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AI is usually, in itself, a side-issue to a discussion of consciousness, yet people love to speculate on the inevitability of consciousness in AI. This, before we can even define our own consciousness. I personally feel that purposefully building any “consciousness” into AI could be considered as unethical as it would be to experiment with any huma…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I spend time most years in PCB in Fl.

Do you mean PBC in FL? If so, I grew up (mostly) there, in Palm Beach County. I didn’t see much bigly there forty five years ago, but saw some near the armpit states (north-east Gulf of Mexico area). I remember driving through there with a CB radio and listening to some rednecks…[Read more]

Consciousness is not one thing. It is a combination of neural processes that include attention; awareness/experience of self and awareness of sensory input; recall of episodic memory, metaphorical, numerical, estimational, and artistic cognition; an inner narrator that speaks in our native language and is able to focus on various aspects of inner…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
This is not rocket science.

Exactly. Mostly. But you summed it up exactly-correctly. 🙂

Meanwhile, Trump is still misleading people (imo) about how we’ve been doing the best testing in the world, “even better than South Korea”, and then mentioning we have a low caseload per capita compared with other countries. What’s misleading…[Read more]

COVID-19 (Viral Load) Testing

16 April, Trump claimed we’ve now performed more tests per capita than South Korea. Incredulous, I checked, and sure enough he’s not significantly incorrect. (See screen captures of world testing data, below.) It’s a good milestone, but reaching it this late in the pandemic’s history is (imo) a major stain on Trump’s…[Read more]

COVID-19

Again, excerpting from wikipedia:

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus strain that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness. It is colloquially known as the coronavirus, and was previously referred to by its provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

I’m on a…[Read more]

Around when Sarah Palin was running for VP with McCain and pushing the idea that Obama would create Death Panels that would decide who should live or die as a result of his promised health care reforms, I made a bumper sticker: Palin/Schiavo 2008.

Waitasec, @RegTheFronkeyFarmer, that Schiavo link goes to a Paula White article.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Oh how long is this lock down going to last anyway??

Well I just spent a good portion of it looking up words. I only knew two of them! And that was only because I learned enough Latin and Greek in a medical terminology class to make good guesses.

http://covidly.com

The default table shows USA at top because of having the most cases. But what I found sobering is a table of countries sorted by % of new cases in past 24 hrs. Third world countries look really, really bad, and USA is near the bottom of this long list. (Again, open the graphic to another tab to see it full size.)

I don’t…[Read more]