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by skim_milk 921 days ago
The problem with this philosophy is that we have brain scan studies, phylogenetic, developmental, neuroscience, and thousands of pages from established experts on psychology that document these three systems of learning and memory.

Who give a hoot we live in Descartes' demon and anything could be not real? The elephant is in the room. Id/ego/superego is clearly a thing, either that or you're not familiar with the field, or you're not living in shared reality! Malignant egalitarians who think everyone's opinions are just should really learn to push back harder on things that have, like, one in a trillion odds on being false.

The only thing up for debate are the definitions, functions, and boundaries of these three.

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Brain scans of a sentient beinb aware that he is in a box.

Also, weren't a bunch of results junked because there was a nasty bug in the CT code?