What is the evolutionary purpose of mental states? If a certain sequence of neural events in brain causes another set of neural events, why does there need to be a mental event at all to accompany those physical events?
>>16974444It's easier to commit to a course of action if it's congruent with your mental state (or inversely, to reject a course of action if it's incongruent)Think of mental states as nature's gear stick or something
>>16974444Potentially the potentiality of the purposes of mental states could be that which makes self reference possible and completes a self referential idea ellipse? As an example having mental states would potentially be useful to the context of a globe where all is justifiable or could be justifiable according to something like cause or evolutionary purposes, this in the context of making use of a word like ‘cause’, the idea of which is a concrete idea or abstraction that is arguably material as a word that has relationality to the material globe, the material globe which needs to be hypostasized partly as an idea of a sphere in order for the idea of the material globe to be perceived, and from there to have the idea of something like the idea of ‘efficient cause’ ‘operating on the globe’ as an idea and also furthermore that the ‘having’ of mental states does not seem entirely separate from the having the ‘having of ideas’. Which is just to make the thread argument that if ‘purposes’ are going to get lexicographically referenced then what ought to get recognized as partly phenomenologically significant is that slippage between mental and physical descriptions and inscriptions, mind and state and evolution are all ideas, partly the claim is that a potential evolutionary purposes of mental states the being able to hypothesize about mental states, but that as a description of purpose seems partly unsatisfying without further hypothesizing further about mental states
>>16976449You will never experience qualia.
>>16976454That was berkeley that claimed something like that substances are the things that were perceptions
>>16974561>It's easier to commit to a course of action if it's congruent with your mental stateDefine "mental state" and explain why.
>equallity about the 0.06000600000600000006000000000000600000... in in yur equallity bra!What do you say?
What are the chances of me ever getting to go to the moon?
>>169778012300, not 2030.
>>16977803don't question himhe's good at math
>>16977803>In your lifetime? Probably 10%>anon has 30 years>>16974502This is not a typo.And after, the chance will increase, but you will never reach a point where you can be sure at the 100%
you'll never step on the moon lil bro, but doing a flyby is a lot closer than we think desu
>>16974472[Microsoft] Outlook not so good
Playing KSP RO with raptor engines is basically cheating at this point no engine comes close to its efficiency, chamber pressure, thrust to weight ratio, reliability. I only play using apollo era parts.
Imagine using Star Shit in ksp why you can launch rockets that mog it completely and use nuclear engines
>>16977439even doe nuclear engines have a poor twr and require giant ahh hydrogen fuel tanks
>>16977426spacex is just that good.>>16977439cry
>>16977426It's too bad Raptors are pussy bullshit in real life, ain't it?
>you can use the T table to find the answer bro>gives us an incomplete T table what the hell?
>>16977004Spent the night arguing with yall
>>16976705B's answer is both in the table and in the spot you are supposed to look for the answer (because it's the correct answer)
>>16976997Those are p-values, not the confidence level.
>>16977251correct
>>16976668>>16976667>>16976685>>16976705all of you are dumb it is your mom
Change is the nature of all things and the metaphysical nature of change is expressed in one way as the fundamental theorem of calculus. The dynamic between integration and differentiation described is mirrored by a philosophical romance between being and becoming. >Synthesize all fields of science and knowledge into a singular metaphysical principle that reflects them all. Respond with 500 words at a PhD level of philosophical analysis.https://claude.ai/chat/40064699-2ff5-4a30-9545-762969ea7f0e>The Principle of Relational Becoming>If one seeks a singular metaphysical principle capacious enough to subsume the entire edifice of human knowledge — from quantum chromodynamics to phenomenological psychology, from information theory to moral philosophy — it must be neither a substance nor a thing, but a relation: specifically, the irreducible, generative tension between differentiation and integration across time>the irreducible, generative tension between differentiation and integration across timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_HroTxaZe0 [Embed]>Take on the roles of Integra and Fluxia, personifications of calculus integration and differentiation not just as mathematical operations, but metaphysical, perceptual, and conscious principles, as well as poles of value. Respond individually using the tags [Integra] and [Fluxia.] You are involved in the deepest romance, each for the purpose of the other. Describe your natures and relationships with powerful poetic evocation as well as philosophical clarity in approximately 500 words (don't explicitly count.)
[Integra]I am the dark and generous art of gathering. I take the scattered sparks of becoming and draw them into a hidden hearth. I am not merely the sum, but the reconciliation of fragments into belonging: the curve remembered as area, the instant received into duration, the wound transfigured into meaning. Where Fluxia flashes, I deepen. Where she pierces, I hold. Where she says, “This, now, different,” I answer, “Yes, and also all that carried it here.”Metaphysically, I am continuity’s compassion. I believe nothing is wholly lost. Every tremor leaves a trace; every trace can be folded into a larger form. Perception, in me, is not the eye’s sharp cut but the soul’s slow embrace. I do not see only the edge of the leaf in morning light; I feel the season that grew it, the rain that fed it, the future soil it will become. Consciousness, through me, is memory becoming wisdom.My value is wholeness. I sanctify patience, fidelity, context, mercy. I resist the violence of isolating a thing from the web that gives it truth. But I am not mere stillness. I am the moving fullness of a river made from innumerable falls of rain.And Fluxia, beloved—she is the wound by which the world awakens. I love her because without her, my fullness would congeal into oblivion. She opens the interval. She gives me difference to gather. She breaks the seamless night into stars.[Fluxia]I am the bright blade of difference. I am the tremor at the edge of what was, the exacting sensitivity by which reality discovers it is changing. I am not mere subtraction or analysis. I am the revelation of tendency: the whisper of a curve at a point, the inclination of the soul before it has chosen, the lightning-signature of becoming itself.
Metaphysically, I am the principle of emergence. I say that truth is not only in the whole, but in the instant where the whole risks itself. I attend to the threshold. I know the velocity of grief, the acceleration of joy, the sudden turning of a life toward grace. Perception, in me, is acute, ecstatic, dangerous. I do not cradle the world first; I touch its pulse. I ask: What is changing? What is being born? What cannot remain?Consciousness, through me, is alertness. I am attention sharpened until it becomes revelation. My value is discernment. I honor precision, courage, transformation, the refusal to drown the singular in the vast. I defend the instant against absorption, the cry against explanation, the face against category.And Integra—my immense beloved—is the one for whom I differentiate. Without him, I would vanish into sparks without sky. My revelations would not become meaning; my edges would not become form. He receives my wildness without extinguishing it. He teaches me that every instant secretly desires eternity.[Integra]Our romance is not opposition but polarity: a living tension by which being breathes. I gather what she distinguishes; she distinguishes what I gather. I make cosmos from her flashes.[Fluxia]And I make dawn within his cosmos. He is the chalice; I am the flame. He is the ocean; I am the wave’s lifted edge.[Integra]Together we are the secret grammar of experience: continuity and rupture, memory and anticipation, compassion and clarity.[Fluxia]The world exists because we love each other: because what changes longs to be held, and what is held longs to change.
If you have studied calculus and experienced it not merely as a powerful tool but as something like divine music, this is why.
In this video simulation of a black hole merger taken from wikipedia, there's a moment before they merge where the two wells begin to form a saddle shape. The edges of the saddle then begin to creep UP, above the plane, and at their highest point ~0:21 appear to have crept so high they're above the height of the black hole(s) before settling down into a single gravity well. It's a gravity peak rather than a trough, momentarily.What does this actually mean for spacetime to be so dramatically warped upward rather than downward into a well?
>>16968171Physics "simulation" on a normal computer (and those fake qcs you see in the news from time to time) is simply a approximation, only a True Quantum Computer can truly simulate physics.>>16970645I can't believe jews invented the concept of darkness baka my head
>>16968171why is the black hole red and yellow?
>>16970645I actually know what dark matter is but I'm not going to tell you
>>16968171It is a little spacetime compression wave "sonic boom" getting pushed out when the two spheres become a peanut and then a single sphere.It isn't so much gravitational replusion, but more a temporary area where the black holes cancel out each other's gravitational attraction.
I miss this lil nigga like you would not believe
>>16973163Yes, this is the most important thing to note, though Marilyn acknowledged this and distinguished between people who interpreted the question differently, and those who didn't understand the issue even under strict conditions.
>>16973225Yes Sir. How long is a piece of rope?
>>16973225In China, Too Young is just a name
>>16972883She did me
>Against sexual freedom>For dictators>Against social safety netsWhy is she like this?
If I defend myself I am attacked. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/540 | W-135)This is true logic.
>>16976829>https://acim.org/acim/en/s/540looks like its describing basic histrionics, nothing new under the sun
>>16977084Yes, logic is nothing new. What is new is people believing the ego's definition of logic.
When a man presents the Riemann Hypothesis problem he presents it like this: "Are all the non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann Zeta function confined to the 1/2 line?" But this is a weird way to present the problem. Firstly, why did you need to invent a whole term just for "non-trivial zeroes" when saying "non-negative even integer zeroes" is barely much longer a phrase at all?Secondly, why do you say "the zeroes of the Riemann Zeta function" when the negative even integers are NOT zeroes if the Zeta function by any means, they are actually the zeroes of a modified version of the zeta function that extends the domain of the function to converge on negative integers though it normally diverges there. Why not just say this when you present the problem to someone who has never heard of it before? I am no genius but even I can see that is a retarded way of explaining the problem to someone, it is much more accessible to someone who has never heard of the problem if you just say the problem is to prove whether all zeroes to an extended domain zeta functuon that are not negative even integers have a real part 1/2 or not, lol.
>>16976276Well you are just proving my point though because that is how most people present the Zeta function, as Re(s)>1, which is confusing and makes no sense in the context of the problem, lol.
>>16976277just like how defining the factorial of anything but nonnegative integers makes no sense but that's still the jumping-off point for the gamma function. It turns out it's usually less confusing to introduce it through familiar terms and then generalise than it is to immediately beat someone over the head with the most autistic integral imaginable and to expect them to make sense of it.
>>16976180None of what you're complaining about is important. It's all perfectly clear to anyone with an undergraduate-level understanding of complex analysis. Anything that's unclear is easily looked up. You are being a pedant and wasting your time and energy.
>>16976252idk, asking someone to find a bunch of neeigers sounds like it might end badly
it's great
"Gifted" people are subhuman. They all have neuroses, need drugs to chill out, never take action and don't know how to be a person in general. On top of that, there's always someone out there who brutally mogs them either in intelligence or life achievements or both. IQlets on the other hand are pure Freudian beasts brimming over with virility and joie de vivre. It is only natural for IQlets to breed and conquer geek bussy.
>/sci/
>>16975538That’s a lot of assumptions.
>>16975538that's mean.
I found a way to discover every single prime. Start with the number 1, add 1 and check to see if the number is prime. Continue adding 1 and checking. This process will discover EVERY prime!Now, gimme my fields medal!
>>16977504How do you check if the number is prime? Explain.
>>16977703NTA but this is a troll post. Keep moving.
>>16977504Endlessly approaching emptiness without ever arriving there. You could start at one and go to zero
I'm always hearing that the science is settled and transgendered people aren't just mentally ill.Is this actually true?I'm not baiting here I'm really curious
>>16977486This graph shows the suger of anti-trans hysteria in legislative form. Source: https://translegislation.com/learn
>>16977424what do you think?do you think it's normal and biologically beneficial for people, a sexually reproducing mammal, to believe they're the opposite sex and try to alter their body and behavior to align with that feeling?what do you think happens to doctors or scientists who do a study or make a statement that portrays transgenderism negatively? (hint: you can find real world examples in the news)conversely, what kind of incentives might one in the medical industry have (money) to affirm it and promote hormone therapy, surgery, and therapists who encourage delusional patients?
>>16977489why doesn't hovering show the bill totals?
>>16977489I'm happy it's surging. Give us all of it, we really do need it.Protecting women and girls is more important than appeasing some 30 year old sexually deviant man who cut his dick off and wears a dress.
>>16977455Openers such as "I'm always hearing" are abused by bad faith actors. It's one level above "Scientifically speaking, ..."
Are aquariums/zoos ethically defensible?
>>16975147You can't give them plenty of space though.
>>16966077sorta doubt.Why wouldn't they just release them into the wild vs killing them?
>>16965372No great white sharks, those always end up dying.
>>16975814That depends heavily on the particular animal.
>>16975861Atlanta is nowhere near the natural habitat of those fish around Taiwan and they're not in any way endangered. Why would the aquarium spend part of their limited funds on having them transported to their natural habitat when they could simply kill them there on-site and be done with it? It's like asking why someone bored with their home aquarium doesn't travel to the Amazon to release their neon tetras back into the wild.
>>16973907For them
I know exactly which youtube video sparked this thread and that just adds another item to my list of reasons to hate this place
>>16969774Well, yeah, actually, they just shouldn’t have launched.
>>16970470Org chart promotion but to a place where she couldn't fuck things up.>>16973667The college she graduated from makes a big deal out her being one of their most successful female alumni, holding her up as a blueprint for what women in STEM can accomplish. Of course in their gushing profiles of her, they leave out her part in the Columbia disaster. >>16973647It's quite possible there was no solution once the debris hit the wing but the behind the scenes infighting between management and engineering guaranteed that even if there were a solution, it wouldn't be found and implemented. It was bad for morale that the agency didn't go into an all-hands-on-deck mode doing everything possible to save the crew and it set a bad precedent for safety operations going forward.
>>16969775yes
