StringJunky

Yes. It would seem in that situation, since the ability to have internal dialogue is taken away, such a person may not have much freewill.

From what I've read, the external voice is a consequence of the brain rejecting the inner voice as alien.

I've read before that the hep c virus can outcompete the hep b virus in a host and put it into dormancy.

Rumour and the internet = match + petrol.

I don't think Sensei is and | was responding to your interpretation of his post. I was speculating as to why he might have the approach on this subject that he has, given that he's normally a measured poster.

We all live in different countries, with varied degrees of truth disseminated in each. Some people in more oppressive regimes don't have the luxury of unfettered access to unbiased news sources and may also be exposed to state-sponsored propaganda campaigns. One can only know what one can see.

Thoughts prompted by this: Neural plasticity, based on repetitive experience creates automatic pathways that bypasses the need for conscious decision-making; that ‘readiness potential’ signal that pure determinists bring up, may be indicative of that automatic unconscious process. Perhaps, generally, it is only more novel experiences/inputs that may require consciously thinking about; the things we do all the time may generate neuroplastically-created circuits. I don’t know if there is research that controls for this .

I think this is the phenomenon. There's a simulation on the page - Click link under quote:

They eat mice too apparently but they can also fly. They are slow growers, relatively poor egg layers and arten't the best meat birds.

Nice Job iNow.

Yeah. Best to tiptoe. It's all out there in the forum anyway. The study of the underlying nature of what we are and how we function is still very much in its infancy and you will see many different ideas. Because of this lack of definitive evidence either way, and what the existing evidence suggests is still some way off. Because things are this way in this science, I would not invest any emotional resources on some of the conclusions in the current state of our knowledge. Just accept that it is in flux and just be interested in the current versions but non-commital as to whether they are ultimately valid. I suspect the final analysis reveals a mix. It may well be a false dichotomy. @iNow Is that a pretty neutral assessment?

I would say 'influence' rather than 'dictate'. Dictate suggests this is absolutely controlled, which , of course, it isn't.

If the main branch is thick enough, drill holes around the edge of the freshly cut face (in the phloem which transports stuff down to the roots) and syringe or pipette neat glyphosphate in the holes and cover with plastic sheet of some sort to slow drying. I

Yes. You can do something or do nothing... nobody's watching... except your parents... maybe.

Evolution is a blind watchmaker. Nothing drives it. It is change in frequency of alleles over time. Evolution can go backwards; it's still evolution. Adaptation is caused by mutation, which is random. There is no purpose. Time to pull out the whisky.

To find a purpose.

Whether a depression is meaningful or meaningless depends whether the cause is endogenous (neurologica)l or reactive due to some personal adverse event or injury. The former could be classesd as meaningless because its cause is due to some unknown neurochemical events that is essentially spontaneous. If a person has a painful/debilitating, progressive, terminal condition. I wouldn''t call them deluded for being depressed and wanting to end their life.

And so it may be with our robots in the future.

The Bible. Adam and Eve and them eating from Tree of Knowledge... and all that.

There's nowt as strange as folk.

If the speed of sound is 1540 m/s, which means that, in one second, a one hertz (1 cycle) wave will be 1540 metres long, a 2 hertz wave will 1540/2 metres long. The formula you want to be using is the distance sound travels in one second divided by the frequency. How long will a wave be that is 11 million hertz?

Yep.

It all depends on how much authorities are going to tap dance around collateral damage or not.

There is a precedent for that, with all privately-held gold being compulsorily handed in in the 30's and stashed in Fort Knox, which was built for it. I can't remember why.