as the relationship between the information processing rate (bit/s) of each individual processing unit (neuron), the weight/size of a single unit and the total number of processing units (expressed as mass).
At present, human scientists are attempting to communicate outside our species to primates and cetaceans, and in a limited way to a few other vertebrates. This is inordinately difficult, and yet it represents a gap of at most a few SQ points. The farthest we can reach in our "communication" with vegetation is when we plant, water, or fertilize it, but it is evident that messages transmitted across an SQ gap of 10 points or more cannot be very meaningful. What, then, could an SQ +50 Superbeing possibly have to say to us?
I know in Phoenix, stores will turn their AC way down when the electricity is inexpensive (in the middle of the night) in order to offset some of the costs when it is expensive during the day.
When I was in college, a friend had just come back from the mall where he said that someone in a kiosk as tying to sell him a cell phone (this was in the early days of cell phones). The sales person was going over all the things you could do with it and said 'once you try it, you'll never be able to live without it' to which my friend responded 'that sounds like heroin. Why would I want that?'.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand *why* you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.
But your past (and biology) determines what you spend your time thinking about. At each moment, what you allow is a culmination of all of your past history.
Well, really not at all because none if the participants going all the way back to the people who wrote the laws or who cooked the juror's breakfast had any choice either. It's lack of free will all the way down.
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real tough to keep them off of those things
Stop paying the bill.
The same (or equivalent) people paying thousands of dollars to watch people run around with a real ball.
But if the universe is causal, there is no truly random seed, even if we do not understand all the factors that go into a state
I mean as as far as how it works. It may not be random at all.
It cut my electricity bill by 91%.
as the relationship between the information processing rate (bit/s) of each individual processing unit (neuron), the weight/size of a single unit and the total number of processing units (expressed as mass).
At present, human scientists are attempting to communicate outside our species to primates and cetaceans, and in a limited way to a few other vertebrates. This is inordinately difficult, and yet it represents a gap of at most a few SQ points. The farthest we can reach in our "communication" with vegetation is when we plant, water, or fertilize it, but it is evident that messages transmitted across an SQ gap of 10 points or more cannot be very meaningful. What, then, could an SQ +50 Superbeing possibly have to say to us?
It will if you feed it the same seed. And it's determinism all the way down.
Quantum randomness is a god of the gaps argument. A form of the argument from ignorance fallacy.
I know in Phoenix, stores will turn their AC way down when the electricity is inexpensive (in the middle of the night) in order to offset some of the costs when it is expensive during the day.
Unless you have to do something on it while driving.
When I was in college, a friend had just come back from the mall where he said that someone in a kiosk as tying to sell him a cell phone (this was in the early days of cell phones). The sales person was going over all the things you could do with it and said 'once you try it, you'll never be able to live without it' to which my friend responded 'that sounds like heroin. Why would I want that?'.
Free will is a computer that doesn't do what it's told (follow the program) and instead executes the opcode that it wants to execute.
It doesn't exist because you can't prove it.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand *why* you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.
small and inconsequential choices
Large choices are made up of many small and inconsequential choices.
Dis boy 'ere is wrong. On the quantum level we have a random stuff happening.
god of the gaps
we spend less time thinking about it
But your past (and biology) determines what you spend your time thinking about. At each moment, what you allow is a culmination of all of your past history.
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I think Hofstadter calls it a strange loop.
David Hodgson supports this theorem as showing determinism is unscientific
But isn't science based on causality and determinism?
quantum mechanics seems to make free will more likely
This is the god of the gaps argment.
That's about the worst example you could have picked. It follows a completely deterministic algorithm.
I use something like 91% of my energy while the sun is up.
It is when you live in a four bit universe.
Well, really not at all because none if the participants going all the way back to the people who wrote the laws or who cooked the juror's breakfast had any choice either. It's lack of free will all the way down.