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https://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/reflections-on-the-skeptic-and-atheist-movements/
I read the "exchange" between Harris and Chomsky. I imagine this is the intellectual equivalent with what would happen if I were to show up at the Lakers practice facility and hop on the court, clearly challenging Lebron James to a pick up game of basketball, after having empiricism his "basketball sense" and "understanding the fundamental question of basketball." After Lebron thoroughly embarrassed me, complete with okiedokes, dipsey-doodles, Harlem-Globetrotter-style bouncing the ball off my head, and enough fakes that I send more time on prone than on my feet, I decry, "that was hardly a charitable exchange!"
QuoteConsciousness may very well be the lawful product of unconscious information processing. But I don’t know what that sentence means—and I don’t think anyone else does either.
Removing 'information' and using 'physical interactions', I don't know why he'd say he doesn't understand it. Maybe he expects to suddenly understand every little part - but that's like looking at a print out of code for a program and if you don't understand all of it then you don't understand any of it. It's just giving up.
IIRC Sam is a Neuroscience PhD, as such I doubt he's telling people in his own field to just give up researching the brain. Rather he's asking how you can go from matter that lacks consciousness to something that has consciousness - his object[ion], AFAICTell, is that there's a Something from Nothing problem.
I think Nagel said something similar, how describing the arrangement of atoms* that bring about consciousness wouldn't give you the answer as to why that arrangement works.
*Or chemicals, or cells depending on how far down you think you can go before you hit some disunity in levels of reduction.
I was actually just checking that you wanted me to actually go to someone's house and ask them about stealing all monies. It sure looked that way but i thought best check before i label you crazier then me.
Yes - I would like someone to knock on his door, when he answers, say something to the effect, "hey man, you don't know me, but could you let me know if/when you intend to deliver Darkness Sabotage?". It can be a respectful exchange. Warning, do not try to hurt him or his property once you've been identified - the suggestion to egg his house was a joke. This is a request to anyone living near his home and would enjoy performing this task, not asking anyone to put themselves out or do anything they would not want to do.
Well, the whole Night King thing is mostly a joke, but one taken from the roots of a real sentiment. That pretty much all the characters have gotten to the level of being somewhat annoying (on the show). Honestly, the Night King is refreshing in his steadfastness and lack of nonsense and bullshit. You know the Night King isn't going to make some outlandish and dumb choice, he is just going to kill you, because he is going to kill every one.
Sure, the "default" is to view the Starks as a force of "good" but that ends up a little problematic, as Anna Smith Spark explains it. It's interesting, in the face of a lack of appealing options, seems I am not alone in defaulting to nihilism.
It stops all souls from going to the outside though.It certainly would be one interpretation of that line. But the issue is, in the infamous Dream Celmomas believed himself to be carried to Gilgaol's Heaven, which is in contention with the proposed interpretation.
It stops all souls from going to the outside though.It certainly would be one interpretation of that line. But the issue is, in the infamous Dream Celmomas believed himself to be carried to Gilgaol's Heaven, which is in contention with the proposed interpretation.
[EDIT] I really dislike that Dream since it contradicts many things that would otherwise be all but set in stone.
[EDIT] And also the one where the Heron-Spear misses.
It is to souls though, Mimara second baby was still born, the soul that encounters him goes no further.It's a strange thing. Yes, the No-God does something with birth, though we don't know what. But just by being there it doesn't close the world. Sorcery is contingent on the Outside and still works, the Gods are able to act and were able in the First Apocalypse, I'm pretty sure Ciphrang can still be summoned, and also, as dragharrow succinctly put it above, if it was enough for the No-God to just exist to prevent souls from going to Hell (or, much less likely, Heaven), the whole Apocalypse and 144k thing would've been totally unnecessary.
Considering all of this, I don't think it is correct to say that the world is closed in any way.
