cristianpascu

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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Much of the confusion about free will and how much free is our will comes from experiments that study limit cases like our body reactions to external stimuli or something of the sort. But I don't think anyone can seriously state that w
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This is yet another example of concept that is widely used but, AFAIK, has no clear definition and falls into the larger picture of consciousness: instinct. Actions that animals just do without any prior learning period. Examples are everyw
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I'm pretty tired, as a romanian myself, of always pointing out how good we are at math and that NO, we're not gypsies. Something like, you know, gypsies are to Romanians what latinos are to US. F k that! Like any nation on this
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It has no idea what it's doing. :)
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Machine learning is reproducing the result of a process but not the process. It's easy to be confused about it, and many are. Just like when we call "thoughts" to be patterns of some sort, so then any sort of pattern is a tho
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
From a dualist pov, neurons are spatially distributed group entities too. :)
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I don't think we have, so far, a clear definition of what's 'material'. Thinking of the centuries old question 'why is there something rather than nothing', I believe magic and natural don't make much diff
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I am a dualist and I ought to accept that rabbits are conscious. They must have a soul of some sort to be able to have the Easy Problem of Consciousness between their ears. They see, they hear, they do lots of things. But I don't and
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
>> They just had a "feeling" that it was real To say this is quite ignorant of the past few (24?) centuries of philosophy, including those centuries and thinkers when philosophy was part of religious thinking.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
One thing that seems to be missed in, at least, formulating the problem of origin of life, is that cells don't reproduce themselves. No living organism reproduces itself. Cells split into two different cells and the mother cell ceaces
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
The elephant in the room can not be that big since it could enter through the door. The EU project is nothing like US. This is the XIX, with all the economical and political complications. And we're talking about a bunch of very differ
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There is no such a thing as demo-cracy.
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>> Only the most wealthy, least corrupt, and productive EU states can have a proper welfare state and even some of them have problems with youth unemployment, job growth, etc. That's so true! While Romanian women (the etc. in you
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I'm not from US, but I wonder, in the context of the current cultural shift and war on gay marriage, how are software companies looking at personal opinions on cultural matters like this one? Will that guy in the corner, who politely h
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Not only link-baity, but also blaming the doctor. Large percentage of the large percentage of people who won't read the article will move away with a inconsciouss (at least) fear of medical interventions.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I understand the power of confirmation bias. I believe it to be natural for anyone. It's perfectly normal to seek an explanation that fits the already built cognitive structures, developed through experience. It's unreasonable to
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
That means that you can't simply reverse engineer voice from, say, a sample text read by an voice actor? I mean, down to the tiny bits of audio waveform? I mean, how hard could it be? :)
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I am wondering, what exacly is holding back the technology? Why isn't it there yet?
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
A standard case of mixing (or actually confusing) epistemology with ontology. That is to say that something doesn't exist until we get to know something about it. Or, by all means, knowing something about something is posterior to us
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I graduated physics, but I'm almost a layman when it comes to general relativity. Still, I wonder if another possible explanation for stuff that don't match theory could be the basic assumption about our current cosmology. That th
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
So, say, if someone comes to you with a clean demonstration of how and why something is happening in the world, people verify it and it proves correct, and (s)he says the idea was revealed while smoking pot in a mystical hotel in north cana
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Make sure you add some extra-padding at the bottom of the playlist, as the last item is barely visible if the height of height of the whole player is greater than the height of the page visible height.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
That was an expression of doubt, or of skepticism, not an argument. However, the very fact that consciousness resisted for so long to scientific explanation is a strong evidence that it, indeed, escapes material explanations. It's the
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I have to say I have mixed feelings about the video. On one hand I understand there's a whole world of people out there, and I don't mind openness and honesty. Big thumbs to her for being honest and cool. On the other hand, it goe
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
From their video: The presenter: "Why would you (the assistent lady) be interested in cars?" The assistent: "I'm the perfect chick to be into Masserati." It's a bit disturbing to see an employee presenting her
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Was kidding, man! :)
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Specially to create carousels. :)
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> it is extremely difficult to obtain empirical evidence that this is the case Hume would say it's impossible. And there's plenty of research out there to back him up. I'd disagree with him, but I have to disagree with you
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
> Considered objectively, it's the opposite of empiricism. It's not. Because we call it a sense, it might have nothing to do empirical senses. It has to do with what we believe about the world, including right and wrong. Common
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
The thing is, the only thing keeping us from jumping in all sort of immoral actions (the set of acts gennarilly understood as immoral in a certain social context) is the emotional response we have. Very few, in the best scenario, have ratio

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