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Simon Paynton wrote:

Our experience of the world comes to us through our sensory inputs.  These provide us with information about our environment.  Seems like an evolved function to me.

He seems to be focusing on that one component of consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, ignoring roles of other components of consciousness and how they all i…[Read more]

The Mirror Question: I understand that the mirror question is just an example of how people “ask the wrong question”. Meanwhile, I didn’t understand his explanation for how to ask or answer the mirror question properly. And I felt dumb. A little. But I saw an explanation I can understand in one of the comments:

Richard Feynman explained that it…

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Nice sunday school

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Bernardo Kastrup defines consciousness like this:

phenomenal consciousness—i.e. our ability to subjectively experience the world and ourselves

Our experience of the world comes to us through our sensory inputs.  These provide us with information about our environment.  Seems like an evolved function to me.

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Readers reign supreme, and other takeaways from The New York Times end-of-year earnings report

Excerpt:

On the earnings call, CEO Mark Thompson said “the single biggest reason” behind the paper’s success was the decision to give more autonomy to teams working on the publication’s various digital products. Having multiple cross-d…

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Thanks Strega, that Paula White is something else. The lunatics have taken over.

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Until recently, Portland’s Chief of Police was an outlaw.

Modernization presents scenarios that were once unfathomable hundreds (much less thousands) of years ago.

I agree, but don’t sell the ancients short. Genghis Khan’s wars ended the lives of some 40 million people (about 10% of the world’s population). They even used biological and chemical warfare and well….abortion is nothing new. The ancients h…[Read more]

Ivy wrote:

Cancer can and should be treated with lifestyle but nobody ever tells you that.

If I could propose perfect logic and accuracy here, I see idealism (which is mostly laudable but can’t cover every person’s circumstance) in the first clause, and an over-generalization in the second. But I’m not here to criticize just Ivy for imperfect or…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

My friend David lost his ID. Now we just call him Dav. Ok, Ok, I will leave now.

;_) I know a guy whose name is Adam Baum.

My friend David lost his ID. Now we just call him Dav.

Ok, Ok, I will leave now.

A few developments since time of posting. Turns out he IS buying the tablets at a cost of about €5,800 per month (less expensive than the first quote).  The treatment is to slow (and possibly stop) the spread of his Stage 4 (there is no Stage 5 as Hitchens once said) lung cancer (he was never a smoker) from spreading to his brain. It is also po…[Read more]