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Grapefruit also inhibits the enzyme in your body which breaks down Viagra, so when your really need an erection lasting more than four hours...

So, since the subconscious mind is not conscious (by definition) consciousness is not required for the creation of ideas? I'm going to bow out of this...

Now you've shifted the goal post, from creating new ideas, to being conscious of new ideas. Why think consciousness of an idea is necessary for an ide...

I note that you backpeddled away from saying talking about ideas is not possible on physicalism since I think few informed people would claim that Cha...

How does ChatGPT do it?

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One can recognize that events aren't meeting expectations and recognize that beliefs leading to those expectations were somehow mistaken. It's not obv...

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It seems Australian Baptists have a very different perspective from USian Baptists. I think many USians Baptists would likely declare the Baptist trad...

Of course Kant was wrong about that. We all have unique brains and it is the regularities to the world and language use that allow our idiosyncratic b...

This doesn't suggest that you are willing to consider the possibility that you (and a great many others) are misunderstanding things. The mind deals i...

That's just your strawmanning of naturalism. I could talk of all sorts of ways we are different from other animals. Language use and cultural evolutio...

have you seen the first Existential Comic?

To me it seems likely that improved and more widespread knowledge of our natures is the best hope humanity has for avoiding the bleakness that the den...

I expect we'll all just continue acting like the social primates that we are, despite efforts on the part of many to deny our nature.

Conveniently for physicalism, the fact that we have individual brains that are not neurally interconnected with the brains of other people seems to ex...

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It seems notable that the analogies you use (family, superorganism) are complex. Those seem like problematic analogies, for a God that is supposedly s...

It seems to me that a serious problem for such a notion is that our conscious minds have no conscious knowledge of how to work such an interface. Do y...

Understanding that pattern recognition, arising from neural nets taking inputs from senses, can result in recognition of relations (e.g. mathematical ...

Well, to have a normal modern human's capacity for thinking thoughts, a lot of brains over the course of history have been needed.

Not a property at all, or a property of Lois rather than a property of Clark?

Why unfortunate?

Some here may find the history of investigation of the Voynich Manuscript interesting.

This is not an accurate description in the case of neurons, many of which persist from birth: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/public-educ...

The rotations of the needles with respect to the lines results in a 'circular' element to the probability. So ? showing up in the probability is unsur...

I'm not an RF engineer, but the wavelength of an 80Hz oscillation is ~3700 km (with the wavelength of lower frequency brainwave components being even ...

Self consistent, and oftentimes with low correspondence to reality. Perhaps, something to watch out for.

It seems I can't access the file without giving out identifying information I don't want to give out.

As an EE myself, I have to say that sounds to me like pseudoscience. Welcome to the forum.

This seems like a surprising conclusion to me, as I would say that both humans and LLM's require going through a lot of complex inner states in order ...

Perhaps it would be worth considering the twin paradox. The two twins do not see the same thing, yet the observations of each twin occurs in accordanc...

Why think that there are any unnaturally occurring objects?

This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster

Easy enough guess in the case of Mww, but one can also quote and Google "The usual test, whether that which any one maintains is merely his persuasion...

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We don't know, but so what?

As an electrical engineer (who routinely makes use of my understanding of the regularities of nature to design things that I wouldn't have any reason ...

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I was alluding to your statement: A process of subconsiously occuring deep learning.

FWIW, what you describe here is quite consistent with deep learning occuring in the neural networks of our brains. So, based on neuroscience, there is...

What do you mean by a mountain's measurement of time, if not sensory information? You talk as if the mountain of your imagination has a flicker fusion...

Do you feel better now that you've gotten some narcissistic supply?

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Seems to me the following sentence answered your question.

People who live in societies where such theists are trying to set the government agenda have good reason to be concerned with the thinking of such peo...

In what sense do you think this is a requirement?

I'd suggest it is a law about use of language which is truth preserving. I'd also suggest that there are patterns to language which preserves truth; t...

Of course humans are often irrational, and not as a matter of choice. Anyway... The “Unintelligent Design” of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Non-eliminativist physicalists don't assume the physical world to be totally mindless of course (unless the minds under discussion are defined as bein...