Where in my post did I say that my anger is directed only at injustice experienced by a select few? Millions if not billions are affected by sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, capitalism, patriarchy,

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I think you're absolutely right about the quality of comments on steemit. I am new to steemit but am used to the sorts of high quality discussions you see in niche internet communities where people with

I would love to retire early but I have a strong desire to remain intellectually active until I die. For me, my real "work" is my writing and my thinking, something that I hope to eventually

I don't know - I would contest that whether or not medium-sized animals are conscious depends entirely on how we define consciousness. If we define it to be higher-order self-reflection that it's not clear

Super interesting post. What are your thoughts on autopoiesis as a theory of the biological "life world". All the talk of value reminds of also of ecological psychology and "affordances".

I agree with you in the broad respect: rote memorization is not very impressive in terms of education. Teaching kids to memorize the dates of when the Aztecs ruled is pointless when we all have access

That's interesting! I am definitely a big believer in intermittent fasting so I'll have to look more into the snake diet.

Nice response! I still don't think you have gotten yourself out of the difficulty though. You say that a theory of consciousness must match our intuitions about consciousness. Whose intuitions? They differ

How many calories do you eat for your one meal? How long have you been doing that?

Interesting perspective but I am skeptical. You suggest that evolution might "might lead us in a far more harmonious, successful direction" than culture. I dunno. All evolution cares about is

I don't know enough to predict the future with any confidence. I don't think anyone can really. But I do see a trendline and feel like blockchain is the new Facebook in terms of being a revolutionary

If governments are concerned about money laundering I feel like it is a smokescreen: the bigger issue is the ideological war against the authority of the state to regulate currencies. Cryptocurrency is

In a nutshell, the problem is that consciousness is not directly measurable so we have to measure something else, a "proxie" for consciousness. But we don't know how well that proxy actually

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For someone complaining that nobody is "making an argument" the only "argument" you made in this post is calling your opponents "insane". It'd be awfully easy to find videos

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Most actual scientists I know are very humble about the limitations of scientific knowledge given what we still don't know about how reality works. I'd wager that most of the people who dimisss science

Omg I struggle with this too. My interests are so diverse and there's never enough time in the day to do everything I want to. But I also know I struggle with just not wasting time on things that don't

This issue is incredibly complicated from both a philosophical, scientific, and political perspective. No easy answers can be given. Personally I think that the concept of free will is still compatible