/sci/ - Science & Math

Searle's original thought experiment was not about consciousness but epistemology. He asked whether the Chinese room actually "understands" what it's reading and writing. Unfortunately, Searle was too indoctrinated by modern anti-dualist acadummic dogma to realize the deep connection between consciousness and epistemology. True epistemological insight requires consciousness and free will. Everything else will just be deterministic regurgitation. That's why NPCs, falling in the latter category, are so prone to the fallacy called "illusion of explanatory depth". They believe mere repetition of learned information was equivalent to understanding. This is also the source of credentialism. To an NPC a degree is the epitome of being intellectual. After all, they spent many years and a lot of money earning a certificate by repeating what professors told them. Critical thinking, creatively connecting different topics, and entertaining novel ideas - those skills are outside of the NPCs' intellectual scope.

Should I lie in my application saying relatives close to me died of the same disease the lab I'm applying to studies, saying that's why I am so determined to get into their biomed field? I really want that position...

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>dihydrotestosterone
>dihydroTESTOSTERONE
>not testosterone exactly

if 2x2 = 2+2 then why doesn't 3x3 = 3+3? What does this tell us of the nature of 2?

How are Bobndoug passing the time? Mobile games?

Why does doing favors for someone make you like them more?

It is intuitive that if a mother breeds with the son of the son .... of her son, and she's the mother of them all, the process can produce a "clone" that's as close to 100% of the mother's DNA as you want. That is if the chances of the offspring being female remain ~50%, so if a mother keeps breeding do the chances of the offspring being female increase as the process goes closer to 100% of her DNA?

in mathematical terms: a generation's maternal DNA percentage can be defined as f(x)= (2^x-1)/2^x, and the limit is 1 or 100%.
is there another function that can tell us the chances of the offspring being born female for a given f(x) generation?
for example if the chances of being born female doubled every generation a probability would be defined as p(x)=f(x) which in theory means nothing because the limit is still 1, but in reality that would mean that the probability of a male being born is 1/2^x for a f(x) generation.
however if the probability function was steeper for example if p(x)=3/4 * f(x) its limit is 3/4 therefore for any x generation such that f(x)>3/4 it would be impossible to continue the breeding.