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Yet again, "not consciousness as you currently experience it" is not even actually a sensible statement. Even the consciousness you have now is not consciousness as you experienced it a second ago, because what we are aware of changes both with the configuration of the thing generating...

No, I explained what I meant by 'you', and that it's contextual, and showed that there are a couple different kinds. You have been conflating these. If you want to insist on conflating these, we're done. As it is, my position is that some manner of consciousness exists at all points in the...

Volunteer to control yourself or else the fascist Christian government will murder you and claim that even death will not be a reprieve from the torture? That "voluntary"? Or maybe the "voluntary" exposure some kid got to asbestos because of baby powder. Just shouldn't have chosen to shit...

The problem here is that you are failing to understand that there are more than one meanings of "you" being discussed here, and you are conflating them all, unable in the moment to think of the "you" of the kernel reading a report about the thoughts that led you to your latest decisions, and the...

Ok, so, I spent most of my afternoon reading that book. I got to chapter 15 skipping most of the history. Chapter 15 is what I was really digging for, and the complex plane stuff... Well, it actually makes more sense now when looking at the problem through a lens of Fourier analysis and seeing...

Well, my point is that... Well, I'm one of those wonks who is particular about saying that cognition is a physical phenomena so all differences in cognition ARE anatomical, but the anatomy is so fine and particular that it is largely inaccessible.... Even if that anatomy forms sometimes due to...

I know I said this elsewhere but this is a fascinating discussion.

Yeah, arcsin has a tightly bounded defined range, and part of the reason for feeding a sin into it was that sin produces bounded values valid in arcsin. I'll take a look at it later when I'm off work, granted my computer is shit. After consulting with some coworkers, it does look like this may...

Fixed.

I am actually curious what you would even call the arcsin(sin(x)) operation. Yes it's a triangle wave but it's also an operation on numbers. Reflectulo, after modulo, as it creates a reflection of a beam between two planes, and as the triangle is to reflectulo, the sawtooth is to modulo?

You have stated multiple times in multiple tacit ways that when you "lose self awareness/self-consciousbess" you "lose awareness/consciousness". This is exactly assuming something is gone simply because you can no longer directly detect it.

It's puzzling that you couldn't read the discussion that happened after that to understand that's not what was being discussed at all.

I'm not sure any of our signal generators can generate a pattern of tanh sums, though Honestly, it would be more straightforward to just synthesize waves with alternating sums of tanh and see what falls out of a FFT, like you said.

Bold claim. You could be inverting the Clever Hans effect with humans, from my perspective: thinking yourself more sophisticated than you are because you simulate some aspects of intelligent behavior. It happens all the GD time among humans.

The current state of the Christian cult does not speak to "religion" as a whole, either today OR throughout history. It did and still does have function in society even if that function is now so overrun with parasites it is in many places worse than the disease of ignorance that it first...

That's the thing though... The triangle wave is the arcsin of the sin. Anyway, I discussed the whole thing with a coworker who has his master's in math, and physics too, I think? He managed to follow along with it as I put it all together for him, and we came out of it both agreeing that...

So uh, kudos to you by the way. I do appreciate that you make the same arguments I do, but more eloquently.

The threat of eternal damnation came later, I think? The religion was, for many, a handy tool to keep the cultural philosophy alive, and some bad actors parasitized the phenomena since it had no resistance to bad action. It was like proto-academia with a parasite vulnerability.

I would disagree. That is A purpose of religion. Often enough it is about teaching good reasons for self-discipline, and holding those solid against the ravages of time. Education used to be done in a temple and what you got at a temple was an education (or a sexually transmitted disease, or...

You're missing gnostic Agnostic: someone who knows that we cannot know whether a god exists.