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by mabub24 9y ago
The next sentences following your quote are also hilarious: > ...then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I
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There was Italian Futurist cooking, outlined by Marinetti and Fillia. It was very modernist in the 20th-century sense. But, considering Futurism's uneasy relationship with Mussolini, I don't know how much influence it had on the M
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Yeah. I feel like he spends a lot of time trying to say it's not about the bourgeoisie when it pretty clearly is. People have been writing about this phenomenon and this particular way of looking at social status from the mid 19th ce
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> I'm not sure what the NFL does that's wrong. I don't think that's a particularly strong stance to take. The NFL has been fairly active in trying to dismiss or ignore this evidence. They are not merely standing by th
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Personally, I have not read Feser. I would recommend PMS Hacker's book "Human Nature: A Categorical Framework", which, from reading Fraser's blog posts, I see moves along similar lines. The philosophy of mind is a topic
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The evidence that I have is observation. Animals can feel, can have sensations, and can act with volition, they get hungry and they get tired. They get excited and they get sad. But to what extent can you say they wonder why they are that
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You have to be careful about describing an animal's emotions, even more-so with assigning language to animals. You brought up leaving a dog without food. It very well might hope you come with food. But the sensation it is feeling is hu
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That's true, but rather than "make-up" they are assigning a reason to their actions because they did them voluntarily. That is a rational thing to do, that gives a why for their action through their introspection, or sh
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I too disagree. I'm discussing cogitation rather than cognition. I'm in no way saying animals are not cognitive. I'm saying animals do not possess even close to equal cogitative powers as humans do. Animals are conscious, b
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The original comment I was responding to in the article was concerning the ways humans were unique from animals . I'm not describing intelligence full stop, or claiming that animals are the basis for intelligence or reasoning. I'
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This whole comment chain started because the quote missed the core part of first sentence. "The core difference between humans and animals is that humans can reason; we possess cogitative powers ." (I have emphasized the point th
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It was a rhetorical question to make a point. You seem to be severely confusing the difference between cogitative and cognitive powers. Animals aren't stupid, but all animals are not humans. We are different in quite particular ways th
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I think you should look again at my original comment. I'm not saying animals are unintelligent. They possess cognitive powers. But I'm talking about cogitative powers. That's introspection. It's not that it must be lik
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Newer AI is entirely limited by the algorithmic and logical frameworks assigned to it by others than itself. Machine learning is not "true" AI. It's called AI because it's slick marketing. Animals can solve puzzles. Solv
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by mabub24 9y ago
Computers can solve puzzles too. Would you say, then, that computers can reason? The problem with your argument is computers and animals are not cogitative, in any way similar to humans. There might be instances when animals come close, but
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Do you have evidence that animals can reason? Have you seen an animal give or express a reason for planning to do something in 3 days or 4? Animals may end indecision, but ending a state of indecision is not the same as choosing something f
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Because dogs have no means to express the concept "why?" Animals don't plan in an animate sense in any form observable in the same way humans do. See the quote from Hacker's "Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context&qu
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Really interesting article. In regards to: "Cooperation leading to the development of language is one of the leading hypotheses for what makes human beings unique among the animals." The core difference between humans and animals
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You don't really need a good ear for tuning. Pick up a tuner, they're pennies nowadays. When you're tuning by "ear", though, the trick is, on an acoustic guitar at least, to feel the body resonating. It's much
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by mabub24 9y ago
If you have LaTeX installed pandoc will interpret the inline latex when converting to pdf.
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So the author instead wants everything to go through Netflix and Spotify? Why would Disney care? Their product practically prints money for them. Unlike Netflix, Disney doesn't need to constantly make fresh content for new subscribers.
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"Cord-cutting" means getting rid of cable TV. Yes, ISPs are often also cable providers, but more and more consumers are choosing only an Internet connection. They are "cutting" their cable cord. The money still goes to c
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To piggyback off the quote you pulled, can anyone explain how she came to that legal ruling? It seems incredibly out of sync with the popular perception of American rights and freedoms. Is there something I'm missing?
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There is this[1] video from the MTA that goes into the signaling system, which is extremely old and in the process of getting updated in certain sections. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA
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I'm saying this fully aware I am not a doctor but... I think it depends on the severity of the response, and the context of use. For severity, it's not clear in the article but it seems like the adverse response was quick and quit
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Economics as a discipline is ultimately a form of humanistic understanding. The ideal of scientific rigor is certainly laudable, but it is nonetheless an ideal for the discipline in general. One of the two forms of understanding, humanistic
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Your first paragraph is spot on. The "singularity" is really just 17th-century metaphysics. It's Rene Descartes all over again imbued with religious undertones of salvation and transcendence. Most of the "aspirations&quo
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Isn't the literariness of biography precisely how it approaches the questions asked in this article, and in the biography on Kafka? It comes up again and again in most renowned biographies. On the surface they are about an individual,
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This Reuters blog post points to one: refusing to invest in public universities. This leads private debt to grow, while austerity offers no offset for students who must take out large loans to enroll. There are many others really. It&#x27
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That is true. One caveat, though: these people were all CEOs or senior consultants or occupying high level cabinet positions in federal and provincial governments (some were actually premiers). These people, if not "thought leaders&quo

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