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by pegasus 10y ago
Re-worded in a less ambiguous way: "cannot stop drowning to perform voluntary movements such as waving for help".
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by pegasus 11y ago
Concepts are useful because they help us discriminate - between that which falls under the umbrella of the concept and which doesn't. An attribute that applies to every possible thing equally is redundant, and can be ignored without l
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by pegasus 11y ago
Yes. A rock that's been pleasingly shaped by desert winds is not considered art. But if we'd later find out that it was actually a man-made artifact, it would become a candidate for this label.
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by pegasus 11y ago
There's nothing wrong with trying to understand the brain and more generally the machine aspect of ourselves. Yes, these scientists are doing valuable work. But in some very real way none of this can’t ever even begin to answer the q
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by pegasus 11y ago
Sure. We've known this for a while. If this settles the argument, what's the point of further investigation? It's clear that the brain is intimately involved in the expression of consciousness. But whether it's the so
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by pegasus 11y ago
That's just the problem. How would you even go about disproving this hypothesis? If there's no alternative it means the hypothesis is not falsifiable, right? And if there's nothing to prove or disprove, what's the poi
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by pegasus 11y ago
Exactly. Can one really "prove" a hypothesis that doesn't have an alternative? Is this really science we're talking about?
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by pegasus 11y ago
> unreasonably wide definition by most people's standard? Yes - words meanings are defined by how people use them, after all. Let's say you help a friend and you both feel good about it, even though you sacrifice something of p
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by pegasus 11y ago
I imagine that if one would thoroughly internalize the belief that we're driven by purely rational, mechanistic forces, diving head-first into irrationality in an attempt to search for (or somehow invent) freedom and meaning, would be
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by pegasus 11y ago
Yes, exactly, you're misusing the word by widening its definition unnaturally. Which you're aware of, so the question becomes: why? Who knows, you might find out that the reason could be ascribed to "selfishness" in a
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by pegasus 14y ago
There are many schools of thought on how learn meditation, ranging from "just sit!" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza) to very detailed instructions on posture, states of mind, etc. I thought the manual part of "Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyo
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by pegasus 15y ago
And that little side-note unravels the whole argument: how much better can practice be? Can it be so focused that one reaches mastery in 5k hours? 1k? To what degree is being a fast learner in a field a talent? http://www.sportsscientis
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by pegasus 15y ago
How does the second hypothesis explains both of those tendencies at the same time? It would rather seem to predict that people of mixed race would be found less attractive then those of the same race as the subject and more attractive then