Richard Robertson

jakelafort wrote:
[…] It seems as though those in least favorable conditions have the most offspring. No work? No problem. Not enough to eat? No problem. Not enough clean water? No problem.

I’ll bet this kind of over-population strategy is built-in from much earlier evolutionary times when we tended to die off much earlier in life. It’s only an…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
But it bears mentioning that bacteria and viruses are kickass killers. Think about the plague…Spanish flu…malaria…yellow fever…newly evolved super bugs.

(I know you know what I’m about to say, except perhaps for my final point.) Such bugs, sans consciousness, are not intentionally killing. Natural, biological evolution has no…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
a lot

So much to disagree with you on there, I wonder if I’m largely misunderstood, but will try to make this brief.

I never said “supreme arbiter”, nor meant anything close to it. I am saying it’s just flat out wrong to ignore the power of those frontal lobes and neocortex. Whales? Elephants? I think they’re amazing,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
But does a particle in two different states simultaneously exist in two different worlds?

Seems to me yes, at least in a sense.

Here’s a video I gave up trying to understand after about seven minutes into it, but will revisit. (It might have been posted here at AZ before, but I don’t remember where it would…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
but all the consciousness is there is as an input to the preconscious mind, which is where things are DONE and not just perceived

I get that we’re all just “meat bodies”, and I get that we may have difficulty someday determining whether a zombie or a robot really has experiences and experiences consciousness. Meanwhile, what we do…[Read more]

I think this is a pretty good summary, in the simple version of wikipedia. But I would still need to re-read stuff like descriptions of more involved double-slit experiments to get more into discussion about it.

In spite of what some reputable physicists say, I think the many-worlds theory is just philosophical conjecture if not absurd. I forgot what the most popular alternative theory to that is, but either theory may never be provable or disprovable. At least one thing is true, I think, and that is that it takes conscious physicists to make up these…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Pope Beanie will check this further for you soon.

Well, there’s a lot about this one on the web but 90% of it is geek-speak with few clues about exactly what it is or how to get rid of it. But I did see references to Video Downloader Professional, and in at least two cases, people removed it and it fixed their…[Read more]

Inflating and decreasing abstract art transaction prices is the perfect tool for money laundering

Unseen wrote:
What is it with all the script after my post?

I was wondering the same. Thinking more about it, although I know very little about javascript: It looks (possibly) like you accidentally copied some javascript code that was perhaps visible only as an icon or symbol, meant to bring up an ad. Or maybe it was even invisible but got copied…[Read more]