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This ignores the fact that some aspects of science are far more speculative than others, and that a binary distinction between mostly correct and most...

It seems to me there is a problem with you being a Boltzmann brain and yet so predictable. Should we expect that if you are a BB? Where's the batty?

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It's a philosophy course. Why think it is "in the context of neuroscience"?

How far along is your daughter in her study of neuroscience? Bringing up the Hume quote is good, but can your daughter then make a case for it not bei...

So it seems to me.

And yet here you argue that you don't know anything about the world around you. So I don't know why we should take you seriously when you talk about e...

Hopefully your philosophy poisoning isn't so deep that you can't recover.

Casimir effect:

What is the light reflected/refracted by?

Well, there are lots of ideas of ideas of Sherlock Holmes instantiated in lots of people's brains. But what seems to go beyond something instantiated ...

From ny physicalist perspective you are equivocating between an idea as instantiated in a brain, and what the idea refers to.

And it is like you don't recognize that your ignorance makes your opinion on the matter uninteresting, and tedious to respond to.

At least we can agree on that.

It is too soon for anyone to be justified in calling something a scientific theory of consciousness. However, speculation plays an important part in h...

This just shows your ignorance of the technological challenges in the way of gaining detailed information about neurological processes. So it doesn't ...

Can you provide any reason to think that you aren't making an argument from ignorance?

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Seems important to bother with, in serious consideration of emergence.

No the chemical properties are not exactly the same. For example, the pH of heavy water is 7.44 instead of 7.0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_...

It seems that you were taught a simplistic version of chemistry. https://www.isowater.com/what-is-deuterium-oxide-heavy-water/

Typically the form of energy, which shows up as entropic losses of a system, is in the form of heat. There is nothing all that mysterious about such h...

I'm afraid that a lot of time spent in these sorts of dicussions has taught me to interpret statements like that as you sticking your fingers in your ...

You had said there were "unique" features, so I was curious as to support for this uniqueness.

Can you provide a reference? The article Buddha's Brain: Neuroplasticity and Meditation says, "When the framework of neuroplasticity is applied to med...

This touches on my interest in intuition, understood as deep learning in neural networks. It seems to me that there are two seperate issues involved. ...

I was hoping you would start the thread. :wink: I'm better at riffing off things others have said. It's not clear to me how I would start such an OP w...

I'm moving this discussion back to this thread where it is more appropriate. Again, I brought up young earth creationism as an example of science deni...

Evolution and cosmology were examples pertinent to young earth creationism cases of science denial. Do you still deny that there is scientific evidenc...

"The philosophical problem of other minds", seem to me to be more a problem that some people have that is caused by philosophy rather than something t...

@"BC" Picked up some salami, and remembered to look for limburger. Not a great pairing in the same bite, but not bad as alternating flavors. It did re...

Yes, a topic I am quite interested in. It would be a good thread topic I think.

Yes! Give in to the nerd side.

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So perhaps the monkey's behavior arises from evolved instincts conducive to training conspecifics not to be bad persons? Could the answer to your ques...

I'd suggest something more like, "It tends to take a substantial amount of life experience for humans to recognize and weed out naive intuitions suffi...

I don't know with any precision how you think of "judgement" in this context, but it seems unlikely to me that your view of what happens in such scena...

That is self aggrandizement. You were compared to a YEC for claiming there is no scientific evidence for the view you are opposed to. See your stateme...

Why does the monkey throw the cucumber, if the researcher is not a bad person? https://youtu.be/meiU6TxysCg?si=9o-oEKG_DJKvI5xe

A deepity? What is your point?

https://chat.openai.com/share/c5d5be26-4ed6-461b-9dcd-bf6771ec9008

Sure, and if I had written something along those lines myself, you would have said it is too long.

https://chat.openai.com/share/db2ac20a-cb37-45cd-8f22-95e9

Pretty typical religious science denial, with hoops to jump through thrown in. I'm not really interested in doing much more at this point than pointin...

Do you seriously think there is no scientific evidence that minds are a result of physical neurological processes? Even a lot of Christian fundamental...

I'm afraid this is indicative to me, of you not knowing much about the evidence. The scientific evidence is rather overwhelming. But then most people ...

I don't see myself as dismissing claims as simply disposition, and I certainly hope not in bad faith. To me it just seems there is an awfully well evi...

I suppose one significant factor is that the dispositions of others are fairly invisible to us on superficial observation. I'd think most of us tend t...

Wow! That's some unusual career experience. :rofl:

Speaking of ridiculous... https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/media/taylor-swift-super-bowl-right-wing-conspiracy/index.html Unfortunately it doesn't seem ...