I don't have any kids and my tax dollars go to public schools. If I have to help pay for them, then parents with kids in private school have to help pay for them.
If you want to send your kids to private school, that's your right. That doesn't mean that you get to take funds away from public schools.
But that's precisely how it works. If the drug no longer satisfies that need, then the person won't have the impulse/desire to use the drug anymore.
Let's look at alcoholism as an easier example. Alcoholics drink for the high. But if drinking alcohol no longer got you high; if the effects were the equivalent of drinking water, the alcoholic will likely stop drinking alcohol, unless they like to pay a lot for water and have a desire to pee a lot.
How is this different from the radio stations asking the government to look into the contracts that the members of the RIAA have with their recording artists? As I recall, we were all pretty happy about that.
I don't. I believe the exact opposite. Consciousness is an effect of the interactions of the neurons in your brain and is entirely inseparable from the physical brain.
Some people have theorized that a computer modeled after the human brain might not be able to do things like give you the answer to sqrt(42765) in a second.
But once we have computers that are modeled after the human brain, then where can we take it?
I do. I don't contain the same atoms as I did ten years ago. All the atoms in your body get replaced every seven years or so.
But to answer the point that you're getting at, it's fairly certain that no part your consciousness is dependent on anything on the atomic scale. (not talking about memory recorded as RNA) The only way replacing atoms would cause you not to be you any more is if massive amounts of them were replaced at once, such as a large percentage of the brain. That doesn't happen. Over the course of a decade, as all the atoms in your body (and hence, brain) get replaced, there is an unbroken line of continuity from one complete set of atoms to a different complete set of atoms.
Continuity, that's the key.
It's also the reason I would never get into a star trek-style transporter. Your body is destroyed and a copy of you comes out the other end, thinking that it's the original.
You would never be able to move your consciousness from your brain to a computer. Copy it, maybe. But your mind is the result of the hardwiring of the neurons in your brain. It can not simply be moved into a different container.
There is one way, however. If you were to permanently attach a computer to your brain, one that was designed to be a sort of 'blank slate' that your brain could start taking advantage of, and lived with it for years, probably decades. Eventually enough of your memories and personality might be contained within the computer that when the organic part died, 'you' would still live on in the artificial part which could then be installed in a robot, or attached to a virtual reality system.
The neocortex is incredibly complex; not even small neuronal networks are well understood. To suggest that a computer can accurately simulate them is ridiculous
That is technically impossible, considering the behavior of the mammalian brain is not well understood at any level.
You're missing the point. The entire purpose of this project is to increase our understanding of how the brain works
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You forgot to mention "and pay for it themselves."
I don't have any kids and my tax dollars go to public schools. If I have to help pay for them, then parents with kids in private school have to help pay for them.
If you want to send your kids to private school, that's your right. That doesn't mean that you get to take funds away from public schools.
In SL, it does grow on trees.. literally.
Or at least it does for new joiners.
Tell your bittorrent client to force encryption.
I will assume you are using it to download things like movie trailers and free software.
Why should rangers have to have a good alignment restriction?
But that's precisely how it works. If the drug no longer satisfies that need, then the person won't have the impulse/desire to use the drug anymore.
Let's look at alcoholism as an easier example. Alcoholics drink for the high. But if drinking alcohol no longer got you high; if the effects were the equivalent of drinking water, the alcoholic will likely stop drinking alcohol, unless they like to pay a lot for water and have a desire to pee a lot.
But it doesn't stop the desire to get high.
Someone mod this up!
Someone gave me a laptop with Windows ME on it and I use it a lot.
Yes, I tried replacing the OS. I couldn't get anything to install or run properly. Even xubuntu lagged like hell.
Oh god! We're all gonna die!
Wait, what?
Oh. Never mind.
Yeah, geeks have been telling SCO to 'eat it' for years.
This NSFW
And in the case of the star trek style transporter, it IS a copy.
How is this different from the radio stations asking the government to look into the contracts that the members of the RIAA have with their recording artists? As I recall, we were all pretty happy about that.
I don't. I believe the exact opposite. Consciousness is an effect of the interactions of the neurons in your brain and is entirely inseparable from the physical brain.
That's why I hold this position.
Same memories, same personality, separate consciousness.
Some people have theorized that a computer modeled after the human brain might not be able to do things like give you the answer to sqrt(42765) in a second.
But once we have computers that are modeled after the human brain, then where can we take it?
Except that you are dead and someone else goes on to live the rest of your life
Anyone else just flash on an image of a beam from space getting misaligned with the receiver and vaporizing sections of your city?
I do. I don't contain the same atoms as I did ten years ago. All the atoms in your body get replaced every seven years or so.
But to answer the point that you're getting at, it's fairly certain that no part your consciousness is dependent on anything on the atomic scale. (not talking about memory recorded as RNA) The only way replacing atoms would cause you not to be you any more is if massive amounts of them were replaced at once, such as a large percentage of the brain. That doesn't happen. Over the course of a decade, as all the atoms in your body (and hence, brain) get replaced, there is an unbroken line of continuity from one complete set of atoms to a different complete set of atoms.
Continuity, that's the key.
It's also the reason I would never get into a star trek-style transporter. Your body is destroyed and a copy of you comes out the other end, thinking that it's the original.
You would never be able to move your consciousness from your brain to a computer. Copy it, maybe. But your mind is the result of the hardwiring of the neurons in your brain. It can not simply be moved into a different container.
There is one way, however. If you were to permanently attach a computer to your brain, one that was designed to be a sort of 'blank slate' that your brain could start taking advantage of, and lived with it for years, probably decades. Eventually enough of your memories and personality might be contained within the computer that when the organic part died, 'you' would still live on in the artificial part which could then be installed in a robot, or attached to a virtual reality system.
The neocortex is incredibly complex; not even small neuronal networks are well understood. To suggest that a computer can accurately simulate them is ridiculous
That is technically impossible, considering the behavior of the mammalian brain is not well understood at any level.
You're missing the point. The entire purpose of this project is to increase our understanding of how the brain works
The point is to figure out how the brain works.
When we can no longer tell the difference.
Thanks! I found that page a long time ago, but forgot to bookmark it, and couldn't find it again.
Short answer: Because when a radio station plays a song, neither the artist nor the label has to do any work.