It looks like what you've hit upon here is indeed some inadvertent self-insight. On the whole, people don't seem to be posting to generate or manifest...
Subjective experience is as much generated by the mind as by the environment. EDIT: That was rather brief and meh, apologies. Point being the subjecti...
Yeah, Rosenbaum had bipolar disorder which led to a... colourful history, including a stint in prison for a sex offence against a minor. So I guess he...
Well put Wajahat Ali. Police shooting an unarmed black man in the back because they thought he might have a knife: fine. Police shooting or courts pun...
I think it's time I watch all of Twin Peaks again, it's been a few months now. Great choice! I enjoyed Get Back (the 8 hour version) much more than Ge...
Yeah, or just as you get older, or after certain experiences, or from different standpoints or cultures. I hear music in its parts more because I have...
Oh you're saying he wanted to kill white people? Well, he went to a black rights protest with a -- ahem -- automatic rifle, but yes he did have more o...
Ah, metaphysics... The world's your lobster! A lot of those cultural differences derive from different dances (again, Adam Neely is really insightful ...
Yes, me too. If I've spent hours, days, weeks on an idea I wish to share on here, it's not whimsy. However I'd still rather it be torn apart than spen...
Probably not. We might admire passion, argument with a hammer, etc. but it's difficult to see an upside to it in and of itself. My view... Anger is a ...
And to repeat, rationalising why you did it doesn't mean you didn't really do it. And you don't _seem_ to be unconcerned on being pulled up on it give...
Stating others' opinions for them without surveying them at all, even to bolster your argument, is dismissive. It also shows a lack in theory of mind....
Yes. you are pre-emptively dismissing the opinions of others by replacing them with your own. If you're against dismissing opinions, why not find out ...
NOS has more or less stated that the kinds of human rights governments uphold are violations of the kinds of rights he believes in. He basically wants...
I think it's a question of the reliability of the evidence. One of the key features of miracles is that they're not reproducible. The Stern-Gerlach ex...
Well yes, that too haha And there's another problem. We _like_ confusion. The history of science is predicated on the attraction of surprise and confu...
No, that's a red herring of my own making. I think the theory is incoherent for needing to give rise to opposite predictions at different (what the ar...
I feel really bad for you and your sister. Before hitting the "ethical conundrum", it's maybe worth considering whether, even with sacrifice by yourse...
Why do you think that dopamine response evolved? Why do you think children are naturally drawn to novelty? Just for the luls? It's there to maximise i...
That has absolutely nothing to do with it. I'm not arguing against Bayesian mechanics. Not liking turkey doesn't make me a vegetarian. Again, the defi...
Any kind of science needs to be driven by evidence, not a desire for totalising unity. We do not accept theory on the grounds that it's neat, but on i...
Sorry, that was descriptive, not prescriptive. I was describing what progressive nations are doing now. Fair point. I've been thinking a lot about how...
Why activity in an integrated system is integrated with other activity in that system isn't begging for an answer. The how is still interesting. We do...
According to them. But it sure seems like that from the outside, including in Chalmers' case. There's nothing weird about that. Neurons aren't firing ...
I'm guessing not the kind like though, or the objective musical landscapes in and of themselves. One of the interesting things about music is that how...
Sure. I guess my response to that in particular is it would probably end up being absorbed by science one way or another. It steals the good bits of e...
Musical language is built around metaphor. A note can be "sharp" or "flat". A chord can be "crunchy" or "spicy". A harmony can be "warm" or "cold". A ...
A month late, but a) :up: and b) I'd go further. The explanatory gap is itself an invalid preconception of what the answer must be, based on a prejudi...
That would likely happen quite naturally. The key to keeping wages low is to ensure that there are more people than jobs to give them. It becomes an e...
Indeed: and The problem is in trying to model all human behaviour according to one general rule when in fact it is an interplay between many physical ...
The pertinent parts of the article: and This is the notion of surprise I and (I think) are talking about. The brain models its environment based on pa...
Going back to the OP: With our without pink elephants and interesting edge cases, it isn't true that we minimise surprise in the way Banno is suggesti...
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