[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: We're talking about what you're signing on for. If you support Trump or vote for Trump or vote for anybody but Biden, really, because a vote for anybody but Biden works in Trump's favour. Back to the Future came out in about '83, maybe, plus two sequels throughout the rest of the …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There's a phrase we'll often throw at the end of a sentence or sort of a conclusion to it. They will describe something and then say, "If that makes sense…" It's a sort of annoying add-on to a sentence that's unnecessary. Typically, it comes from a boss or a more senior …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, we've been talking for nearly ten years. I was fresh off of being fired off of Kimmel. I think Kimmel is a genius, and I think his show is pretty genius; the innovations he brought to Late Night, I don't think, get acknowledged. He changed the shape to a certain extent …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, year five of Covid. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Five years already? Rosner: No, four years ago, and it started hitting, maybe, December 2019. So, we are at the beginning of year five. So, it is a brand-new disease, and they are still finding out a ton about it; there is much …
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I'm thinking less about the actual structure of consciousness, the actual process of human thinking, the actual process of thought itself; I'm thinking more about the ultimate tool or tools used to discover that process in that structure. What do you think will ultimately lead us not only in the right …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Twitter is a piece of shit right now because Elon Musk has turned it into just fucking swampy shit, but sometimes there's still good stuff, and today somebody asked on Twitter, "What do you think will become that's socially acceptable in the next 20 years?" And I posted a couple of …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we've had some disagreements on IC over the last few years. One of those is the idea that consciousness is required for large-scale information exchange; it's a simplified way of saying it. I don't think it's necessarily derivative if you think like large-scale physics, that you get a mind out of …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 335 – Science and Religion (5) October 29, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: However, if you look at consciousness, this is kind of the second principle that I see that consciousness probably is technical but as principles or attributes, consciousness is an attribute of large-scale information sharing within the …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 74 – The Soul and Consciousness (5) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 30, 2017 Scott: What are some common mistakes in attempts to define consciousness? Rick: Every time somebody tries to pin down consciousness, they are defining it and mistakes get built in. One mistake that I might …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 73 – The Soul and Consciousness (4) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner January 29, 2017 Scott: As a materialist and an informationist, as defined earlier, nothing transcendent of space and time exists which could be called the soul. Rather, it is bound to the natural world. It is bound …
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