I’ll take “things that shouldn’t need an internet connection to function properly” for 800, Alex

And now I understand the scene in Derry Girls when the call Claire a craic killer…

Right, humans are actually gonna boil the ocean… aren’t we.

It’s take out when it’s a cesarean.

Right? Did it just tell him to pick up a prebuilt pc at Best Buy?

I personally hate the misuse of the term skeptic here. He’s not a skeptic, he’s a denier. Skeptics seek evidence to support or reject a claim. If he was a skeptic, then he wouldn’t oppose vaccines.

Science is built upon repeatable experiments that can be used to test hypotheses. It is not built on axioms and logical extrapolation- those are used to form new hypotheses but they are insufficient by themselves. We don’t decide something exists, we hypothesize that it exists and make predictions based on that hypothesis. If experimental results line up with our predictions then we call that a theory. If new data contradicts the theory or hypothesis then we revise and try again.

So how do you measure qualia? What is it made of? How is it actually defined? How do you detect if qualia is present in something other than your own head?

I stand by my statement that qualia is simply an artifact of our cognitive architecture. You are welcome to disagree but the arguments you are presenting fail to convince me in the slightest.

So our subjective experience must “exist” because we experience it? This seems rather circular. My personal take, consciousness is an artifact of how our brains work. It’s not a thing that exists in any physical sense, it is simply part of the model our brain structures the stimulation it receives throughout the course of our lives.

Your opening statement is incorrect. Observation in the quantum mechanics sense does not have anything to do with consciousness. Observation is really just a form of interaction.

I think the real issue is with the fact that consciousness is not particularly well defined. Something can be more or less conscious than something else but what precisely does that mean? Has there ever been a means of measuring or detecting consciousness in anything?

Interesting but I struggle to see how this hypothesis could ever be proven or disproven. If it can’t actually be tested then I don’t see how it presents more scientific value any other religious or superstitious belief.

Either point break or bad boys 2.

A healthy office culture and team members to collaborate with. I go to the office because interacting with my coworkers in person is enjoyable and I learn new things faster through those interactions. It helps that we also have free coffee and snacks and the commute is less than 10 minutes but I primarily go in because of the people I work with.

Atropine? My cat had keratitis right after we adopted her and we gave her that with a cocktail of antibiotics and steroids. The atropine caused her eye to dilate so she looked like a Bond villain while her eye was healing.

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No such thing as too far.

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But not Reddit gold.

Oh man, I read this as twelve factor authentication at first…