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Pragmatically, recognizing that there are abstract levels of stuff supervening on other stuff is how humanity has been able to achieve the scientific ...

That's a lot of highly speculative ifs. Kim doesn't seem to think that consciousness requires strong emergence. He ends his book Physicalism, or Somet...

If you come up with something other than fallacious reasoning, get back to me. Just as a reminder, the question is, "What basis do you have to think t...

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Ah, so you have incredulity AND bluster. Not enough of a reasoned basis to mention?

How about answering my question? Do you have something more than incredulity for an argument?

Yeah, a latching relay could be used to implement a one bit memory, and may be more helpful in visualizing things discussed in the book.

What basis do you have to think that it is possible for a mind to exist, sans an information processing substrate for the mind to supervene upon?

I don't think this reasoning provides strong evidence for how probable abiogenesis is. Any protolife that developed today is apt to be seen as food by...

I'm not clear on what you want clarification of, but let my respond to the rest of your post and then let me know what might still be unaddressed. The...

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Phase isn't a particularly useful concept for thinking about the relationships between Q and ~Q. In the case where both Set and Reset are grounded, bo...

Very good! :up: I'll respond to the rest of your previous post later today.

Everyone else who has been involved in this discussions understands that the ball is accelerating continuously in the scenario under consideration. Yo...

And there, but for the fortuity of my circumstances, go I.

With additional tomato sauce for added binding lube? Or was your order for lubricated condoms?

To keep the explanation relatively simple it is easier to mostly ignore current flows and look at voltage levels in various places. However, I think i...

Yeah. Your point was recently hammered home for me on another forum by someone who wants to dichotomize everything into either physical things or abst...

I'll take a stab at trying to convey it without going into too much detail. Frequently memories are implemented in subcircuits which have a designed i...

Yes. It was striking the first time I underwent anesthesia - the difference in time sense between waking up from sleep and coming out of anesthesia.

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It is quite easy to quote what I actually said. I'll repeat it below with emphasis. Can you see that that I wasn't referring to "the mystics", but ins...

Resort to other senses. For example, if you see a pattern that looks like a mean dog, you can stick your face down by the dog face you are seeing and ...

No. The paper is too far over my head to grasp, without reading a lot more than the paper itself, and life is short.

MU has as much as said that his mind is closed to the extent that he can keep it so:

Ah, the irony. There are none so blind...

Have you looked at the original paper? (Which T Clark linked early in the thread.) I just took a look and the caption under the only picture of the Yi...

It doesn't predate computers built from relays as the 'bug link' I posted shows. I would think Spencer-Brown would have been well aware of this, and w...

Well computer memory is implemented in a variety of ways these days, but any modern computer is going to have some memory elements implemented as flip...

Isn't that a false dichotomy? Maybe a stunt to get a lot of attention to their paper? Maybe one of the researchers is into Taoism? Maybe a target that...

Wow, if someone implemented something like that we could have computers and an internet! Sorry, couldn't resist.

Things are not that simple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield

Hoping for that gives purpose to some of us.

O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! F...

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That's what I'm asking you, "What math?" You keep bringing up mathematical issues, such as infinity and division by zero, as if they are magic words m...

I agree. There is much we can't be certain about regarding the nature of reality. Still, we are talking about the way a physicalist sees things. It wa...

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I would correct your first two premises as follows: Physicalism claims that physical representations processes occuring in nature can account for ever...

Apparently, knowing "the truth" doesn't involve having very good reading comprehension. I didn't say anything about the Buddha or Lao Tzu. Let's talk ...

Not a liar, just naive, and in too many cases grandiose.

Not ureasonable I suppose, for someone with a lack of experience with science and scientists. However, regardless of how reasonably understood it migh...

Show your math.

NYTimes article:

https://www.quora.com/What-does-per-second-squared-mean

Good point, although I'm assuming that if there was DNA testing, it wasn't a whole genome sequencing of whatever DNA there was to test. A test that on...

That's a bit simplistic. True, insects are quite distant and the genetic distance is going to be relatively large for them. However the four animals i...

Off the top of my head I can't think of many easily observable examples of feedback outside of social interactions, so I think it is pretty natural th...

Black holes, gravitational lensing, and gravitational waves have all been observed and were predicted on GR. What do you mean by relativity theory not...

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