Posts by SHARK

1. 2019-03-10 at 1:05 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
   

   SHARK Houston

   Originally posted by gadzooks In the sense that it's nonfalsifiable, yes, of course it's a fraud.
   
   At this current time, there can be no [i[verifiable biological, chemical, or physical/quantum explanation for consciousness since we just straight up can't verify it.

   Wrong.
2. 2019-03-10 at 1:05 PM UTC in What y'all reading?
   

   SHARK Houston
   Catch 22
3. 2019-03-10 at 8:45 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
   

   SHARK Houston
   Stuart Hammeroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory is a fraud.
4. 2019-03-10 at 8:42 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
   

   SHARK Houston

   Originally posted by Lanny How can mass give rise to gravitation? We can describe gravity with reference to mass, we may even posit and find evidence for more basic fields or particles which explain the mass/gravitation relation, but at some point explanation needs to end. There's some base set of facts about what is which can't be further explained. So too with consciousness, we are in the very early days of giving neurological, chemical, and physical descriptions of consciousness and there's a lot of explanation left to give but at some level there must be some basic structure or structures of matter which give rise to consciousness simply because they do.
   
   But of course "some explanation exists" is not an explanation, and I think what explanation we can give of consciousness is fascinating, I just bring it up because Chalmers almost doesn't care about the explanation. I can't help but feel like the point of putting forward The Hard Problem™ and piss zombies is to force a discussion of consciousness as a first class ontological object as opposed to some kind of thing you just sorta hand wave away as a folk concept as is the trend among physicalists.

   
   I think there will ultimately be some kind of reductive explanation to consciousness, as there will be to gravitation: there is a phenomenon in the world, we can explain it in terms of physical mechanics and explain every ontological fact about it in more fundamental terms.
   
   I think there are very good theories of information structures that would fulfill all the objective and phenomenological hallmarks of conscious experience. Nothing complete has been proposed yet IMO but I think IIT and GWS are going to ultimately come together in some kind of happy materialist marriage.
5. 2019-03-10 at 7:45 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
   

   SHARK Houston
   The Hard Problem of consciousness is figuring how to derive the information of "what it is like" to be something from facts about "what it is".
   
   As an example, there is an apparent difference between being your objective brain state and being in your subjective mental state. The hard problem is figuring out how you come to have internal subjective states.
   
   It is this ability to experience at all that defines the ability for anything to matter, because subjectivity is mattering itself.
   
   So how can matter give rise to subjectivity? This is the hard problem.
6. 2019-03-10 at 7:03 AM UTC in What y'all reading?
   

   SHARK Houston

   Originally posted by gadzooks Man this one kinda slipped under my radar somehow…
   
   I know a lot about Skinner's work (being a psych major, it was par for the course), but I've never actually read any of his primary sources.
   
   How far into it are you?
   
   Does he talk about the Skinner Box? Or about Walden Two or any of that?

   
   Faggot
7. 2019-03-10 at 1:56 AM UTC in I could beat the shit out of Gadzooks
   

   SHARK Houston

   Originally posted by gadzooks That's right.
   
   Your desperation has a distinct odor.

   
   Your fat folds have a distinct odor.
   
   Wash your pits, faggot.
8. 2019-03-10 at 1:49 AM UTC in I could beat the shit out of Gadzooks
   

   SHARK Houston
   Everyone instantly knows who I am you faggot.
9. 2019-03-10 at 1:48 AM UTC in What y'all reading?
   

   SHARK Houston
   Of course Gaydzooks would reference Cuxley.
10. 2019-03-09 at 11:50 PM UTC in I could beat the shit out of Gadzooks
    

    SHARK Houston

    Originally posted by gadzooks No thanks.

    
    Wimp faggot
11. 2019-03-09 at 10:58 PM UTC in I could beat the shit out of Gadzooks
    

    SHARK Houston
    Post your residential address, I will come and kick your ass faggot
12. 2019-03-09 at 8:38 PM UTC in I could beat the shit out of Gadzooks
    

    SHARK Houston

    Originally posted by gadzooks I'm not giving you free jack off material, faggot.
    
    Stop trying so hard to suck my dick.

    
    Nice attempt at a comeback, faggot.
13. 2019-03-09 at 6:32 PM UTC in Tortune
    

    SHARK Houston
    A fortune of torture.
14. 2019-03-09 at 5:34 PM UTC in I could beat the shit out of Gadzooks
    

    SHARK Houston
    Post your bicep circumference faggot
15. 2019-03-09 at 1:03 AM UTC in What y'all reading?
    

    SHARK Houston

    Originally posted by gadzooks Im reading the instructions on the back of a condom wrapper right now.

    
    Are you going to get your ass reamed faggot
16. 2019-03-09 at 12:27 AM UTC in What y'all reading?
    

    SHARK Houston
    Benoit Balzac
17. 2019-03-08 at 11:55 PM UTC in What y'all reading?
    

    SHARK Houston
    You are a fan of juicy nigger dong probs
18. 2019-03-08 at 11:29 PM UTC in (Respecfully) Fuck this venue
    

    SHARK Houston
    Faggot
19. 2019-03-08 at 11:20 PM UTC in What y'all reading?
    

    SHARK Houston

    Originally posted by Octavian How's that going for you?

    
    That one was one of Rushdie's more mediocre works.
20. 2019-03-08 at 11:10 PM UTC in What y'all reading?
    

    SHARK Houston
    The Holy Quran