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I take it you disagree with the conclusions from TFA then? > Sometimes a natural language such as English is a good choice, sometimes you need the language of mathematical equations, or chemical equations, or musical notation, and someti
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Julian Jaynes has written on this verbal/non-verbal dichotomy in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind , in which he literally defines god to mean those phenomena related to right hemispheric structures
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It's worth noting that math and programming do not appear to be considered "languages" by much of the academic and/or neuroscientific literature; see [0] on the front page right now and my comments regarding the same [1]
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This reminds me of my experiences working with a software developer transplanted from the humanities who was highly articulate and capable of producing language about programming, yet seemed to not be able to write many actual computer pr
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It's worth noting the precise and narrow sense in which the term "language" is used throughout these studies: it is those particular "word sequences" that activate particular regions in the brain's left hemisph
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> As always, barely anyone reads the actual claims in the article and we're left with people opining on the title One must ask why this is such a common occurrence on this (and almost all other) social media, and conclude that it is
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They do, in the first section of the journal article itself: > Do any forms of thought—our knowledge of the world and ability to reason over these knowledge representations—require language (that is, representations and computations that
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One of the six characteristics of consciousness as formulated by Julian Jaynes in his work The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is that of narratization: a story that we tell ourselves of how we got here, whe
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Don't hate the player, hate the game. The social incentives are arranged such that individuals are encouraged to use shibboleths and loaded language of this nature lest they be branded as an enemy. Such is the consequence of rhetoric s
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This is the postmodern, "hyperreal" condition alluded to by Baudrillard and others of his ilk, where the documents and symbols of identity and personhood are elevated above the physical matters of fact themselves. It suffices to s
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> No, it isn't and I see no way to test for "qualia" You are verifying the existence of qualia every instant of your existence. It's the most immediately apparent empirical fact conceivable, since it is sensory expe
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> Not by nature, it's not. Unless you define it to have some immeasurable spiritual quality to it which is obviously not experimentally discoverable and so of little use discussing here. There is no need to bring in "spirituali
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Moreover hard science is more or less based on at least three things: objectivity, quantifiability, and empiricism. We suppose that objective phenomena exist and can be independently verified and confirmed by other observers, using quantifi
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Yes. "You are what you eat" also applies to information diets. Consume simplistic, small-minded information, produce simplistic, small-minded thoughts. One of the key takeaways from Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"
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- Neuromancer , William Gibson - Snow Crash , Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age , Neal Stephenson - Anathem , Neal Stephenson - Nineteen Eighty-Four , George Orwell - Brave New World , Aldous Huxley - Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
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That's correct. We are progressing (regressing?) beyond scientific realism and the notion that we are all subjective minds apprehending a base shared reality towards an essentially magical worldview in which reality is mediated by grou
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This is just the practice of invasive data harvesting taken to its natural conclusion, which any tech savvy user or computer geek brought up in the pre-postmodern social media era of the Internet (before Facebook) could have seen coming dec
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There is an upper bound to the amount of information that can be easily conveyed through a TikTok video, and given the platform's focus on short-form content, it is not very high; likely, it is much, much lower than a book or manual or
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> People who've never really known anything but stability in their lives tend to make a lot of assumptions they're not equipped to recognize, so it's usually just better not to create the opportunity. Having fell hook, lin
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Respectfully, I disagree. Every label or identity is yet another pigeonhole to be stuffed into and a thought-terminating cliche that reduces the complexity of one's life into an overly simplistic symbol which fails to represent the tot
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> you were from a small shitty place that nobody ever heard of, but you had transcended those humble origins to become a being of pure information, sharing thoughts, philosophy and maybe code with other similar beings, and that physical
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This is coming very close to denying the antecedent, one of the most basic formal logical fallacies.
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ACE of 7, labelled as "gifted" as some point but was somehow talked out of pursuing accelerated education programs by a parent, grew increasingly disenchanted with the education system but managed to get my shit together enough to
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The tying together of physical locations and audio book contents, or philosophical musings on a drive, are examples of those higher-order representations [0] the author references. There is a sibling thread further down regarding the Buddhi
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All of computing reduces to "just ones and zeros." In light of this let's just dispense with the decades of verbosity and libraries' worth of extraneous elaboration.
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Crass of you to dismiss someone's lived experience so flippantly. > I just want to live long enough to watch everyone destroy themselves out of evilness and stupidity. It happens eventually. Turning the other cheek is a good mechani
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Even while writing pseudonymously and innocuously you are at risk of being doxxed and subjected to mob "justice;" as an example of this see Scott Alexander's writings on Slate Star Codex. In light of this the safest recourse
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One of the issues with removing traces of yourself online, when identity in the postmodern digital era is almost totally determined by those artifacts or representations of ourselves we publish, is that you are effectively performing an act
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The point is that intent has been rendered irrelevant; all that matters is the impact of the words on the audience, and therefore the audience can unilaterally determine the impact (and thus the moral valuation) of those words. Good intenti
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I also attended a well-known institution and this was precisely my experience of university. I stayed home and read the textbook, supplementing with materials online, hardly attending lectures at all. I had paid for university almost entire

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