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Wed Mar 09 22:36:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform not even that reliably. savant still stupid. it DID work to destroy any usable (by us) notion of stupidity, as far as the harpy wailchorus is concerned.
Wed Mar 09 22:36:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> skinner showed most subhumans not so different from pigeons.
Wed Mar 09 22:35:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> trinque you familiar with the pigeon rewiring experiments ?
Wed Mar 09 22:35:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> entirely meaningless otherwise.
Wed Mar 09 22:35:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> heck, the iq nonsense EVEN EXISTS because people get antsy and prefer to pretend.
Wed Mar 09 22:34:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i can formulate the flight equivalent of iq ; you can not formulate the cognitive equivalent of energy.
Wed Mar 09 22:34:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> fine, have it. we still understand flight to a larger degree than cognition.
Wed Mar 09 22:34:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so you're hanging your argument on turbulent flow ?
Wed Mar 09 22:33:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i would say so, yes.
Wed Mar 09 22:29:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform was not a question of building anything, but of understanding, neh ?
Wed Mar 09 22:29:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the general complexity of the cell is perhaps the chief lie of popular conception of biology. "oh yeah, nucleus, cytoplasm, yeah i recall". you recall my left foot. golgi apparatus. a whole set of vacuoles. the nucleus has a membrane in layers. there's dozens of different items in there we don't even fully enumerate - and your understanding isn't good enough to stand for the mithocondria, which, incidentally, also has
Wed Mar 09 22:29:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a nucleus.
Wed Mar 09 22:27:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what 'explain' ? there aren't the terms in which the explanation would be made.
Wed Mar 09 22:27:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> described to any degree and moving electric impulses back and forth".
Wed Mar 09 22:27:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform there's very little to be explained, so far. "the brain consists of a varying set of individual cells, in the billions, which have a number of internal states that have not yet been enumerated either in the collective or reliably individual cases, which connect to other cells through a process they apparently to some degree control but is not otherwise understood, forming patters that are not meaningfully
Wed Mar 09 22:24:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> void learns(things);
Wed Mar 09 22:17:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1427894 << fucking an' partying.
Wed Mar 09 22:17:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1427882 << hey, and the brain learns to make a food out of hamburgers eventually.
Wed Mar 09 22:16:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1427880 << ftr, this restatement of the plasticity propriety oif the cnc is mostly made of your tradesman's self-flattery (all civilisation is predicated on tramway, sez conductor. neh, on beer, sez publican).
Wed Mar 09 22:16:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yeah yeah ok.