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'No doubt' is a figure of speech. But in species where there aren't any pain signals at all, my case is strengthened. I've skimmed the page you link: doesn't it just assume that 'p…

Oh I agree, I'm the same, but I do acknowledge that there's an unsolved philosophical/scientific problem here, with no good explanations in sight. And thus I can't equate indiffere…

Yeah. Another questionable assumption: >If you had the opportunity to feed harmless bugs into a coffee grinder, would you enjoy the experience? Even if the bugs had names, and you …

>shame has become a central tool for trying to create positive social change Yet it doesn't. It creates fear and reduces communication. The motive for shaming people, for trying to…

I don't expect professional philosophers will contribute much either. But it's plausible that a philosophical advance (a new way of thinking) within an existing field such as compu…

>In fact anything computers ever do is not real intelligence No, he doesn't say that. On the contrary he names the principle ('Universality of Computation'; see paragraph 4) which …

One thing the article gets right I believe is that highly creative people are annoying, almost psychotic individuals. It can't be otherwise. If they cared what other people thought…

I have to agree. Sometimes I think I'm not disciplined enough. But every now and then I start a book which is so interesting and vital that I'm compelled to go all the way through …

Yes. There's something about walking isn't there? Returning attention back to the body and the senses amounts to relaxing after hard concentration. Perhaps petting the dog enhances…

Sleep is a given. The brain is learning continuously, not just during sleep. Go back to a section of a piece after 15 minutes doing something else and notice it has become easier.

>When she does this with students, she asks them afterwards, “Was anything fuzzy?” It’s usually the part that they were messing up that’s fuzzy. This is genius. Reminds me of the r…

Yes. We could define it as any movement which condemns people on the basis of their professed ideas.

Plus you'll likely still have access to it years later. And it will remain private.

Perhaps would-be surgeons ought to have their manual coordination assessed before they commence years of expensive training. The irony is that for my father's generation, in Englan…

>If animals eat all the food that is available to them and reproduce as fast is they are physically capable, then the environment will be denuded, the next generation will starve, …

Why can't recovering from WW2 have been the cause? Re-building institutions and cities from scratch causes people to think more creatively.

I would say that by and large it's actually the social people who get lonely. They need the acceptance of others in order to feel good about themselves. Newton had his God and his …

If you have a creative personality, a source of income, and an internal source of validation then, yes, social time is time wasted.

Some people claim that there is indeed such a pill: http://www.reddit.com/r/Ibogaine/comments/2kb3s9/i_have_done...

We ought to design for a range of masses.

I was addressing the statement 'Currently, all our human rated rocket engines use chemical reactions', and I agreed with it. But it's not good enough if you consider the lengthy de…

To address my claim you would need an explanation of why that trend will continue, including for the several new projects. Btw, Apollo used a novel alloy.