Comment Re:Can Cyborg Tech End Human Disability By 2064? (Score 1) 121
Or India but your mileage might vary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or India but your mileage might vary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There used to be a pacman game that ran in excel.
http://technabob.com/blog/2008...
http://www1.plala.or.jp/chikad...
Not sure if it still works.
Probably many other excel games if you look around.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09...
Here, we use a large representative study in the Philippines (n = 624) to show that among single nonfathers at baseline (2005) (21.5 ± 0.3 y), men with high waking T were more likely to become partnered fathers by the time of follow-up 4.5 y later (P < 0.05). Men who became partnered fathers then experienced large declines in waking (median: â'26%) and evening (median: â'34%) T, which were significantly greater than declines in single nonfathers (P < 0.001). Consistent with the hypothesis that child interaction suppresses T, fathers reporting 3 h or more of daily childcare had lower T at follow-up compared with fathers not involved in care (P < 0.05).
Sometimes the challenge with Ctrl-S was that you often didn't know if it did anything,
Or you use Kmail on KDE where ctrl-s saves AND closes the message! You have to look for it and reopen it if you want to continue editing it.
The developers keep claiming the bug is fixed:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug....
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug....
But I just checked kmail 4.11.2 and it's not fixed! 12 years!
I don't really care that much anymore since I've long stopped using KDE as a serious desktop environment due to this and many other bugs/annoyances. I've reported a number of them but you can see for yourself how they treat bug reports.
Windows 7 has its annoyances (in aero mode the task button for the foreground/active window is not very distinct from the other task buttons, file search is broken). But for my purposes it isn't as bad as the popular Desktop Linux options (gnome, kde, unity).
Windows 8 on the other hand is an abomination from a Desktop UI perspective.
Understand what makes the system work (how it functions and why that is effective), and copy that.
From what I see scientists don't even understand how single celled creatures think. And yes single celled creatures do think/"think": http://soylentnews.org/comment...
Note these single celled creatures are building shells for themselves. Each species has a distinctive shell style! And as per the link some don't reproduce until they have gathered enough shell material for the daughter cell (when they split both cells split the shell material and build their own shells). How the heck to do they figure that out?
Plenty of people beg the question by saying: single celled creatures can't and don't think because they have no brains. What makes them so sure? If thinking requires brains then does that mean computers will never think?
You can see numerous multicellular creatures with brains that don't really seem significantly more intelligent than those single celled creatures.
So I suspect that the main problem most animal brains solve is not thinking, but controlling and using a multicellular body (interfacing with muscles and sensory systems). The problem of thinking was already solved. At least that "base level thinking". How clever does a worm or slug or single celled creature need to be anyway?
I'm not even sure that scientists have solved that "base level thinking" problem yet.
transit systems can be looked at a bit like the road in front of somebody's house.
I see them more like the escalators and elevators in a shopping mall or office buildings. Most malls and office buildings don't charge people to use those. They make the bulk of their money elsewhere.
As such I think public transport should be free in cities that can afford to make it free. The cities could charge their "tenants" a tax which pays for it all.
It might actually be more efficient that way since it costs money AND time to charge (slows commuters down too). If you don't charge you won't need a lot of the infrastructure and staff for handling, reconciling and enforcing payment. Perhaps someone can work out the costs of "charging" and the amount of net income it brings to the city.
See also: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09...
I wonder if that guy was impaired or he built up a tolerance.
I think your problem with all this is that you think your consciousness is something special and is somehow like a "soul" or something magical, but it isn't because we are just biological creatures.
I think your problem is you say it's a "side effect" and stop there. Scientists are often curious about unexplained "side effects".
I said:
Someone could make a puppet behave as if it experienced consciousness, does that act of doing so magically generate a new consciousness in the puppet?
And you said:
Yes.
You believe in magic? If you don't then it should be remarkable from a scientific point of view that consciousness exists. Since by the current human known scientific laws of this universe it doesn't have to exist! BUT it does, and we know it.
I know that I have a consciousness, but I really can't tell if other people have consciousness or just behave like they do. But even so this distinction is just silly and has no value.
So you actually know you have a consciousness. Do you not even find that experience remarkable? Why would and should we be able to "be", to experience and know?
You said: "To me consciousness is just memory and the ability to make decisions based on old memories" but assuming a universe with just our current known laws of physics, couldn't you/something have memory and the ability to make decisions WITHOUT having this consciousness that you know you experience? There is no need for it to "magically" be there right? Something could do 1+1=10 without requiring consciousness. Matter and molecules arranged in a certain way could do all the same things our bodies do without it too right?
What in our current scientific knowledge explains consciousness existing? Note, I'm not saying we will never explain it, but I'm saying it's one of the peculiar things in this universe. The first peculiar thing is that the universe exists at all - but without the second peculiar thing called consciousness, we won't be wondering about it - we'd just appear to be wondering about it
Lastly if the distinction is silly and has no value does that mean you don't value your consciousness? And make no distinction between oblivion and consciousness?
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