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by cgio 10y ago
Because if something occurs outside the current laws of physics it does not mean it's not natural, rather that the laws of physics need to adjust and take it into account.
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by cgio 10y ago
* A poem works best, for me, when the writer doesn't tell, but when he or she invents combinations of specific words to show us old facts in new ways. * I have a similar saying for philosophy; that it is to put the wrong words in the
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by cgio 10y ago
What about the pictures of today that need to be historical in the future?
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by cgio 10y ago
I never actually read the emails. But often they are a good reminder that I was interested in that product. If you ask me, I would probably add an email a year later to invite for a new trial or when a major version is released.
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by cgio 10y ago
Have you been around in EU? Governments' ability to help varies from one extreme to the other. There is no guaranteed EU treatment.
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by cgio 10y ago
Having children is a life choice in a social context by definition. Along your lines of argumentation, someone could make absurd arguments like that when you retire you should not be allowed benefits paid for from the tax base you made the
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by cgio 10y ago
If you don't subsidize another country will. Where will that get you in a couple generations.
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by cgio 10y ago
I agree with other commenters on verbosity. But there are some interesting viewpoints hidden in the wall of text, like when they say that while software used to be embedded in hardware now hardware is being embedded in software.
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by cgio 10y ago
I have seen that and it's a dark pattern, if you close the window you will still use your live credentials without changing your logon account.
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by cgio 10y ago
I deeply appreciate your detailed response. Back to bees, they are natural and honeymaking is natural too, but only bees make honey. Something being natural does not imply some sort of universality in the form of natural law. Computation ha
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by cgio 10y ago
Do you refute Searle by just asking? Waterfalls play chess regardless the observer? Do my 4 apples compute their sum just by virtue of being 4?
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by cgio 10y ago
Cybernetics was highly influenced by Shannon's IT. Shannon was also an active member in the cybernetics community. I would not consider the theories antithetical but rather synthetical.
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by cgio 10y ago
>What if we discovered an animal or alien species incapable of experiencing "sadness" as we do? The quoted statement seems to preclude this as a possibility, which is a very strong assumption. Transcendence of feelings does not
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by cgio 10y ago
Interesting theory. I could see the main idea, individuality of brain segments, to be extended to cover other dimensions than just the spatial. Especially with schizophrenia, time perception and illusions are quite common, so a temporal sc
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by cgio 10y ago
I am not sure I get your definition of causal closure. Would "black is what looks the same colour when put next to a black item" qualify as a causal closure, and if yes how can that be a non purely self referential definition in a
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by cgio 10y ago
Your definition of physical existence above is not circular in some sense, it is circular in any sense since you define physical existence in terms of interacting with other physical existence. Just to test your definition, are colour or so
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by cgio 10y ago
How do you substantiate the analogy between origin of life and convection rolls formation?
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by cgio 10y ago
Aeon comes from Greek αιών, that's why it has the ae.
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by cgio 10y ago
At least from an etymology perspective, analyze should come before organize. My version is Anticipate->Sense->Decide->Understand but I think it's not mine exclusively.
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by cgio 10y ago
Paid in capital would be only with regards to what the company received when issuing the stock. For transactions thereafter in the secondary market, paid in capital remains the same regardless the market price. You can calculate what you as
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by cgio 10y ago
Soros in Greek does not have the structural connotation of heap in English (which I infer from your reply, given English is not my mother tongue).
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by cgio 10y ago
I feel there might be a very interesting thought process going on in your second paragraph, but I cannot parse it. Would you mind explaining in a bit more detail on the link between articulation and answer? At face value, the formulation of
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by cgio 10y ago
From the epilogue of the article: The methods we found for solving the first problem don’t appear to help with the second problem, and vice versa. In fact, the two isolated solutions appear quite difficult to reconcile. The problem that the
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by cgio 11y ago
My bad experience with Australia's education system was when my 5yo son got chastised for looking at the clouds...No matter the context, i.e. he was the last one back in class, I can't fathom a worse educational approach. He was a
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by cgio 11y ago
Very interesting viewpoint. Any algorithm can be replaced by data and a lookup (e.g. Rainbow or multiplication tables.) On the opposite direction, the claim that any data can be replaced by an algorithm is indeed deeply philosophical (c.f.
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by cgio 11y ago
Hawking makes a careful statement and employs the word "seems" not as a padding but intentionally. I take his statement at face value and still don't get to the confident deductions you make. For one "seems" is allo
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by cgio 11y ago
Given your observation, I think you might enjoy the book "Soul Machine: the invention of modern mind" by George Makari.
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by cgio 11y ago
I would argue the leadership of both successful and failed economies have an understanding of the topics you outline. Therefore, the understanding of these topics is only enough to make efficient decisions if your decisions are efficient.
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by cgio 11y ago
The elastic band could expand in both directions or either. If I assume the band expands so fast that I remain at the same point with regards to a point of reference, have I not still moved by 2m along the band after a minute? I guess it&#x
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by cgio 11y ago
Am I wrong to think that the stretching of the band does not have anything to do with "how far along the band" the mouse will travel? Maybe it's my English as a second language, but my intuition is that the mouse still travel

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