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Let me recheck. I have a computer program that searches the forum and does data analysis ................ ...............................................

Yes, this ties in with my discussion of the BoK I've developed with my work. That is my primary effectiveness as an engineer. I see connections that o...

Yes, of course, but I did say "or at least knowledgeable." And with knowledge often comes some perspective at least, even among bozos. But then, I thi...

I agree with @"Matias", this is very different from the anti-natalism discussions. His approach is from a different direction and is more human and hu...

Yes, and, for me, the important part is that is it is all happening at once. It's not one little fact and one little observation - it's everything I'v...

Your narrative feels like what I was describing, the development of a body of knowledge, in your case a political/historical one. It had a visual feel...

I took a look and ordered from Amazon. I'll see if he has any insights that will be helpful for me. Thanks.

Mild rhetorical jibe. Maybe I should be ashamed of myself.... Nah, I've done much worse.

I'm not a materialist either, and I know enough about the ole "hard problem of consciousness" schtick to know we can't come to any agreement. And, yes...

You've already stipulated that an electronic device, a computer, can simulate mental processes. What is a computer? It is a device with many connectio...

Sounds interesting. I looked the book up on Amazon and Tallis up on Wikipedia. The book is on my list for future reading. Thanks. For me, the importan...

He said with no justification. Anyway, how is that different from pulleys and ropes?

It's not really a brain that's conscious. It's the whole body. Of course the mind is an important, the most important, element, but the rest of the ne...

Thought this was interesting. From "Psychology Today" an unimpeachable source on human behavior: "Research suggests that less than 4 percent of mass s...

This is an over-simplistic description of why time is considered a dimension. I just happened on this essay by Ethan Siegel. He has a regular column -...

I think this is a pretty good description of the impasse we find ourselves at. All I can say is "I don't get it." Biology doesn't describe subjective ...

As I've said, I disagree with this statement.

Yeah, but there's still a ball in the box. No, no. Wait. Forget that. I don't want to get into another one of our nitpicky arguments about this. I mad...

I don't find that a convincing argument.

Explain please.

That's a good point, and true to a point. What struck me in Hitchens's essay, and in the posts from @"PoeticUniverse" and @"Gnostic Christian Bishop",...

Thought you and @"PoeticUniverse" might like this. These are lyrics from one of my favorite Randy Newman songs - "That's Why I Love Mankind." God is s...

So, your answer is yes, your only intention is to insult God and the people who worship him. As I said, that doesn't have anything to do with whether ...

I had read a lot about Christopher Hitchens, how good an essayist and thinker he was. He was well known as an atheist, but he was considered a public ...

I think this is relevant. I hope so. Stephen Jay Gould, my favorite non-fiction writer, wrote an essay called "Mozart and Modularity," which was publi...

I've mostly dropped out of this discussion because I think I've probably said all I have to say without repeating myself. I have dropped in from time ...

I thought we had. When @"khaled" admitted he was wrong, I thought we were done. Yes, @"khaled", I’m joking.

I would appreciate restoration of the thread. As usual, I try to have no position on bannings and, in most cases, I succeed.

And, as usual, I was brilliant.

I just asked this question over on The Shoutbox. Is that why the whole "Emphasizing the Connection Perspective" thread was deleted? It was a really in...

@"Baden", @"StreetlightX", @"fdrake", @"Michael" Boy, the forum is full of moderators tonight. This morning. It appears "Emphasizing the Connection Pe...

I started reading "Antifragile" and got about 25% through before I gave up. If you look at the three star reviews in Amazon, the mostly say the same t...

My son has a strong interest in beer. He trades it and stands in line at breweries for hours to get the new batch. He lets me try all sorts of beers, ...

I suggest you take a look at the Tao Te Ching. You can read the whole thing in an hour and it's broken up into 80 short verses. Free on the web. Look ...

In case you haven't seen it, in another response I told Khaled that my primary source was "The Feeling of What Happens" by Antonio Damasio.

yclept - Named. By the name of.

In Delaware, if the alcohol content is above a certain level, 6% if I remember correctly, it has to be served in a wine glass. That's what they told m...

And plums and cherries and red wine and pickles. I'm no konoyseyer. I just want my beer to taste like .... beer.

Based on what I read here, your understanding of the nature of reality and consciousness's role in creating it is the closest to mine I've encountered...

I've been thinking of bringing this up, i.e. that human consciousness is not just internal experience. It also manifests as observable behavior. I thi...

Woody Allen said "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." Why did I think of that when I read you...

I think you're making too much out of this, although we could probably say that about 95% of the threads on the forum. A rhetorical question is just t...

How about a 6 month moratorium on threads about free will. Just put "free will" in the spam filter. Of course, that would screen out any references to...

I would think that not knowing who the Borg are would be a banning offense. If Timeline were still a moderator, you'd definitely be OFD.

I don't really want to get in a discussion of LEM unless it has something to do with the issue being discussed, which is....something to do with consc...

I don't know what "the committee nature of self" is, but I like your idea. Going a bit further in the same direction, I like the idea of a rhetorical ...

I believe this saying was used specifically to argue that assertions of the existence of God do not have to be taken seriously, although it certainly ...

Are all of you as tired of my responses as I am of writing them? I agree with what you've written, but I think you and I are missing something that bo...

I can juggle and whistle at the same time. Does that violate the Law of the Excluded Middle? Actually, I can't juggle. Also, LEM applies to propositio...

I don't see any reason to believe that human consciousness is any different from any other mental process. Meaning isn't something inherent in mental ...