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by lutusp 12y ago
This is a case where an article's title, rather than distorting an article's content, makes a claim not supported by the article at all. In a telephone conversation, we link two brains by way of sound waves. A text-based chat uses
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by lutusp 12y ago
Not if the new versions preserve compatibility. But it's true that the technology with the longer view, with fewer major changes, might prevail on that basis alone.
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by lutusp 12y ago
No links, no evidence ... citation needed. Evidence is how we decide whether something is an idea or a cult. > Just because he has a 50 cent vocabulary doesn't mean that what he's saying makes sense. Yes, that's true. It a
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by lutusp 12y ago
> can't you see that Wikipedia is exactly contradicting you? You need to learn about the null hypothesis. And science. The null hypothesis denies the reality of the asserted hypothesis until positive evidence supports it . How diff
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by lutusp 12y ago
The article's "one place" claim will confuse those who don't understand evolution. It's like saying that all algebraic equations are the same because they all have equals signs. It's true, but it misses the poi
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by lutusp 12y ago
Because the notion of free will isn't a materially testable question, it's not in the realm of science but philosophy.
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by lutusp 12y ago
Still wrong. The correct figure compares those incarcerated to total adults in the population.
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by lutusp 12y ago
>> if positive evidence isn't present, then the default assumption is correct > What you have said above is horribly wrong and is exactly the point I am making. If it is true then I can prove anything I like just by designing
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by lutusp 12y ago
Avoid an embarrassing degree of self-reference -- Post your evidence, not your opinion. Other scientists agree with my view: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Griefers have empirically demonstrated that websites can affect mental processes by using flashing images to trigger epileptic seizures. That's true, but the conclusion you draw has a logical defect -- an epileptic seizure is not
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by lutusp 12y ago
> You reject phobia as a real illness? No, science rejects phobia as a real illness. Haven't you been keeping up with current events? The NIMH recently ruled that psychiatry (the treatment branch of psychology) is pseudoscience, and
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by lutusp 12y ago
> You make the mistake of thinking that I am attempting to defend psychology. If that were true, it would certainly be a mistake -- you aren't defending either psychology or the reality of mental illnesses or their diagnoses. > Y
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by lutusp 12y ago
>> psychotic > Choose - mental illness is either real or it isn't. Calling someone psychotic doesn't grant the reality either of the term's generally accepted meaning or mental illness as a category. Any more than th
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Read the quote again, you're begging the question. Yes, perhaps I am to some extent. > Empirical evidence is experiential by definition I would have said it relies on tangible evidence, material evidence. Its status as an exper
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by lutusp 12y ago
Upvoted for pointing out how I managed to miss these clear references while impatiently scanning for "astronomy" and "light pollution".
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by lutusp 12y ago
I managed to miss them. I searched for astronomy and light pollution, but I missed those references that were actually there for more attentive, patient readers.
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Science describes the material portion of the world, and ignores the rest ... Let's say that science doesn't try to analyze those parts of the world not accessible to empirical observation. That could be described as modesty
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by lutusp 12y ago
True. If it were, what humans do with their biological CPUs would be impossible. Too bad we don't understand our own brains.
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by lutusp 12y ago
Once again the freshman class at Harvard proves they're not stupid. There's a shortage of computer scientists, one being to some extent filled by immigrants, and since that represents an opportunity that economics and other majors
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by lutusp 12y ago
Too bad -- several thousand words about this new, brighter lighting, but no mention of its effect on astronomy, or of the light pollution that keeps city-dwellers from seeing the stars and planets.
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by lutusp 12y ago
That's exactly what it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence Quote: "Empirical evidence (also empirical data, sense experience, empirical knowledge, or the a posteriori) is a source of knowledge
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by lutusp 12y ago
> You have perspective. People who are suffering from clinical depression may not have. You're using "perspective" in an unclear way here, as though it means optimism or a long view. In fact, studies show that depressed pe
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by lutusp 12y ago
Yes, if the kinetic energy (i.e. the round's mass times the square of its velocity) of the discharged round equals the kinetic energy of the falling tank. Otherwise no. If it were true, if the round's mass times the square of its
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by lutusp 12y ago
Okay, but consider the alternative -- that the existence of a non-materialistic reality is assumed without empirical (i.e. material) evidence. If that were to be accepted as a given, then we might build a pseudoscience on that foundation, o
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by lutusp 12y ago
I was going to criticize this submission for adding a question mark to the original title, until I read the linked article. The article doesn't try to show an association between data analysis and reality, or use the term "evidenc
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Do you believe that some "phobia" exists? Do you have the required electron micrograph? How about a cell culture? How about anything about which different, similarly equipped observers can come to a consensus? In other words,
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I'm in assloads of pain with every keystroke but I will rip you a new one on this matter. Let me ask a common-sense question. What's my incentive to continue an exchange with someone who is obviously psychotic and probably da
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Your kook-like obsession ... 1. Do you have any idea how this language makes you -- and all psychologists -- look? 2. According to the NIMH and the usual rules of scientific evidence, the burden is on psychology, not its critics, to pr
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Moreover, I don't think the field of psychology has a very strong record regarding the diagnosis and treatment of prisoners. Or anyone else, for that matter. Tom Widiger, who served as head of research for DSM-IV, says "There
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by lutusp 12y ago
Good start, but it cannot apply to a case involving two states. That would require a federal law. Then it wouldn't apply to a case involving two countries. I want to see someone defend their having broken such a contract clause on the

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