off officials continued to approve opiods despite clear evidence of the harm they were doing and that they w...
December 11, 2020 at 18:34
Yep. It's right there in black and white in the company's articles of association. Their objective is to make a profit for their shareholders. Why wou...
December 11, 2020 at 18:12
Let's have a look at the mRNA trial. Take Moderna's mRNA-1273. Did the trial include children and adolescents? No. Did the trial check for ADE reactio...
December 11, 2020 at 17:54
No, my point was firstly, that a rushed vaccine based on new technology may be either falsely effective, have unexpected side effects (already we're g...
December 11, 2020 at 17:29
At what point did I say that the level of investment would not produce a vaccine more quickly?
December 11, 2020 at 16:57
Absolutely. It the the implication of either/or that I was interested in. Both, I have no difficulty with.
December 11, 2020 at 14:05
Thar's a definition I think works very well, but that all sounds behavioural to me. Sure, they''ll be psychological consequences, even causes (of the ...
December 11, 2020 at 13:25
Taking the first half 'psychological'... If you had never met any other people, would you still identity as a man, and if so, how would you know what ...
December 11, 2020 at 13:11
"X is paternalistic BS" is not a question.
December 11, 2020 at 06:44
People with strongly individualist, neo-liberal ethics don't want the human race to continue after they're gone. Are we really surprised at all by thi...
December 10, 2020 at 07:51
The Lancet article was not referring to the US, so no. But for countries like India, I see no reason to disbelieve an article suggesting as such in su...
December 08, 2020 at 18:13
Yes, so long as we see 'sufficiently' as culturally mediated. I think interoception features are no different to perception features (which is the mot...
December 08, 2020 at 17:57
Probably my bad. Yes, I do agree. In a sense, although language affect the two stream disproportionately. People with certain types of aphasia have as...
December 08, 2020 at 17:42
I'm just going to answer you all at once because you're all saying the same thing "because I feel angry, anger must be a thing (the thing I feel)" How...
December 08, 2020 at 17:21
Yep, that's it. Yeah, I'd agree there and I think it's an important distinction because values of hidden states do more than just work for object reco...
December 08, 2020 at 09:55
I'm going to try and explain the bigger picture which might answer the questions in your subsequent posts. If I can borrow from fdrake's post to start...
December 08, 2020 at 08:11
No one's denying any of that from a phenomenological perspective. It's just that from a process perspective some of those accounts are not as we think...
December 07, 2020 at 18:41
How could you possibly consider citing an article from The Lancet warning of nearly half a million deaths from TB as a result of Covid strategies whil...
December 07, 2020 at 18:26
One of the possible mappings of brain activities to phenomenological experience is via public models like 'fear'. Why would you rule that out?
December 07, 2020 at 18:22
Because brains are just lumps of biological matter with electrical and chemical activity. Just looking at it isn't going to tell us what any of it's d...
December 07, 2020 at 18:15
Methodologically, yes. I wouldn't have put it that way (I don't literally agree with every word he says, of course), but broadly speaking yes. In psyc...
December 07, 2020 at 17:54
I don't know what to say. We could trade Anil Seth quotes all day. I've read most of his papers (certainly the Sackler lab work, anyway). I've been to...
December 07, 2020 at 17:42
I haven't had a rollercoaster ride, but I know what one is. I can use the term correctly. I don't see how you can justify a difference with 'fear'. Wh...
December 07, 2020 at 17:28
What is preventing someone with urbach-wiethe disease (passing over the complications in simply correlating the condition with a lack of ability to fe...
December 07, 2020 at 10:26
Thanks. That pretty much ties in with my understanding of Seth's position from his papers. The aspects I don't see how you're attributing are things l...
December 07, 2020 at 10:19
That's what being scared is, not what it's like. It's not the mental state, it's the inability to report on working memory, which you'd just said was ...
December 07, 2020 at 08:49
What would an answer to this question even be? As far as I can tell it doesn't make any sense at all. If I ask "what the the rollercoaster like? " you...
December 07, 2020 at 08:12
You'll have to quote him (or we'll just agree to differ), it's not the impression I get from either that podcast, nor his other lectures, nor his pape...
December 07, 2020 at 07:22
The reporting practice was exactly as stated in the article. I don't understand how much more clear that can be. It says they used to count anyone who...
December 07, 2020 at 07:20
Because your own ad hoc, single person sample is next to useless as a description of how people learn to use terms. I thought you might have, you know...
December 07, 2020 at 07:12
Yes. Why would you just prima facie disbelieve this? He's provided sources, and the was good reason to, as John Newton at PHE said Since then changes ...
December 06, 2020 at 08:50
Cool, that makes sense. We have common ground here. I see what you mean here. If at any given time the only variable that really is 'varying' in the s...
December 06, 2020 at 08:07
...and you know this how?
December 06, 2020 at 07:06
And you think those taking an alternative position to you don't think they're being entirely logically consistent? So you think their position has log...
December 06, 2020 at 07:05
I don't understand what you mean by this. Perhaps you could clarify with some examples from Seth's papers?
December 06, 2020 at 06:57
Ok. Everyone hang their gloves up, fight's over. Someone thinks it's silly, so that's settled the matter to everyone's satisfaction... ...but hang on,...
December 05, 2020 at 17:27
Actually he does (to an extent). I'm fairly certain he used almost those exact words in a lecture. I'll see if I can find something more concrete for ...
December 05, 2020 at 17:17