On Saturday, 4 May 2019 17:54:03 UTC+3, Terren Suydam wrote: > > I'm not going to read your articles or your book or watch your videos > because you've given me no reason to spend my most precious resource, which > is time. Perhaps I'm being closed-minded, but under the assumption that you > want as many people to read and consider your ideas as possible, you may > want to see my closed-mindedness as the kind of barrier you'll have to > overcome with most people. For instance, one sure-fire way to turn people > off is to tell them everything they know is wrong, and then offer them > nothing useful in return. >
It is not the duty of the author to do psychoanalysis with people. The author only puts the truth out-there. Open minded people will read it. Close minded people will have to solve their psychological problems first. > > Regarding the dog, I would never run that specific experiment because it's > unethical. There are potentially other ways to settle the bet, though. If > we can generalize your prediction in a way you'd be ok with, then there's > potentially other ways we can test it. How about: "conscious beings on the > cusp of death will create new qualia in circumstances in which that qualia > would enable them to survive." Do you accept that? > > Ok, and how do you generate the cusp of death ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
