aaimnr

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by aaimnr 10y ago
There's an easy and a hard problem of consciousness. You're addressing the easy one. These are technical terms, you can look them up.
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Just to be clear, what you are talking about is different to what Chalmers and others are talking about. The "idealistic" monism assumes that matter doesn't actually exists, while "neutral" monism assumes that matte
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The problem with 'qualia' and 'consciousness' is that these concepts seem to reify something existing separately from their content. The other problem here is that 'thought' is a complex and compound entity whi
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by aaimnr 10y ago
I'm not sure your argument makes sense. To say there exists conscious experience doesn't add anything ontologically to 'it's self-evident that there are thoughts'. The self-evidence of thoughts and conscious experie
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Did you mean Dennett, instead of Chalmers? I agree that the Dennett's conclusions seems to be false almost on a logical level. The self is an illusion for sure, the consciousness for sure isn't (EDIT: not saying here that there ex
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Indeed, it definitely is one hell of an assumption. Just as "matter is fundamental and consciousness is an emergent phenomena" is. Until we find a way to test it in any way (which may not be possible at all) the only thing we&#x27
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I agree that it doesn't have to be in any way mystical and that it comes to redefining what's fundamental and what's merely constructed or emergent (although it's a very tricky term). In the panpsychist approach neither
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by aaimnr 10y ago
I always point to David Chalmers when someone wants to understand the problem of consciousness. I like how casual he is about possible solutions and gives credibility to all the options (unlike eg. Daniel Dennett, who seems almost religious
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I'm surprised by the amount of comments denying even the sense of such critique as DHH presented in the article. The problem comes from a very narrow understanding of how 'capitalism/free market economy/society' sho
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Have you seen these ads with guy sleeping with tablet etc? They are conveying the same message.
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Yes, and by creating such a public resentment they won't satisfy their stakeholders. So it's our job to write articles like DHH wrote and make them as visible as possible. No company is able to foresee all the negative consequence
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That's not true. One of the main objectives of Clojure was to be a hosted language. Not just 'language hosted on JVM'. So idea to make it work on top of Erlang VM is perfectly valid and consistent with original design assumpt
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by aaimnr 10y ago
"Curmudgeonly skeptics" love to think about themselves as realists. Skeptic is not a realist, however - when you think about yourself as a skeptic, you already set the limit to what you can experience and how your mind and skills
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I had similar experience myself. I wouldn't attribute the risk to the retreat itself, however, but to the vipassana method, which tends to evoke insight experiences as quickly as possible, without first calming the mind using single o
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by aaimnr 10y ago
For anyone put off by the more esoteric stuff written on the topic, I'd recommend Sam Harris (as mentioned here already), Shinzen Young, but above all, Culadasa. He's a professor of Neuroscience and _very_ accomplished meditator.
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by aaimnr 10y ago
The course mentioned by parent is definitely worth watching for anyone interested. Lot of valuable information both on neuro/psychology of meditation and Buddhism. I wouldn't agree with the statement that medidtation requires prof
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What you mention about Jung/enneagram correlation is interesting. You'd think that since he's based on different partitioning scheme (2 * 2 * 2) he should end up without any types matching exactly, but you seem to suggest tha
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Indeed the Wikipedia article doesn't paint it in a great light. The system itself seems to be quite old, but I'd love to see some serious studies of it. The only thing I can add here is that our understanding of human mind is real
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by aaimnr 10y ago
I also had incredible "fit" with Enneagram. I'm not sure I agree about it not being a good business tool, though. I've met a great Quality Manager who almost certainly was a type 6 (which is naturally focused on finding
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Personality typing is obviously incredibly shaky ground because of the huge potential for the suggestion bias, but we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater. It's almost obvious that there are patterns of human behaviour
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You could also write a quick script using their REST API, although that's a bit cumbersome (lot of IDs that need to be passed around after creation of each resource). Still better than manual clicking in my opinion. http://d
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Have a look at this picture - it shows the total area needed to be covered by solar to power the whole world. With efficient energy transmission technology the area is negligilbe. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/201
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by aaimnr 10y ago
Isn't it amazing that they built a real-time diagnostic system for Boeing plane in Clojure with a team that haven't previously used Clojure? They basically were learning on the fly, coming from OO background, about map/reduce
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by aaimnr 10y ago
AFAIR that's a swing of serotonin level (typical with MDMA).
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Have you ever tried practicing meditation? Among other things it allows to notice and distance from ones current cognitive bias, including strong fear, delusions etc. It requires at least some stability at first, though, so that you can pr
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The most amazing example of such cooperation is Yanis Varoufakis, who was working for Valve on virtual currencies and economy of Steam Market before becoming Minister of Finance in Greece. In his own words: http://blogs.valvesoft
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by aaimnr 11y ago
Drop of water is the best comparison, as its shape is a direct result of aerodynamic optimisation.
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by aaimnr 11y ago
Could you expand on it a bit?
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On the other hand one could say that it's a pretty shallow understanding of Zen, given that Buddhism assumes that everything in the mind - being a part of nature - is fully conditioned (deterministic), as opposed to Christian view of a
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by aaimnr 11y ago
I've seen a lot of praise about this one and I'm wondering whether it's worth reading it after Wisdom Wide and Deep (great titles btw :) or is the most important material from F&F repeated in the second one as well.

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