Conjoiner

Your first premise is false. Hooking up your sensory system to a device that generates the maximum signal would give a larger signal since it would bypass degradation in your mouth.

Think your argument through first. Are your premises actually true?

I am not aware of any claim that the devil is the largest evil that could be imagined. Further, such a definition would not make sense in for example traditional Christianity where evil is defined as a privation on good, not something that exists in itself.

Having God and the devil as evenly matched but opposite powers is not something you would find in theology. Learn the basics of it before thinking you have created a proper critique.

it's not 51% of the nodes, it's 51% of the hashing power together with following the agreed upon rules of the network

we do not have a workable definition of intelligence

Surprisingly no, they were not following science.

That's africa, not the west.

Do Buddhists hold this to be true?

According to Buddhism, is there truth that a self can hold?

If it is in the publics best interest for the BBC to own the rights then that can be arranged

so those researchers can skip reading the article, the rest of us may like it

Rats have brains as well

you could try property dualism or hylomorphism or eliminative materialism

Trucking is the single largest job category in the US