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By "both" do you mean (a) what we call the mind and (b) the physic activity in the brain?

The paths and correlations could be described as having a "shape" though,couldn't they? Obviously not some kind of a 3 dimensional or even 4 dimensional volume but (I think I understand that Hilbert space might describe this) a multi dimensional set of relationships that would have a dynamic form or shape. What we experience as the mind appears to me to be featureless ,like a screen upon which the physical workings of the brain are somehow projected.(sounds a bit like Socrates' or Plato's cave) It feels like the mind is what orchestrates the activity in the brain but when you look for the mind ,there is nothing there. Like it is a fiction that the various parts of the brain create to synthesise everything. When I think of "the mind" part of me thinks it is everything and part of me thinks there is nothing there.(no bloody moving parts) Just checked ,we are in General Philosophy so things don't have to make sense here. ;-)

Is the mind just the (shifting and responsive) "shape" of the brain? After all,"shape" is another word that may be as hard to define as the mind. It is equally defined by its environment and you cannot say that you can "touch" a shape.

Do you think the mind can be said to follow any procedures which do not vary from one mind to another or one circumstance to another? Are there things that can be aid about the concept of "mind" that apply in all circumstances? Or are all minds just a mirror image of the circumstances they are embedded in and react to? Are all "rules of the mind" purely ad hoc or might we say there are distinguishing features of the phenomenon that only apply to minds and so define them?

You just couldn't resist ,could you?

The last Sami I spoke to bought us youngsters two meals in exchange for ordering a beer at the same time. They had strict drinking laws in Norway then (probably especially up North) and you could only buy a drink with a meal. That must have been reindeer season I guess (this was on the coast)and they may have been taking a rest after a long treck across country. I think they suffered from the effects of Chernobyl so I don't know if their lifestyle has continued apace since then or if some of them have had to leave the reindeer industry/go on the dole. Norwegian beer was top class but very expensive .

"Roll on ,John" Here Dylan shows just why he was famously described as not being a very good singer He also recorded a tribute to John Lennon with a song again titled "Roll on,John" Some 50 years later .The voice still serviceable then. Think it has gone now sadly.

Yes ,I know it is available I have read that it is effective but less so than the Covid vaccine. I have a penchant for putting things on the long finger and especially so when it comes to visiting the doctor.... The reason ,incidentally that my second shingles infection also went untreated was that it also , naturally showed up on a Sunday -as well as my being convinced that you could not get shingles twice. (so that I ignored the signs until it was quite late and so had to go to hospital for a week)

My partner got an attack of shingles ,naturally on a Sunday at the beginning of this year. We were unable to even see a doctor until the following day. I knew how important it is to take the antiviral as soon as possible and I happened to have some left over medication from my own bout of shingles around 8 years previous to that. I had kept them for such an eventuality(I have already had shingles twice) I thought I should ring around the hospitals and the all night medical numbers for advice as to whether we should use these date expired medicines until such time as we could get proper medicine from a doctor. I was repeatedly told not to do this (some circumlocutions) and as a result we started the treatment some 36 hours later than we otherwise might have. Should I have disregarded this advice and started the treatment anyway with the old medication? (acyclovir ,from memory). As it turned out my partner has had to be prescribed the shingles antiviral 3 times since and ,some 10 months on from the initial infection is just now ,hopefully putting it behind her. I understand that the medication I had had doubtless lost efficacy but felt they might have been of some use in the circumstances . But I didn't want to go against the medical advice I was given over the phone.

Do you not have suspicions that the Israeli government went soft on Hamas in part because they had religious right partners in government who may have felt sympathy to fellow fanatics "across the aisle"? I mean ,if they had a part in encouraging Hamas at first did they feel safer/more comfortable with a religious opponent rather than a secular one? If this intelligence failure is all cock up and no conniving at all then that will be irrelevant. But I have a very low opinion of Netanyahu and am prepared to be shocked at his role (if any) in what happened

Yes,I see what you mean.It takes all sorts.

I sometimes cook for the public. On one occasion we had a couple of French customers(one of whom let us know that she had once cooked for Madonna in Paris -from memory) She decided to go shopping for ingredients in the area and then cook an evening meal to which she she invited the pair of us. It was a bit of uncharted culinary territory as the meal included several large pieces of raw salmon and other fish and we were quite unfamiliar with the concept of actually eating sushi then. I tried my best but my partner left it to one side. Later in the meal I adopted my usual practice of seasoning my plate with some salt and pepper. I was admonished for doing this and ,when I asked why I was told that this was "disrespectful to the chef" (who had presumably already seasoned the meal during the preparation according to her judgement) I assumed this was a joke and attempted to argue my corner but it became apparent that she was serious. People can take food and cooking it very seriously.

That is what I was wondering and asking. I first(well only then and now also on the link I posted) heard it claimed on CNN in some kind of a health foods section and it seemed plausible as you could get the (extremely nice)taste without the need for roasting and browning.. But I am not clear how much of a problem there is in the first place . If one does a lot of barbecuing then the smoke could well be an issue but dietary intake is different.

That is so passe.As if history repeats itself.

https://www.tariqhalalmeats.com/blog/post/the-health-benefits-of-marinating-meat"When we grill meat or cook it at high temperatures, it can lead to the formation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs). These substances increase the risk of cancer in those that consume them. However, if you marinate your meat, cancer risk can be decreased by as much as 95% because it creates a barrier to high-temperature cooking. The shortest amount of time you can marinate meat to reduce the formation of these HCAs is as little as 20 minutes. This is not the only reason why you should marinate your meat. By marinating meat you can achieve not only health benefits but many more - which includes more tender, j I just came upon this article/blog on the health benefits of marinating meat(seems like there may be practical advice on marinading in there as well) Are there good scientific reasons or research as to whether that could be the case?

How did you know it had died?You are right .The domain is for sale. (224 Dollars or whatever currency they are displaying on Godaddy) Without the archive I can't see any point in buying it (Skinwalker ,the owner of thescienceforum.org once said he was keeping an eye on the domain -about 4 or 5 years ago)

lateral?

Well you didn't answer my question.The rockets were likely (as I posted above) a distraction ,part of the overall attack. But could Trump have given away vital information that allowed that part of the plan to be successful? Or was it a blindingly obvious ploy (as I also wondered) after seeing how the Ukraine war was going ,esp regarding air defences?

As per the story ""As president, I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled WH meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety," Trump wrote. "Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against Isis and terrorism." It appears to me that Trump acted off his own bat without consideration of what the CIA or others were likely to advise him .That would be in character . I wonder what information he may have had access to that might have ended up with Hamas which got around the Iron Dome?

Who was finally responsible for the setting up of the State of Israel?Was it confirmed by the UN at the time?Were there any dissenting votes?

I assumed it was just putting two and two together since the Air Defences' weaknesses came to the fore in the Ukraine war. Did Hamas do anything other than overload the defences with too many missiles at the same time? I assume they (or Iran ) built up a stockpile of those missiles over the years and fired them all at the same time to overcome the Iron Dome. How vulnerable is the actual Iron Dome itself?Ukraine has taken out an air defence system in Crimea and the Naval fleet seems to have now been relocated from there. I think Netanjahu's head may roll when the intelligence failures become clear since it was not just the missiles (were they to distract attention in part?)

That is a strawman and is not why the aircraft carrier is being moved there ,as you must know. "Funny" would not be the first word I would start a thread with on this godawful subject.

Not a bit funny. Israel has just as much a cause (the right to exist) as Hamas and is very unlikely to bend the knee. Ironic that Hamas may have helped Netanjahu's cause for now (we will see)

Haven't see that.We lived by the sea (on an island actually) and our teacher who asked for poetry reciting volunteers at the end of the school day was shot down over Germany during the war.(came back after as a POW)

I used to get home regularly 15 minutes early in primary school by volunteering to recite Flannan Isle for the class and later ,in secondary avoided Assembly entirely (doing homework instead) by virtue of a different religion to the standard C of E. Still hate queues ,though. We used to grow fungus in our empty desks by means of rotting sandwiches et al.