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You are missing the point. Almost all animals care about their offspring. There are other animals with sharp claws. But only one animal does this kind of introspective arguing.

I think this is not a valid criticism. By this criteria, you can then say many other non-psych conditions are not disorders. What classifies as a disorder other than making life wo…

Logically, your example is not contradictory. 1. We don't know actual prevalence 2. But believe it is low 3. Upper bound in some community is 2% It is not at all contradictory.

> Eagles see a lot better than we do. Sea sponges live much longer. Dolphins are really good at echolocation; people are generally really bad at it. And yet we keep proclaiming how…

Logic is much more than classical AI. The logic culture in classic AI was very ambitious and that was one of the reasons it crashed and not due to fundamental flaws in logic. Forma…

Can you name one modern rigorous and precise discipline that does not have philosophic roots? We don't know what science today's philosophy might produce in the future.

Who will decide what has practical consequences?

The obvious question to ask: Why is that part not shown in the video? Edit: Just watched the video again. The video suspiciously freezes from 11s to 18s. Probably, something inconv…

Why are those not filmed?

Why did you leave out what was stated just before and after what you have quoted from the study? You seem to be misrepresenting what they intended to show with those numbers. The p…

Sanskrit is quite a unique language and is far from being dead. Modern linguistics owes quite a lot to Sanskrit, e.g. Chomsky's famous notation, thematic roles in semantics, contro…

Why did you leave out Rao's rebuttal to Farmer and friends' unabashed ad-hominmen laced pieces that you have given? Rao's reply in Computational Linguistics: http://www.cs.washingt…

Yes. You are spot on. I am not able to find readable survey-type articles other than the Wikipedia article on solipsism, but the idea you described is kind of folk-knowledge among …

Thanks! Look forward to reading it. Your other comment on matter capturing consciousness is interesting and insightful.

Yes, I have skimmed through it. It is a nicely written book, but I think the main premise is wrong. A more nuanced book is Penrose's Shadows of the Mind . It is more rigorous and h…

You are right. It is sort of similar to the "other minds" problem. There are no ironclad arguments against a car engine not being conscious, though it seems obvious. You can have m…

Logically speaking consciousness being "produced" from neurons doesn't any sense whatsoever. It sounds magical. What is it that is being produced? Why is not produced in other dyna…

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+love%3F

Smooth delivery is overrated. The pauses convey information about the speaker's state of mind about what he is talking. I usually find that such talks contain much more digestible …

Well, it is not like they caused genocide or cancer.

It is okay to break rules once in a while.