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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
