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Comment Re:Presence of self-awareness (Score 1) 401

Jesus! Read a damn book!

You have an awful lot to say about a topic of which you have absolutely no understanding!

Yeah, we get it. You don't believe in free will. You think that makes you look smart and important and thus feel the need to share that fact with others. How you haven't spotted the contradiction in that reasoning is beyond me.

Comment Re:appearing to have free will (Score 2) 401

"But is there really any difference between having free will and appearing to have free will?

Yes.

Or, put another way, is there really any difference between the illusion of free will and free will?

Still 'Yes'.

Congratulations. You've discovered the most obvious limit of behavioralism.

I think I am in the camp of

... not having a basic understanding of modern philosophy?

Comment Re:Crazy talk! (Score 1) 198

Not only can I read, I have excellent reading comprehension.

at age 8 I had complete root access of the computer and by age 9 I had started to disassemble it for hardware modifications

Scored a Cromemco Miniframe computer by the age of 12

Next time, make an effort to understand what you've read before posting.

Comment Re:Anti-science? See, now you have proof! (Score 1) 316

Aaaand this is exactly the kind of thing that young-earth creationists and climate change deniers will jump on to show that science (and scientists) can't be trusted.

So we should just ignore the problem because a few loons will use it to justify their crazy beliefs? Brilliant.

I weep for humanity.

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