wonderer1

My voice is so deep that it is inaudible, other than to elephants and whales. I have to speak in falsetto so as to not to be anonymous. True story.

Do you think the fizzling might be somewhat a consequence of excessive politesse on your part? I suspect that as a psychology professor you have insig...

Or frame of reference, which I suppose is pretty close to the same thing.

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Ooh! An even more fashionable ending for posts. I like it.

The point I was addressing was the falsity to your claim that, "I agree with Chalmers, on the grounds that objective physical sciences exclude the fir...

Dang it!

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I'm in.

Unfortunately, nowadays the opening lyrics make me picture Trump.

The bastard! If I ever encounter the guy who stole "wonderer"...

I don't see any good reason to look at it in black and white terms. I don't see reading as defined by not making any errors. Consider the varying inte...

I suppose I should have asked where you draw a line between physical sciences and ~physical sciences, and why? Neuroscience certainly is a physical sc...

Maybe we just experience it differently. It is clear to me that I have no need to be conscious of every letter in order to grasp the intended content....

I'd ask you to look at the following link. https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-letters-cambridge-typoglycaemia

Right. I think that an important aspect of what our minds are 'evolutionarily for' is interceding in events in the future, so presenting a model with ...

I'm not caught up on this thread, so apologies if the thread has moved on. I do think there is interesting scientific evidence for consciousness being...

If you want to stick your fingers in your ears and say, "La la la, I can't hear you.", then I don't have more to say. If you change your mind this art...

Have you seen that TED Talk? If not, I get the impression that you would appreciate it.

Do you know what being wrong feel like?

That depends on the circumstances. If you are visually imagining a table, due to your eyes being directed towards and focusing on an illuminated table...

But physical sciences don't exclude the first person as far as I can tell. Can you show me somewhere, where this principle you speak of is written dow...

I try to keep that in mind.

Indeed. I told my little brother that I thought we should try building our own little firework using the silvery powder, and that we would need a lit ...

I remember one 5th of July... My brother and I had heard from a neighbor kid, that the streamer thingies that fall out of fireworks don't all get igni...

:up: Some chimps know how to crack the nuts, and some chimps don't. Of the chimps that don't, the smart ones are the one's who are watching and learni...

I suspect Jabberwock is sleeping now. So I'll interject. I don't think is is a matter of definition. It looks to me as if you don't have a clear menta...

I think individual variation in cognitive strengths and weaknesses plays a big role that few people are cognizant of. Most people aren't going to see ...

I posted a link to that passage here on TPF recently. I don't think there is a chapter in which I don't find something that moves me deeply.

Yeah, I love The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I've been considering posting The Coming of the Ship at what is left of the Reasonable Faith Forums but I'm...

I was attracted to her before witnessing the 'magic', but wasn't considering asking her out because I knew she was going to be leaving the country in ...

Ah that makes more sense. When I first clicked the link, it too me to an article on biosemiotics. Looks interesting. I've got another of Goldstein's b...

Can you post an excerpt of what in particular you see as pertinent? I only got a bit past, "But was this only a poetic metaphor or can we really say t...

That's interesting. I don't know League of Legends. I'm not good at games requiring super quick response times. On the matter of expertise, and its re...

:lol: How thing have changed, eh? I'm kind of a C.S. Lewis own goal.

I would think so too. I'd love to know what thoughts went through Meri's head. Would she have done the same if it had been just her and Barb there? I'...

I was very interested in the applications but not so much the math. My best friend in college was still in school working on his M.S. and I looked thr...

Tis true, and now I'm wondering now, what role my body being there played. I'm a big guy too, but she had only known me for a couple of hours. I'd lov...

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I would think human intuition was a huge component of the training ingredients, but I would think there was a fair bit of slow thinking thrown in as w...

Is there anything that you are an expert in? It might be harder to recognize the sense of intuition being discussed here, if one has never developed e...

Pattern recognition in neural nets. Pretty simple to explain recognition of equality these days. Of course Plato wasn't in a position to understand th...

A relevant article. A big advantage AI has over humans for tasks like this, is the ability to be trained on such a huge dataset without getting bored ...

:up: I guess I'm a melioristic-optimist as well, although I didn't know that terms before today.

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The argument still commits the formal fallacy of affirming the consequent.

As I said, "An aspect of this..." I was pointing out one factor (or more accurately complex of factors) out of a great many factors, that I would expe...

:up: May I ask your background? Based on our earlier discussion I can see that you are scientifically insightful.

Ummm. Look again?

I agree. This got me thinking back to the night I met one of my girlfriends. I was in a bar shooting pool when my friend Barb, and her friend Meri cam...