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This doesn’t answer my question. That is not my position, nor have I posted anything which should reasonably lead one to conclude it is. To be transparent, I’m struggling to find my stance on this topic. I do know the asymmetry in the Israeli response is only making things worse long term.

Yes. Exactly. Golly, how nice it is to finally be understood. Are you clairvoyant? Then why mention 2005 at all? It’s about to be 2024.

I read it similarly. Consider recognizing authors role in conveyance of intended / unintended points

It wasn’t his intended point, but when reading MigLs post it could come across like he was saying that because the Palestinian parents screwed up 20 years ago it’s okay for Israel to lob missiles by the thousand at their children today.

Like how gay people who love each other shouldn’t be allowed to marry and visit each other in the hospital when sick? Or how women should remain barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen? Or how we should throw stones at them if they were so dishonorable as to allow themselves to be raped?

In this horrible situation, where nuance matters a lot, We keep aligning with extremes, helpful it is not. We agree Hamas is evil, different from Palestine, And Israeli response asymmetric, at least adjacent to a crime. We can pick at nits and exaggerate where we each disagree, Or we can advocate for the end of killing, and for humans to all be free. Limericks are much easier to write than stopping endless war, I’m in town all week folks, when you’re ready for some more. The Final Crusade: Starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolf Lundgren, coming soon to theaters near you

You seem to have forgotten to include an image, but often a spammer scammer creates an account, blasts users with scores of PMs without ever even posting, then gets banned or vanished (either by the software or mid team) before you see it. However, those red notification bubbles often have latency in updating / clearing and displays inaccurate counts

Ah, I see. So “causal” isn’t where my definition would be called wrong, but the challenge came instead toward my use of “mental phenomenon.” Will you please offer examples of what YOU mean by mental phenomena that aren’t themselves brain states so we may better align?

I believe some groups are also using AI to decode whale song and enable technology assisted 2-way communication with them

QFT. Quite right

Pain is a mental phenomenon. It clearly influences brain state. Love is a mental phenomenon. It clearly influences brain state. Hunger, fatigue, confusion, optimism, depression… all mental phenomena, all influence brain states (which are themselves in perpetual flux). I’m sure there’s some arcane super micro precise nonstandard usage definition of causal here that I’m ignoring though.

Yeah, we’re aligned on the neurobiology.

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An excellent point. I was positing a circadian style rhythm even at the cellular level, but it too has surely shifted with the celestial changes across the billennia (like millennia with a B) if it exists at all.

The poetry slam is on Thursday

It’s not unreasonable IMO to posit many cellular-level functions will flux along with the moon and tides. Even the very first life on earth in the oceans likely aligned with those cycles and tides and it would be strange if those early primordial patterns weren’t still in many ways nested deeply within our own DNA. This clearly isn’t what the previous poster meant, however, so I return you now to your regularly scheduled program.

A simpler stance IMO is that the good things which are generally attributed to religious practice (sense of belonging, community, recognition of ideals higher than oneself, support mechanisms for dealing with loss and pain, etc.) don't themselves require religion as a prerequisite. All of those things can equally be derived from other social communities and groupings like sports teams, knitting clubs, Star Wars fans, etc. People can come together and lend one another support and comfort and grace in nearly any other social setting. Religion need not ever enter the equation. Ergo, the negative aspects of religion become amplified and more relevant to discussions like these since the negatives don't equally spread across all social / tribal groupings.

And telephone counseling session leads to numbers above 30%. You said "very good" and "acceptable," and your definition seems different from mine... You must also compare the success rate of these interventions against the success rate of people who use none, NOT against "perfection."

But his work is just one set of data from many decades ago, and new work / better work since then has been performed by numerous others and has consistently supported similar conclusions.

It could be neither of those things. Perhaps it's just an relatively accurate read of the current sociopolitical landscape. Certain flaws in humanity are exaggerating themselves and seemingly trending in the wrong direction. Neither slippery slope nor abandonment of hope are needed to acknowledge that.

Seems silly to me, but okay.

I wouldn't call you a luddite, but I might suggest your view of the fast pace and capabilities of this technology is limited and perhaps lacking details, nuance, etc. Anyway, you are quite right that market valuations tend more often to come from emotion and bullishness than rationality and conservative bears.

Do you? Nonsense Your comments are probably also worth ignoring until they're supported with the aforementioned systematic collection and analysis of empirical data.

Why do they claim that previous brain states can’t cause changes in future brain states? That’s ridiculous. The brain does nothing but change from state to state.

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