blueadept111

"Ad hominem" literally means "against the man", and it refers to the logical fallacy of attacking the attributes of the man rather than the logic of the man's argument. That's all there is to it, and you're simply wrong.

Stick your head in a microwave, if that doesn't kill coronavirus, nothing will.

As of this morning, Youtube (ie the default 'recommended' feed) seems to have been scrubbed of all negative coronavirus vids and all negative stock market vids, except for mainstream news videos.

The truth is now officially anyone's guess.

Why do I keep reading the advice that it's important not to touch your face? How is the skin of the hands different from the skin of the face?

Maybe analogous, maybe not. Analogy is in the eye of the beholder. There's no law of the universe that says that consciousness is equivalent to computation. Maybe consciousness is an emergent property of biological systems, along some dimension currently unknown to us.

Does it feel pain? I think not.

The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way to know...

Good luck sleeping at night