Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week
- Thread starter Ender Rises
- Start date
Einherjar86
Active Member
I remember when that article was published. I didn't pay much attention to it, honestly. I haven't read Nagel's book, but I think the critics/skeptics are right. It strikes me as an instance of someone retroactively imposing necessity onto an evolutionary contingency. Nagel's right that, in a strictly evolutionary sense, the emergence of consciousness was highly unlikely--that there is a virtual infinity of alternative paths that evolution could have taken (not to mention the universe). Teleology explains away the unlikelihood, but at the cost of ignoring entire blackboards of chaos mathematics that support the "fluke" theory. Every single branch of evolutionary existence is (or at least began) as a highly unlikely, highly unpredictable phenomenon. It all could have been otherwise.
Coincidentally, that article pairs nicely with Peter Watts's recent little invective against Bernardo Kastrup's recent article in The Journal of Consciousness Studies: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8255
Coincidentally, that article pairs nicely with Peter Watts's recent little invective against Bernardo Kastrup's recent article in The Journal of Consciousness Studies: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8255
Last edited:
Dak
mentat
From one perspective it's just a secular pass at a Berkeleyian or Spinozan model of ontology. How far we've come.
Dak
mentat
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
This worries me more than nukes and is much likelier to happen
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-could-wipe-out-america-democracy-world-order
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-could-wipe-out-america-democracy-world-order
rms
Active Member
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
Dak
mentat
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
CiG
Room with a View
Dak
mentat
yo @Dak, i heard you calculated and made up an IQ score for yourself in the 160's(lmao) and then got called out on in later when you said that you never actually took an IQ test.Is this true?
Not to my knowledge. Unless I drunk posted some bullshit like 8-10 years ago. It's true I have not taken an IQ test, but I have taken other tests with high correlations with IQ test results and I also give IQ tests, and my best informed estimate is in the range of 125-130.
Edit: I think I posted about GRE correlations, and I have a super high IQ correlation with the verbal subtest, but not with the quantitative, and I explained that. If someone wants to run with a single sentence and ignore everything else that's on them.
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
Dak
mentat
I never made any unequivocal statements. I've only ever made estimations, and I'm pretty sure they are in the 125-135 range.
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
rms
Active Member
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
he's probably searching for it right now
He just basically admitted to making up a score for himself anyway, i'll just save this one for another day.
He just basically admitted to making up a score for himself anyway, i'll just save this one for another day.
rms
Active Member
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
Einherjar86
Active Member
I don't intend to make this into a politicized gender discussion, but I can't help but wonder about the masculine dimension(s) of video games. I know there are women who play video games, but I can't but feel that most of them appeal to a "masculine" audience.
oh "estimations", i see.
Do you have nothing better to do?
