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Why think a mind is something that can exist without an information processing substrate to supervene upon? I.e. why think that a belief that God is m...

I saw what I responded to as platitudinal and surprising coming from you, so I engaged in conversational research. Don't worry about it. :cool:

No, I tried to make clear that I'm not assuming that the original story tellers had such a purpose, and make clear that I recognize a difference betwe...

Hopefully well engineered, to respond appropriately to worshippers of the porcelain god.

The evidence is in the multitude of different mutually contradictory stories. They can all be wrong, but they can't all be right. How implausible the ...

This is not uncontroversial. https://iep.utm.edu/lawofnat/: No, you simply conceive of the foundations of cosmology, physics, and chemistry differentl...

It hardly seems like self cancelling relativism to me - just a matter of the fact that people have different brains informed about different things. I...

I don't know what criterion of objectivity you are referring to. Have you read the letter referred to? It seems mostly concerned with the way the medi...

Do you think those "100 notable scientific researchers" would agree?

I took a look at the Wikipedia page for the book, and I didn't get a very flattering impression. The title didn't sound like something which someone w...

I think it makes a lot of sense, when I read "it" as "intuition". (or deep learning)

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:up: Some of my best work related thinking has ocurred when I'm not thinking about the topic, and possibly even while I was sleeping. It's commonly be...

Perhaps.

The don't access my mental image. Their brain creates their own mental image in response to perceiving my picture.

What gives you that idea?

By stimulating the other to develop their own mental image which is approximate to mine. Only an approximation, because I can't create pictures with a...

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Why not approximately inform others? I guess I wouldn't expect a painting to be anything other than an approximation of the painter's mental image.

I'm surprised the subject hasn't come up around here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdurantism:

I would expect that in painting the picture he'd likely recognize inaccuracies to the way the painting represents the mental image and recognize that ...

:up: I too would be interested in hearing more along those lines.

From my perspective it seems fairly obvious that we affect ourselves. For example, I realize that there is something I am interested in knowing more a...

I don't see things being affected by themselves as being incomprehensible at all. Can you elaborate on what seems almost incomprehensible to you about...

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Gnomon, I'm not going to spoon feed you. You can look up an explanation of "bit" on Wikipedia, just like anybody else. The context in which we are hav...

So are you saying it was a matter of pragmatic necessity? What primates felt they needed to do at the time?

I don't know what you mean by the word. Perhaps reading the following might help: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-varieties/

You are using "necessary" to explain what you mean by "necessary"? I guess it is time to move on to circular reasoning.

You didn't answer my question. So I don't know what you mean by "necessity". Do you?

In what sense do you mean "necessary"? Do you mean it in the sense of it being a matter of physical determinism? That would be an unusual position for...

OP stands for Original Post - the one you started this thread with. Have you looked into what constitutes a naturalistic fallacy? While you are at it ...

That's a lot of yammering to say that you still haven't learned what a bit is.

Have you tried licking the bottom of an ashtray before downing a shot of Jack?

Why would you think that? Showing you the problems would require you learning a lot. The naturalistic fallacy would be one place to start.

Oh my Gelos. Seriously, you have no idea what you are talking about, and I just got off work, so I'd appreciate it if you could take care of that your...

Quite blustery, but demonstration of more accurate understanding of Special Relativity is what I was hoping to see. So like I said, if you can provide...

But you won't find out why I think as I do, until you study special relativity well enough to know what you are talking about. So get back to me if th...

And you haven't answered the question. It's not called relativity for nothing. Yet it isn't hard to determine that a lot of thing are at rest with res...

Have you ever done the math? https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/691825/will-you-see-distance-contraction-inside-the-space-ship-at-near-light-...

You are mistaking the appearance of shape from different reference frames with each other. It is similar to saying a pencil isn't straight because whe...

Sure we can. We just can't achieve a perfect match between our representation of the world and the full detail of the way the world is. Every day, bil...

This seems to suggest that the notion of freedom depends on ignorance. Our brains model the world in ways we are largely ignorant of, and therefore ou...

A Youtube video presenting various sorts of natural synchronization.

So much grandiosity.

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In whose eyes?

There are a lot of difference between objects, and as likenesses go, "like a stone" leaves a bit out.

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Going back to Wigner's argument, and considering how reasonable or unreasonable the effectiveness of mathematics is... Our being here (from a naturali...