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Autotune is not the issue for me. The issue is that all of these songs that are the same 4 chords and rhythm in pop music. In the days of album rock, a band could make the charts with a song that had 6 parts, a key change, a timing shift and even a drum solo. Instrumental songs could make the charts. I don’t know why that all ended. It’s still out…[Read more]

Science and Philosophy have some overlap but are absolutely distinct. Even within Philosophy and Science there are so many different fields with different aims and methodologies.

Science deals with both the physical and the pure sciences, both practical and theoretical. Science heavily influences other STEM subjects (maths, engineering) as well…[Read more]

Love NIN. Saw them a few times.

She is like “doesn’t sound like he is a super-rangy singer”. Yeah, that’s what a good industrial song needs is someone going from C2 to C6, LOL.

She could take a look at The Cocteau Twins who actually might be played by the same DJ that just played NIN. Now she can hit…[Read more]

Yeah, it is suspicious but possible how so many of those reactors avoided hearing popular music or seeing smash movies.

“My First Time Hearing/Reaction to ‘Jingle Bells’ “, LOL.

“John Wick”, however, oh yeah. I intentionally avoided it for years. And then it was on the box one day and I gotta say, it wasn’t all the killing he did, but all those…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
The whole “I’m a teacher gonna school you with my reaction” is just an attempt to avoid demonetization of their videos by the copyright owners. Many of the regular reactors have given up, but here is an education loophole of sorts. The best ones are the “stage presence coaches”, LOL.

Well, that’s a little cyni…

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The whole “I’m a teacher gonna school you with my reaction” is just an attempt to avoid demonetization of their videos by the copyright owners. Many of the regular reactors have given up, but here is an education loophole of sorts.  The best ones are the “stage presence coaches”, LOL.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Every system is influenced by random noise. If you have Parkinson’s, you probably have a great deal of experience with random nerve impulses, but everyone has twitches that may influence their behavior. As your teeth start chattering one can wonder how independent of noise our brain really is, or perhaps it is a k…

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If determinism precludes free will, so does randomness. If someone has a biological random number generator (or bio-analog) generating his behavior, well that sure sounds like insanity to me. On the other hand, if our behavior is determined by our synapses and our personal histories, both beyond our control, I’m far more c…

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Soo easy to forget we are just evolved viruses or amoebas of a sort when your entire existence is experienced by the brain of a great ape.  Do we have whatever free will that they have; or did it evolve along with our brains? So that each level of brain complexity has a corresponding level of free will.

“Influence” on how people decide to live their lives, infers “choice”. Is choice meaningful or not Pope? If it is not, then influencing someone’s choice is not meaningful either. This is not rocket science.

There is no superficiality about it. If one argues others have no choice to have done but what they have done, have no agency, it is absurd to then, in the same book, go on to try and influence their future choices/agency. The only way around that is magical thinking or special pleading.

If we don’t have free will, we are not responsible for our…[Read more]

I remember reading Sam Harris’s atrocious book on free will. In the first half he dismisses free will. In the second half he talks about how we “should” look at the world in a different way. And then advice about how to best live your life. He still stands by it. One half of his book talks about how we have no choice but to do what we do, and then…[Read more]

There is a common concern that without free will there’s no accountability. Nonsense. We will go on holding people to account because we have to, in the sense that this is how we respond to acts that displease or enrage us. We respond in this way because we have to. Literally. We have no real choice but respond that way.

That’s such a cop out. B…[Read more]

It’s just as hard to imagine any event without a physical cause as it is to imagine that we are not the pilots-in-charge that we think we are. Anyone who has picked a side because of real evidence, well by all means go write your paper and take your place alongside Darwin and Einstein.

We don’t even know the underlying cause of gravity. We don’t understand abiogenesis. We don’t know how much we don’t know. Is the sum total of all knowledge even finite?

Yeah, it seems like we have “agency”; but is it real? Probably not, but the best answer is that we simply don’t know yet.

Agency is as real and meaningful as: decision, responsibility, culpability, power structures, invention, reward, retribution, entitlement, ownership, merit etc. Dismiss one…you should dismiss them all. If one is meani…[Read more]

Yeah, it seems like we have “agency”; but is it real? Probably not, but the best answer is that we simply don’t know yet.

None of that kiddie rock is “goth” music. Goth music is dark sounding dance music from bands like “The Sisters Of Mercy”, or this:

Unseen wrote:
@ Robert So, because some Muslims are Hamas terrorists, we treat all Muslims as Hamas terrorists.

I saw the women, children, and men out cheering in the streets of Palestine on 9.11.2001. No different than the Iranians who chant “Death to America, Death to Israel.” If you follow Islam, you are by default the enemy of liberal…[Read more]