[ExI] 10 Predictions About the Future That Should Scare the Hell Out of You

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016  William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:


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>> we know for a fact that consciousness can change the physical state of an
>> object. john
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> How do we know this?
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​I can't say how we know this bit I know why I can. I consciously decide to
pick up a physical flyswatter and the physical flyswatter moves, and ​I
have a strong hunch you're conscious but I know for a fact I am.

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> Thinking?  OK, define that.
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​No. Examples are vastly more important than definitions.​



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> My problem is that these terms just keep getting thrown around with no
> real definition,


​That's not a problem as long as there are examples, after all examples are
where lexicographers get the information to write the definitions in their
dictionary.​

​Most people haven't looked in a dictionary in years but they get along
just fine because they have examples.​

 John K Clark
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