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I have said no such thing in this conversation. I did not bring up or discuss "consciousness". (Instead I have ignored your prior attempts to bring it up. We went around before, there is not point doing it again.) Scientists that study conscious work with brains, but that is not the topic of...

Every commentator I have heard is surprised that they now have a full jury and that alternates may be fully selected tomorrow.

We build models to interpret data. That's just what happens. You seem to be claiming the climatologists don't know what they are doing. I've seen nothing to indicate that you have the requisite knowledge or experience to critique their methods. Time is one of the coordinates of spacetime -- the...

Speaking of science illiterates. Never heard of either of these people nor are their facts relevant to anything.

It was the central theme of his campaign announcement speech in *2015*. (It also included the weird and false notion that other nations are "sending" their worst people intentionally.) This has been a continuous theme of Trump ever since. (And it was before running, too.)

Have you seen Pence? He's got white hair and falls asleep on stage (or at least doesn't notice the fly). Obviously a sympathetic old man. :)

Science is examining natural phenomena with natural experimental apparatuses and methods and coming to conclusions about the possible natural explanations. That is all -- n othing more, nothing less. You are projecting. This has no bearing on the reality of scientific inquiry. I have had...

Stop it Steve. I mentioned the thing (type 1 v. type 2 errors) and said we should move on because it has nothing to do with the topic of the thread (or even whatever it is I am discussing with you now). It is merely an explanation of how a tendency to apply unwarranted agency to natural...

This is just not correct. Mr. Trump clearly ordered his attorney to make a payoff and then ordered his financial guys to repay the attorney and bill it as "legal fees". He knew he was laundering the payment to Cohen because he told them to "gross it up", that is increase the amount payed to...

Back to your discussion of me and my kind... Not really much to it. My life as a non-believer was much the same as a believer. The main difference was I didn't go to church anymore. Not sure what that means. Other than weird discussions like this one, I almost never think of the supernatural...

Since you made some blatently wrong statements about the methods/motivations of science I could not let it be. I wrote: "As for methodological naturalism, that is a *tool* used in science. Science only considers natural explanations of natural phenomena and as such does not invoke non-natural...

It's a rather dense topic...

Maybe this will trigger the Israelis to hit the weapons plant that makes the weapons used nightly by Russia in Ukraine and that one attack on Israel.

He doesn't have the right to record the purpose of his check incorrectly in his ledger.

I know. Imagine defending those who planned and violently attacked the US Congress.

I know Clinton got sued a couple times, but what hidden payments (themselves not inherently illegal) did Clinton make?

It's not me, it is the NY County District Attorney. I linked to the document entered on the docket of the above captioned case.

I remain suspicious that Heritage Foundation was ever "on the rails".

The NY County DA disagrees: From page 4 of https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-04-SOF.pdf Woman 1 = Karen McDougal Lawyer A=Michael Cohen C. Suppressing Woman 1’s Account 12. About five months before the presidential election, in or about June 2016, the...

The issue at question is whether the obstruction statute applies to physical interventions rather than just document destruction, falsification, etc. If these other "protests" involved "obstruction of a (federal) proceeding" then they are relevant and the *intent* to obstruct the proceeding...