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Keep thinking about it.

Might that be because you equate "logic" with "thought"?

Yes, that is kind of the point. When you understand logic you understand that any meaning it has is a logical consequence of the inputs to the logic, ...

A hymn of the technoreligion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg

Yeah, I can appreciate such possibilities, but I can imagine a lot of dangers humanity is woefully unprepared to understand.

Sure, but in light of the metabolic cost of useless brain tissue we have reason to understand that carrying around superfluous brain should be activel...

I suspect you are confusing volts with electronvolts:

Why would we think wanting is rational? :wink: I just asked the question in hopes of thinkers thinking about it. I'm more interested in hearing other'...

I don't know the limits of scientific investigation, but I certainly think it can be much better understood than it is now. It's a heavily interdiscip...

Right. Brain tissue is metabolically expensive and it doesn't make sense in evolutionary terms that neurology supporting non-causal consciousness woul...

Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/jenna-ellis-fulton-county/index.html

I don't know.

It's rather apples and oranges, and I don't see it as making much sense to compare the value of them. A combination of the two seems likely to be supe...

I would have voted for the first option: ...except that I see epiphenomenalism as based on simplistic thinking. My view is similar to the view Peter T...

Speculation has always been part of science. Informed speculation is where hypotheses come from, and consideration of the speculations of scientifical...

I didn't suggest that the reviews were propagating the genetic fallacy. I said, "...it looks like you are promoting a genetic fallacy..." ...by bringi...

None of the above.

Thanks. However neither of those reviews have to do with the article I linked. So it looks like you are promoting a genetic fallacy:

BTW, this article (which @"Luke" started a thread about awhile back) touches on related stuff.

But you aren't informed about rigorous scientific inquiry on this subject. So your point is moot, and you can only offer your ignorant opinion.

For me it has been a quite fruitful and useful in understanding being on the autism spectrum and understanding humanity more generally. It's understan...

There is much that can be learned about differences between rocks, and organisms which have evolved sense organs and brains. Perhaps a lack of such le...

I would think an important aspect of it is that more neural net resources allow for more detailed memories. (Somewhat analogous might be the qualitati...

This 2021 article says that sponges don't have neurons but do have cells that may have some neuron like functionality. However, the investigation is v...

Well, in proper Merican it's "whole nother".

:up: I might respond further later, but for now I want to say I appreciate the thoughtful response.

Was reading through this thread, and it was so pleasant to finally read a post where someone recognized this. Yes, the process of evolution has been e...

That made me think of this video. I'd be interested in hearing what you think of it.

:rofl:

"Science" is an abstraction. Right? It's people who pursue truths. Scientific or otherwise. Right?

I don't believe things have intrinsic value, though I understand that I see things as valuable like I see things as yellow. It is an aspect of the sor...

Try this. Suppose your impression of things as valuable is like your impression that things have color - an aspect of how your brain models the world....

Poetic, but it doesn't come across to me as a response coming from having seriously considered the question. "Domain of the possible"? Is that a metap...

:cool: :snicker:

I wonder if we are about to see a race to see who can get their plea bargaining done before that door closes.

Chesebro... Another one bites the dust.

The state of a brain seems a pretty key factor. Yeah, a lot of other sciences besides physics are important in developing understanding. So yes they a...

It's also associated with claims of horrendous things being divinely commanded.

What do you mean by 'exactly'? I've grown to think more and more like Feynman: I think you most likely have an intuitive sense of what people mean by ...

You seem to simply beg the question that intentionality can exist without physicality. The problem is that you can't provide any evidence of intention...

:100:

To take that a little farther, suppose you ask your spouse to remind you of something which you subsequently forget. It is only due to your spouse's t...

I don't see wisdom as a binary matter. I see degrees of wisdom, in different ways, in a lot of people. Was Aristotle committing a nirvana fallacy?

Ah ok. As far as the way light spectrums are symbolized in our minds with the qualia we experience, that is certainly less well understood, and I susp...

This aspects of our visual system is pretty well understood. There is a somewhat complicated relationship between the wavelengths arriving at a spot o...

Great thread topic!

I will be the technopope, so you can breath easy. :naughty:

You haven't established that thinking of mathematical concepts can occur without supervening on matter. You seem to simply be considering a "subject" ...

"Supervene" is a pragmatic word for considering things from a more simplistic but useful view. For example I can usefully discuss the workings of logi...

One problem I see with the Laws metaphor is related to whether or not there are real physical properties of things. Does an electron have charge, spin...