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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Here's the new test whether that website you are innocently looking at "for research purposes" is as innocent as you hope.
16 January 2025
All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July. |
The advantage (to the UK Government) of this measure is that they will also have access to the logs of these photo ID or running credit card checks. So they can easily keep track of who's being naughty.
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Mick Harper
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Nobody over sixteen should be allowed to watch porn.
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Brian Ambrose
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| Boreades wrote: | By the way, I forget to mention, you're all wasting your time thinking of DNA as some kind of data store that contains a boot program for the next generation.
The hardware is not the software.
Start looking at it as part of a tuned circuit that can be (and is) modified by our own actions. |
Still trying to catch up…
A couple of points on brain. There are more neurons in the stomach than in the brain, and they are connected by the vagus nerve. The idea of a gut-feeling is literal, and may be where the memory is stored.
The DNA (the Lego) is pretty much long-term fixed. The Epigenetic stuff attached to DNA is the Lego instruction book, and you can change the instructions and pass that wealth onto your heirs.
It is a fascinating idea that a small part of the brain is dedicated to an antenna, and our memory is stored in the cloud. If you can accept that literally everything is connected (because beneath the atoms and quarks, there is nothing material there at all - just fields), there is only… everything.
The One. Call it universal Energy. Brahma. God.
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Mick Harper
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Brian, I know everybody thinks I'm irksome saying so, but can you leave a line space between paras? It makes an awful difference (to me, at any rate) when reading posts.
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Boreades
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| Brian Ambrose wrote: | | A couple of points on brain. There are more neurons in the stomach than in the brain, and they are connected by the vagus nerve. The idea of a gut-feeling is literal, and may be where the memory is stored.. |
A good mention there from Brian.
A lot of Neurology "science" is actually founded on surprisingly abstract philosophical concepts, instead of actual science.
You could forgive the general public for continually conflating "brain" and "mind" as the same thing in the same physical place. Neurologists should know better, but most of them cling to the idea that the brain is some kind of mainframe computer, and everything else in the body is a passive recipient of instruction.
The irony may be that this is more a reflection of the psychological state of the academic elite. And how it likes to operate, issuing ideas and orders to a passive public that needs to be instructed.
Given the distribution of neurons around the body, outside of the brain, the neurological circuitry makes more sense as distributed computing, with the brain as a router or switch.
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Mick Harper
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The difference between brain and mind is sufficiently important to warrant the opening of a new thread. Within which I will post up Medium stories pertaining to this, though they may be rehashes of stuff in the Applied Epistemology section.
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Brian Ambrose
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | Brian, I know everybody thinks I'm irksome saying so, but can you leave a line space between paras? It makes an awful difference (to me, at any rate) when reading posts. |
Sorry. When I use my phone I tend to condense so I can see more of the content. Would an indent be acceptable?
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Mick Harper
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Absolutely not. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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| Brian Ambrose wrote: | | Would an indent be acceptable? |
In this ancient version of phpBB, how does one do an indent?
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Mick Harper
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I've never been able to find out. Despite shelling out a goodly sum for an uprated version. (Thanks, by the way, to all who sent money for the upkeep of this site. All none of you.)
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Brian Ambrose
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Conversation with a friend:
Me: So, after the atoms and the quarks there’s nothing. Just fields and energy.
Him: So I’m not here? That is ridiculous!
Me: Not really. We’re made of energetic waves which give the base for matter.
Him: Haha. If it’s all just waves, where’s all the information stored then?
Me: Well you know how radio waves work?
Him: That’s not information!
Me: er, then why do you listen to the radio?
Him: That’s not the same!!
Me: Anyway, I thought you believed in ghosts?
Him: I do…
Me: Facepalm.
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Brian Ambrose
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| Boreades wrote: | | Brian Ambrose wrote: | | Would an indent be acceptable? |
In this ancient version of phpBB, how does one do an indent? |
I could use spaces - but a faff.
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