StringJunky

ABBA's ABBAtars may foretell differently.

One is based on folklore, geared to relieving symptoms, and the other one on science.

"Ladeez and gentlemen... please welcome SimOne!"

OK.

We are 'old'. We have spent our lives adapting to change and a lot us don't want to do that any more... it's a problem for the young uns. A new, naive mind will just adapt to the circumstances it finds by default, with no awareness of history to refute it, like we often do. There appears to be a periodic, collective amnesia with each successive generation.

If only one impulse can travel at a time, that would make our experience a series with discrete elements. An impulse can be generated 5-50 times a second. We do have latency gaps in our senses, so it's not smooth and continuous, like analogue. I'm only putting this here hypothetically, but that doesn't suggest quantum fuzziness in the emergence of sensations. I'm not saying quantum uncertainty doesn't exist in biological systems, of course it does, but is it necessary to explain experiential sensations? Might it not be going 'too deep', so to speak? Analogously, we don't need to know the fundamental physical properties of our cutlery in order to eat with them. "How I hate those little slices of death we call sleep" - Voltaire

Do we need quantum information, which, I think, is more fundamental than the electrochemical potential between atoms and molecules?

Narcissist par excellence.

The people that are alive today, will die, and a new generation will be born, ignorant of the issues. AI commences unimpeded. It's back to the "new-fangled weavers" and Luddites. Once you know something, you can't unknow it.

Lie Algebra was ajb's area of interest, wasn't it?

A substance is not acid or alkaline until the ions they contain dissociate. The OH-/H+ ions need to be free to move around and interact to express it. If they are tied up in a crystal lattice, they can't do much.

'Behaviour' looks French, so the 'u'.

We already have a natural model via the dreaming process. We can synthesize experiences as a lived experience within them.

Because you consume foods in a solution... that's what matters.

No neuroplasticity equivalent for learning then. You are thinking in hard-machine terms, when it's a software that's executing. If we can have experiences in our brains, which is just data, why would it be impossible to replicate via software? Why can't those software-based characters interact and share experiences, increasing their respective knowledgebases?

That's it, it is escalator! Been a while since I've been on one. Mixing with Americans is messing with my language.

The devil is in the details... using broad brushes hides them.

An elevator is the moving stairs here.

People can't be bothered correcting spellcheck would be the main one, I think. I do it myself if it's on. Not so much on here because people generally make the effort.

Especially if it's American. The 'correct' English is the one people use... it's always in flux. I've noticed American often uses archaic spellings from a UK perspective.

62.7659874% of statistics are made up.

Lots of people... Janine Rowling (H. Potter) for one well-known one. All the feminists that are complaining that all their hard work is being 'usurped' by 'men'.

Because he's concerned about the effect on elite women's sport... a valid concern. How much it matters, is what is being discussed. You can't just say MYOB.

I agree. Fact: trans-people exist. We need to accommodate them because they are not happy. Lots and lots of trials and participant feedback is the way forward, I think. We can theorize all we like, but only by trying things will we find out the real obstacles that need addressing and, hopefully, solutions.

The solution will be empirically-discovered as ideas are tried out over time.