At request of the creator of this thread's predecessor, this thread is initialized with intent to act as the next in order successor. I don't...
happened to me yesteday, except it was my thumb, between the first and second knuckle. It hurt really bad, but after a bout of cursing It hurt a...
Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it invalid.
lots of things are recording instruments per se that werent designed by humans. Any system that is capable of changing its state upon interaction...
Try this code, it's supposed to "exercise" the pixels by alternating between white and black pixels, shifting them each scanline and inverting...
So you think that before the origin of the first sentient beings, that the universe simply did not exist?
You don't have to know anything about the information recorded for it to exist. You could have a floppy disk, and without putting in the drive and...
Where did I say the observer had to be conscious? You are confusing the permanent recording of information (which cannot be destroyed), with...
This sounds a lot like "If a tree falls in a forest where no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound". Of course it makes a sound (or more...
Actually, I am quite certain that I will fall, I don't have to try it myself to find out. I know the gravitational force of acceleration on earth...
"The Real Hacker's Handbook", by Dr. K would describe such software features or tools as malware, or dual-usage hacking tools when used for...
I can relate, it seems to be most noticeable in fields with a steep learning curve. You learn a lot at first, realizing how much more skilled you...
I'm sure that MS will probably just backport the spyware features of Win10 to Win8.1 via a patch if they haven't done so already.
There was another paper I read some weeks ago is actually a lot smaller, or thinner than it feels, and that our conscious mind isn't actually in...
The qualia as I understand it, is "what it is like"; presumably to the one experiencing the qualia when the brain is activated in particular...
This may be true in the general case, but I guarantee you that there are plenty of 50+ year olds out there that know far more about computers than...
This certainly means something about reality, when you actually consider what irrational numbers are. They are real numbers, but they cannot be...
Signals mean nothing until they are processed and interpreted. There is more to "seeing" than just receiving a signal. The retina, and then the...
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hehe .. dreams. They are quite different than normal waking consiousness. They in some ways are similar to an altered state of consciouness,...
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