TaupeRanger

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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
What a weird thing to say. Everyone will die. It makes no sense to point out that no one would want to trade places with a dying or dead person. Of course not. Meaningfulness of life is more valuable than length of life.
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
Yes it's so unsettling that their parents privately shared photos and videos of then with family members and friends. They will be horrified of this, I'm sure.
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
Well we don't really understand the nature of "feelings", so the answers are going to be very speculative. But a better question might be: why do we feel contentment at all ? Why isn't it all just fear and rage all the
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
Ok I'll bite....where is this very specific advice coming from?
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
This is one of those TED talks that sounds absolutely groundbreaking and miraculous but has my bullshit detectors firing constantly because it sounds like a commercial without any critique or analysis of the technology. I realize that may b
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
There's not much "music theory" here aside from the knowledge that there are 12 notes which repeat in octaves. He mentions a few modes (phrygian, etc) but that's not particularly esoteric. The rest is relating those idea
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
What a weird comment. There are a huge number of fields where you simply can't avoid "insisting" on universities. Try being a particle physicist outside a university lab. Try being any kind of medical professional without goi
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
"I want people to read my article but fashion myself a novelist".
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
It's not that exciting and it's very easy to beat humans at games when your reaction times are far faster and you have access to more information at a single moment in time. It's like being impressed by a calculator.
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
There's this continual refrain from AI people: "well evolution is just brute force too", or "the brain is just doing complex statistics too" as if that explains anything at all. There are different ways of implement
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
This B.S. has been debunked so many times. Almost all the studies that people point to when they say "music makes you smarter" are poor quality. The overwhelming majority are not randomized or they take place over a short period
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
Marvels and horrors. As amazing as our current medical science is, if you get a tiny ball of cancer cells in your pancreas, there's a good chance you'll go years without anyone having any idea, and then slowly die while the foremo
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
It is. I think you misunderstood. I was simply pointing out that defining "remember" to include that extremely broad definition basically makes the term meaningless because it includes all kinds of biological processes that we wou
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by TaupeRanger 8y ago
As usual with questions related to mind and cognition, the definitions of the terms are nebulous to the point of meaninglessness until you explicitly state the definition you're using. To say that slime molds "remember" thing
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
My question was, why is "denying first hand knowledge" the only solution? As you might know, there are several lines of thinking. Nagle, for example, might say that first hand knowledge absolutely exists, but it is "off lim
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
"Isn't a thing" is synonymous with "doesn't exist". Pedantry aside, the existence of the hard problem and the existence of consciousness entail the same questions. The general question is simply this: how can
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
You said that you don't think the hard problem is a thing. The "hard problem" is simply a general question: how can we explain our subjective conscious experiences in terms of physical processes? That's a question whic
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
Sure...brain activity is included within "anything". Since brains are the only thing we know of that do this successfully, it's where people start. Graziano has thought about this a lot, but his view is one of many that all
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
What do you mean it's outside the bounds of science? Surely there can be a physical explanation that we simply haven't been clever enough to discover yet? That's all I'm saying.
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
People like you are part of the reason it takes science so long to move forward in areas that contain mysteries. You say there's nothing to argue against, yet you are making an argument anyway, proving that there is, in fact, somethin
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
It is a thing. We know how to study correlations between brain activity and conscious experience. The hard problem involves figuring out how brain activity causes conscious experience. Once we explain it (or, as in physics, have a conv
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by TaupeRanger 10y ago
That's a convenient way of dismissing the problem, but since you didn't make any coherent arguments, we can safely ignore you. The hard problem simply asks how, for example, our subjective experience of color comes about, and why