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Actually it's more like a waste of CSS

I'm going to go with "economy" More intelligence comes at a price. Look at the one humans paid.

When the omnipotent universe-encompassing ultraconsciousness left at the end of the consciousness singularity extracts your information from the causal fabric of spacetime

The history of high-rise building fires provides no case histories of terrorists crashing commercial jetliners with fuel supplies large enough for transcontinental flight into high-rise buildings either. 9/11 was an unprecedented event. Not at all. The collapse of the towers was completely inconsistent with a controlled implosion. The towers collapsed because the upper floors collapsed onto the lower floors, causing a top-down collapse which rained debris all over the entire area and created enormous seismic events which were enough to damage a wide radius of nearby buildings, even to the point of collapse. A controlled demolition would involve sequential explosions throughout the entirety of the building designed to minimize the debris shower and impact on nearby buildings. That's funny, why did the newspapers only quote the ones who corroborate the official story and said the buildings collapsed from a fuel fire? Must be part of the conspiracy.

Socialists seek to eliminate free enterprise and replace control of the means of production with a fascist bureaucracy Uhh, yeah, false

Ocean heat content rather than SST, which has been employed for decades and was recently used in Hansen 2005, the "smoking gun of anthropogenic climate change" paper

Yeah, just saw this on reddit... the global mean surface temperature is a lousy metric for measuring radiative imbalance and that's all there really is to it

Well, in this case, because they're rereporting the opinion of Hans Blix, former head of the IAEA: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060403/ap_on_re_eu/iran_blix Still, Iran bought the designs and parts for their uranium ultracentrifuges from the former head of the international nuclear black market, and they're collaborating with North Korea to develop ICBM technology. I don't trust them for a second, and I still think they should be stopped ASAP... just because they're X amount of time from a bomb does not mean we should sit on our hands instead of trying to stop them now.

I still don't see why we can't just take out their facilities with special forces. Isn't that what they're for? The Shahab-6 scares the f*ck out of me though...

Oh motherf***er... so apparently she had a crush on me the whole time. Well that's life I suppose, tell 'em you love 'em and you'll find out they don't love you back... don't tell them and you'll find out they do. Now I'm all moved and nothing can come of it... well, maybe something

I don't think you're going to find anyone who would rather have a circumcision at an older age where they have a capacity for decision making becase at this point the procedure becomes more complicated with a longer recovery time. From solely the perspective of the IMMENSE PAIN and the recovery time, it's better to have it done to younger age. It's reversible in that you can stretch out the mutilated remains of your foreskin until your penis has roughly the same shape it did prior to circumcision, but nothing will bring the nerve endings back. At least until we can regrow foreskin from stem cells or something... stretching the skin back into the original shape won't change the fact that your penis is short some 20,000 nerve endings it had before that, including thousands of coiled fine-touch receptors called Meissner's corpuscles and the Frenar ridged band around the tip of the foreskin, which, prior to being hacked off through circumcisions comprised the primary erogenous zone of the male body: http://www.norm-uk.org/circumcision_lost.html However, I don't know any other body parts it's societally acceptable for parents to decide to hack off of their children... couldn't they have chopped off, I dunno, my earlobes instead of the primary erogenous zone of my body? The thing about parents instilling religious systems in their children is that, in the future, the child has the option of rejecting the parents' religion and embracing their own belief system. You can't, however, get your foreskin back.

You're the one trying to make the case for magic, not I. There's nothing singular about your consciousness at all, really. It's a seething cauldron of conflicting impulses which are continuously evolving until certain ones dominate. Ideas move through a sensory preprocessing -> assocation -> motor control continuum which exists within your cerebral cortex, each stage further refining and building upon the pattern recognition activities of the previous stage. The irreducibility of qualia argument, easily explained through property dualism as Sisyphus has done. However, to go beyond the mere philosophical arguments, here is a scientific study regarding just how qualia manifest themselves in the brain, and the answer is, again, collective action: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=33281 And I am left to wonder how long it will be until everyone accepts that you think with your brain...

Hypnosis: Very much real However, much of what is demonstrated in group hypnosis is a stage show put on by the hypnotist. People aren't so really confused as to believe the complete fabrications which the hypnotist seemingly imparts to them. If the hypnotist tells them their shoe is the cutest dog they've ever seen and they have an uncontrollable urge to pet it, it's not as if they actually see their shoe as being a dog, but the associations the hypnotist has made in their heads will exist, and they'll probably feel their shoe is cute and have a desire to pet it in the way the hypnotist described.

I'm most certainly not reaching. Consciousness is a thalamocortical effect resulting from the collective action of the neocortical columns in your brain.

Hmm, funny, I'm not seeing that definition here: http://www.google.com/search?q=define:science

Oh man, I remember that part. "Touch it! It won't hurt you!" The pseudoscience in Bond movies used to be funny in a campy way. Now it's just stupid.

There would've been genetic bottlenecks in all species Noah rescued aboard the ark...

Sounds to me like you're basically saying it's impossible (or rather, that it would require a supernatural explanation) for group decision making systems to conclude upon a single choice. I'm going to go with "Uhh, no, wrong"

That's why the "You wouldn't ordinarly expect blah to happen, therefore, conspiracy!" arguments (or rather, non-sequitur fallacies) are just ludicrous... 9/11 was a thoroughly unprecedented event.

This sort of thing is where a-life would be extremely beneficial. You could create a human from scratch by modelling human development inside a computer.

No, but I've already linked a study which corroborates my assertions

I'm going to go with "Two of the largest buildings in the world collapsed nearby"

Did you ever check out Atlas Debunked?

Same red herring. Again. Here's my argument: The collapse of the twin towers is completely inconsistent with explosives. You claim explosives were planted in the basements of the towers, however it's quite obviously apparent that the top floors collapsed and the weight progressively crushed the floors below them. The twin towers collapsed from the top down.