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I don't disagree with the notion that there is intelligence involved in the automation of our motor skills, but it seems likely to result in confusion...

I don't see the theory of embodied consciousness as far-fetched at all. From my perspective it seems pretty intuitively obvious.

It llooks like specificity about reference frames is not clear in someone's mind.

Did you happen to observe my recent demonstration, here on the forums, of how predictable people can be?

Perhaps it depends on your preferences. Few long term determinists, that I have observed, fail to recognize the monkeymindedness of retribution. I thi...

What it does do is tell us somewhat, about how to better understand our own natures, and the natures of others. I guess for someone like me, who sees ...

Would you point at one or more of the psychological perspectives that you see see as most worthy of consideration? I'd be interested in looking into s...

I don't see it as misleading, but I do recognize that people often jump to wrong conclusions about determinism and equate it to fatalism. I've describ...

I think it would be a matter of simplistic thinking to assert either consciousness comes from the whole body, XOR consciousness comes from the brain. ...

I suspect that what people typically mean these days when saying the accept determinism is that they accept it as a corollary of accepting physical ca...

The body does adapt, in that the strength of connections in your brain changes every time you learn something. It's simply a matter of us not being ab...

I'm not a physicist, and it has been 40 years since I took a course discussing special relativity and QM, so take this with a grain of salt... The abo...

As I said earlier, trying to explain way too much, way too simplistically.

It is unlikely that for practical purposes of doing business, my idea of '7' is substantially different than yours. However in terms of more subtle as...

The answer is networks of neurons. This wikipedia page on artificial neural networks might help with further questions you might have.

My physicalist rejoinder is... Of course we all have unique brains and that is of some relevance. However the more important matter is that consciousn...

It is an argument from ignorance because you are basing your belief that determinism is false on your ignorance of what determines Ned's behavior. You...

But if determinism is true, then Ned will not act contrary to the prediction. Furthermore understanding the details of how the prediction was made sho...

I probably should have been more explicit as to what I saw as question begging. Earlier you said: On the other hand the conclusion of your argument at...

The SEOW is everywhere. :wink: Jabberwock has been busy in the Ukraine thread.

Strings of dominos performing calculations. This is some disappointing reasoning Bob. Different complex systems have different emergent properties/qua...

I agree. It seems like a mix of scientific understanding and pseudoscience that is trying to explain way too much, way too simplistically.

I'd like to see your reasoning for that layed out. It appears to me that you must be begging the question.

1. Determinism doesn't propose that what detemines human behavior is purely a function of physical states internal to an individual. Inputs from the e...

Thanks for the clarification. I have a much better sense of where Chomsky is coming from now.

Nicely done.

I'm surprised at the way (it appears to me) that Chomsky seems to hold up intuition as the standard for what qualifies as understanding. Human intuiti...

It's funny how these sorts of discussions always go from UFOs to people who are UFoS.

I could only take ten minutes of Greer talking about how much evidence he had, while not presenting any of this so called evidence. Can you point out ...

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They seem much more plausible than most I've seen on the topic.

In recent history there does appear to be a correlation between a lot of divisiveness in the country and 'evidence of aliens' coming out. Perhaps it i...

Interesting thoughts.

No Peter Gabriel?

Like I said, what I'm suggesting is counterintuitive for a lot of people and it would take time and effort to make the paradigm shift. So I'm probably...

Your definition for vacuum is not evidence that there is anything matching that definition. When we are discussing the dimensions of an apple or the d...

1. It seems silly to me to talk about the space occupied by our bodies as a different category of space than space in general. Other than to indulge a...

I'd suggest dropping the use of "fiction" and "phantasm" and think more along the lines of... Your brain, in interacting with the external world durin...

The finding of carbon in an atmosphere, discussed in the NASA article, was around a planet 700 light years away. (A gas giant.) I don't know what astr...

We can detect more than that. Scientists are currently analyzing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. For example: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/godd...

Whew, I was afraid I was going to stop getting invitations to the baby roasts. Thanks for letting me know where that came from, but a spat between Jes...

I guess it depends on what ETs consider notable, or what "us" means. I would think spectrographic analysis of the Earth's atmosphere could have provid...

Sure you can be outraged. As I said, I expected you to be 'outraged'. I'm not providing the sort of narcissistic supply you are looking for. In any ca...

There's the narcissistic rage that I was expecting to see.

Actually, it is you who is going off half cocked, by failing to notice the portion of your quote that I bolded. What is delusional, is your belief tha...

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My responsibility to work towards my comprehension, or towards your comprehension? For example the following seems to me a clearly delusional statemen...

So you are saying you are a bit slow on the uptake?

Why would anyone have a responsibility to understand you?

Is there some sort of tribal purity requirement to being an atheist? Am I at risk of losing my atheist card for being friends with theists - for consi...