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I agree with you that the way cognition is understood is simplistic, but I don't think we social primates are doing so badly at increasing our underst...

Sounds to me like a revelation is what you are looking for, but why think there is any relationship between intuitions and revelation?

Why would you want to?

My kind of first date.

Hmm. I thought I had heard that pokemon is what Jamaicans call proctologists.

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Suppose there is a scientist alive today who fully understands how consciousness emerges in the brain. Do you think that you would be able to understa...

I don't see it as absolute. As i said, "an evolving web of multitudinous interacting intuitions." Recognition of the evolving aspect seem important to...

I don't really know what you are trying to say here, and I don't know what "foundational intuition" would be. I'm inclined to think that rather than h...

By the way, it's your model so I don't know what to do with this, but it might be worth bearing in mind that something that is invariably unarticulate...

Trying to catch up on responding... I like it, but here in Indiana we call forests without trees corn fields. :razz: I'd be interested in reading more...

All sciences are sciences of both.

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Oh absolutely. I can be an annoying as fuck complicator of things. I'm not surprised, that my OP is easily misinterpreted. I wrote the OP wanting to s...

I had a rough two system model in which I used "intuition" vs "logical/linguistic" instead of "fast thinking" vs "slow" thinking. So talking in terms ...

Thank you very much for taking the time. I think the question to ask is, what is "just experience"? This is the less early days of AI. Today we have C...

Exactly. Thank you for explaining. May I use you, as a demonstration to other forum members, of something apropos to discussion going on in the "Simpl...

So, I just got the word today, that I get to go from three month checkups after treatment for prostate cancer, to six month check ups. Is it kosher fo...

I'd be very interested. Although I've never put much effort into becoming good at chess, and I'm not sure I would understand it very comprehensively.

Thanks for the substantive response. I'm not surprised that you, as an attorney, see things that way. However an understanding of Broca's aphasia show...

I've had the opportunity to look into it more and it seems very insightful, although I haven't read enough of by the Russian authors discussed, to hav...

I thought he was seizing the opportunity to call Frank a dodo. If birds descended from dinosaurs, why are they warm-blooded? Perhaps being warm bloode...

Cat's Cradle is what my book group is planning to read prior to our museum trip. I've read it, but I think I was 14 or 15 at the time, so I expect to ...

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I just happened upon Brain size predicts learning abilities in bees.

Not a specialist in any kind of career or credentials sense, but I've been studying aspects of how brains work with a background in electrical enginee...

A bigger (and heavier) brain isn't so adaptive for flying species. Somewhere along the line birds evolved brains with high density of neurons, so as t...

I get the impression that you might appreciate Vonnegut's thinking. Which might not have occurred to me, except someone in my science fiction book gro...

'Where you live' is in your brain's model of reality, which is generated in part based on the light that hit your retina (on the order of 100 millisec...

I don't know, but it seems orcas don't object to their kids being juvenile delinquents.

He said waspishly.

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Are you a Vonnegut fan?

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We all stand on the shoulders of giants. I'm not seeing how that's a problem. Kantian Transcendental Idealism is an outgrowth of Christianity. Do you ...

This forum might give the impression that idealism is more popular among philosophers than it actually is. The Philpapers survey says: External world:...

Neuron count plays a role in determining how much information processing capability a brain has, although synapse count would likely be a better indic...

Honeybee brains have ~960,000 neurons. Human brains have ~100,000,000,000 neurons. That does not seem like a superficial difference to me.

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Have you read Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit? A relevant passage:

Too much pseudo-intellectualism. You haven't understood the topic.

Yep.

Antifoundationalism FTW! :joke:

At work it's boneheaded. I save the stoneheaded mistakes for the forum.

I think taking the idea of sims and coms (thanks 0 thru 9) too seriously would be... ...wait for it... ...simplistic. I suspect it is a matter of all ...

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I love many of Lem's short stories. I think I enjoyed The Cyberiad the most, of what I've read.

To me it tastes like dish soap, and can ruin an otherwise great meal. Peanut M&Ms is another disgust one for me, although I like peanuts and chocolate...

:rofl: I see.

First off, did you see my edit? Secondly... Thank you for being so patient, with me trying to get away without laying my worldview out in much detail....