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I believe so, yes.

Computation as we know it or as we presently define it -- the mechanical stacking of 0's and 1's -- cannot cause consciousness. To think so is to make...

Oh no, what I say on one's cultural framework restricting the domain of what is "thinkable" only applies to other people. Moi? I speak for the entire ...

Of course they can discuss anything, but it's difficult to imagine the end of one's own world. People living in the Roman empire could hardly imagine ...

I guess it's hard to be specific about a post western world when one is born and raised in Canada, as is the case for the author. Maybe you want to gi...

You might appreciate this diatribe in Al Jazeera: The future is post-Western This current chapter of Western-run human history must be flung shut. Yan...

Good New Yorker article about the way the Russian propaganda machine is structured and functions: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communicati...

I don't know. The idea is that the brain is a brainwaves transponder.

Me think there is merit to the idea that we are our brainwaves.

And now for a waltz, a rarity in pop music. Joe Jackson - Forty Years (On the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II) Here in Berlin People line ...

"Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter. It plans to export more of the grain in the new (July) marketing season due to a large harvest and stoc...

This i see as Witty's greatest failing. Linguists are better at cracking those language nuts than philosophers, IMO. I also note that dictionaries exi...

My prognosis is: North Africa, Egypt, the Indian subcontinent, a number of African countries strongly relying on world markets, and poor island states...

This a food price crisis, and I would think that as such, it will hit poor countries that are net importers of staple food. There's a long list of tho...

Comment: another aspect of the war is evidently economical, with far reaching consequences. (not sure that this comment was particularly illuminating ...

Joe Jackson - 40 Years https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbBRHNjyuE (contribution to the thread's soundtrack)

As I said, it's not different from posting anything else. You can ask me questions about what the journalist meant.

It's about a post-UN world, where there's nothing left of the old allies' dreams of collective security. The end of human rights as "normative" (as th...

More precisely, what,s interesting and unlikely to have been reported in mainstream English language sources. Who as you know are quite narrow-mindedl...

Sure, but they wont attract one's attention to interesting content. I mean, you never post from an English language news site? What's the essential di...

Because I read the French press, and they don't.

It may well be the case. I encourage you to post English versions of interesting Swedish articles here, if you care. I kind of agree with the peace lo...

I agree with your description. But isn't there something more to 'thinking' than mechanical logic? I think Niels Bohr said to Einstein once: "you're n...

Summer has set in here in Roma, Italia. While I sip from my Peroni at a bar terrace, I lazily read through your excellent wikipedia summeries... Thank...

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I don't think you work for the FSB, other than pro bono. I believe @"boethius" does. He's far better at it than you will ever be.

Good metaphor. I would say a computer is still a sort of clutch. It doesn't really do the work for you, it just assists. Like an abacus cannot count, ...

And they still have the know-how. Technically speaking, the Ukrainians could build nuclear missiles tomorrow. The problem would be access to military ...

Perhaps for the same reason than an abacus can help you count, but will never help you think. A computer is basically a sophisticated abacus, right? I...

More likely, the sequence reflects what was necessary or possible. You cannot invent syntax before vocabulary, because the latter is needed for the fo...

That does not follow, though, because evolution did not have to mimick computer science. My understanding is that apes and even birds have a vocabular...

Stop lying. I never said it was a good idea. Only that if Russia nukes Ukraine, as you fantacized about, then Ukraine might be able to retaliate. I ge...

It's done every single day. The contempt, the ignorance, the crass stupidity with which the UK treats a neighbouring country as if it was their doorma...

Yes, in the same way that one day, neuroscience will eventually be explained by neuroscience.

You mean, the way the Brits forgot all their crimes in Ireland? https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/english-ignorance-about-ireland-just-...

Some people here do, and they might found your cynicism offensive. Just so you know.

And you can tell because?

You shouldn't really. They are wasted on you.

I am telling the truth. Street has condoned terrorism against French people. It's up there, unless the mods deleted it. That's how much the guy cares ...

I am not interested. Have a good day.

Then why are so many trying to emigrate there, or in Europe?

You should read his posts then, not I. I've read enough, you haven't.

I am not really interested in reading the posts of a person who supports terrorism and mass murder, thank you.

Street shows signs of worsening agitation. I'm afraid he's gona blow a gasket.

Maybe it's harder for me to give up on a discussion than it should be. In any case you've long adopted the only sane and effective approach re. our mo...

Russian recruiting offices attacked with Molotov cocktails Twelve fires have targeted buildings used for army recruitment, as testimonies of army rese...

Or just post interesting material... :-) Ukraine's triumphant rhetoric faces limits on the ground According to experts, foreign weapons deliveries are...

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There's another solution: fight with the proverbial pig in the proverbial mud. I used to be good at that. :-)

But then, if we already know who's trolling, do we need some infamous mark? Can't we just not feed them, as @"SophistiCat" is saying? The discussion d...