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employing a neural spike model in a computational space is not the functional equivalent of a human brain How so? Do you mean functional in the technical sense of the functionalist theory of mind or do you mean it more generally as operating the same (much the same thing but the technical sense is ...

wandering psychedelia wrote :

My brother gave it to me as an untitled mp3 on a CD.

So that's the original (not a compressed version)? If not you could run it though Musicbrainz Picard (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard), it doesn't recognise the version posted but might manage with a better quality version.

Aw, you folks are funny. And so cute. Like a button. And easy to press. Ah, good to see someone not just using the forum to boost their own self worth but rather trying to start or continue an interesting debate rather than just abusing people or making posts to incite people to respond in a certai...

Anyway, back to synchronicity... people also misuse the word because they're afraid to use the word telepathy. Like, a couple of weeks ago my sister, who is on the other side of the world, baked cinamon scrolls for the first time. At the very same moment as she was baking, I was eating a cinamon sc...

Just the videos then eh? That's a shame. C'mon, you mean you think papers by erudite professionals with years of experience in academia and the respect of their peers are better than youtube videos by people with a meagre command of the English language, a camcorder and an internet connection? Obvi...

GM foods just need to be regulated, and then only really from a fair market point of view. It's all fear of frankenstein bullshit. GM tech has the potential to feed the world and throw the human race into a new era of advancement. A ban is retarded. Unfortunately GM hasn't really lived up to it's p...

IQ scores are standardised to a median (basically the same as average in a normal distribution) of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. So assuming a normal distribution (pretty correct) 68.2% of people will be between 85 and 115 (34.1% each way). Around 9% of people will have an IQ below 80. Mental ...

Uhm, why if it's a homeopathic solution do they say to take 1-3 tablets? According to the (bullshit) "Law of the Infinitesimal Dose" that they promote 3 tablets would be less effective than 1 so why would they say that apart from making you spend even more money on tablets that every test ...

On a recent roadtrip from Prague to Lisbon I listened to a book tape on Nietzsche, narrated by Charlton Heston. MotherShabubu nearly got all disapproving on me when I told him in Portugal what I had done. Until I told him that it was narrated by Charton Heston, then he told me that was OK then. I w...

ALSO, in the true meaning and demonstration of the term "evolution" changes within a speacies does take place, which is common observable fact, BUT ONE SPECIES DOES NOT CHANGE INTO ANOTHER SPECIES OF A DIFFERENT GENUS; fish do not change into amphibians; crustaceans do not change into spi...

128k is pretty noticeably poor, 192K is probably about as low as you want to go for any sort of decent playback equipment. But with VBR (Variable Bit Rate, uses more when it needs to) you can go down to about 200k average (V2 setting in LAME) with a fairly minimal loss of quality (on standard equipm...

perhaps similitude could have been replaced with the less archaic 'similarity'. Pfft, subordinately obfuscatory operandi in the process of imparting ideological theorems or empirical hypotheses! You obviously comprehend little of the nature of philosophy. If you say it too simply then anyone can te...

'If I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is for example. I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy ' I'll see that and raise you: "It inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth" and "I believe, with the advent of acid, we've di...

ozora is so much like rainbow but biger and with a big bar to get rotten drunk at rigth next to main floor with 1l bottles of wine for 4 euro and cans of beer for 2 euro green ant need to get there licence to sell alcohol What a shit idea. Given that here you have to choose between a bar and BYO I ...

blue planet corp (it went no where and sounded shit (maybe i needed to be on shit loads of rugs to get it)) but i walked away cause couldne put up with it any more Meh, each to their own I guess. I really liked it. Went nowhere in particular so you could take it anywhere you wanted. A real highligh...

The bikinis were good. See you there MotherS- come camp with us again, will be fun. Gonna try to keep some posessions on you this time around? The clear advantage Ozora has is the weather too, not normally being oppressively hot. And they do have gulash, when you make some poor delerious person mak...

Bought ticket for Boom and will do Ozora as well. Must say the Ozora line-up does appeal more. But could just be the extra unknowns on the Boom lineup (being 9 days rather than 6). There's a lower signal to noise ratio at Boom but the signal is probably just as good. Yeah, I really wonder just how m...

I don't mean to trivialise the issue, but I just think that the world is over medicated as it is, particularly when it comes to psychological conditions. Medications are wheeled out before we really know how they work to achieve the effect that they do. Quite true. Though at least a lot of the psyc...

Science is something that can be demonstrated in an experiment to produce replicable results. Anthropology, and psychology, are the study of human behaviour and culture in its environment. You can't replicate the results of anthropological fieldwork just like you can't replicate a counselling sessi...

Anthropology isn't a science, it's a humanities discipline. Science is only relevant to human behaviour on a biological/chemical/physiological level; what can or cannot be proved or disproved. Psychology hangs somewhere in between science and the humanities on a tentative thread. How do you define ...

The main problem with that poll was that it was an emotive question asked of those with little info on what it implied. I could call up 1000 people and ask them if they supported the arrest of terroists through better surveillance methods and use that as a case for the goverment having access to ou...

:angry: You just are an ambittered wench, Venatrix. Lol. He's right though Venatrix, you are an imbittered wench (and a few other things) for making me read Kayhat's ignorant and (in the second case) biggotted views again. Fuck you (Oh, and any spelling/gramarric errors where just unserted to goad ...

It was all over the news about 3 months ago!! Here's an article about it : m Think you've got the wrong source there. That's not a government commissioned survey, that's the survey done by the Hungry Beast TV show more recently. Which looks to be a reasonable survey and they gave a nice analysis of...

Denial of 'conspiracy theories' as a whole presumes that they are all false and all claims leveled at ruling powers could not be true, mainly due to a world view in which government complicity in such fraud or manipulation is impossible. Its fairly well known that such a politically correct world v...

And if people bothered to leave their desperate desire to believe that they are constantly being lied to by government and media at the door they might realise that a lot of information on 'alternative media sites' is a load of shit. And I don't really think posting a bunch of paranoid rants on a b...