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Consciousness Off-topic
And I know you said it twice that quantum teleportation exists, but that doesn't…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 03, 2012, 11:41:44 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Footnote: you've exhibited the same obtuseness with regard to parsing words rela…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 03, 2012, 01:06:13 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
I don't want to go on until "aware" is defined more clearly.Forgive me, but I mu…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 03, 2012, 01:01:01 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
And I know you said it twice that quantum teleportation exists, but that doesn't…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 04:23:53 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Right, cloning and memories alone aren't enough, you'd have to also feed the clo…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 03:53:02 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
You said "There is nothing pointless about pondering the ramifications of anothe…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 03:18:29 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
You said "There is nothing pointless about pondering the ramifications of anothe…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 03:04:12 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
You said "There is nothing pointless about pondering the ramifications of anothe…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:57:57 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
You said "There is nothing pointless about pondering the ramifications of anothe…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:55:20 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
If lots of X give rise to YWithout even reading further than that, let me stop y…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:54:18 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Isn't this a pointless scenario since we don't have a such a machine and we do n…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:52:15 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Isn't this a pointless scenario since we don't have a such a machine and we do n…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:51:25 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Isn't this a pointless scenario since we don't have a such a machine and we do n…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:49:30 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
What if life is merely a chemical chain reaction of certain chemicals that fuels…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 02:44:24 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Out of the Big Bang, point to the physical laws, or the physical matter, or the…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 02, 2012, 01:29:27 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Furthermore, suppose it is just P1 that is required? What is it about P1 that al…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 01, 2012, 09:57:34 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Point: if you find the task suggested above difficult, and the resulting ideas y…
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n/a | FirstAscent | March 01, 2012, 10:01:13 PM |
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FBI: buying coffee with cash = terrorist Politics & Society
I do wonder how many shop keepers actually take this advice seriously as most pe…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 27, 2012, 12:00:00 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
I must misunderstand you. Are you claiming Scientific American is proper scienti…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 27, 2012, 12:26:37 AM |
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FBI: buying coffee with cash = terrorist Politics & Society
Just glad I live in the UK (for now). As paying is cash for a cup of coffee is s…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 27, 2012, 12:07:39 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Furthermore, suppose it is just P1 that is required? What is it about P1 that al…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 11:55:53 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Furthermore, suppose it is just P1 that is required? What is it about P1 that al…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 10:02:22 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Furthermore, suppose it is just P1 that is required? What is it about P1 that al…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 03:24:22 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
I have admittedly only read two of chalmer's summary papers. But neither address…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 03:20:36 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
This is observable fact, and all of the "Hard Questions" are ultimately differen…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 02:17:28 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Star Trek transporters:The transporters are designed to only use the energy from…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 12:41:39 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
My understanding of Chalmers is based on reading this and this.Your exposure t…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 12:37:38 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Star Trek transporters:The transporters are designed to only use the energy from…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 26, 2012, 11:38:28 AM |
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FBI: buying coffee with cash = terrorist Politics & Society
I must not be in on the 'know' or something, as I don't get how this is interest…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 25, 2012, 01:33:51 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
QuoteThis is what is wrong with your methods. You apply the same methodology to…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 25, 2012, 12:27:11 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Rather than searching through his work for the passages relevant to what I have…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 25, 2012, 12:21:01 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
That is not evidence, it is a list of systems with large numbers of degrees of f…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 11:45:25 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
3. The timing and magnitudes of information transmission are not tied to physica…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 11:24:39 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
A summary of the book:QuoteWhat is consciousness? How do physical processes in t…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 11:16:44 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
With regard to the rest of what you've said, you really need to read Chalmers. H…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 11:15:00 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
3. The timing and magnitudes of information transmission are not tied to physica…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 11:09:27 PM |
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Abortion and Morality Politics & Society
Although you could assume that it's your right to use violence against an intrud…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 10:02:13 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
I am somewhat familiar with philosophical zombies and turing machines. I just le…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 09:31:01 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
QuoteAny Turing machine (serial) could replicate all of the above, to any degree…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 09:08:08 PM |
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Abortion and Morality Politics & Society
You think that predator-prey relationship is necessary for life on Earth. Yes, a…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 08:54:37 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
I boldfaced to emphasize the importance of circuitry rather than quantum effects…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 08:45:59 PM |
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Abortion and Morality Politics & Society
And, rival clans/families kill each other too, so murder is OK as well?EDIT: I d…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 08:21:42 PM |
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Abortion and Morality Politics & Society
Nature's life cycle depends on prey/predator relationships. I think you can figu…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 07:41:46 PM |
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Abortion and Morality Politics & Society
Makes just as much sense as "animal rights" laws that say torturing animals for…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 07:25:58 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Two or more identical perceptions does not entail death of the former. It does n…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 07:06:21 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
In the end, currently, existence can only be defined within your individual perc…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 01:00:38 PM |
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Abortion and Morality Politics & Society
Does this make any sense at all?Makes just as much sense as "animal rights" laws…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 06:26:27 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
The first step: be very clear on what qualia is. It isn't the perception of red.…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 01:55:49 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
If a transporter was proven to exactly replicate the mind as it was, I would use…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 12:51:13 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Some of the terms and concepts worth getting to know to enrich the discussion:-…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 12:12:48 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
If a transporter was proven to exactly replicate the mind as it was, I would use…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 12:14:42 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
I've only heard Daniel Dennet speak a few times (never read any of his stuff), a…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 24, 2012, 12:00:14 AM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
Solipsist here. To me this is too metaphysical to be knowable. Dennett largely c…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 23, 2012, 11:35:18 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
The existence of our perceptions can only be proven to our perceptions.Yes, but…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 23, 2012, 11:52:02 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
David Chalmers' view, in a nutshell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 23, 2012, 11:07:59 PM |
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Consciousness Off-topic
David Chalmers. Daniel Dennett. John Searle. Douglas Hofstadter. Roger Penrose.…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 23, 2012, 11:03:53 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
If you want to remove the state, you have to offer a way to protect people from…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 22, 2012, 09:48:00 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
If you want to remove the state, you have to offer a way to protect people from…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 22, 2012, 02:38:05 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
You clearly align yourself with Dennett. Dennett attempts to explain the existen…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 22, 2012, 01:06:53 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
Oh, the fact that we are "hostages" to authoritarian people like you, we already…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 22, 2012, 01:29:49 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Probably, need more data before I'm interested.You mean you're just not interest…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 21, 2012, 02:22:57 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
So wrong you are. Nations in our world analogize very accurately to individuals…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 21, 2012, 12:03:06 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
While on the subject of brains, from a philosophical viewpoint, do you buy Denne…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 02:30:06 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
The ultimate libertarian "contract law" experiment is the world, and it is rife…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 02:02:23 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
There is no contract between you and some random person you've never met. There…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 01:35:11 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
If you want to imagine how things could work without a monopoly on justice, I su…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:46:40 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
If you want to imagine how things could work without a monopoly on justice, I su…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:18:31 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
You may use proportional force to repeal or punish an initiation of aggression (…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 11:33:14 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
While on the subject of brains, from a philosophical viewpoint, do you buy Denne…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 03:32:59 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Ok, why not go off topic... matthew thinks this thread is dumb anyway. In simula…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 03:13:57 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
STDP is interesting as an alternative to the methods presented by Rumelhart and…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 01:14:50 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
I must misunderstand you. Obviously.
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:46:00 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
I have an undergrad in pre-med (including a few classes on ecosystems, etc), as…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:43:14 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Ok, so now the IPCC is not a proper source of information... I wouldn't put too…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:33:00 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Regarding biodiversity and extinction events of the past. It is irrelevant that…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:05:51 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/dansgaard-oeschger-e…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 20, 2012, 12:01:14 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Regarding biodiversity and extinction events of the past. It is irrelevant that…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:49:02 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/dansgaard-oeschger-e…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:43:53 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
By the way, that's twice now that you've cited material that is largely pushed b…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:30:44 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/dansgaard-oeschger-e…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:26:07 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
You've made a number of erroneous assumptions in your above post with regard to…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 10:47:29 PM |
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Population Control and Globalism Politics & Society
... just to proove me wrong. "Prove" has one "o". Same goes for lose, just in c…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 06:38:33 PM |
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Population Control and Globalism Politics & Society
Isn't it possible that international issues such as global climate change and te…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 03:50:07 PM |
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Objections to the non-aggression principle Politics & Society
Conclusion: "Rights" are a fiction.Nothing could be more true.There is non-ficti…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:44:03 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Quoteoverwhelming evidence of AGWOnce again... what does this mean?What specific…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:24:13 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
since i was a kid i have thought that 'global warming' is just the period before…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 19, 2012, 11:18:22 AM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Ok well I think you've exposed my fraud to the full extent of your capabilities,…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 18, 2012, 10:12:37 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Your way is the cause of endless heated arguments by people who don't know what…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 18, 2012, 12:33:50 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
I'll get back to this because I want to try semi-formalize my thought process. I…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 17, 2012, 12:19:43 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
If I am not satisfied I'll find someone who knows what they are talking about to…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 12, 2012, 07:53:12 PM |
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Free markets and social problems: Politics & Society
Never said you couldn't use it, just when. The when, why, how much, and applied…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 05:33:22 PM |
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Free markets and social problems: Politics & Society
He never explains what force forces one to comply with NAP.
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 04:30:48 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
You have no way to address what I said, so instead you create a strawman. Honest…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 04:29:40 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
You have no way to address what I said, so instead you create a strawman. Honest…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 04:20:19 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
You have no way to address what I said, so instead you create a strawman. Honest…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 04:11:55 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Thank you for the last post. It has made clear to me by reading between the line…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 03:58:14 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
Frankly, I'm not getting your point at all. Why you're weaving together two sepa…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 03:44:44 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
So, FirstAscent, do you recognize that there is a difference between this statem…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 02:55:37 PM |
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Map Makers Admit Mistake in Showing Ice Cap Loss in Greenland Politics & Society
So I take it you are going to ignore that there appears to be no consensus regar…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 02:51:56 PM |
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Free markets and social problems: Politics & Society
And besides, since when should I be burdened with demonstrating to some politica…
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n/a | FirstAscent | February 07, 2012, 02:48:33 PM |
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