TheVat

Thread seems more like a vehicle for the OPs narcissism than about genetics.

I think I mentioned downward causation yesterday (to massive yawns, apparently). Epi forbids it, in ways that do seem to create logic problems. How would we ever discuss such things as qualia, if they had no causal role? Epi is like emergence without downward causation .

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/26/2/384/508233 In vitro mutagenic activity and carcinogenic potential of metronidazole in certain animals raised concerns about its possible carcinogenicity in humans. We studied the late incidence of cancer after metronidazole use among persons enrolled in the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, a health maintenance organization. Randomly selected nonusers were matched on a one-to-one basis for age, gender, and year of enrollment to persons who used metronidazole on an outpatient basis during the period January 1975 to December 1983; 5,222 metronidazole user/nonuser pairs, for whom the median follow-up was 12.6 years, were analyzed. Forty-nine percent, 39.2%, 9.8%, and 2% of users had 1, 2–4, 5–9, and ⩾10 prescriptions or refills of metronidazole filled, respectively. The late (after the first 7 years of follow-up) incidence of cancer was nearly identical among users and nonusers (652 and 662 per 100,000 person-years, respectively; relative risk, 0.98; 95% confidence interval, 0.80–1.20). Age-gender stratified analysis did not reveal any association between metronidazole use and cancer. These data support no association between short-term exposure to metronidazole and cancer in humans. Although the results are reassuring, they may not extend to subjects who have used metronidazole for prolonged periods; further epidemiological studies should focus on these individuals.

There is a slight cancer risk from any diagnostic using X-rays. Also from moving patients to specialized treatments by air travel (stratosphere increases exposure to radiation). It's not that difficult to weigh relative risk and use such technologies. So it is with antibiotics et al. If I have tetanus or gangrene (anaerobic bacteria), I definitely will risk the metro. Especially given exposure would not likely be more than a week. Common sense is applicable here. Rather than name-calling.

Another problem with decreased potency is that, if it's an antibiotic, say amoxicillin, you might actually help any offending bacteria develop an immunity to that compound by offering a weakened sample. You really want the full potency. For a toothache, you also want a dentist - the problem might not be bacterial at all. NSAIDs are probably okay for a few years after expiration, and I've used old acetaminophen (paracetamol to you Limeys) to good effect up to seven years iirc. There are no hazardous decay products, they're just weaker.

When I hear "emergence" I am reminded of the ancient maps that would show unknown areas of the world with the caption, Here there be monsters. It is a nonexplanation of a casual structure we simply do not understand. The big question for those who wish to confer causal powers on mind is of emergence and downward causation. Emergence and downward causation are best understood in light of one another. Downward causation would occur when a whole, which includes various parts, influences the behavior of those parts. A whole, or a property of a whole, is emergent when it is capable of exercising downward causation, so again the question of how we would discover and demonstrate downward causation. This seems really challenging with conscious creatures who are interacting with their environment. You have lower order signals from outside interacting with higher order mental states. Sometimes there is thought without behavior. Sometimes, as we have seen, there is behavior without thought, or only thoughts post hoc. Sometimes mind seems to exercise prior restraint (to borrow lamguage from my nation's first amendment) and block behavior, e.g. I'm just going to ignore that. We don't understand emergence because we don't understand what is the possibility of downward causation.

Though my wording was ambiguous, that's what I was getting at. The poll figure only shows support for a generic Dem platform. And as I said, any real potus will drag the chains of inflation, border surges, personal warts, etc.

If I were to guess at the reluctance, I would say they are not favoring a non-deterministic choice process (which could be randomness, rather than actual free agency) but rather one in which the self, the "I" has some kind of agency that is not tethered to physical causality. It's aspect dualism, if you peek under the hood. For some, it's a way to distance oneself from the clockwork universe. Side note: Leibniz thinking on counterfactuals somewhat anticipated MWI. Leibniz argued that there could be an infinite number of alternate worlds, so long as they were not in conflict with laws of logic. So there could exist worlds where counterfactuals were the reality, where Alice, regretting that she didn't call Bob, did in some world call Bob, with positive consequences. Each world would still be deterministic from a physicalist perspective, but all counterfactuals would be permitted in a larger view of all possible Alices, with all possible evolutions of the state vector.

Some northern German company bought that brand recently. They say now it will be made from Hamburgers.

When they bother to. This is why reputable polling firms try to identify likely voters (i.e. not just registered to vote) and weight results on that basis.

If the robot draws electrical power from a line, and the plant has a load center with circuit breakers, could one flip the relevant breaker and then isolate the faulty sensor system in some way so it can be taken to a workbench and analyzed? Maybe I've seen too many movies where they just shut off the robot and then remove the faulty element.

It's interesting that Unnamed Democrat polls much more strongly against Trump than Biden, ahead by 8 points. Any sitting president whose administration coincides with high inflation and a surge at the border will face such headwinds in polling. A lot of voters don't sit around having informed thoughts like regional socioeconomic forces and failing regimes are chiefly responsible for surges of illegal border crossing ....or..... inflation arises from global forces over which presidents have little control. They let themselves be pawns of media influencers who want them to react emotionally and with partisan outrage. Trump has completely sold his base on the idea that those 90+ felony counts are all false charges concocted as part of a political witch hunt. The power of media bubbles to block obvious facts that contradict this is staggering.

Heisenberg is driving down the highway when he is pulled over by the state patrol. "Excuse me, sir, did you know you were going at 87 mph?" Heisenberg: "Oh great. Now I'm lost!"

Middle East political threads always seem to devolve into spitting and growling. Which oddly mirrors the ME itself. I think it's a fool's errand trying to find some kind of original sin in the region that will somehow decisively determine who gets to be the good guys and bad guys. We can regress through Ben Gurion, Balfour, the Mamluk sultans, the Mongols, the Crusades, and on and on and never find it.

Perhaps time for a wee review of terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism

In Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke," the main character is told that he was cloned from Jesus' foreskin. Seems prepuce-terous. Skin DNA doesn't hold up that well.

Blessed are the chaise makers. Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of furniture products.

Though he could not articulate words, AFAIK, this man came close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane The US has a dismal record on collateral damage, from which it tries to distance itself, but the apologetic tone is undermined by its support of Israel.

Perhaps you could check eBay?

Every answer leads to a logical contradiction unless you change either A or D to another alternative (which is NOT 50). Then the remaining single 25% choice will become the only one that is logically consistent and ergo correct. In its present form, the Star Trek team could have used it on Norman the android in the famous I, Mudd episode. Not that I'm a fan or anything.... (other alternative answerable choices would be with two choices of 50, three choices of 75, or four choices of 100. These, obviously, would violate the basic rule of multiple choice question formats where only one choice can be correct)

Equating critcism of militant Zionism and Likud policies with antisemitism is what people do when they opt for emotional appeals over reasoned debate. You may reasonably ignore such. Not agreeing, but I can't say it is impossible that an extreme cadre within the government would try this. There is certainly an amoral element in Israeli command, just as there is in Hamas.

The search for free will in a casual matrix reminds me of searching for a vitamin you dropped on the floor, one of those elusive ones that seem to be nowhere. You check the corners, nope. In your slippers, nope. What about skittering under the door and ending up in the hallway? Nope. All that's left is panpsychism. Which goes back to Platonic idealism, Leibniz, and Russell's neutral monism. Down the rabbit hole.

I would guess such leaks tend to get fixed before they are that extreme, due to the intense odor. At low concentration, H2S is very noticeable. The whole story doesn't pass the...sniff test.

Insectageddon will be hard on some of them.

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