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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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David001 Wrote: (Yesterday, 08:20 PM)
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Well, referring specifically to that word 'mind', that I bolded, Can you describe where it is situated? I mean I can only think of two possibilities, either
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (Yesterday, 03:02 PM)
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And (along with other important factors) it is this property ubiquitous in biology of irreducible complexity of the major subsystems of living organisms th...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-23, 11:56 PM)
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The existence of very large amounts of meaningful, functional organisation manifesting specified complexity and associated information is what has to be ex...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-24, 03:23 PM)
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Curious - did you mean that Information Science doesn't exert "force" as used in physics, or that these Information...objects? entities?....have no ca...
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Thread: By Our Bootstraps: An Egregorial Model of Reality
Post: By Our Bootstraps: An Egregorial Model of Reality
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRpbPgrxY5k
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The relationship between consciousness, that is, “awareness,” and the physical universe has been an ongoing mystery to modern science. Indee...
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Thread: Owls and the UFO Abductee
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOLpXPjfrE
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Mike Clelland has been investigating the unknown for well over a decade. His 2015 book, The Messengers, explores the mysterious connection b...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-21, 11:36 PM)
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So is the very idea of a discarnate being so obnoxious to you that you would rather introduce the concept of an infinite number of universes? My mental versi...
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Thread: Thoughts are more real than objects
Post: Thoughts are more real than objects
| Thoughts are more real than objects (https://www.essentiafoundation.org/thoughts-are-more-real-than-objects/reading/)
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Idealism is often regarded as a philosophy ...
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Thread: AI megathread
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| Meta claims its newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-19/meta-releases-llama-3-ai-model/103744538)
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Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
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Silence Wrote: (2024-04-16, 02:35 PM)
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Quick update on Tesla's newest software update to its self driving tech.
They pushed out a revamp (supposedly based on the emerging LLM tech) to all Tesla ow...
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Thread: AI megathread
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-17, 08:45 PM)
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AI ‘LooksRater' app blamed for rise in bullying at school
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24254740.ai-looksrater-app-blamed-rise-bullying-school/ (h...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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Silence Wrote: (2024-04-18, 12:35 PM)
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I find the evidence lacking at this stage, but refutations based on thought experiments such as the one above are embarrassing for the debunker. Using pure, ...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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The idea that the government is keeping something like this secret is just totally absurd. There's no motivation to do so.
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To help visualize why, Diamond urges p...
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Thread: Refuting Strong Emergence
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-09, 05:49 PM)
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Refuting Strong Emergence (https://multisenserealism.com/2023/06/14/refuting-strong-emergence/)
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 01:02 PM)
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I totally agree. Please believe me, I really hope for the immortal soul for myself and everybody else. The threshold of evidence for convincing me is just not qui...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-08, 12:41 PM)
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But we cannot use this evidence scientifically because it is so flimsy and debatable. You might not think so because you fill your boots with one-sided "eviden...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-07, 10:52 PM)
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There is no evidence that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.
The so-called evidence usually cited is just correlational, in a sense that...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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| I found another reference explaining that it’s the approximations to Schrodingers equation the pre-supposes the molecular structure, that’s why the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is relevant in this c...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-07, 10:49 AM)
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I find that article to be peculiarly vague, but obviously you found it enlightening, so let me ask you:
What exactly does emergence in chemistry actually me...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-07, 11:37 AM)
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How far can one reduce before one finds literally nothing?
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Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is lowest known level of reduction.
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