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. À propos the current article by Michael Shermer in Scientific American: Who are You? Memories, points of view and the self. Copying your brain's connectome (the diagram of its neural connections) and uploading it to a computer, that wouldn't be a copy of yours, allowing you to survive death. The s...

. Arising , on your questions: I don't have a living example of a brain in a tank, but the most extreme examples of minimal consciousness I know are the works by Adrien M. Owen, published by Nature and perhaps better read in Scientific American (May 2014), in which he could communicate with some co...

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I have a question for determinism and free will experts:

Is it deterministic whether a person wins a lottery? Or determinism doesn't apply to anything outside human behavior?

I think determinism even applies to rolling dice, but I'm not sure.




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I have a question for determinism and free will experts:

Is it deterministic whether a person wins a lottery? Or determinism doesn't apply to anything outside human behavior?

I think determinism even applies to rolling dice, but I'm not sure.

RogerFarinha wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:45 pm

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Roger, maybe it's too early to call that a movement. So if you omit that, it'll be easier.




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. I like very much your term "survivalist" instinct and perhaps I'd call those residual people who try to keep as much as possible of residual mentality in a more advanced order survivalists . Makes me remember Orwell's Animal Farm , translated into Portuguese as The Triumph of the Pigs ,...

. Roger , I appreciated your article and think that yes, I may be in line with that radical social revolution, something left behind by the French Revolution and American liberal ideals. That's why the so called freedom of speech so much proclaimed in our society is so easily circumvented by intole...

I am copying my reply from the Dualism II post here because it applies: Consciousness will never be explained or even studied by Science as long as Scientists proclaim that there is no such thing as Consciousness or that it is just an Illusion. What can you do when people say there is no Hard Probl...

. Steve: In fact scientism boycotted any further investigation on the mind by deriding its study as associated to spiritism, for instance, something scientifically unsound, but curbing anyone interested in studying honestly the mind as an entity. . To substantiate this boycott by scientism, just lo...

. Arising: I don't think David has not even a very limited memory, unless you call that his 30-second working memory, something that doesn't allow him to retain any memories. Patients without language communicate, but any mammal communicates, too and it is widely accepted that they don't have langua...

. Arising: For discussing dualism, I don't think we need an example of a non-embodied mind, as this is a rational discussion, and, first of all, there are no such examples. I don't even know if it is necessary that there be non-embodied minds for dualism to be true. Only embodied minds are known to ...

. Arising: Thanks for your contributions. I only have examples of embodied minds, indeed. Do you have examples of non-embodied minds? Of course I mean other animals have minds, perhaps even insects do have one. Being conscious of oneself requires a mind indeed, but that doesn't help define what you ...

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It's no coincidence that silence helps concentration.

The worst thing that can happen to me is when my thoughts are interrupted and lose them and can't retake them. This happens more commonly when I drive (at slow sleep of course).




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That's interesting, but a little abstract, and doesn't help decide whether memory for instance is part of consciousness. No duality means, no mind. Mind requires an object of apprehension. No object, no mind. Memory influences perception of object, thus memory is part of consciousness. . Walker : D...

. Arising , on your questions: I don't have a living example of a brain in a tank, but the most extreme examples of minimal consciousness I know are the works by Adrien M. Owen, published by Nature and perhaps better read in Scientific American (May 2014), in which he could communicate with some co...