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- Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hi from Portugal
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11318
Re: Hi from Portugal
[...] I don't like to see Zuckerberg among Edison and [Tesla]. Gates is an intelligent and honest person who made a successful revolution in computers, but I'm not sure if he can equate those geniuses. Only Future will tell. [...] Roger's permanence in the forum was sort-lived, but wherever he is a...
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:57 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Dualism II
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12055
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:55 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Dualism II
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12055
Re: Dualism II
Can you substantiate your claim?daramantus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:43 am [...] there is a locus central part of your brain that resides your consciousness and it's in the middle, close to the pineal gland.
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
- Replies: 964
- Views: 293353
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:14 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
- Replies: 964
- Views: 293353
Re: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
Geological time spans have been discussed before. Perhaps you'd like to rewind.
Even a suprageological lottery, running every second since Big Bang and counting losers among 6 billion players proved too small to allow for such improbabilities that are equivalent to virtual impossibilities.
Even a suprageological lottery, running every second since Big Bang and counting losers among 6 billion players proved too small to allow for such improbabilities that are equivalent to virtual impossibilities.
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:58 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13930
Re: The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
You're right, but I need to know first what Damasio means as a body and understand why that's requisite of consciousness. In his previous works, Damasio already maintained his Jamesonian view that feelings, which are mental, depend on emotions, which are bodily (1), as well as that brainstem is nece...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 1:49 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: ~ The Birth of Catalan ~
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19241
Re: ~ The Birth of Catalan ~
I didn't say you have a Constitution. But you have an established order. Constitution is just a non-exclusive example.
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:20 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13930
Re: The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
Sure EOH, I already have a lot, but I'd like to finish the book first as they might not have the meaning I gave them with further reading. Perhaps an interesting idea presented by Damasio on Tuesday was that no artificial consciousnesses can be created because computers don't have a body. This is on...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:09 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: ~ The Birth of Catalan ~
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19241
Re: ~ The Birth of Catalan ~
Isn't there corruption in your country? I concede it can be much less than Ukraine, of course, but I won't judge how legitimate is your government from corruption, but from established order, like Constitution. Ukraine has a Constitution, and a legitimate President elected at the time. You have lot...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:46 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: ~ The Birth of Catalan ~
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19241
Re: ~ The Birth of Catalan ~
. Bill: The origin of Catalan's (best Catalonia) birth is people's will. EU is schizophrenic. When people manifested in Ukraine they called that "DIRECT DEMOCRACY". But in Spain, they call it "THREAT TO DEMOCRACY". As I told you, people's will is the only origin. The same people...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:14 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13930
The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
I have just started reading Antonio Damasio's last book titled The Strange Order of Things . I'm lucky that the Portuguese translation is published ahead of its original English version, which will be available next February only, for some unknown reason. I could attend author's book inaugural prese...
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:26 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
- Replies: 964
- Views: 293353
Re: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
Some people here are formatted to just discuss semantics and ignore facts if their formatting doesn't include explaining them.
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:06 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
- Replies: 964
- Views: 293353
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:42 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
- Replies: 964
- Views: 293353
Re: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
Of course, under NS, mutations can't be caused, but empirically as by observing mutations in M. tuberculosis we can't countenance they're aleatory. This is why I told you no easy answer. Lamarck theory (once considered completely wrong), the capacity of some female amphibians to clone themselves if...
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:03 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
- Replies: 964
- Views: 293353
Re: The Theory of Evolution - perfect?
For sure macroscopic physics is deterministic, but quantum physics is less so. The world may seem deterministic or not, that depends. Anyway, I'm not interested in discussing determinism. I would if I had the palest answer to it, whatever answer, but I don't and have never read anything convincing ...