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I’m perfectly okay accepting this premise, but am not quite clear how it’s in any way different from how the brain operates when we’re awake and aware. Those interpretations too are all of effects and signals, are they not? Basically, by my way of thinking, even “direct” experiences are themselves also indirect when considered through the lens of perception and how our minds make sense of each moment. Hope you’re well and have enjoyed the holiday season.

We’ll see which one of us is correct. My money’s on Americans having a short and extremely inaccurate view of economic happenings and who to thank for the good / blame for the bad. I mean, thanks to taking it seriously and actually working to resolve it. Look at all this weight I’ve lost. It was obviously a mistake to focus so heavily on diet and exercise. Lol

Looks like you did At least for Venezuela.

Kind of like the economy Bidens team successfully rebuilt is finally growing strongly and Trump will get all the credit for benefits he didn’t enact a single policy to influence.

Phew. I was pretty nervous there that I wouldn’t get an update about this. Thanks for closing the loop. I’d have been unable to go on without knowing. I can now rest easy knowing what kind of pickups some rando on the internet prefers.

Perhaps a nice lemon curd will do today ✌️

Bacteria are naturally selected. If you think they’re displaying cognition then yet again you’re stretching the meaning of words so far as to render them useless. If you think they don’t naturally select, that’s plainly false. Conclusion: Cognition may occasionally sometimes be a variable, but is hardly essential to evolution.

No thank you First collaborative constructive criticism: It’s not a model. It makes no testable predictions. It’s a fiction, and a poorly structured one at that.

A role so insignificant that it's not written about in scientific journals. In the same way, sleep and urination play a role in building churches and playing violin, yet you're not equally asking why nobody is writing about that. Furthermore, people ARE writing about a role played in evolution by cognition... so you're basically wrong from every conceivable perspective and just digging in your heels for no apparent reason.

Maybe for the same reason there’s little discussion of the role bagettes play in violin music or marmalade plays in the construction of churches

It not only can, but does And when you name them and support them, they’ll be considered. I could equally claim that leprechauns drive evolution, but until I give further reason to explore that more deeply it can be dismissed and ignored. It’s not purely random. There are environmental factors at play and certain probabilities are far more likely to occur than others. Those are selected more often and it’s nice a simple dice roll every time. While these thoughts and ideas may be new to you, they’re not new to science and the nearly 200 year old study of evolution.

Okay, or we could advocate now for changes we agree are needed and insert economic levers that make more sustainable choices more profitable

Luc likely means “intention” specifically in the process of sexual selection, not evolution as a whole

Save a step. Start drawing on the wood you plan to carve. Then get better at it by starting to carve and draw more as you go. Frame the process in your mind as a slow meditative way to create wood shavings and sawdust so every cut becomes a success (instead of trying to be immediately Michelangelo and achieve the statue of David or Mona Lisa on attempt #1).

Eco terrorism might make you feel better, but future generations would benefit far more from large scale infrastructure investments and adaptation, from the election of leaders who generate consensus around funding that a priority.

Thank goodness DJT will soon take office and truly hold Putins feet to the fire /sarcasm

What if god never existed anywhere outside of our imaginations

Is Google broken where you live?

No worries. Just don’t let it happen again.

You’re not rude, just irrelevant and dismissible

There might be parts of our cosmos which cannot be confirmed with evidence, but for now there’s no evidence of this so it can be safely ignored.

One possible counterpoint: The US for several years now has been telling Ukraine they CANNOT use US-supplied weapons inside of Russia for fear of provoking nuclear response.

This is perhaps a false dichotomy. It can be and IMO has been both. Putin has repeatedly suggested nuclear responses are being actively considered since his illegal incursion into Ukraine. This is on top of having his troops take control of nuclear power facilities and threatening to allow meltdowns.

An even greater chance after January 20