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I suspect there is more to that, than I know enough history to understand. :cool:

Awesome! Thank you! I've only glanced at the wikipedia page, but that is something I definitely want to read. :pray:

That's interesting. I don't much like watermelon or cucumber. Allthough, thinking back, there was that time, when I was a kid, that I got horribly vom...

Yes, sex is a powerful reward. Being deeply in love with the other is an awesome bonus on top, but not necessary to sex being rewarding for men. (And ...

Behavioral reinforcement. Edit to add: ...and 'evolutionary success'.

Good point! :up: Something, inspired by what you said, that I want to toss into the thread (and then run away)... :wink: At least some women reward me...

:up: Right. There are many different sorts of tasks involved in getting engineering projects done. I design high accuracy electronic measurement instr...

But you can point out that it is simplistic. :wink: Interesting response! :up: I haven't read through the Tractacus, but what you said reminded me of ...

Things like slight angles of the head and difference in position aren't particularly relevant to the special relativity scenario under consideration. ...

And I'd like to be more suited to explaining. You saying that you would like to have it explained reminds me of being in high school, where a friend a...

Doubts are understandable when you don't have the experience needed to have a nuanced view on the matter. The reality though, is a lot more nuanced th...

:up: Battling ignorance on the other hand...

I'd think it largely depends on the race of the believers. It's said, that the most segregated time in America is Sunday mornings. So for white believ...

This is a bit tangential, since it isn't immoral to have antisocial personality disorder, but... Identifying individuals with antisocial personality d...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary says: I would guess from your last response that the second definition is not what you meant. However, unless I'm inter...

I'm curious as to how you conceive of patriarchy. The relevance is that there are reasons to think that our species evolved with differences in physic...

That dude in your profile pic... Did evolution result in that guy having instincts that naturally result in 'patriarchy'? (Regardless of whether he ap...

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I will bow out. Thanks for the thread. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

No, that's just the conclusion your insufficiently trained neural nets jumped to. What it is, is providing food for thought (training inputs) that are...

But if it wasn't, at least we would have 2.5 million years to get the Milky Way defense fleet ready.

Thanks.

I'm not really up to date on the books on the subject. One of the seminal texts, and the book I learned the basics from, is Parallel Distributed Proce...

Absolutely our intuitions can fool us. And logic is subject to GIGO, and can fool us as well. Since I have Feynman on the brain, another quote: I woul...

From what seems to me a less accurate view to what seems to me a more accurate view.

I think it was late 20s for me, but it still played a significant role in my subsequent thinking. I'd like to reread it, but I've been buying books at...

Thoughts are more events than things. See the following link for information about scientists detecting thought events: https://www.eedesignit.com/oh-...

I can understand that. I started thinking along these lines 36 years ago, when I realized that "there is something weird about my brain" is the best e...

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I'd suggest looking at logic/language as providing a quite valuable way of comparing different intuitons we have: 1. With each other. (In an internal ...

Right. Going with intuition is relying on the deep learning which has occurred in neural nets between our ears.

But in that case I'm having trouble making sense of "Then they can hark back to that chance encounter, and come to the conclusion that at that time, a...

I'm not sure how "according to one of the people" is supposed to be interpreted. Are these two people supposed to have magical physics defying clairvo...

You are like Sam Elliot at the end of The Big Lebowski.

:up: Very thoughtful post.

What is this "imbuing"? Sounds kind of hand wavy. What disqualifies ChatGPT from being a speaker imbuing it's output with intentionality, regardless o...

By the way Wayfarer, The sentence immediately following what you quoted there from the SEP says: Do you agree with that statement?

I didn't asked if you owned the book. I asked, "Are you familiar with the Zen notion of beginners mind?"

Wayfarer, it seems unlikely that I'll be able to keep up with your rate of posting, but I do want to respond to this much for now. As I've said, there...

Yes, I know it would take a paradigm shift for you to get it. You would need to spend some time, studying stuff, that I suspect you would find boring,...

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As I said, I am biased, because for me MWI is a useful tool for conceiving of aspects of the world. I know that I am not going to study QM to the poin...

I'd say it takes some effort to find something in the world that looks like it might be truly random. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_...

Indeed. Here's a scientific take.

I would mock that idea as well. It's not simply a matter of degree of complexity. I think that only physical systems with outputs, that are about some...

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It's disappointing to see such anti-intellectualism here. Especially in light of Fooloso4 having so recently posted this.

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You know I've already provided that link, right? Is your ego so bruised already that you need to try to put me down in the estimations of the rest of ...