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IF a consciousness was housed in a black box (a brain, but we're ignoring it's internals) AND that black box had inputs connected to a computer that can send signals to the black box that it WOULD interpret as signals of sight, sound, touch, hunger, intoxication, etc.
THEN how is one suppose to conclude that they are not just a consciousness in a box because they 'feel' drunk after they 'feel' they've ingested alcohol.
There's no need to monitor alcohol levels because the alcohol hasn't been proven to exist!
I know this is not the direction of the paper (or question) but physics already gives us an astounding 'No!'.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8343
Also what's cool is that these things are visible under an electron microscope (so are buckyballs iirc).
Additionally my experience tells me otherwise.
Incase this is what you mean: remembering the multiplication table is the antithesis of multiplying in ones head.
Which raises the question wouldn't that be better served with a forum...
That's definitely a reasonable possibility since it appears to me to be formatted for the Instagram crowd.
"Or maybe they just feel safe since there aren't any alternatives?"
Possible as well but ironic since its creating a space for an alternative.
I like this sites design. Clean, simple, and nothing superfluous. Seems to understand people are here for the user shared content and not the site itself so it stays out of the users way.
Second, it forces learning a new layout and system. I don't understand instead of gradual changes in UI to improve experience they went with whole new thing.
Third, it's slow, bloated, and really hard to navigate through. Old version can display more pertinent information per screen resolution.
In a nutshell, hinders user experience without any noticeable improvement.
Finish product is bad design because initial idea was bad design to begin with (i.e. the idea to fix nothing and break everything).
Maybe I just don't trust my memory (as in how am I sure that 7*8 is 56) and why I despise rote memorization and rather retain memory from use and practice.
Regardless a good example of something to remember in math is the quadratic formula Still enjoyable to derive and 'see' why it works but also just used so much. That said, I wouldn't encourage memorizing it without first understanding it.
I feel like this is a valuable lesson a lot of people could benefit from.
Because all the hard work to serve ads more efficiently goes to waste when the site is a mess and unusable.