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Wed Mar 09 22:36:23 UTC 2016 <trinque> mircea_popescu: I'm not
Wed Mar 09 22:36:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> skinner showed most subhumans not so different from pigeons.
Wed Mar 09 22:35:59 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: 'iq' WORKS for identifying stupidity
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).