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Not true, the effect of high blood levels can be very unpredictable. Especially above a certain number - and largely depending on the basal insulin strategy of the patient, for ins…

One of the main uses of these technologies is precisely because some type 1 diabetics can become unaware of the symptoms over time either through chance adaption or over-exposure, …

I remember reading the 6th paragraph as a teenager, it’s still good: “First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’…

Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson

Is perception and evaluation a basic function? By analogy with cellular life, maybe. But I think this abstraction hides more than it reveals.

You are right of course. The plays are plays. And ”commercial” minus the poetry ;) and yet, the poetry is there, for the non-commercial reader. (I hear they exist)

Perhaps, but I think that is beside the point. I read the tales for the voices of the characters, and for the poetry. It’s like Shakespeare, where the plot or story is usually a bi…

It takes less time than you might think to get aquatinted with older English spellings, especially if you start at the deep end with Chaucer; it’s plain sailing after. Personally I…

It it surprising that science, which is the theory of impersonal necessity, should find individual agency a rather inconceivable thing?

Indeed

It’s interesting. Creativity might not be different in effect to “adding some randomness”, but it is different in cause. If the effect is indistinguishable, this distinction may se…

I think your comparisons miss the point: those technologies improved means of production of things made by humans. Instead, these applied statistics models directly seek to emulate…

A different stance from Amherst: I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody!…

“ … I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”

Do you take yourself to be an illusion?

A short interesting site on Wittgenstein: http://handprint.com/SC/WIT/wittframe.html

I think it was likely both. That conditions can diminish a human being is obvious to perceive but impossible to accept. However, if conditions don't suffice to explain, then it see…

"This seems like an anthropocentric view of the world." - What else would you suggest? The world itself, taken on its own terms, has no history, no memory of itself, no experience …

take a sample of Morris' own writing, from 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' : "Worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what…

Morris' good advice is a weaker statement of Keats' last words in the Grecian Urn, where the difference between use & beauty becomes null - & belief is left out of it altogether. M…

It's likely not true: https://johnballblog.wordpress.com/william-morris-and-arseni...

I think we can agree on common ground, I just don't think it's what really matters. Actually, I'd say what matters most, is that we disagree. What would actually happen if everythi…

The denial of reality may be something, (clearly in the trivial cases, denial of facts, it is a common fault) - but more interesting is to ask the converse question: just what exac…

You couldn't make it up - "the ominous opening: “Thou still unravish’d bride.” Keats himself is not trying to convince us that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” but to ask us to con…

Thanks, I'll have to look the recording up.