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If you don't accept that you have free will, than nothing you write or say has any meaning.
What someone says or writes could provide information useful for predicting the future. That by definition has meaning.
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Seems legit, kids can run away or be kidnapped. It’s important to know where your kids are.
Yeah it is important to know where your kids are. I go with "pay attention". I guess there are going to be scenarios where tracking could help and maybe even allow the kids freedom to roam within a large zone - the back paddock of a farm say - while still allowing parents to find them. But I still like capability and trust more.
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Even cheaper just to leave the door unlocked, I suppose.
The purpose of a lock is to keep honest people out. Mēh. I have dogs.
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What someone says or writes could provide information useful for predicting the future. That by definition has meaning.
That's my point - that there is free will, otherwise no prediction has meaning.
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Yup. It's actually an incredibly clever piece of tech that lets the iPad/iPhone get around the fact that lightning doesn't have enough bandwidth to transmit HDMI. For regular home/app views, it does hardware compression of the iPad's screen, outputs that over lightning, then the adapter decompresses it to raw HDMI. While for Netflix/etc. streams, it outputs the stream directly to the adapter to decompress, without qu…
As far as working within the constraints of USB 2, it's a solid way to do things. And I'll even leave aside the issue of running a whole OS just to decode video. But this is dealing with 1080p output. That's not very intensive. A lightning port has two high speed data pairs. You don't even need USB 3 speeds to transmit HDMI over one of those data pairs, and then put in like a $2 redriver. If you set up double-sided o…
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That's my point - that there is free will, otherwise no prediction has meaning.
That does not follow. Reduction in entropy generation surely has meaning, it has thermodynamic consequences, regardless of any ‘free will’ here or there.
It is specious to look at entropic consequences, when you should look at the existent will being exercised to predict those consequences.
You can't predict unless you have the will to perform a prediction. Having such a will to act, is free will.
As another example - You are able to freely exercise your will to comment or not to comment.
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It may be possible to believe you don’t have free will, yet act like you do and to find meaning in life. After all, given how hard it is to even define “free will”, how can we know for sure whether we have it? Now recent research seems to indicate (note the weasel words) that we have less of this “free will” stuff than we like to think. Yet hopefully, if you dig a little deeper, we find something that qualifies as fr…
If you are capable of acting as if you have free will, that is the proof you have free will.
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As far as working within the constraints of USB 2, it's a solid way to do things. And I'll even leave aside the issue of running a whole OS just to decode video. But this is dealing with 1080p output. That's not very intensive. A lightning port has two high speed data pairs. You don't even need USB 3 speeds to transmit HDMI over one of those data pairs, and then put in like a $2 redriver. If you set up double-sided o…
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make? Basic 1080p is 3.96 Gbps. Lightning is 480 Mbps. The bandwidth isn't there according to how lightning was designed.
Yes. (Well technically you need 3.20 or 3.33 for 1080p60, and HDMI 1.0 supports 3.96)
> Lightning is 480 Mbps. The bandwidth isn't there according to how lightning was designed.
Not true. Lightning has two differential data pairs. The port can do much more than 480 Mbps.
If your response to that is "oh, but it's only connected to pins that do 480", they would have to reconnect it to video pins anyway to do HDMI out. And nothing else in the lightning ecosystem would limit it, because this is a directly-attached adapter.
Also some of the iPad Pros have actual usb 3 support on their lightning ports.
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That does not follow. Reduction in entropy generation surely has meaning, it has thermodynamic consequences, regardless of any ‘free will’ here or there.
Of course it follows. It is specious to look at entropic consequences, when you should look at the existent will being exercised to predict those consequences. You can't predict unless you have the will to perform a prediction. Having such a will to act, is free will. As another example - You are able to freely exercise your will to comment or not to comment.
I’m fairly certain fish can predict the course of future events, to a fairly high degree of accuracy, in relation to seasonal changes in water temp, food density, etc… e.g. spawning salmon
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Of course it follows. It is specious to look at entropic consequences, when you should look at the existent will being exercised to predict those consequences. You can't predict unless you have the will to perform a prediction. Having such a will to act, is free will. As another example - You are able to freely exercise your will to comment or not to comment.
‘You can't predict unless you have the will to perform a prediction.’ I’m fairly certain fish can predict the course of future events, to a fairly high degree of accuracy, in relation to seasonal changes in water temp, food density, etc… e.g. spawning salmon