I never said otherwise. Doesn't add up to: scientists presuppose a god. This might astonish you, but the choice isn't God or turtles. In fact, those a...
That doesn't follow. Even if Christians were the first monotheists (they weren't), and the first scientists (they weren't), the universe existed for s...
[ It's difficult to pin down exactly which parts of this are relevant to what you quoted. While there does seem to be plenty of excitement (don't get ...
Some individual scientists have, because science does not close its doors to the religious, and the religious see natural law as the will of God. Spea...
On the one hand, some states might be prematurely called on the basis of modelling that might well be excellent, but not 100% certain; on the other ha...
Well, let's compare: with things that, historically, science couldn't explain but now can, such as the blackbody radiation spectrum, or the stability ...
Not quite. Biden's lead is 41K, the uncounted votes number 68K. The modelling is more sophisticated than that; for instance, the uncounted votes are p...
Arizona was obviously premature, but when the remaining votes can't support one party, the other has won. That seems reasonable. If it's 100,000 to 80...
Oh too late. Looks like your idea of a good record with race -- White House support for violent white supremacists; the assault and arrest of peaceful...
I hope this inspires the Republicans to start backing other than the bent idiots and feckless facades they seem mostly addicted to these past several ...
They're anecdotes from the same dubious sources they're supposed to be evidence for. They don't pass any muster as evidence. But I do see what you mea...
Just the one that you're no doubt expecting... Quite clearly you cannot use the claims of a religion -- such as miracles -- as evidence for that relig...
How many Americans do we expect Trump will have killed on election Day by trying to convince people that postal votes might not be counted? A record n...
So as far as I can tell, the protests are currently: Democrats nationwide: Count Every Vote Republicans in states where Biden leads: Count Every Vote ...
But tricking people into thinking you've won doesn't serve any purpose in itself, since the vote goes on and the actual result will get declared anywa...
I think it's more that the Wheeler-Feynman (WF) theory automatically includes Type II. It's an addition to classical EM, yes, but you'd have to add so...
Things have properties. These properties a) dictate their behaviours and therefore b) distinguish them. For instance, we can distinguish a hot potato ...
Well, first you need a definition of consciousness that is distinct from unconscious, otherwise you're not making a meaningful claim. Then you study t...
I don't think that's shown, or right. If I believe Jon has blonde hair, I can positively affirm this. Rather, it is general laws, such as are sought i...
No, because those mental processes are physical. Hence my experience of red lunar sky jellyfish must be describable as physical processes of the brain...
My view is that it is a category error, that it is a sophisticated example of more generic phenomena, the category error being that if A is some kind ...
You are very histrionic, indeed disturbed individual. No, I reached that age where something isn't automatically true because a bunch of right-wing po...
Well, it was analogous, so I thought that would nail it. More explicitly, the contents of consciousness correlate immediately to mental processes, not...
I don't think this is explicit, but yeah it's basically the claim... there must be something of consciousness that is elementary and non-physical, oth...
No, I'm saying that you cannot justify your evil with the evil of others. Do you always call them brown people? Is that especially relevant? One of th...
In my experience, they're usually portrayed graphically as directed lines. It is understood this is not a literal pictorial representation, merely a c...
I was perhaps unclear. By the result of a process, I mean a single execution of some brain function, for instance V1. One of the things V1 is responsi...
It is a question in philosophy; I wouldn't go as far as to say it was legitimate. Dennett's philosophy is science-based; he is not obliged to consider...
A particle is any quantised phenomenon. A phonon -- a quantised vibration -- is a pseudo-particle, for instance, because it behaves like a particle ev...
That's not a definition of the hard problem I have heard of before. The formulation I've always come across is the one that might admit correlates of ...
If it's a process, surely it has a result. For instance, what would you call the single firing neurons in response to Halle Berry's face? If it is som...
Well, I'm not suggesting you must recognise the legitimacy of Dennett's view; I'm pointing out that it makes no sense to observe on the one hand that ...
But that again is merely your insistence that the hard problem is separable and distinct. You're not demonstrating that Dennett isn't answering the qu...
Yes, I think so too. And relearning how not to see, or hear in particular. Nonetheless, regarding: we can still separate data in a third person way in...
That's how I'm describing Dennett's position, which is also mine. I'm not arguing against irreducibility here myself, rather pointing out that it does...
His straight ahead answer is that it's not a distinct question, i.e. that consciousness arises from simpler processes described by answers to easier q...
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