Recent content by babsyco

That's true SelfAdjoint, but I think individual people who live in the big business world DO behave just as abhorrently as corporations. I think its the environment of this world that is responsible, not the corporation construct. Thanks, Babsyco.

There is a difference between music being about an unproven deity and music coming from one. I'm sure Beethoven was very inspired by the thought of a God, but that does not mean that that music came from God, or that there is a God- It came from Beethovens very deep convictions that there was a...

Are you certain they are COMPLETELY unaware of the cognitive processes of each other? Thanks, Babsyco.

Marcus, I think a lot of the negative characteristics you attribute to corporations ARE shared by actual individuals. I think there is a limit to how theoretically intelligent it can get, as there is a limit to how intelligent its composite parts can get. You may say that that limit is still...

I think you need to look at some of the atrocities that religion has caused before you say that we need it to in some way keep our minds or scientific discovery in check. Beliefs work both ways: cause good and bad. Thanks, Babsyco.

I think a lot of what we like about whatever music we like is associated with what connotations it carries for us, culturally, harmonically and in terms of where and when we heard or hear it. Thanks, Babsyco.

What I meant was, why would genetic causality only bear on high range on IQ, as opposed to IQ in general? Is likely there a few mutations that increase peoples IQ (hence effecting the higher ranges) but none that decrease it, or none that effect it in the mid ranges? I think that it's not a case...

I know that there are quite a few philosophers who tend to suspect that consciousness will turn out to beyond what we already know of the universe or some other phenomenal cause, but I have to say I'm afraid I (in my infinite and always consistent knowledge-[joke]) disagree with them. I cannot...

Why are you looking to physics to explain consciousness? We don't try to explain why two books tell different stories in terms of the phsyical makeup of particles and their relationships, and why? because the particle makeup is irrelevant to the information they carry. Magic particles is no...

My last one, I wasn't saying that IQ tests aren't weak in their upper ranges, merely that there is no reason to asume that evidence that is derived from its more accurate lower ranges would not apply to its more ambiguous high ranges, that evidence being the lack of result bands that would...

My last one, I wasn't saying that IQ tests aren't weak in their upper ranges, merely that there is no reason to asume that evidence that is derived from its more accurate lower ranges would not apply to its more ambiguous high ranges, that evidence being the lack of result bands that would...

Are you saying that at the high end of IQ, the results are to ambiguous to draw any conclusions about genetic determinism for what IQ measures, let alone ones that support the 'common IQ test argument for multiple genes', which happens discounts determinism? As I said, I don't give much credit...

I agree that there is no evidence that extremely high intelligence is measured by IQ (how can you give a system as complex and multi-tasked like the human brain a single numeric value), that just slipped out, imagine I had used the word intelligence instead if you like. As for your point that...

That was actually a Pinker quote ('the mind is what the brain does'- How The Mind Works, pg 21), but I wasn't suggesting that the problem of 'consciousness' is resolved by the theory of computation, only that how the formless MIND interacts with physical matter, and that was also what the quote...

I don't see how his experience implies that the mind can exist totally independent of the body. The mind is what the brain does, and the dualism debate I think has been resolved by the Computational Theory of Mind. Les Sleeth HAS had physical contact with the world, and that played a part in...