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Robert i get that. However it is a semantic ambiguity that takes us to a conceptual ambiguity. What is evidence? What is meant by absence of evidence.

I think most people understand evidence to be something tangible that proves or tends to prove something. In legal matters it is the smoking gun. So lets suppose there is a police investigation of…[Read more]

However, it is easy to imagine scenarios where lack of evidence is evidence of absence.

Lets suppose AI springs to life with super duper intelligence that exceeds the combined cognitive sum of all humanity. Further lets suppose a confined area (Unseen’s messy closet with that distinct smell of moth balls) is being examined for pink elephants in…[Read more]

As a kid i understood the definition of atheism to mean denial, negation of gods. I think that aligns with defintion of letter a as a prefix. In recent decades it seems to me most people use the word to mean absence of belief. I could care less how it is defined. The point is that belief in gods is infantile and a big steaming stack of dog crap.

Why religion arose is probably multi-faceted. But i guess our tendency to impute agency to fucking almost everything was the sine qua non. Oh look i scratched my ass and picked my nose. And it rained! I sacrificed a virgin and the lightening ceased.

So religion was a kind of magic derived of the natural tendency to see cause and effect or…[Read more]

Unseen, if you read that original linked most recently by Autumn you will see that your query has been hypothetically addressed and to my mind intuitively it makes sense. At least read the conclusion. It is not an easy read.

Consciousness is a pure scientific question. We are biological units. Consciousness is a function of our biology. Questions about biology are scientific questions.

Autumn thanks for that link on Consciousness. Skimmed it. Was much better reading from the horse’s mouth. And i agree it is an interesting hypothesis.

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Gotta go through Newton before you get to Einstein.

I reread it.

Yuck. Unsupported conclusions and nonsequiturs are not gonna persuade me. There is a relativistic perspective for everything except for the recent discovery of time crystals. We got that from Einstein. That does nothing to advance or explain consciousness. It is not the lead in. It is not the first step.

Autumn i understand your explanation. I know what you mean. Wait…no WAIT.

There is no way for me to have a handle on your consciousness. How could i know whether i have digested what you intended to convey? Even if i am super acute in metacognition that will not assure me that i know exactly what you mean to convey.

I am not denying and in…[Read more]

Autumn i agree you have understood the article.

You wrote: In order to measure consciousness, we similarly require that relativistic framework to clock what 110km/h actually means in cognitive terms.

That is the part i can’t come to terms..just does not make sense to me

I am wondering if any of you read the sunday article about consciousness. If so what is your impression. It strikes me as nonsense. Maybe i need to read it a second time.

I am optimistic there will be a way to decipher our brain block. It is so clear that optimal reasoning in each mind varies in terms of capability. It is also clear that within each of us it varies depending on the topic or issue. Sure we vary in terms of aptitudes but lets say general analytical capability.

However well one reasons there is a…[Read more]