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I think the context was clear. One cannot universally assert what other people experience or don't. Your incredulity is not sufficient evidence to justify your position. Also, why must it be a 'condition' when it's just a different neural architecture in reality. The absence of said function may lead to other constructive abilities to evolve through necessity. Neuroplasticity is a thing

I still don't understand what these 'invisible images' are. In fact, I don't understand what the OPer means by 'visible images' either. Is 'visible image' any visual perception? Is a song playing in my head an 'invisible image'? Is a visual hallucination a 'visible' or an 'invisible' image? Both? Neither? Does the OP claim that inability to form 'visible images' does not exist? Does the OP claim that inability to form 'invisible images' does not exist? Are there other kinds of images?

That much is obvious. You’re wrong, not unclear about your claim.

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable Recent research finds that lime clasts in Roman concrete, formerly thought to be poor mixing, served a vital purpose. (I was first introduced to the wonders of Roman concrete in Robert Harris' novel, Pompeii) Maybe this could help save those seaside condo foundations in Florida that are so beset with problems.

The problem is the present doesn’t even exist. By the time we sense a “now,” it’s already a stale outdated shadowy construction of lots of different past stimuli and variables. Some of those inputs are 300ms old, others are 700ms old, some others still are from light that was emitted from a star 2 billions years ago… all stitched haphazardly together via a wet meat computer into a narrative we call “reality.”… but it’s not “now.” That happened at least 300-700ms ago.

We have so many Republican Representatives now who openly oppose our own system of government, yet they take the salary as they work to ensure the system doesn't work. Traitors, white supremacists, and Russian money launderers are winning elections, so we have to pay them to work against us. And they consider themselves the REAL Americans! As always, as they reduce the effectiveness of our government by insisting it needs to shrink, privately owned alternatives are the only solution offered. We don't have purely publicly owned resources in the US anymore. Everything is about making insultingly enormous profits and legislation that makes high-level corruption legal. Forgive me if I don't stand, Mr Speaker. I've read the articles from journalists I trust who think you're one of the dumbest people in Congress, and it seems like you had to make some dumb deals to get where you are.

(with apologies to Bob Dylan) How many roads must a pangolin walk down Before it can learn how to roll? Yes and how many miles must an armadillo cross Before it can end its weary stroll? The answer my friend is rolling in the wind The answer is rolling in the wind.

Andrew Jackson and his supporters contested the legitimacy of his 1824 loss, for many years after, charging various corrupt dealings. His base endlessly attacked the Adams administration as illegitimate and the election a farce. And you may enjoy a look at the Hayes v Tilden disputed election of 1876, and the years of allegations of election fraud. Anyway, sorry to say that "people have acted with a certain amount of honour" (up till now) is pretty far from the truth.

You wait. We'll go ahead and address the question now. Again, no definition of consciousness I've ever seen suggests dogs and cats are not conscious. Very poetic but seems a bit off-topic. I read that multiple times and do not understand what you are trying to convey. No one here has made "Any absolute declaration of understanding of what consciousness is" so I don't think you have to worry about that.

There's nothing magic about using 1 molar solution. Sure, 0.5 M would need half the mass in the same volume of solvent. But as far as strength of the acidity goes, if you are using a weak acid the actual acidity of the solution you make, i.e. the concentration of H+, will not be linear with concentration of the acid you add, since dissociation is only partial. It will take place to a greater degree, as a proportion of the acid added, in a more dilute solution, because the equilibrium HA <-> A⁻ + H⁺ will lie further to the right at low concentrations of H⁺ and A⁻ .

Have a look at the following situation: this is a plot of a 3-cube that has evolved in time, but instead of using a time axis, the evolution is all plotted on the same 3D volume to just reflect “movement” (as you suggest), without reference to an external “time” at all. The movement/change here is a combination of rotations (angle not necessarily constant, and rotations not necessarily in the same direction), and a change in colour. Without being given any information other than points within that the same 3D volume (ie only the above picture), can you tell me what the initial state of this system is, and how it evolves? What in here corresponds to past, present, future? You can’t do this, unless additional information is provided that is not itself an element of this same 3D volume. I think you can see the issues. And this is an idealised evolution in just three discrete steps - real-world systems, especially classical ones, feature continuous evolutions, with rotations around all three axes. Try to plot that into a single 3D volume, and what you’d get in the continuum limit is a solid ball - you couldn’t even tell the original shape any more. On the other hand, if you were to plot the evolution of the above system on a clearly labelled time axis with separate 3D plots at t=1,2,3, then there are no ambiguities at all - you can tell exactly what the original state was, and how it evolved in time.

I don’t think this is an issue. I doubt ascending to the presidency is why he wanted the job, but if he was set to take over the presidency, he would no longer be the speaker, and if there was a need for him to take over, it would happen immediately - before the house could oust him as speaker.

Same here. See you later, alligator.

The biggest mistake was not to promote effective vaccines, while they had the outbreaks largely under control.

In math language normalized units such as c=h=k=g=1. If you have a field such as the EM field you have the normalization via the quanta given Planck units. That's included in the previous expression. Divergence means diverges to infinity where you typically have two points on a graph that this applies. \[0\leftarrow x \rightarrow\infty\] QFT has a regulator to provide an effective cutoff before those two points apply. The infrared regulator and the ultraviolet regulator. these will vary depending on the theory. The more common is dimensional regularization.

That's for sure lol. Likely to repeat too within the next few years.

From the horses mouth on the future in the House: "Gaetz boasted Thursday night that even if McCarthy managed to win, “he will have to live the entirety of his speakership in a straitjacket constructed by these rules that we’re working on now.” McCarthy has just ordered himself a shit sandwich with sides. What the caucus have given McCarthy is akin to giving a thirsty dying man saltwater.

DSM is concerned with mental disorders. This is usually defined as a condition that interferes with normal daily functioning. Aphantasia has not been established as such a disorder, but is a documented deficit in an aspect of cognition. There are other conditions - like synaesthesia - that are also not in DSM, for the same reason: there is a different sort of neurological activity but it hasn't been established as a disorder. Indeed, many musicians have synaesthesia (my spouse and I both have a touch of it) and find it quite useful. Try a PubMed search on it, see what researchers are up to.

This is a comprehensive article. Adds more constrains and limitations for evolution, development, and use of wheels in organisms to a few discussed. Also answers the exchange between @Sensei and @Moontanman above.

According to my calculations Mars having a Scale Height of 11.1km means that we are only 30km away from reaching 0.7 bars of air pressure from the Northern Basin or Hellas Planitia. Can we deflect a comet or more to the same spot on such an elevation on Mars to excavate 30km? Then the water from the comet can produce a liquid water lake for us since it will be within the Armstrong Limit now and we can introduce algae and plant life in cheap greenhouses to slowly terraform Mars as a micro climate via photosynthesis to convert the CO2 to O2 slowly. The comet the size of Hailey’s would also contribute 1% to the Martian atmosphere with gas. While negilgible on it’s own if this becomes a regular occurance, 100 comet strikes will double the Martian atmospheric pressure and air density. This also means the future Micro Climate Craters can gradually be shallower and shallower eventually only needing to be 15km deep in the future. Could we deflect enough comets to excavate 30km from the Northern Basin where it’s-7km from the datum? Or maybe from Hellas Planitia? We could settle at the bottom of such a cavity and use airships for transportation without risk of explosion in the CO2 atmosphere, we could also live without the need of airlocks at our doors to maintain an air pressure bubble within the Armstrong Limit and we will have supply of drinking soda water and water for rocket fuel via electrolysis producing both breathable oxygen gas as well as hydrogen for rocket fuel and airships. We wont need full pressure space suits just flimsy stratapause type ones. I have attached concept diagrams/illustrations with my numbers, please check them out but ignore the drill hole and anything related to drilling because I found out that Tzar bombs alone won't dent Mars enough to excavate the depths required. But Comets would because they will have 1.2 million Tzar bombs worth of kinetic energy. Please share your thoughts with me!

It's hard to argue with its message.

range of force is the particle momentum and mean lifetime of the mediator. So a graviton would need to be stable as per what Migl stated above. The HUP does also apply in the decay rates of particles

The 'graviton' would be a massless virtual particle, that is a manifestation of the quantized gravitational field. Off the top of my head, I would think that the distance these virtual particles can 'affect', is determined by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle; massive virtual bosons like the W and Z bosons of the weak interaction can only travel a shrt distance, as they move subluminally and must relinquish their energy/momentum after a certain period of time. The weak interaction, as a result, has a limited range. Gravitons, like photons, would be massless and travel at c , so the 'range' of their interaction could be up to infinity.

I thought 150 and 200 year old examples were a bit out of date to be relevant to the conversation. Back in those days the UK still had 'Rotten Boroughs' and I wouldn't be quoting them on here.