tim333

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721.
by tim333 6mo ago
Philosophy isn't even very good at defining words. If you look up 'what is consciousness' in the philosophy section you'll get hundreds of pages of contradictory ideas.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Dunno - Dawkin awards: >Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal (1989), the Finlay Innovation Award (1990), the Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize (1994), the fifth International Cosmos Prize (1997), the Kistler Pr
723.
by tim333 6mo ago
You don't have to be expert in all subjects to be respected for one you do know, evolution in Dawkins case. The fact he considers religion to be nonsense and hence has limited knowledge of it doesn't change that.
724.
by tim333 6mo ago
Thinking about it consciousness no doubt got there through evolution, as did other aspects of animal life, and functionally, if you think about something like a deer, it increases its survivability to be aware of what's going on, where
725.
by tim333 6mo ago
Consciousness probably has many aspects - awareness of visual imagery and language being amongst them for humans. Different entities may do different aspects of that like mice would be aware of imagery and body feelings but not really langu
726.
by tim333 6mo ago
It's not news. It's interesting because of Polymarket's size - $8bn traded in a month up 8x from a year back, controversy - $400k on military secrets, drama - FBI ramming the CEO's pad and the like. See also: Polymarket
727.
by tim333 6mo ago
>Claudia seemed real to him because actual women and their desires are not real to Dawkins. The article seems a bit rubbish - dumb ad hominem attacks on Dawkins.
728.
by tim333 6mo ago
A way around the nomenclature problems is to try and look at experiments instead. For example Turing seeming frustrated by similar discussions on will machines be able to think that turned on how people defined 'think' and instead
729.
by tim333 6mo ago
I'm not sure it's that beyond science. Some aspects can be a bit woo but there are practical questions like what anesthetics render you unconscious for surgery and how that interacts with the brain parts involved.
730.
by tim333 6mo ago
I'm not sure on the math on this one. Google says: >Global sea levels are currently rising at an accelerating rate, measuring roughly 3.6–4.6 mm per year so in say 30 years time at the higher figure you have 30*4.6mm = 13.8 cm The s
731.
by tim333 6mo ago
It also can give insights into natural intelligence.
732.
by tim333 6mo ago
Yeah that's mostly why I use it. When I try Firefox I get out of memory messages for some reason. Also the Google Lens tool is very handy and gets used often.
733.
by tim333 6mo ago
Yeah the article is terrible. There was a much better one on schizophrenia a while back called The Insanity Virus https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-insanity-virus-02-16990
734.
by tim333 6mo ago
I was trying to say muslims are about 7% of the UK population.
735.
by tim333 6mo ago
Calculating 1870/500000*66 is kind of basic arithmetic that is covered in high school. They could maybe have some classes in debunking bs media claims which are quite plentiful these days?
736.
by tim333 6mo ago
And it got that way mostly be focusing on cheap flights rather than other nonsense.
737.
by tim333 6mo ago
I think it's cool. I'm pretty sure it's got more press coverage than his prior things.
738.
by tim333 6mo ago
Maybe but not sure how that relates to the statue?
739.
by tim333 6mo ago
He's no doubt not got a permit. However Banksy is something of a popular British institution these days.
740.
by tim333 6mo ago
He's Robin Gunningham but probably has freinds.
741.
by tim333 6mo ago
>about as nuanced as "fuck trump" the fact that it has many different interpretations in this thread suggest it's more nuanced than that. Though it's not some super subtle thing you have to be an art expert to underst
742.
by tim333 6mo ago
I put my bin bags out on the pavement in Westminster too but the bastards seem to judge them as less artistic and take them away.
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by tim333 6mo ago
A lot of Americans like Musk et al get upset that we have some muslim immigrants. You get a lot of this weird we're colonised stuff when it's actually about 7% of the population and we used to do a lot of real colonisation the oth
744.
by tim333 6mo ago
He's a Brit mostly putting art in Britain and so it's naturally that way focused. I've no info what his views would be on forced genital mutilation - probably against but not his area of art like most people.
745.
by tim333 6mo ago
Maybe it's not too late? You could suggest that to the council.
746.
by tim333 6mo ago
I buy the Taylor Swift comparison but both are quite original. Who did a guerilla blinded by the flag statue before? Who wrote "Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane" before?
747.
by tim333 6mo ago
I live in Westminster and we are officially supposed to put our rubbish on the pavement and there are usually no police around. They are just lucky it wasn't taken to recycling in the morning.
748.
by tim333 6mo ago
It's not in a park. It's on the pavement area of a road. For better or worse they don't arrest many people for leaving stuff in the street in London. A fine maybe.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I went to have a look at it. It appears to be one piece, probably fiberglass on a wooden frame, probably it was loaded on a flatbed truck with some sort of crane arm and put there. I don't know if it was just weighted at the bottom or
750.
by tim333 6mo ago
I was going to say >less than two months after a journalism investigation into Banksy’s true identity was published gives a false impression. The daily mail published his name and photo in 2008 https://www.dailymail.com/n

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