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Still raging. Sorry you got caught in it @"Apustimelogist".

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That should be "@"Srap Tasmaner"'s whole post is excellent." Legend has it, that if you say it just like I did, he will appear. I wouldn't describe it...

This reminds me of when I let a straylian woman drive my car. Not the safest thing I've done. I had to keep reminding her that we drive on the right s...

Guess my straylian is not so bad. Didn't need the translation myself, but perhaps it will be helpful to my fellow mercans.

:up: There are certainly more unpleasant animals.

So here we see the rage of grandiose narcissist in most splendid form. Note the venom dripping out it's mouth when it howls. That is one fine specimen...

I'm afraid that my grandiosity detector has become too sensitive to read much of that.

First, let me state that unusual intuitive abilities is an aspect of how autism affects me, so it is certainly something where YMMV. However, I've goo...

At least to an extent, though likely not the extent that you have in mind, a math coprocessor to A CPU provides 'canned math optimization' to CPUs. Al...

As someone on the autism spectrum, the question arises for me of whether in an afterlife I would be autistic. If not, then it doesn't seem like it wou...

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That's just backwards, and verging on magical thinking, not to mention overdetermination. I provided somewhat of an explanation of this on the forum b...

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"Currently understood" is rather vague. Currently understood by whom? Certainly there are plenty of people who have a deeper understanding of the impl...

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I know @"Apustimelogist" already answered, but I want to add the following link to flesh out the very literal sense in which synchronization occurs: h...

I consider the book an intellectual masterpiece. I've known for a long time that Hofstadter was naive in some of his beliefs about the potential for c...

I can understand why it would seem that way, but I'll try show emergence in a different light. Suppose I design an electronic circuit that has the pro...

It wasn't intended to answer anything. Just provide food for thought.

I wanted to revisit this, and ask about the reading habits of these three men, and whether there was a lot of similarity between the reading habits of...

That can be a very good thing. It can be what leads to an epiphany. I think you can know that many here wish you well.

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Do you have the conscious experience of homunculusly controlling a meat puppet through some sort of communication channel? If so, what do the controls...

Same here. :wink:

This is a topic for a thread. A thread which I have no interest in starting. :razz:

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Free will doesn't exist in the sense Peck thought it did. That doesn't mean it isn't reasonable to think about what would be a more realistic notion o...

I liked this discussion of the poem: To me the poem suggests recognition of determinism - that many little things make all the difference in the cours...

Well, I wouldn't go that far either, although I'd be hard put to give much of an account of the role of emotion when I'm deep into doing electronics d...

I largely agree as well, but I balk at saying "inseparable". I'd say having emotions is what drives the process which results in our developing models...

That was an important book for me at one time, but yeah. I see books on psychology as having a shelf life of about 20 years.

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I also know that one well. My parents both grew up in Evangelical United Brethren churches. Some interesting tidbits: My father was ordained into, and...

Though I appreciate you trying to use a possibly archaic word I recently used on the forum, I have to call a language foul. There are two different wo...

Perhaps. I have only a superficial view of those three. I tend to find both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard rather overwrought, and not to my taste. Still, ...

A wonderful renditions of what was my favorite song when I was seven years old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBqUwpCvCL8

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the presence of UU churches in the US is strongly correlated with the location of academic institutions.

I can't say I have spent a lot of time in Unitarian Universalist Churches, but I wouldn't be surprised if a large percentage of UU leaders would be un...

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:rofl: I think "Procrustean" would fit as well as "Peircean" a lot of the time.

Are you sure it wasn't this thread? :cool:

You seem to be promoting misinformation, given the title of the book being On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. At least the link y...

I just want to say, that I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Long ago I was fortunate to be part of a community along such lines, although these days I get such needs met through talking with individual friends....

I couldn't agree that there is no social science, although I'd likely agree that there is a 'fuzziness' to the 'objects' of social science, which is c...

So what if participation in such a community results in someone no longer feeling isolated, lonely, and as being the only one suffering? Would that pe...