wonderer1

Do you speak from experience? Have you tried improving your intuitions, and always failed?

You think highway hypnosis is something unique about you?

This gets at something I found highly questionable about the way you originally described the research results. Intuitions within certain domains can ...

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Can you provide a link to the testing you are referring to?

Not really. That is just unrealistic thinking about science that you seem to have inherited from your culture.

Your simultaneous red and green scenario demonstrates how easily intuitons can be misleading. Suppose you have a white piece of paper in a totally dar...

I'm curious about your theory, as to how it is we are communicating with each other. However, I can tell you, that you can't understand much about the...

Because you have trained neural networks. (Although it seems likely that we have some innate programming to recognize animals as being animals in gene...

I would say it is not possible for humans to perceive visually, except in an object-oriented way. A couple of points. 1. Our visual perception is neur...

When considering much of what is scientifically investigated, I don't think there is any need to actively bracket out the observer. One is just consid...

We are training animals. Evolution resulted in us having instinctive reactions to things, which result in us training each other.

Well, we have different subjective experiences, and based on my subjective experiences it is not only possible, but extremely valuable to recognize di...

Does it need to be changed to say "philosophy silo"?

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Not at all. Of course our cognition can be affected by emotions in a great many ways. The brain has a quite interconnected structure. Certainly my des...

Do you think your emotions determine what is true?

Do you have a citation supporting "Turing Machines are themselves an attempt to define what human beings do"? I've been under the impression that Turi...

Do you think it would make sense to distinguish between the nature of our subjective experiences of 'the present' and the nature of time in the larger...

I thought suggesting Galileo is to blame for the state of neuroscience was a bit bizarre. Human brains are enormously complex, the technological chall...

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Maybe, by a minute. But my post was longer, and I probably wrote the first sentence at least a few minutes before you posted.

Wow, an elevator operator as well as an attorney? How do you find the time? I guess you've redeemed yourself after that George Harrison sacrilege. I'v...

Don't you think that might be a tad bit grandiose?

One question I have is, how much nuance is allowed from this point of view? I mean sure, to believe in some sort of perfect correspondence between our...

Well, to be fair, there is an enormous amount of study involved in becoming conversant in sciences, and we are all born ignorant and are going to die ...

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I hadn't looked at the link before I said that. That just struck me as possibly of relevance based on what you had said. I've read some of that thread...

That sounds like denying there is a territory being mapped by our minds/brains, and to me it would seem a little silly to believe there is no territor...

Thanks.

I think you've conveyed a lot of what I was interested in. My question arose from wondering whether this game of human chess on an internet forum exem...

My question was about you and your beliefs. I haven't been participating on this forum long, so I'm not sure why you would expect me to know your pers...

Seems like a rather fatalistic view to think we can't know anything about reality independent of agreement with other people. Not to mention a little ...

Why are you asking a loaded question? I'm not pretending I don't understand. I simply don't tend to see things in such black and white terms as it see...

Indeed. I'm inclined to think it is necessarily the case, that human minds can't fully grasp the physical activity occuring in human brains. Yes we ca...

Why are you avoiding answering my question?

I expect I will proceed to realize that I don't know unless/until I see evidence providing me with a reason to think otherwise. Perhaps I will ask que...

I think you might find it worthwhile to develop some understanding of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and related "personality disorders". It ...

Are you advocating such a view?

I would appreciate it if you would point out aspects of the phenomenological approach that you find valuable.

It might depend on the difference between wholesale and retail price.

Thinking about that Camaro has Hanover's intuition telling him that real men drive pickup trucks, thus the Freudian slip.

Before googling atomic weights, see my edit. ;-)

Water, Helium, Batteries, Galaxy Quest, Hanover

You had to ruin that song for me, didn't you?

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Tarot, Mu, Savior, Introvert, Babel, Nine

Toads, owls, ocelots Elephants, ants, seagulls, yaks