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! Moderator Note Any discussion of consciousness requires a definition, because claiming a tree is conscious likely means that definition is so watered-down as to be almost meaningless. And posting videos without supporting information is not within the rules. If you can’t give us a summary there’s no confidence you’ll be able to engage in discussion of the subject.

Careful with the disrespectful posts. If the president could read, he could get upset. About that: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/two-cats-in-california-died-after-drinking-raw-milk-recalled-for-bird-flu-their-owner-says

And still the answer to your OP is that it very much depends on who is doing the planning, how well they coordinate with one another, as well as the quality, timing and robustness of the information they have available when making their plans.

That’s a noticeably different response. So it’s not that the government doesn’t “do stuff” because that’s what governments generally do. It’s about government ownership, i.e the economic side of communism or socialism. (and while “commies” don’t want to take the toothbrush, it’s not that person’s toothbrush. It’s community property, not personal property)

..except he was banned from this website in his 1st term..

I'll edit the parts for printing and record a video.

How can the means of production be owned by the state, without the government “doing stuff”?

In addition, today we have improved information structures and are able (at least theoretically) to handle much higher data inputs. Assuming we have a good idea what to optimize for and by deploying appropriate algorithms it might be possible simulate free market price information. There will be huge challenges of course, and there is good reason to believe that it won't be as effective as a competitive system. But I also don't think that we can take the lessons learned from history without acknowledging the difference in knowledge and technology.

No they are invalid criticisms as demonstrated by the wartime economies of Britain and Germany. There was great efficiency and great innovation on both sides.

The Soviet system was appealing to many and seemingly looked good on paper, but as with most systems suffered from human greed and fallibility. The idea of spreading peanut butter too thin comes to mind. Everything overall was less good bc the metrics of success were improperly set. They suffered also from the added issue of a tiny few in power reaping and consolidating inequitable benefits for themselves and their cronies at the expense of both fairness and the wellbeing of millions of others not similarly close to power.

The bobbles? I read the one (Marooned) that was serialized in Analog. Good stuff. He died of Parkinson's last Spring, RIP. I also liked A Fire Upon the Deep, in his Zones of Thought series. A former GF met him at a sci-fi conference, apparently by means of squeezing through a crowd and under David Brin's armpit en route. I cannot vouch for the veracity of this account.

Dimreepr, why are you quoting nonsense in an attempt to belittle me? I know very well how little I know, a shame you don't know the same. The reason I know the quantum fields are conscious is because the Rings in my 2016 thread are partly constructed of DNA and hence why "God" is present in everything in our world. You're so ignorant I'd wager you wouldn't believe it is possible for an individuals mind to influence the quantum fields to then have a causal effect on your wellbeing. Here’s an article on your Dunning and Kruger rubbish. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/ Working with Nuhfer, we found that unskilled students are pretty good at estimating their own competence. In this study of unskilled students who scored in the bottom quarter, only 16.5% significantly overestimated their abilities. And, it turns out, 3.9% significantly underestimated their score. That means nearly 80% of unskilled students were fairly good at estimating their real ability – a far cry from the idea put forth by Dunning and Kruger that the unskilled consistently overestimate their skills. DUNNING–KRUGER TODAY The original paper by Dunning and Kruger starts with the quote: “It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent.” This idea has spread far and wide through both scientific literature and pop culture alike. But according to the work of my colleagues and me, the reality is that very few people are truly unskilled and unaware. The Dunning and Kruger experiment did find a real effect – most people think they are better than average. But according to my team’s work, that is all Dunning and Kruger showed. The reality is that people have an innate ability to gauge their competence and knowledge. To claim otherwise suggests, incorrectly, that much of the population is hopelessly ignorant.

The anthropic principle - the genetic code of the universe encodes life and intelligence, can lead to the conclusion that the creator of the cosmos, our cosmos and other cosmoses is the supreme God. There are as many of these cosmoses as there are galaxies in the cosmos, or about 400 billion.

dimreepr "Maybe you should read about Maimonides before we explore 'the enlightenment". Maybe you should read Irreducible by Federico Faggin.

this text comes from bigger work New horizons in physics: Black holes, Big-Bang On the basis of the supercosmical model of subquark particles, we can obtain an explanation of the mystery of black holes. The use of quantization produces specific results. Alleged black hole is a kind of black star - with size about a star for our galaxy - consisting from condensate of small particles corresponding with gravitons. Black because does not let go photons. More suitable name than black hole is for this object name black star. So called event horizon is identical with its surface, so called Schwarzschild radius relates to its real radius. Inside the black star in the center of our galaxy, there is a singularity in which the tunnel with a very small cross-section (about 1 inch) opens and leads in to the a dead body the size of a planet in a big distance (probably other galaxy). This body is dead after some time has passed since the black star at the center of our galaxy has gone dormant and is no longer taking in new material. The theory of the black star is justified by the fact that it logically complements the sequence of stars, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, strange stars, preon stars, up to a black star. I should add also that primeval sinagularity which was a beginning of Universe had size not a very small particle but a size of the order of 4 inch. Thus there was no period of inflation and this concept must fail. The previous concept of the big bang, where we are dealing with extremely small sizes of the original singularity, seems to be nonsense. To assume the existence of such a small object for the entire cosmos is nonsense (I created the black star theory in 2012, only originally black star without a tunnel). Gregory Podgorniak, Poland, years 2023, 2024