I liked it. We are such hard-wired creatures. You can't even get used to it, since the mouse reverts to normal in order to click Play. After all 20 levels, centering on a link is pretty hard.
Oops, yes, this is the right link.
You know, the more I look at these things, the more I think someone has modified them. There are knots in several different places that make no sense -- pretty sophisticated knots too. Little metal brackets all over too. Very odd.
Never heard of "twee" before. I have to admit it's hard to think of the right intonation to make it sound arrogant. "Oh my god, how twee!" "How horribly twee!" "Twee. Next?" Maybe I can see it if one is British.
Are the literati really able to effectively use this aloud to defame something in American English? I can't come up with a phrasing that wouldn't make me sound like a fool.
Wow, retroactively damaging bad sequel is a great one.
Mine:
Off-putting puts me off. Does it really hurt that much to use yourself as an object in a sentence?
Hotels.com Please, make it stop. Close second are those new rhythmic, slightly catchy Pepto-Bismol commercials. I mean, the girl on the right end is kind of attractive, and by inference from the song, she's the one with diarrhea. Ew.
Petty idea: the idea that turning on your turn signal immediately before or during your turn does anyone any good. Do you people think it helps you turn? Is the fact that you're turning an intellectual curiosity? If you're turning, I need to know so I can *brake* DAMN IT!
Big idea: that "well who's to say?" is somehow a good response to someone's argument that something is wrong or right. We're not all equally right on matters of right and wrong, as is fairly obvious by reflecting on Ted Bundy or any nasty world leader.
No, the ideal medium for storing a cosmic calling card would be a 1000 foot stone monolith in the middle of some large flat place, ideally with very deep symbols carved into it.
Do the rabbits have a message in their DNA? What about llamas? We're not the only things out there with the old double-helix, you know.
In Contact, the message was hidden in the decimal exapansion of Pi....
Jeez, Ann Coulter certainly hasn't been spending those juicy tax-cuts on food.
Never realized she went to Michigan Law.
Have fun in the police state, ladies.
What about the Rumsfeld's own Office of Special Plans?. Surely, since it was set up to question the CIA and get better intelligence, it must have stumbled upon the fact that there was a massive intelligence failure? Last I heard, it was not exactly arguing against the war...
Was the OSP incompetent or deceitful?
I think the groupthink was spread across a few more groups...
I successfully domesticated two kittens about six years ago. They were brothers, descended from farm cats -- the upwards of 10 generations that lived only outdoors. I'd say it took zero work to make them into indoor cats.
One's an explorer, but very scared of the outdoors. He jumped from a 10 foot deck once and I found him up a very tall tree an hour or two later. Not that keen on the outdoors after being fetched from the tree by a strange fireman. Contrary to popular belief, volunteer firemen are not fond of this task, since apparently getting a ladder means bringing out the whole truck. So much for popular wisdom. Never seen a man that large scale a tree that well...
The key really is getting them young, as everyone else has said.
As a consumer, I value all advertising. Advertising helps me connect with the products that are right for me and my family. Sometimes, I do not know that I need a product until that product shows up in a brand new set of upbeat commericals on the television. Thank you, advertising!
And it's only going to get worse. (Link gets points for pretty bad use of "Kafkaesque".) Fortunately, there is hope.
Gyan: You're absolutely right about solipsism being assumed false here. Or I'm right about it being assumed false.
The kinds of behavioral differences generated by random mix-and-match spectra would be like those between color blind people and non-color blind people.
As for a whole sensory modality swap -- it would be unlikely given the various levels of detail those parts of the brain are capable of (I'm assuming this all has something to do with the brain). The various levels of light we perceive are so subtle that we've never felt such subtle gradations in touch, smell, hearing, or smelling. If it has anything to do with the brain, we should notice a dwarfing of the V-sections compared to the other sections. Of course, if Chalmers is right and they're epiphenomenal, then I could in principle have many totally different modality feels than you.
Zombies are actually the ones who really creep me out, since they go around talking as if they have conscious experience anyway. Essentially, it leads to an argument that you can't know whether or not you're a zombie. That is one of the few ultimately persuasive arguments I've come across in my discipline.
Alnedra's point is right on target, which is why we have to talk about the inverted spectrum, as opposed to, say the randomly mixed and matched spectrum. There would be detectable behavioral differences between people with different, but non-inverted spectra
To be honest, most philosophers I know would describe philosophy as on a continuum with science nowadays. Then again, I'm not one of those "Oneness of being's being" kind of guys, and they are out there. At very least, we see a need to consider most scientific results as some kind of specialized data in our theories.
I am one of the people who taught those intro courses... Apologies for those in my discipline who are considerably less than ideal teachers.
Good call, Zemat. I like to think of putting on rose-colored glasses. Some people may have an inverted spectrum (or be zombies!), but this would be essentially like having rose-colored glasses welded onto one's head. Putting on the glasses doesn't change reality, they just make it look different. Having an inverted or shifted optical spectrum should amount to the same thing.
I dismiss talk of other realities because I believe we all live in the same reality. You're not part of my reality -- you're part of reality. In fact, the very notion of other seems to presuppose an objective reality.
Not that anyone's too good at pinning down what the one reality is -- do neutrinos have mass or don't they? But I suspect that when people say they have "their own reality" they just mean their own perception of the one reality. That perception can be right or wrong, though occasionally we don't know which. The alternative seems to be that those with "their own reality" are making me up as they go along.
I liked it. We are such hard-wired creatures. You can't even get used to it, since the mouse reverts to normal in order to click Play. After all 20 levels, centering on a link is pretty hard.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Curious George: How do I work my new shades?"
Oops, yes, this is the right link. You know, the more I look at these things, the more I think someone has modified them. There are knots in several different places that make no sense -- pretty sophisticated knots too. Little metal brackets all over too. Very odd.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Imperious George!"
Never heard of "twee" before. I have to admit it's hard to think of the right intonation to make it sound arrogant. "Oh my god, how twee!" "How horribly twee!" "Twee. Next?" Maybe I can see it if one is British. Are the literati really able to effectively use this aloud to defame something in American English? I can't come up with a phrasing that wouldn't make me sound like a fool.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
Wow, retroactively damaging bad sequel is a great one. Mine: Off-putting puts me off. Does it really hurt that much to use yourself as an object in a sentence? Hotels.com Please, make it stop. Close second are those new rhythmic, slightly catchy Pepto-Bismol commercials. I mean, the girl on the right end is kind of attractive, and by inference from the song, she's the one with diarrhea. Ew. Petty idea: the idea that turning on your turn signal immediately before or during your turn does anyone any good. Do you people think it helps you turn? Is the fact that you're turning an intellectual curiosity? If you're turning, I need to know so I can *brake* DAMN IT! Big idea: that "well who's to say?" is somehow a good response to someone's argument that something is wrong or right. We're not all equally right on matters of right and wrong, as is fairly obvious by reflecting on Ted Bundy or any nasty world leader.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Your dog hates you."
Ouch, many apologies exppii. I know better, too.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "DNA may contain the message we're looking for."
No, the ideal medium for storing a cosmic calling card would be a 1000 foot stone monolith in the middle of some large flat place, ideally with very deep symbols carved into it. Do the rabbits have a message in their DNA? What about llamas? We're not the only things out there with the old double-helix, you know. In Contact, the message was hidden in the decimal exapansion of Pi....
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "GOP Babe-of-the-week winners"
Jeez, Ann Coulter certainly hasn't been spending those juicy tax-cuts on food. Never realized she went to Michigan Law. Have fun in the police state, ladies.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov Vote in Case of Attack"
Hey, good idea. It worked for Bremer in Iraq! Somehow I don't think the President's pollsters would agree, though...
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "CIA Was Wrong"
What about the Rumsfeld's own Office of Special Plans?. Surely, since it was set up to question the CIA and get better intelligence, it must have stumbled upon the fact that there was a massive intelligence failure? Last I heard, it was not exactly arguing against the war... Was the OSP incompetent or deceitful? I think the groupthink was spread across a few more groups...
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Curious Ceorge"
I successfully domesticated two kittens about six years ago. They were brothers, descended from farm cats -- the upwards of 10 generations that lived only outdoors. I'd say it took zero work to make them into indoor cats. One's an explorer, but very scared of the outdoors. He jumped from a 10 foot deck once and I found him up a very tall tree an hour or two later. Not that keen on the outdoors after being fetched from the tree by a strange fireman. Contrary to popular belief, volunteer firemen are not fond of this task, since apparently getting a ladder means bringing out the whole truck. So much for popular wisdom. Never seen a man that large scale a tree that well... The key really is getting them young, as everyone else has said.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "People are tiring of ads in all their forms."
As a consumer, I value all advertising. Advertising helps me connect with the products that are right for me and my family. Sometimes, I do not know that I need a product until that product shows up in a brand new set of upbeat commericals on the television. Thank you, advertising! And it's only going to get worse. (Link gets points for pretty bad use of "Kafkaesque".) Fortunately, there is hope.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Reality and Conscious Experience: Could I see red where you see green?"
Gyan: You're absolutely right about solipsism being assumed false here. Or I'm right about it being assumed false.
The kinds of behavioral differences generated by random mix-and-match spectra would be like those between color blind people and non-color blind people.
As for a whole sensory modality swap -- it would be unlikely given the various levels of detail those parts of the brain are capable of (I'm assuming this all has something to do with the brain). The various levels of light we perceive are so subtle that we've never felt such subtle gradations in touch, smell, hearing, or smelling. If it has anything to do with the brain, we should notice a dwarfing of the V-sections compared to the other sections. Of course, if Chalmers is right and they're epiphenomenal, then I could in principle have many totally different modality feels than you.
Zombies are actually the ones who really creep me out, since they go around talking as if they have conscious experience anyway. Essentially, it leads to an argument that you can't know whether or not you're a zombie. That is one of the few ultimately persuasive arguments I've come across in my discipline.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
Alnedra's point is right on target, which is why we have to talk about the inverted spectrum, as opposed to, say the randomly mixed and matched spectrum. There would be detectable behavioral differences between people with different, but non-inverted spectra
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
To be honest, most philosophers I know would describe philosophy as on a continuum with science nowadays. Then again, I'm not one of those "Oneness of being's being" kind of guys, and they are out there. At very least, we see a need to consider most scientific results as some kind of specialized data in our theories. I am one of the people who taught those intro courses... Apologies for those in my discipline who are considerably less than ideal teachers.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Someone's having a birthday. "
Wow, the amazon copy of Dreamweaver is insane. I don't suppose she's eligible for an academic version?
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "I created my own reality by walking out of the theater"
Good call, Zemat. I like to think of putting on rose-colored glasses. Some people may have an inverted spectrum (or be zombies!), but this would be essentially like having rose-colored glasses welded onto one's head. Putting on the glasses doesn't change reality, they just make it look different. Having an inverted or shifted optical spectrum should amount to the same thing.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
I dismiss talk of other realities because I believe we all live in the same reality. You're not part of my reality -- you're part of reality. In fact, the very notion of other seems to presuppose an objective reality. Not that anyone's too good at pinning down what the one reality is -- do neutrinos have mass or don't they? But I suspect that when people say they have "their own reality" they just mean their own perception of the one reality. That perception can be right or wrong, though occasionally we don't know which. The alternative seems to be that those with "their own reality" are making me up as they go along.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
I'm going to consciously make them not part of my day :) I always wonder why people are so eager to tell others about their own reality...
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "The Picture of Everything"
Still no cure for cancer...but kudos on the Shogun Warriors.
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
In "Wrapped Up In Books"
Hey, but new Belle and Sebastian album, cool!
posted by amphiboly 19 years ago
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