StringJunky

Mind is data and the other technologies from the past are just less sophisticated versions of how it processes. Computers reflect how we think. We are basically making them in our own image; we can't do anything else. All technologies are insights into the workings of the mind. When you see a beehive and its occupants you are looking at a blueprint into the workings or "minds" of bees.

It needs to happen empirically before we can start to figure out what constitutes a mind. If mind is an emergent property, I don't think think anyone can work out what's needed to bring about that emergence.

Rather than obsess tryiing to create or model a mind, if you just focus on getting AI to perform the tasks that humans can do, it's mind will emerge as its complexity and abilities increases. After the fact, scientists can then figure out which are the essential attributes that give rise to a mind by elimination.

Are you the only one in your family/relatives with it?

Have you tried talking to yourself via a large mirror? That might help you home in on your self-consciousness by seeing yourself and may help find a strategy to alleviate it in social situations.

Strictly speaking, it's a subject matter concerned with the transition from non-living molecular systems to ones that make up a living system or organism. It, therefore, contains hypotheses about the advent of life but is not a hypothesis in itself. When you talk about the advent of life, 'abiogenesis' is where you put it, as a category.

You are clearly emotionally wedded to this subject and it's the best thing to do sometimes. We have people with psychiatric issues frequently and we treat them the best we can but we don't try and be what we are not and it's not allowed.

Because motivations precede actions. The action needs to agree with the motivation. The contrary is putting the cart before the horse.

Yes, it also applies if it affects those around you as well.

No drugs are side-effect-free. It's all relative to your own experience what is bad and what is not. It's all about weighing up the benefits vs adverse effects.

If a persistent behaviour or thought process, that is not easily within your control, affects your life pathologically it's an illness.

And they will use a reference source to obtain that definition...they don't de facto define words...but still...

I think you read what he wrote in the wrong way. " And all treatments, for all disorders, have side effects. Even something as simple as aspirin." (my bold)

I don't think dictionaries define words as much as record common usage of the day.

Somoeone here once said: "When you open your mouth, your brains are on parade".

Concerning the OP: the tit-for-tat reversals are ridiculous.

Yes, but the lyrics I quoted are reminiscent of republican intolerance to minorities.

Could the rate of growth/ reproduction be enhanced in the environment with music simply due to increased access/distribution to nutrients caused by the vibrations? Replenishment is quicker. The vibrations reduce or remove the nutient's concentration gradient around the colony.

Your title reminded me of the Floyd album. Remind you of anyone?

A behavioural disorder can be a symptom of a mental disorder but not the other way round, which is pretty much what tkadm30 is saying. A mental disorder has involuntary consequences whereas the other could be either voluntary, involuntary or somewhere in between.

Unconscious decision/process = predeterministic action. This is what I meant. I could have put it better.

By what process, in that circumstance, if an unconscious decision can't be made?

it's got a solid glass electrolyte so I would guess it could run hotter than 80-90C, which is about the safe limit of a good lithium-ion isn't it? I found this 2014 paper that seems to bear this out:

Most of the time, but there will be occasions when ambivalence occurs, then an extra conscious step is needed before engaging which action to take, I think. By ambivalence, In this context, I mean when internal demands are of conflicting but equal importance. That's part of the freewill bit.

Free will is an emergent property of a whole bundle of signals; it's a specific kind of information. Do the meaning of the words I've just written exist; the meaning/content is an emergent property of the set of signals that come from the text.