It is your job to support your claims not everyone else’s.

See no evil hear no evil

That’s not how any of this works. You see in science you have to actually do the work needed to support your hypothesis. And that hypothesis needs to be based on you understanding all the material that went into that hypothesis. Penrose hasn’t done any of that. He doesn’t have the expertise needed to form a good model for consciousness and he hasn’t done the work to support that model.

In science, ideas that aren’t supported by evidence are thrown in the trash not treated as worthy of further discussion. That’s why we don’t give astrology or young earth creationism the time of day. Because there is nothing to support them and a mountain of evidence against them. Just like there is nothing to support Penrose’s ideas about consciousness.

Science is not a safe space. You have to actually defend your ideas against scrutiny.

My perspective is that someones’ opinion isnt worth anything unless they actually have relevant expertise in what they are talking about. I do not need a degree in neuroscience to point that out.

Some opinions are worth more than others. Opinions based on facts and relevant expertise matter more than ones that arent. Penrose DOES NOT have the expertise needed to be taken seriously when it comes to consciousness.

Biochemists arent claiming that they know AI better than AI researchers do. If you dont understand why it is dangerous to be talking about things outside of your wheelhouse then there is no arguing with you.

Penrose is a physicist. Thats where his expertise lies. He is not a neuroscientist, psychologist or any other profession that is relevant. He is NOT an expert in the area he has barged into. Being competent in one field DOES NOT translate into competence in others.

You may as well ask a very good plumber about how they think the brain works.

Nonsense is still nonsense. Penrose like many physicists, is speculating outside of his core expertise to his own detriment.

Silphium. We literally dont know exactly what plant it was but apparently it was amazing.

There are good and bad things going on in the world and while it isnt all bad news, this doesnt strike me as being anything other than another form of bias. There are serious problems with this planet and pretending there arent doesnt make them go away.

I thought I was an introvert then I realized that “traumatized extrovert” isnt the same thing

Do you have an alternative that it would be reasonable for people to know about?

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I keep a bottle of Irn Bru or something else too revolting to forget washing the pills down with next to the pills.

Do… do they not know that corn was selectively bred from what amounts to a wheat like grass? Modern corn is NOTHING like its wild ancestor (which still grows there) granted thats a different method of altering what genes are or are not there but its still a form of modification by humans. What we used to do is just a very crude and haphazard way of doing it in a way that we have no idea what actually happened whereas with modern GMO, you are making very specific changes.

Wtf are you going on about? Hating Discovery is the vanilla of star trek opinions.

I dont trust any community that specifically caters to people that were banned from another community and makes a point to have that as part of their identity. Because being banned doesn’t just include those that were unfairly banned but also the ones that were rightly banned and the latter will eventually drive out the former or theyll get kicked out again and create another “we were banned” community. I especially dont trust a community like this when ten forward already exists as an alternative.

Theyre a binder. So as long as you have an alternative binder theyre fine. And some things are “fine” without one if you stretch the definition of what “fine” means.

Mostly for vegans honestly.

Aquafaba can be made using canned chickpeas.

“Youd be the top of the class if you… tried”

Meanwhile I am basically at war with myself every millisecond of the day to get what I get done, done and all people see is what the winner of that war accomplished. It feels like a war but is probably better described as a tug of war where the victor doesn’t need to just win but overpower their opponent enough to do literally anything else.

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