Bio Bill

We’ll stay divided for a while, at least.

Just grabbed this screenshot from PBS of Biden vs Trump supporters, from an AP survey question “Is the virus somewhat under control or not at all under control“. (I verified they mistakenly left the word “at” out. See the whole poll here.)

Meanwhile Biden’s already said he’s set to pull together…[Read more]

Now that Biden says he’s going to get a national strategy going on beating Covid-19, including improved testing, I have more to contribute to this end. Canada recently approved an approach to rapid testing, and the following link goes straight to that topic lasting only 4-1/2 minutes, or longer if you’re interested in more detail. Btw I have…[Read more]

I’m told that the Buddha taught that the mind is also a sense organ.  I think that’s true, we can use the mind to know things – to join dots, distill data into knowledge.

Kristina wrote:
I think it speaks to a certain reality of what it means to be correct or to know things.

Someone said, there are at least two kinds of truth: 1) “correspondance”, where a proposition accurately captures reality; 2) “consistency”, where a proposition is logically consistent with other propositions that are known to have…[Read more]

We run into a problem with the term ‘correct’. We need parameters for applying it. Correctness is relative to a number of variables such as desired outcome, acceptable margin of error, methodological limitations etc.

What is it she needs to know in this example? Does she need to know specifically the number of books as accurately and individually…[Read more]

Sigh

Thinking the brick was a book was just an incorrect assumption. She didn’t know that she was only seeing 14 books, and neither did she know that one or more books were hidden.

So she didn’t really know the correct book count (even though she knew how to count up to 15), she just accidentally and incorrectly perceived 15 books while one or more…[Read more]

I answered your question @Davis. Whether you liked my answer is a separate question.

Sorry Ivy but answer the question as I posed it…you did not.

@Davis I did answer your question.

Thanks Unseen for answering the question. That’s an interesting explanation.

Ivy, I wish you had have actually answered the question as I had posed it. For example: is being correct contingent on knowing something? Can you truly be correct if it is only out of luck? It is a little similar to the stopped clock effect (where a stopped clock is…[Read more]

I think that yes ultimately she was correct, but she was lucky that there was a book behind the brick. Had there not been then she would not have been correct. How is that so complicated?

People “think” they “know” a lot of things that they really don’t.

I’m not sure what the discussion was a couple of years ago, perhaps you could provi…[Read more]