amarte

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by amarte 6y ago
I take internal representation to be an aspect of "embodiment", which you could also call the experience of being in the first person. If some idea is being represented internally, then it is being experienced, and the sum total o
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by amarte 6y ago
"There has got to be some internal representation of what you percieve." I don't think this is necessarily true. It seems to me like the universe would get on exactly the same without internal representation. By "interna
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by amarte 6y ago
This is such a monumental subject lol. I keep returning to this trying to come up with some kind of adequate response but it's like I'm standing at the base of a mountain and I can't find much to grab hold of that doesn'
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by amarte 6y ago
In your first comment you proposed that, "Either consciousness is something composed of information processing, or it is something inherent to the universe that has some evolutionarily efficient use towards information processing.&quot
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by amarte 6y ago
I've heard consciousness described as "the felt presence of immediate experience," which I've found to be an excellent description of the experience of being embodied in the world -- of being conscious. If consciousness
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by amarte 6y ago
The world's first synthetic plastic was invented in 1907, and the field has since expanded to include a wide range of variant materials that have permeated nearly every aspect of our lives. I think it's hard to understand the net
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by amarte 6y ago
Imagine an interview with a great painter. The painter is asked about the nature of painting and he responds that when he sets out to work in his studio and his brush strokes a canvass, he is discovering the fundamental nature of reality. H
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by amarte 7y ago
As a side note since this discussion is related to Russell and his brilliant contributions, I think a similar discussion can be had regarding Russell's contemporary and co-author Alfred North Whitehead (mentioned breifly in the article
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by amarte 7y ago
This article is really interesting and I love the insight provided about pigment layering to achieve remarkable effects, however I think what the title says is totally wrong. Paints are technically coatings and comprise a large and diverse
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by amarte 8y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned China here. I was recently able to travel to China for the first time and was fascinated to learn about their housing market. Apparently the Chinese government doesn't have a property tax. For me
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by amarte 8y ago
I loved reading this! 'Before the internet' pretty much coincides with 'when I was a kid' for me. I would love to hear 'before the internet' memories from people who were adults before the internet too.
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by amarte 8y ago
Nature/the world is what is being described. QM, thermo, fluid dynamics, signal processing, information theory, probability, etc.. are descriptions which have been devised to depict and communicate nature/the world. We never say t
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by amarte 8y ago
Interesting title, and I will have to dip into the book when I have some spare time, but statements like "the world is built on probability" always sound strange to me. Is it that chance and randomness are fundamental aspects of o
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by amarte 8y ago
I really like this distinction between necessity and decision. It's a great philosophic contrast that inspires further thought, but to ascribe necessity or decision to something so complex as a human being seems extremely difficult to
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by amarte 8y ago
Then sound is space that you can hear. Both are interesting ways of framing space and the senses, but I'm not sure what you mean by "only". To reduce space to "only noise", in my understanding of your statement, is
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Ask HN: Science Videos for Kids
1 points by amarte 11y ago|0 comments
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by amarte 11y ago
I recently finished Galápagos and was blown away. A story about how a few people unknowingly manage to escape humanity's demise by getting stranded on the Galápagos Islands, and their descendents' subsequent evolution over the nex
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by amarte 11y ago
John Oliver made it pretty clear in his street interviews that people were unanimously uncomfortable with the US government collecting and storing dick pics. While I have not read the book you linked, I think the dick pic premise captures t
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by amarte 12y ago
I totally disagree that the tone of that comment sums up the article in the slightest. While the article makes it clear that Powell now regrets authoring The Anarchist Cookbook, it is also made clear that the reasons for his regrets are far
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1962) [pdf](art.yale.edu)
1 points by amarte 12y ago|0 comments
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by amarte 12y ago
This was a very fun story to go through! I wonder if this format could be used as an effective way of structuring lessons in school. Each juncture that requires a choice to be made would (ideally) encourage class participation and debate. A
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by amarte 12y ago
Gibbons' actions are extremely selfish in my opinion. I know someone who used to work behind the cash registers of gas stations in North Houston. He has been robbed and held at gun point multiple times. According to him, the experience