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I've been reviewing this topic in my personal life lately, and because I'd started posting here again, I thought the vid might become a topic of interest. Nothing more than that. Here's another one . . . Learn about DARVO

I think you meant to say "so we can't talk vaccines here" . . . because I've already been through that with Gene at length — and his position was made clear to me in no uncertain terms. His answer was "No", and given his condition, I don't feel...

5 Faces of the Female Covert Narcissist

Like I said — we can't discuss it here unless we both want to be censored. All I'll say now is that I started off with the same assumption as you, but I have this annoying habit of trying really hard to look at the evidence and reasoning for the...

Neil Young used to be one of the greats — until . . . https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/neil-young-reportedly-tells-spotify-remove-music-joe-rogan-vaccine-mis-rcna13424 Now I listen to this And we can't discuss that here either — which is...

Watched it — same comments as above apply. Always glad to discuss certain specifics in greater detail. It seems to me that some of Hoffman's ideas are much the same as sci-fi, e.g. BSG type FTL. Who came up with them first, I don't know.

Be careful how to interpret that. It's pretty obvious that Earth had to come into existence and evolve humans before any of them could experience consciousness. It's not like billions of people's consciousnesses have been floating around out...

He also believes that the brain does not create consciousness but consciousness created the brain. He also believes that none of what we conceive is real and that reality is to much for our brains to comprehend.

Here is a link to Hoffman's recent discussion with Stephen Bartlett.https://youtu.be/W0vTZrZny6A?si=iK_9lQBcn-r8Yl93

Sure — Also run a search for Donald Hoffman in the forum search. There's lots of discussion about his ideas. Ultimately his theory isn't an explanation of consciousness as much as it is a model of some of its facets, particularly how visual...

This is a reply to an old post ( I know ), but the findings in the paper make absolute sense ( to me ). We already know that memory patterns shift from place to place in the brain — from short-term to long-term memory, and over that period of...

Hi Soupie. It's been quite a while since we've been active in this thread. In reviewing the last posts in it I came across your post linked above quoting a paper by Graziano. I think the following paper presents an advance in understanding the...

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Well that obviously makes you smarter than the rest — cooler too :cool:

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Well I don't believe you are correct. I don't agree with everything you say but I will fight like hell for your right to say it. Sometimes I have even disagreed with you and gone away thought about it and ended up agreeing. However I think there...

Good point, but I don't necessarily call that "agreeing to disagree". I call your approach tabling or postponing the discussion on the understanding that due to other priorities, it cannot be resolved at the moment. That's sometimes the wisest...

You're right. But personally — I don't subscribe to the "agree to disagree" mentality either. It's the same as sweeping it under the rug. Instead — I think people should have the wherewithal to constructively hash-out and resolve their...

Interesting — I see it as a song about the political climate of the times. And I agree with the lyrics — "It's so sad".

Please elaborate.

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On the fish people planet he isn't even human :p

It seems to me that a considerable complex of neural nets need to have been interconnected to evoke consciousness and then enable it to be sustained and to function. Barr's metaphor of the 'global workspace' suggests what I'm trying to get at...

Of course he will Randall. I will be in the ground and Gene will be celebrating 50 years of the Paracast.

Prof Simon has made himself into a personality in the field. I enjoyed this interview between himself and Joshua Bertrand

Yes I’m well aware that he’s not a professor as such - that’s just his handle, but he’s a very intelligent, interesting and experienced guy - especially in the field of documentary film making. He has many contacts with the fields of advanced...