meri_dian

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   The Explanatory Gap(plato.stanford.edu)

   2 points by meri_dian 10y ago|0 comments
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   by meri_dian 10y ago

   I don't think you're fully understanding the issue of consciousness if you think that saying it's impossible to solve in principle amounts to giving up. It's a legitimate philosophical position. There is no scientific pr
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   by meri_dian 10y ago

   We will never reach any real conclusions about the source of or reason for consciousness. All 'explanations' ultimately reduce to 'this happens in the brain then consciousness happens'. It's an unsolvable mystery, i
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   Bloomberg: Democrats Shouldn't Adopt Obstructionist Tactics(bloomberg.com)

   1 points by meri_dian 10y ago|0 comments
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   by meri_dian 10y ago

   When I was living in China and would go run on a track, I'd see elderly Chinese walking around the track slapping their stomachs or thighs repeatedly. I guess they were on to something.
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   by meri_dian 10y ago

   So you want to ban all opinion and editorial pieces? Articles based on facts very often speculate and riff on ideas, branching off of initial facts, to reach conclusions. Who decides what is appropriate speculation and what is not?
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   by meri_dian 10y ago

   If we choose to 'fight' fake news, meaning we try to automate its removal from social networks, we'll end up censoring a good deal of speculative news which takes leaps of logic and is controversial but not 'fake' i
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   Differentiable Neural Computers(nature.com)

   5 points by meri_dian 10y ago|0 comments