[ExI] Science or Scientism?

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Ok, here is time-lapse video footage of your test subject Mr.
> Psychologist. Watch its behavior and then get back to me on what you think
>  its IQ is and why:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0
>
> Stuart LaForge

Maybe it's just too early in the day for me to 'get it'.  What with my heat
tolerance being so low, I did not try to get close enough to the subject to
perform the test, so I have to say it's untestable.  Since it is doing what
it designed to do perfectly, then I have to say, given its very limited
behavior range, it's like a person with an IQ of 25 who can bag groceries
very adequately.  Perhaps that person has Down's Syndrome.  They have a
reputation for having a sunny personality.

So what should I be getting out of this?

bill w
>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:11 PM Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:

> Billw wrote:
>
> > (will get back to you on the attached video tomorrow) bill w
>
> Ok. Feel free to watch it sped up by 2x. You can do that from the options
> menu.
> Just be warned, it makes the subject appear somewhat menacing. ;-)
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at
> > 5:18 PM Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Bill Wallace wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I obviously don't have the math or philosophy background to understand
> >> these things, but if reality shows me one thing and logic and math
> >> another, I'll go with reality.
> >
> > But you are limited in your senses and can only directly sense a
> > relatively small slice of reality. You cannot see UV light but a honeybee
> > can. Reality looks very different to a honeybee than it does to you.
> >
> > Furthermore, you are not only limited by senses but by your brain as
> > well.
> >
> > Your brain cannot process everything at once so it filters what you
> > notice to that which has been important to your survival. This is
> > demonstrated by such things as the Inattentional Blindness and other well
> > documented effects.
> >
> > Through technology, you can extend the range your senses yes. Gathering
> > data by  doing experiments will certainly help as would careful
> statistical
> > analysis of the data and good data storage.
> >
> >> Consciousness is a physical reality with
> >> which you can do experiments with testable hypotheses.
> >
> > Ok, here is time-lapse video footage of your test subject Mr.
> > Psychologist. Watch its behavior and then get back to me on what you
> think
> >  its IQ is and why:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0
> >
> >
> > Stuart LaForge
> >
> >
> >
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