How do guys with diesel trucks with American flags feel about filling up with Russian diesel?
Answer is: most don’t care, are not aware, or understand.
Answer is: most don’t care, are not aware, or understand.
Brains are neuronal computers that process information. In a computational system the output can be anything, deterministic, indeterministic, random, whatever.
Free will is the ability to make this computation to achieve goals while navigating our environment.
Yes, a p-zombie would not have free will but p-zombies don’t exist. Seems like free will is an advantageous adaptation needed by evolved brains with goals.
You can argue that the feeling of free will is a lie but what would be the point? If brains were successful as p-zombies that’s what brains would do, but it seems that free will is an advantage.
FTR: there is 0 evidence for a lab leak. All the molecular and epidemiological evidence points to a natural origin.
I really don’t understand why republicans and their stooges want to convince everyone it was a lab leak.
https://youtu.be/jMIOtFoeE0M?t=833&is=he8tS42EW7kgky_1
Edit to add a summary of current knowledge:
Here is a short summary of the evidence for both the zoonotic (natural) origin and the laboratory leak hypotheses.
EVIDENCE FOR A ZOONOTIC (NATURAL) ORIGIN
The scientific consensus generally favors a natural spillover from animals to humans. Key evidence includes:
The Huanan Market Epicenter: Many of the earliest known COVID-19 cases were directly linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where live wild mammals were sold.
Environmental Sampling: Swabs from the market tested positive for the virus and contained high amounts of genetic material from susceptible animals like raccoon dogs.
Multiple Spillover Events: Research suggests two distinct lineages of the virus were present at the market, indicating the virus likely jumped from animals to humans on multiple separate occasions.
Genomic Similarity: The virus shares up to 96% of its genetic code with coronaviruses found in wild horseshoe bats.
Natural Selection: The virus's ability to bind to human cells appears to be the result of natural evolution, similar to features found in wild pangolin coronaviruses.
EVIDENCE FOR A LABORATORY LEAK
While there is no direct, publicly available evidence confirming a lab leak, proponents point to several circumstantial factors:
Geographic Proximity: The outbreak began in Wuhan, home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a leading center for coronavirus research.
Research Activities: The WIV was known to be conducting research on bat coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
Intelligence Assessments: Some U.S. intelligence agencies (like the FBI and Department of Energy) have concluded with "low" to "moderate" confidence that a lab incident was the most likely origin.
Missing Intermediate Host: Despite extensive searching, the specific animal that bridged the gap between bats and humans has not been definitively identified.
Conclusion: While most virologists lean heavily toward a natural origin based on genomic and epidemiological data, the lack of a definitive intermediate host and full transparency from early in the pandemic has kept the lab leak theory alive in the broader debate.
I don't think Bill is steel-manning the Democratic position here
The book is good but I am floored by the narrator. Not only does she narrate different characters but different accents as well.
Greatly enjoying it.
Shot in the dark here. About two weeks ago I was taking a sailboat out of the water at the Tonywatha launch on Lake Monona.
During the hectic process we left a sail in the grass at launch. Anyone seen it by any chance?
Thanks!
Maybe I haven’t found it but, is there a single command that can switch between HDMI inputs without having to go to the main screen?
I swear this is a design choice to make the user have to stare at that screen.
I’m having the hardest time with aiming in the boss fight where you are falling with Meta Ridley down a shaft.
The issue is that I see only a tiny green reticle to aim that gets lost in the business of the battle.
Is there way to make the reticle larger or to see the normal game reticle? Haven’t found either. Thanks.
Has someone come across a small pouch like a coin purse that fits an X4?
Waterproof would be a plus!
Thanks
CMV
Clarification: I love Interpol and I don’t think they’ve had a single bad album. We are talking about different levels of awesome.
How is it “signaling” if they are actually doing it?
Many leftists did not vote for Biden because they argued Biden could have stopped Netanyahu's genocide.
Now we see that Trump, a known Netanyahu ally, cannot tell Netanyahu to stop attacking Palestine and Lebanon.
Do leftists see how misguided they were in making this their overriding concern?
Electric hatchback with 300 mile range with nacs charging. The charging on nacs might be slow but other than that how is this not the best EV for the money?
Any Doctor Who fans went: “oh yeah”!
Anyone figured this one out? Can’t get past a white window that pops up during startup.
I guess I like movies where the sense of dread just builds up and up >!and you can follow the character spiraling into a bad ending!<.
Anyone else noticed the parallels with Angel Heart?