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by geye1234 3y ago
It's logically impossible for brain states (configuration of atoms) to be the same as mental states (thoughts). They are correlated, but they are not the same. Please see my reply to Temporal above.
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> If in those cases, altering brain state creates/affects behavior and mental states, then there isn't really a place for a non-physical-stuff consciousness. This does not follow. The altering of brain state affects behavior;
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I'm a bit late responding to this, but I believe this is false, and that his cosmological beliefs had nothing to do with his fate: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-truth-about-giordano-bru...
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by geye1234 3y ago
I had a couple of questions if you don't mind: - I have a Business Analyst/Product Mgr background. I've never been a developer, but I can read code well enough and get a good idea of what's going on. Do I have a chance o
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by geye1234 3y ago
Fair enough. I assume sarcasm is easier than presenting a coherent argument. I've heard thousands of people attack the Church for rape, murder, theft, etc; but the moment you ask them to demonstrate that Catholicism as such is the caus
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by geye1234 3y ago
There is a wonderful (if lengthy) takedown of the "Brave scientist Galileo vs Catholic Church" myth here: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-smackd...
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by geye1234 3y ago
You're going to have serious trouble showing me that the crimes of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot (a disciple of Sartre's existentialism), and other explicitly and deliberately atheist regimes, is incidental to their ideolog
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by geye1234 3y ago
Your challenge (and everybody else's in this subthread) is showing that it is belief in the Catholic religion as such that brings these evils. I say it's human beings doing what human beings do; the fact that they're Cathol
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by geye1234 3y ago
You're thinking of Xonix. I just tried it on DosBox, and it works: https://archive.org/details/Xonix1984IlanRavAction
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> Your claim seems to be that causality (governing the behavior of human thought and action) does not _necessarily_ result in rationality (in that human)? Of course -- this is obvious. That's not my claim. Basic observation of onese
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by geye1234 3y ago
> But causal processes can _generate_ rational argument. There is no reason for thinking this. A causal process can be associated and simultaneous with an argument, but it can't generate it, except by accident. The state of mind &#x
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by geye1234 3y ago
I didn't claim the mind's processes were acausal; simply that they could not be reduced to cause, to the exclusion of anything else. If they can be so reduced, rational argument is impossible, because causal processes are not the
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The trouble with this argument is it applies to your thoughts about reality, not just to your will. Your argument implies your thoughts at time t are solely the result of your state at time t-1 and your environment. But if that's the
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by geye1234 3y ago
Neil Fiore's book The Now Habit helped me quite a bit with procrastination (I saw a recommendation on HN years ago, but haven't heard it mentioned much since). One key point to remember is that procrastination is first and forem
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by geye1234 4y ago
It seems very many people have this problem - skim through the hundreds of comments on this page [0]. I remember when I first panicked about having my BP taken: I had an irrational thought that the cuff would completely cut off my circulati
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by geye1234 4y ago
Catholicism teaches that usury is morally evil and therefore always wrong. 'Usury' means taking any amount of interest on a full-recourse loan (ie a loan where the collateral is not limited to a particular asset or set of assets -
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by geye1234 4y ago
Perhaps for businesses this may be true. It's hard to imagine for a consumer. I'm not going to delay the purchase of groceries, a fridge, a new roof or (if I'm feeling rich) a new car just because they may be 3% cheaper next
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Why is Ally Bank abandoning email 2FA?
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by geye1234 4y ago
As a sibling poster says, why don't you ask them? I converted to Catholicism after weighing it up against pantheism, atheism, and other forms of Christianity. I think I have very good reasons for believing in God's existence with