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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.