This is a weird one, but Astepro nasal spray for allergies. The name brand is a little unpleasant to blast up my nose because of the smell/taste. But the off brand stuff is absolutely foul and bitter. I would get random whifs and drips of the nastiness in the back of my throat for an hour.

That was actually a pretty good prediction. They just didn’t account for one genius who revolutionized farming.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

Trying to nail it all down (at this point) to biology+physics+whatever

If the stuff happening inside your body can’t be “nailed down” by biology+physics+whatever, then you’re talking about magic whether or not you call it magic.

“What is the brain the substrate for?” Is not a good question to ask because it assumes there is some unknown invisible force acting on the neurons in our heads. Neurons come from an egg fertilized by a sperm, just like every other cell.

Should we ask what the balls are a substrate for, since they are creating the sperm that will one day have consciousness?

(PS thank you for the discussion. It’s all in fun and I think this is genuinely interesting.)

Ah, but is a pressure wave propagating through air truly a sound if it does not interact with something that can hear? Or is it just the movement of air???

LoL, I’m sorry I couldn’t help myself.

What exactly is the brain the substrate for? All evidence up to this point indicates that the brain is the thing doing the thinking and feeling.

Without some seriously compelling evidence to the contrary, I’m going to assume you’re talking about a soul or some other supernatural idea.

In your example of the guitarist, where would you say musicality actually comes from? I would say the brain, because there is plenty of evidence that brains exist and can be creative.

Is your point that memory, emotions, and sensory input don’t have anything to do with consciousness?

What exactly is consciousness doing without sensory input to process and memory to give those inputs context?

Why do you think “awareness” of sights and sounds is separate from the parts of the brain that process those sights and sounds?

We can’t rule out something as impossible just because we haven’t observed it yet, as it would directly contradict the scientific method

Figuring out what’s possible versus impossible isn’t really part of the scientific method. The scientific method is about collecting and interpreting evidence. Where is the evidence that particles are conscious?

Until there is a testable hypothesis, panpsychism doesn’t have anything to do with science.

Others in this thread have already explained that consciousness doesn’t play any role in the double slit experiment. I definitely understand your confusion there. I believed the same thing at one point. It doesn’t help that some people purposely spread that false interpretation of the experiment because it’s more interesting than reality.

No, it’s not. Next question…

Seriously though, doesn’t basically every experiment in brain surgery and neuroscience disprove this idea? We know how different structures in the brain contribute to consciousness. We can’t explain the mechanism 100%, but that doesn’t mean that every piece of matter secretly has some consciousness embedded in it. It’s God of the Gaps nonsense.

I’m not against posting stuff like this. Obviously serious people take this idea seriously. Just none of the people taking it seriously study brains.

I watched up to the end of season 5, knowing that was the real ending to the story.

I thought I would stop after that, but I can’t help myself, I just keep going. I’m on season 7. It’s not as good, but it still has good stuff. It definitely helped that in season 6 they go to the set of their own show and watch the original showrunner get killed. I have to give them credit for that level of self-awareness. I doubt I’ll make it all the way to the end, but I’m still enjoying it for now.

Yeah, but how often did Bernie himself repeat those conspiracy theories? Did he ever try to violently overturn the Democratic primary results? Every popular person has some shitty supporters, so you can’t just judge people based on their supporters.

Yeah, but how often did Bernie himself repeat those conspiracy theories? Did he ever try to violently overturn the Democratic primary results? Every popular person has some shitty supporters, so you can’t just judge people based on their supporters.

You know what’s cool about “natural flavors”? They just have to be found in nature to call them that. They can be synthesized in a lab and still be a “natural flavor.”

P.S. don’t fall for the naturalistic fallacy. This comment is about tricky vocabulary used by the food industry. Whether or not a chemical is found in nature has nothing to do with whether it is good or bad for you. Arsenic is natural.