BlueWren

thank you very much. I need it for over a spat on TT about sub humanism ( old term transhumanism} replaced rightfully so during last quarterly wrap up.

There may have been a reason that there were no photos in the book.

The word MKUltra REALLY comes to mind ..

In one sense it depends on your purpose for having the Britannica. It has been argued by many, and I tend to agree, that the 11th /12th Edition (3 new volumes were produced in 1922 = 12th Edition) is one, if not the most interesting. It is interesting in that it gives you a grand picture of a world view that preceded but did not survive WW I.…[Read more]

1907 or older on Jordan Maxell’s advice.
You can find the on Archive…I grabbed them until I find a good garage/estate sale for hard copy.

As to the first what you suggest, merging, sounds plausible. However, I’m not sure how one distinguishes between “working together” and truly being “merged” which I think you are hinting at in your question (merged or blended). My suspicion is that what we call consciousness is a result of a particular “ability” (the conversion of sensory input…[Read more]

oops Mea Culpa … sorry about that … it was early in the morning. 🙂
… cognition could be something other than computation.

… Thanks ML! … from your keyboard to the Gods Ears!
[ and by Gods here I mean the honorable and esteemed committee members or as I like to refer to them “The Three” ]
Nine are hard to come by now-a-days. 🙂

… on track for December. 🙂

(TT in the previous post and this post should be read as “pi”) TT[sub 1] sentences are formed from the basic relations of arithmetic (+, * (dot), and <) constants 0, 1, 2, 3, … and variables X {sub 0], X [sub 1], X [sub 2], … by (a) first joining these entities into meaningful ( i.e. in math and logic noted as WFF [well formed formulas] using…[Read more]

Absolutely a topic of interest for not only myself but quite a few others in a number of fields as well. I hope that folks would read all the way to the end of this article where they would read “The mind can’t be just a computer, Gödel demonstrated that fact and Turing tried to live with it.” A thread to follow: Lucas, J. R. – Minds, Ma…[Read more]

Answer: Someone IS going to die ..

What’s that old saying? .. “Give them enough rope …… ” Seems that’s the way Trump plays it .. He gives them all enough rope and “they” hang THEMSELVES … willingly AND publicly .. Good move ..

And don’t let the door hit your a** on the way out.

The problem is, as I’ve tried to show many times when talking about ancestral vs original sin, is that we do not inherit the moral culpability of our ancestors. In other words, the cultural logic behind ANY argument for reparations, etc., is a theological error…

UNREAL … That’s my evening sorted out .. Thanks Joseph .. These interviews have been awesome ..

The problem with tranquilizer guns in a public order environment is that they are short-range (probably 50 yards max), the darts fly at low velocity and may not penetrate clothing, and the tranquilizing agent may take an unacceptably long time to take effect. In a shooting incident, law enforcement’s objective is to neutralize the threat with…[Read more]