skhm

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1. 61.▲
   by skhm 5y ago

   you can show two sets have the same number of elements without having an intrinsic notion of "number" - find a bijection between them, mapping every member of set A to set B and vice versa, and you know you have two identically-si
2. 62.▲
   by skhm 5y ago

   Adding to all these reports of email hacks, I went with: firstnamel@stna.me Where my name has an A in the right place and the last two letters are an obtainable TLD. Blank stares so far - but no spam. Wholly recommended.
3. 63.▲
   by skhm 5y ago

   Ha, that's a lovely coincidence, thanks for sharing. FWIW I went down this train of thought while listening to an audiobook of Hofstadter's "I am a Strange Loop", which doesn't quite go down the same road but trigge
4. 64.▲
   by skhm 5y ago

   Permutation City by Greg Egan - it's fiction, but honestly it will do as good a job as any textbook on the subject to force you to really think about your beliefs about the nature of consciousness.
5. 65.▲
   by skhm 5y ago

   I was ruminating on this on a long walk recently and it occurred to me that I'm probably not "only inside my brain", as you put it. "You" aren't only inside your brain at all. Imagine that at every timestep, th
6. 66.▲
   by skhm 6y ago

   There is another quite negative reading of this comment and I'm not sure which one you meant :)