If anything can be shared, how do we know that we're sharing the same thing or not? What did you intend when you use the word, "duck"? Using something...
The reason that the brain patterns are similar during REM and being awake is because you are dreaming. Where does dreaming take place - if not in your...
So when certain parts of the brain are damaged and it affects your ability to recognize faces, speak, etc., but when the whole brain dies you are able...
A real pattern on a pancake. What's the problem? Every pancake is unique- meaning they have unique patterns, just like fingerprints and neural wiring....
This makes no sense. If the brain is physical, then why wouldn't patterns of brain activity not be physical? What is the difference between physical a...
If you think that your voting power is equal to the power of just one politician, who also has the power to vote and then some, then you are delusiona...
Raising the bar for those that weild the power isn't necessarily lowering it for others. Those without power don't have any responsibility in weilding...
It depends on you knowing that you're misinformed. It also puts the burden on voters to find the truth rather than the burden be on the politicians to...
The ones that benefit from you voting for them and not the other guy. It is in the politicians best interest to get you to think that only one party o...
It only gets them votes from their party members. No one tries to cross party lines any more. It seems to me that most independents are the ones that ...
What would that shared reason be? Read your own post: So the word, "duck" points to what you learned, just as how you use a bicycle points to how you ...
There are many rules of logic and some are more fundamental than others, like the law of non-contradiction, excluded middle, and identity. It seems to...
Yet drugs and damage to the brain causes a change in consciousness. Why do we need a brain then, or even a body? When you look at others, why is the o...
Sounds like thinking occurred before language-use to me. Understanding that there are tools to be used is the precursor to using words as a tool. Is n...
Once rhe brain is deprived of oxygen cell death occurs. Then where does your consciousness go when you're asleep? And how does it come back when you w...
So the sound of someone gagging is a word? We can use anything to point to something else. We could use a hand gesture of pointing your finger down yo...
You are't going to be intellectually honest either, I see. The question is simple, so stop trying to skew it into something that I did not ask. Who, o...
And (I believe) it was my first reply to this thread that words aren't defined by other words, as they can be defined by pictures. I also asked if we ...
The limitations of these apes seems to be related more with memory capacity and attention span, not necessarily logic. If an ape were to read a long s...
Most governments in history have not been shaped by its people, rather shaped by a select few, or just one person. Its comes down to how much power sh...
And claiming that they are is begging the question, so why don't you and Issac brainstorm and come up with a definition of "word". What makes a partic...
What if the mind is the brain, or vice versa? In this sense the mind weighs as much as the brain. By measuring the weight of your brain and nervous sy...
There's a simple distinction between science and religion. Religion is where you believe stuff without evidence Then apes do science. What's so absurd...
So you're falling back on your prior comments and now disagreeing with Streetlight? Can you please be consistent because if you're not, you're not usi...
Then you don't actually think, even though you're saying it, that I'm wrong and you're right. Is the state of affairs of you being right and me being ...
is not Issac pointing to some state of affairs like everything falling into a parentheses list, and by doing so isn't he pointing to some relationship...
Correlation, pointing - what's the difference? And the fact that what one word correlates with/points to doesn't necessarily have to be the same for e...
If "used" doesn't mean "pointing" then what do you mean by use? If meaning is use and I use words to point, then what's the problem? You seem to think...
Strange that this wall of scribbles seems to be trying to point to all sorts of stuff that isn't other scribbles, like mental states, pointing at pict...
Ok, then why don't we say "good-bye" when starting a conversation? Why should it matter whether or not we make the sound, "hello" or "good-bye" when s...
Then all it takes for a scribble or sound to be a word is for someone to assert it is a word? If that's the case, then "Zeritiustk 1( 4%as buttto----a...
Then you misinterpreted my first statement. It was my assertion all along that humans are not special or different from other species in having unique...
Hello. This is a scribble or sound used to point to the start of communication, similar to how computers establish "handshakes" with each other across...
So questioning whether freedom is a curse or not qualifies as trolling? I find that most "philosophers" can't seem to be consistent from one branch of...
Like I was asking Banno, when thinking about unicorns, what are you thinking about- an image of scribbles "unicorn" or the image of a horse with a hor...
"Natural" and "unnatural" are just words, but words need to refer to consistent and non-contradictory things and relationships for them to mean anythi...
Strange. I would have thought carrying the bricks would be the curse and finally questioning why you're doing it would be breaking free of that curse....
Then what is natural cant be anything and everything any other animal does. What scientific theory states that philosophy and mass-suicide are unnatur...
True. We could be talking about different things. You seem to be implying that mass-suicide by gassing is unnatural, as if because humans do something...
Who says modern civilization is unnatural? Modern civilization is natural given that humans themselves are natural outcomes of natural processes. You ...
Pointing is a use. What other uses does a word have? Does a word ( a sound/scribble) point to its definition (more scribbles and sounds)? If so, then ...
What does it mean for a quantum state to be both on and off as opposed to saying it is neither on or off? On and off could just be different views/mea...
Stuart Hameroff holds that the brain is a type of quantum computer, therefore his theory contradicts Penrose's theory that consciousness isn't a type ...
It seems to me that two things can have the same purpose yet still be different, so purpose doesn't define some thing's identity. Does defining your p...
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