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That there are drivers other than the main drivers doesn't seem like a surprising thing to find, in light of a an up to date view on evolution. It is ...

I'd think it would be much more realistic to say, "My neighbor only changes my belief if my intuitions about my neighbor are such that I trust him in ...

Your neighbor changed your belief.

Even the randomness of mutations is questionable, and is being investigated moreso these days, due to the availability of modern technologies. https:/...

Well no. I was asking a question regarding the following claim. Do you understand the role that natural selection plays in evolution, and that natural...

Where did you get that impression?

It seems to me that it is the association between teleology and the anti-intellectualism of modern day religious creationist, who attempt to keep peop...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial

I guess you don't want to hear about when I was a kid holding the port side legs of a piglet, while my brother handled the starboard side, and my fath...

Appeal to consequences?

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Is inductive reasoning what you mean by "empirical logic"?

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062021/agriculture-greenhouse-gas-emissions-food-production-climate-change-paris-agreement/

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Talk about multiorgasmic!

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It is impressive what Llama 3 can do on such readily available hardware, but yes, Claude's response is so much better.

"Strange" isn't the word I would use, but yeah.

I think the tendency to blame is innate, and it seems unrealistic to me to think we will "jettison" such an innate tendency. I'd think at best humanit...

It sounds like you might appreciate The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation by Peter Tse.

Seems rather weak. As best I can tell from that article, the claim is based on detecting activity in the occipital lobe of people born blind. (As well...

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1782794621678145614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1782794621678145614%7Ctwgr%5E7413ca...

Think how much greater than five sigma confidence people would have to have in all those distal objects such as measurement instruments, computers, an...

This just seems another example of how this discussion doesn't seem to be about much more than semantic preferences. It is quite consistent with scien...

Neither of those say, "human life can be ultimately reduced to, and explained in terms of, the fundamental drives that characterise all other existenc...

Looks like misrepresentation to me. Citations?

Is that some UKian agricultural usage which is very different from USian usage?

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That seems non-productively reductionist to me.

It seems to me that some elaboration is needed, on what you mean by "constituent". If I see a cow, the distal object is a part of the causal web of ev...

The fact that we are in the position of only making somewhat educated guesses as to how consciousness emerges, for one thing. I've designed electronic...

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Light her up, as an evil spirit I think.

As compared to what? The religious attitude? Can you hear the bigotry in the phrase "the scientific attitude"? Do you not recognize scientists as indi...

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And BTW... Good to see you! :grin:

I agree that Claude 3 style is awfully cloying. Still, assuming @"Pierre-Normand" didn't bring up conspiracy theorists to Claude 3, I am quite impress...

Well, that link is to a chapter of Stephen Law's book, Believing Bullshit. :wink:

You left off, "...to a reasonable person." Unfortunately Chet's schtick is going nuclear all of the time.

Right. There are similarities and difference between the biological and the artificial in the case of wings and neural nets. Still, we see effective i...

Thanks immensely for running that by Claude 3! (Despite the fact that Claude 3 is giving away the persuasive secrets to my methodological madness. :wi...

Not 'perfectly rational', just 'rational enough'. Evolution has many Rube Goldberg like results.

No need to panic until someone from the future leaves behind neuromorphic hardware. (Or we develop practical neuromorphic hardware ourselves.)

:up: Beautiful cinematography.

I'm certainly not making any promises that artificial neural nets will ever be conscious in the sense that we are. However, my point was about the rel...

Unfortunately, Youtube says the video is unavailable.

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Interesting thought. I would think that there is a sort of evolutionistic survival of the fittest going on in our brains, at the level of different ne...