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You said you were white, but you registered as black to get preferential treatment. Are you denying that now? I don't identify my race - so I am whatever race you want me to be. I will be whatever race buys me more leeway with you. I don't care. I was never a bleeding heart anti-apartheid protestor...

Didn't you say you are a South African I also said I am European. who pretends to be black to get preferential treatment? Pretends?!?! My ID books says I am black. Are you disputing this FACT? Forgive me if I got that wrong. I mean, do what you like to survive. I am not doing it to 'survive'. I am ...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:18 am Most of the time you are building strawmen and sadistically lashing at them.

Am I?

Why have you CHOSEN the Copenhagen interpretation (which backs up your argument re: interdependence) instead of the De Broglie–Bohm interpretation (which backs up the argument of the Philosophical realists) ?

:mrgreen: Different 'from'. Yes, but Europe is a continent not a country. And because I haven't told you which country in Europe I am from, now I am forcing your hand into discriminating against 50 nationalities if you insist on maintaining your bigotry ;) It's much more fun exposing hypocrisy that...

I've noticed you arseholes are leaving in droves and inflicting yourselves on the rest of the planet (not least of all us). Not the most likable of people, are South Africans. Well, I always have a trick up my sleeve to deal with bigots such as yourself. I was actually born in Europe. I have dual c...

You are lost again. No I am not. You are projecting again. And if you wanted to learn - there are much easier ways than invoking Cunnigham's law - just ask ;) While all robots can learn from each other instantly, different robots [individuals or groups] are exposed to different environments and con...

Was I asking you? Don't you have some black people to throw out of some 10th storey windows? Oh, hang on. They are in power now :lol: I am black, my dear ignoramus. My ID book says so :) But your use of "they" sure is more evidence of us-and-them thinking. Q.E.D https://en.wikipedia.org/w...

The problem with the Philosophical Realists is they assume without proof there is already a pre-existing reality to be mapped. What I am talking about is both the MAP and territory emerging spontaneously as reality. And the problem with your view is you assume WITHOUT EVIDENCE that the map-territor...

What do you believe? I believe that the question "What do yo believe?" is a human heuristic for "Are you one of my people?" It attempts to answer the question: Do you think like me? It is a silly manifestation of ingroup/outgroup psychology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroup...

Remember saying this? The Turing test is basic, there should be more requirements for a robot to qualify to be as near to human consciousness and awareness. A robotic wife in the future should be able to say something like 'Sorry darling, I have a headache tonight'. Its the human [not the robot] who...

Haha... I feel the same... no idea :-) VA is trying to narrate Constructivist epistemology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology According to constructivists, the world is independent of human minds, but knowledge of the world is always a human and social construction. Construc...

Strawman! The highlight of 2 is sufficient to support and justify the main argument. Any number more than 2 is insignificant to the main argument. False Strawman! The main argument is perspectives! When you uttered "Even then it is not easy to see the two cubes." you implied that all YOU ...

If language is considered to be a communication, there is no need to split it into arbitrary divisions such as prescriptive or descriptive. Certainly a communication requires an encoder and a decoder. And the decoded message can be quite distinct from the literal interpretation of the language. For...

Age wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:21 pm I have already stated what WILL happen.

Sure, but you didn't answer my question. Because you don't know the answer.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:28 pm Weird sort of a 'hobby'.

So you are from South Africa--a country that is reknowned for its kind and empathetic police force

You can't help yourself putting people in boxes, can you ?