Agreed, but what I was trying to quantify was connectedness, but in a manner which included urban sprawl (so hub distances or connectivity measures wo...
Yes, that's rather the point I was trying to make. It's not possible to tell if population density has an effect because we cannot control for those o...
As I can imagine you've been on the edge of your seat waiting for the actual data... Anthropogenic landscape fragmentation based on voronoi mesh densi...
OK. I understand what you're saying now, but I'm not sure what you're basing it on. If we're trying to establish the effectiveness of lockdowns we can...
UK population density 274/km2. Netherlands population density 419/km2. France 123/km2. UK 2685 cases/million. Netherlands 2368 cases /million. France ...
That doesn't follow. If the reason why Ireland has similar per capita cases to Sweden (despite different lockdown strategies) is because the Swedish e...
What kind of thing would 'define' the experience. You seem to be using 'define' in an odd way here. If I 'define' my experience of eating a pizza I us...
Ahh, then I'm afraid you've lost me as far as what these "developing lines of enquiry in physics" are, if not quantum physics. Perhaps you could expan...
If I've understood you correctly, this sort of idea was explored by Roger Penrose in the 80s and early 90s. He wrote a book on his idea of how vibrati...
The only reason why this is the case though is because we have a medical and economic system which dramatically increases infant survival rates. I don...
OK, we can limit the examples to that. So "trees are green, the sky is blue" contains more information than "trees are green, trees are green". But st...
No, I don't think it's at all controversial... in a world of people for whom the relevant information is what the words in the books say. What I think...
Thank you. That's the name of the thing I was scrambling for when I was taking about 'efficiency of data compression'. I couldn't remember the correct...
It can be, yes. I was struggling to marry that with your idea that the information was somehow in the picture (your first example), or in the paragrap...
I don't understand the connection you're making here. If the question I'm asking of the dataset is "what is unenlightened saying?", then the repetitio...
Sorry if I'm being a bit slow, still not sure if you're talking about about meta-philosophy, or an attempt to tackle the entirety of philosophical inv...
That's interesting. Could you say what sort of interaction would indicate that people were interested in 'big-picture philosophy-as-a-whole' stuff? I ...
Ha! It was asking for it, it spilled my pint. Yes, that's it exactly. The essentialist rhetorically asks "Why are expressions of happiness (smiling, l...
I think that's really one of the important take-aways from the active inference model of emotional construction. Sufficient values from our environmen...
The point was a more general one (which I should perhaps have made clearer). There's tons of evidence, in general, covering when and how to use ventil...
Here. An number of regions are identified. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053811916303792 What I'm interested in is how you c...
That wasn't my intention, only to give you an idea of how both theories deal with involuntary responses. Both theories also deal with voluntary respon...
Thanks. I've had a look at the IEP and re-read the exchange in that light. It now makes a bit more sense, I think. You're saying that certain emotiona...
A documentary about documentaries is also a documentary. A poem about poetry is also a piece of poetry. A belief about a belief is nonetheless a belie...
That's quite a neat way of starting. Of course the fatality rate doesn't reduce linearly with the size of the the available cohort (it selects the mos...
No. The classical theory is that stimuli put the brain into a recognisable state (which can be labelled a particular emotion) which then either causes...
You might have already read this one already given your interest, but reading you two talk about language (I'm afraid much of which is going over my h...
Yeah, this seems a common misconception. That because the fatality rate is 1% it kills 1% of any population it's exposed to, as if the virus itself ha...
No luck finding the analysis I'm afraid. Shame because I'd be quite interested (albeit only academically), but to do it from multiple RRs even if I ha...
I don't think we'd have the data. What I'd need is the CFR (or better IFR) for a stratified set of cohorts. What we have from the Lancet study is the ...
Cohorts are technically exhausted the moment one person dies, the cohort {most likely to die from condition x} is fully exhausted as soon as someone d...
Your estimate is based on a misunderstanding of the statistics. 0.6% is not a target. It doesn't act as some kind of quota the virus is trying to fill...
Why not? Put it like this. If you want to insert a frequentist theory of probability into your epistemology - how many trials does it take until you d...
Yes, that's right. The point I was trying to make above is that making any conceptual/verbal representation of this snapshot summary that we label wit...
You may not know what the exact ratio is, but that would only matter in frequentist probability. Your mental models appear to be better explained by B...
2. I think this... ... is important to understand the implications of this model. One experiment done on generating responses in mice introduced an el...
... Barrett's point about cognitive systems maintaining allostasis is, I think, more than just a neuroscientific one. It emphasises the role of intero...
A couple of things that might be useful to bear in mind with this stuff. 1. Our valuation of the interoception/perception of stimuli is not idle journ...
I'm always wary of assigning positions to 'brainwashing'. Not because it's not appropriate, but because I don't think it's helpful. The mechanisms beh...
Yes, that's a better way of putting it from our (phenomenological?, never sure how to use that word properly) perspective. From a neuroscience perspec...
Barrett's theory has absolutely nothing to do with the mere act of labelling sensations. It's not about saying "this is not 'anger', this is 'anger'" ...
Yeah. I'm no expert in Bayesian mathematics, so I couldn't say if the actual function is expected to carried out that way, but insofar as it applies t...
Not with Bayesian probability it isn't. You don't know if the coin will land on heads or tails. That makes the probability 50/50. The error here is as...
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