cymian
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Comment · 9 months ago
May the science gods smite down their enemies.
Comment · 1 year ago
Could you elaborate on how human power structures are seen more as bridges?
Comment · 2 years ago
Blind people are no more able to understand* (as qualia) "green" than a sighted human is able to understand* gamma rays. The confusion is between working with abstract concepts vs an actual experience. A picture of bread provides no physical nourishment beyond the fiber in the paper it is printed on.
In an abstract space (e.g. word vectors, poetry) green could have (many potential) meanings. But none of them are even in the same universe as the actual experience (qualia) of seeing something green. This would be a category mistake between qualia-space and concept-space
understand in the experiential, qualia sense.
Comment · 2 years ago
only 20% of India is vegetarian:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/07/08/eight-in-...
Comment · 2 years ago
Then maybe the Palestinians should oust whoever fires thousands of rockets into their neighboring country forcing their neighbor to respond in self defense.
Comment · 2 years ago
And how many Jews live in any of the neighboring Muslim ruled countries? As you say "if my brother ... killed my children I will fight him just the same". The very reason for the wall between Israel and Gaza is because people from Gaza have repeatedly sent terrorists to kill people in Israel. Before Oct 7th (and continuing up to this day) they continually launch rockets that would have killed tens of thousands of Israelis were it not for the Iron Dome.
Comment · 2 years ago
The primary reason a government in control of a strong military (e.g. U.S.) wants to restrict private gun ownership is so that they can scare the populace indirectly by means of rampant crime, riots, etc. which they tacitly permit (or secretly encourage) The population is thereby forced to go along with ever more draconian laws and regulations because their safety is (or is perceived to be) threatened.
Comment · 2 years ago
not pleasure centers but getting there:
- https://consciousness.arizona.edu/sema-lab
Comment · 2 years ago
A variation of "divide et impera" divide and rule - a strategy probably as old as the concept of an empire.
Comment · 4 years ago
Bingo
Comment · 4 years ago
Exactly.
Comment · 4 years ago
Sick for a week like flu. Still under the weather for second week. Lost taste/smell which both returned. Had 8 relatives with similar experiences and 1 was bedridden for 2 weeks. Ages: 20 to 45.
Comment · 4 years ago
It has nothing to do with compassion and everything to do with raising their social status in front of their peers (e.g. look at me I'm so wealthy/powerful I can live in place with theft etc. and it doesn't even effect me, i.e. a form of "peackocking"). Also a lot of virtue signaling - more important when you are materially well of but realistically can never enter the ranks of the super-rich. Can't compete by buying a mega-yacht but can compete (for social status) by being ever more "virtuous".
Comment · 5 years ago
Using a term like concept instead of "linguistic" to denote a mental representation (which could be "auditory", "visual", "kinesthetic", "feeling", etc). Then you are absolutely correct.