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jakelafort wrote:
Pope, based on feelings?

Unseen was cogent. That was reason, baby. The little unseen man who speaks for him was on his game!

I agree that Unseen makes sense, and I believe he has more expertise in logic, philosophy, and writing than I do, but did you notice that he also used the word feeling? I’m not calling him on that,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
As for consciousness, it happens shorty after all these processes have happened preconsciously.

Here we go again–not just Unseen but all of us, declaring philosophically and (often conversely) declaring based on feelings whether free will exists… and this isn’t special to this thread, but it’s been on people’s minds for thousands…[Read more]

Getting realer now. About 50k people ordered to evacuate: http://nixle.us/BDSNC

_Robert_ wrote:
Good time to buy Generac stock, I am sure they are selling generators as fast as they can make them.

Another company that impressed me a great deal back in 2017 is Purple Air, who makes pro-sumer grade instruments that report realtime air quality measurements via internet. Los Angeles atm looks pretty clean at 12:30pm today, but…[Read more]

So thousands of people and some of their representatives in the political (etc.) system complained about the power outages conducted by PG&E to prevent fires.

Two weeks later, starting two days ago (on Wednesday night), high winds, hot and dry came back, and PG&E cut power again in areas to reduce risk, but it wasn’t enough. A fire ignited, went…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If an evil person does evil or a good person does good, there have to be reasons controlling those choices and making them inevitable.

I understand this in theory, but not in practice. True, there are “inevitabilities”, but to equate that with “one has no control” seems to too easily gloss over the possibilities one has. Let’s say…[Read more]

Beauty is a brain-derived construct that feels real. It’s not easy to explain all forms of beauty, which btw can be sensed visually or audibly. Attraction to beauty can be strong even if only because it enhances evolutionary competition between mates. (Unseen, you mock this as a “calculation”, but it’s more primitive than that.) So what is the…[Read more]

Jody Lee wrote:
[…] I question what it takes for people to make change in their life.

I often don’t know where inspiration comes from, except when someone else encourages me, or someone else needs me to act.

BUT I wonder if my awareness has come from wisdom, age experience,  education?

As for myself, I was handicapped by severe social anxiety…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
but how much control can the actor exert?

But oppositely, it doesn’t feel right to not even try, right? It seems that when something is difficult to achieve, all one knows for sure is that it cannot be achieved unless one exerts effort.

Unseen wrote:
[…] MeWe, but after I joined, I couldn’t get anyone else to join with me. People simply don’t care.

I care about avoiding anything Facebook and their monster affiliates, until they can prove that they’re really sincere about being the good guys in spite of their big dollar cravings. It may, imo, take years, or it may never happen.

I use (in order of preference) Chrome, Opera, Brave, and Firefox, often running two or three of them at once. (For example, I’m writing this post in Chrome but often also use Opera to bypass Chrome cookies, for testing links and such.)

Sometimes my preferences change: Chrome’s trending down because their business is in ads and they don’t want to…[Read more]

Awesome.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Exactly. Believing that Evolution has “intent” as a driving force behind it is one of the common misconceptions about the Theory.

I don’t see any posts in this topic inferring “intent” as a driving force behind evolution. However, since you brought it up…

When one coalition of people commit genocide against ano…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
As far as the concept of devolution i cant recall which authors but i know i have read that it is a misnomer-no such thing.

I like the term devolution as it still conveys meaning intuitively, e.g. in-breeding generally undoes evolutionary “progress” by reducing variation in the gene pool. Imo it should work when used within a…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
Short question: should we act more like chimps, or bonobos?

Accidentally was (while researching something else) offered a video to watch by some YouTube algorithm (are they in my head, yet?) but took a chance and found it very interesting:

Unseen wrote:
She will actually chase a fruit fly around my apartment hoping for a chance to kill it.

A truly sincere, egalitarian treatment of all life forms, including (it seems) the venomous and large clawed and toothed.

I can’t think of “evolution” without breaking it down in to its types. Natural Selection drives the most classically discussed type, along with natural genetic drift mentioned (but not by name) in the article referred to above. There’s also cultural, scientific, and to be honest, even religious evolution, making it unreasonable to infer that…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Just as he was about to swipe the bird I clapped my hands and the bird escaped.

and then

The upshot was he now left all his “presents” in his own garden.

Maybe he/she realized later that you saved it from a very slobly, uncomfortable fall, and it’s finally time to forego some calories.