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Merci. My fluency speaking surpasses my fluency typing, and usually holiday cheer is involved. Joyeuse Noel ✌🏼

42 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

there's other ways to fight and getting what you want, that doesn't involve killing people; for both side's.

And those other ways ARE necessary, but sadly too often insufficient on their own. 

13 minutes ago, swansont said:

Epileptic rats.

You’re omitting important details.

As epilepsy is itself related to a faulty flow of electric current through the brain, I wouldn’t be surprised if even there the change in measurement detected from simulated geomagnetic current applied transcranially may be an artifact. 

The strongest evidence of magnetisms impact on our minds comes from transcranial magnetic stimulation, a more useful and modern day equivalent of shock therapy used to treat specific mental challenges. This, however, is SEVERAL orders of magnitude higher intensity and more focused than that which is being discussed here in this thread. 

Righto. You do realize the two are mutually exclusive, n’est pas?

1 hour ago, toucana said:

penned by none other than Neil Gorsuch

We’ll soon see just how much integrity he really has, and how principled he is. Or, we’ll see how he shapes his judicial philosophy to achieve his personal political preferences by saying, “Naw….THAT was different.”

1 hour ago, Luc Turpin said:

First four search links strongly suggesting that it is the whole brain

Struggling to understand. Did you say this in an attempt to rebut my point, or to amplify it?

51 minutes ago, Luc Turpin said:

Will try and find others.

Part of the problem here is you’re seemingly looking for articles that support your existing conclusions. 

Most of his citations aren’t good ones TBH

*their. Stupid autocorrect 

2 hours ago, TheVat said:

Maybe Nikki will pick up some primary wins after all.  😄

Or maybe red states move to convince they’re judges to take Biden off their ballots (or both)

35 minutes ago, Luc Turpin said:

As stated before, there is no discovered center for mind [consciousness] in brain

And yet thousands of times per day, every single day, we intentionally make people unconscious by targeting specific parts of it prior to surgery. 

4 hours ago, AIkonoklazt said:

Well, iNow sure didn't read it- Doubt anyone else besides us would read it.

You mean the link I thanked him for sharing since I found it to be interesting?

Thanks for the interesting link, Vat. 

When I hear claims like those above, they sound to my ear like someone 100 years ago similarly proclaiming loudly that planes will NEVER go supersonic or get us to the moon. 

45 minutes ago, Luc Turpin said:

Note - naturalist has a different connotation in French. 

Is that because of your nude beaches? 

“Ooh la la… une naturaliste!! Va va voom, enchante m’amore.”

He’s been soapboxxing for a long time now. Chip on shoulder. Axe to grind. Seems to have an agenda… 

Like I said, fast and loose. “Seems to show some elements of cognitive behavior” ≠ cognition

The worst part is I tend to agree with the thrust of your position but I hate sloppiness like this. 

Like in this most recent article you cite… they explicitly state naturalism isn’t sufficient to understand our mind. Horseshit, because the only thing left then is supernaturalism and that’s a nonstarter. They conclude by acknowledging this is an argument against materialism… so woo woo wish thinking it is.

2 minutes ago, Luc Turpin said:

Plants, multicellular and single-celled lifeforms, without any neural substrate have cognition

You seem to be using a rather fast and loose definition of cognition

3 hours ago, Eise said:

the congestion, as congestion, has impact on the components it is built off.

Yes, agreed. See also my repeated mention of how environment and fatigue and hunger and thirst and illness etc anll influence us mentally despite our loud claims of having freedom. Fairly sure this is another example of us being on same page.

3 hours ago, AIkonoklazt said:

the ability for quantum computers to straight up bypass computability issues, meaning if I even see one instance of quantum computers being able to solve something classical computers can't, regardless of how long it takes any computer to solve anything, then I'll just assume that it applies to ALL POSSIBLE CASES.

Nice strawman. The idea is they can be linked indefinitely allowing nearly unrestricted processing power. The limits are financial and resource based, not technical… and nobody is saying there won’t be exceptions. 

3 hours ago, AIkonoklazt said:

it isn't going to make a dent in anything.

You are so confident about your predictions regarding the future, practically dogmatic and preachy and soapboxxing. Maybe use your powers for something more rewarding like buying lotto tickets (since you can see the future and all).

1 hour ago, Externet said:

If they were hostages, how come were they not in captivity, found by israeli soldiers ?  Do you know details ?

 

They seem to have escaped or simply been abandoned by their captors. Which actually happened is unclear since they couldn’t be questioned or debriefed.

They were hiding in a building and came out shirtless waving a white flag with SOS written out using leftover food when the soldier felt threatened and fired. Two immediately died. One was wounded and went back into the building, but was then shot again and killed when he exited a second time. 

Well, this sure is a fun and enriching way to spend my time. 

3 hours ago, MigL said:

Merry Christmas.
Will be back next week.

My request wasn’t for you to leave, but happiest and healthiest of holidays all the same to you and those you love. 

Label the States

Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

Not seeing any support for your assertion, just a bunch of waffling. 

Just now, Luc Turpin said:

Mind-brain theory has a lot of catching up to do with what observation and findings are telling us about it

So says you. I’m challenging this assertion. You’re making broad sweeping and dismissive claims about an entire field of study. 

It’s far more likely that MANY researchers are doing this already and you’re simply unaware of their work. 

2 minutes ago, Luc Turpin said:

A minority still believe that mind  is strictly restricted to brains, and an artifact of it.

And I’m sure you have numbers to support the assertion this population makes a minority?