Recent content by BillTre

Did Billy tune Dad out?

Some ships getting hacked has been in the news lately. This guy, Sal Mercogliano (one of my favorites), goes into many aspects of this.

Two headed diamond back terrapin hatchling found in Cape Cod.

Using different filter sets lets the labeling of different parts be shown in the different combinations.

Please explain how I am misrepresenting your views. Here is an even less far out comparison: If a human person has a fit of some kind and goes into the equivalent rut behavior to what you describe for deer, would they (by you) be considered: not conscious, at all ever, or not conscious at the...

Its a thought experiment pointing out your argument's flaws. Or to put it in more real terms, if an ape or monkey (which I assume you think are conscious) were to have such a breeding period, then would that make them incapable of having consciousness?

A rutting season is a period of hormonally driven different behaviors from normal, not an overall lack of "comprehension" or of possible consciousness. It is similar to a flight or fight response. A temporary change of behavioral mode. If Mr. Spock goes into the Vulcan rutting season (whatever...

Yeah. For some reason anthrax requires some special milling equipment to make fine disposable particles. It takes some work to make a weapon of mass destruction out it. Not all bugs are like that.

Disagreeing just with this:

I would disagree. It would take a good computer (with DB access), a large garage (like mine), and a bunch of equipment and materials, some of which will have access limited to universities and a set of labs. The guy that wrote The Hot Zone also wrote a decent book about this. Pretty gross...

There are medical conditions where people are not able to see colors, n particular several kinds of color blindness. As an animal that clearly has a concept of its local environment and where it is in that environment (like a player on a stage) I think that a deer, or a dog, or a cat would have...