Dog Trainer at The Dog Stop Deerfield and Mundelein. Philosophy of Mind lover Non dualist...look it up.
Chicago, IL
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You awaken from slumber to the Experiential Sea.
Endless and Nameless in itself, yet effortlessly and unconsciously classified into things and event.
Boxing it.
Trapping it.
It wiggles out, without struggle.
The tree in its totality breaks free from the simple label.
And I.
You.
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Ya know the most important part of the phrase "falling in love"?
Falling.
You don't climb down, or shimmy.
You fall.
Meaning, ya have to let go.
All the way.
No clinging to yourself.
Today, I re-marry her because she ALWAYS catches me.
I fell.
But she is there.
Open arms.
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Michael Addyman retweeted
Ya know the most important part of the phrase "falling in love"?
Falling.
You don't climb down, or shimmy.
You fall.
Meaning, ya have to let go.
All the way.
No clinging to yourself.
Today, I re-marry her because she ALWAYS catches me.
I fell.
But she is there.
Open arms.
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Hey @evan_mcgl give those skeptics @drmichaellevin answer..
."what biochemistry? That's just bubbling quantum foam."
This is why reductionism is inherently stupid as an ontological frame.
youtu.be/D4jBgWV8BoY?is=iiYo…
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VERY cool.
Pairing a visual stimuli to another visual stimuli as a direct correlation is no easy feat.
The inability to do both simultaneously makes learning harder, like audio and visual stimuli pairing correlations
Not impossible obviously, but tougher for sure.
👏 👏 👏
The happiness of this girl after discovering that her dog, whom she had been trying to teach sign language for some time, has finally begun to understand her.
[📹 erycadias22]
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You're a gem sir.
And, I'm sure the experimental evidence would havw steered him towards a middle ground position.
He was man of science, and I can't see him fighting the results too hard.
I'm so sad that @danieldennett isn't around for this. He would have really, really disliked the dualist conclusion - I can just see him shaking his head with that "oh no, no...". But I know he'd have read it carefully, steel-manned the viewpoint, and then critiqued all the right spots. Would have been delightful to argue to him about this. I wanted to polish it before showing it to him, but it wasn't in time. Funny enough, and he'd not have remembered this I'm sure, but it's an echo of 1991, when I was an undergrad in his philosophy of mind course and did my final paper on pretty much this topic (mostly focused on the ingressing minds idea and math, we didn't have the biology or computational results then of course). He hated the conclusion (as I knew he would) but was an absolute gentleman in giving it a fair shake and engaging with the arguments, especially the few he couldn't shoot down.
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The snake has circled back around so much, it is WAY past it's tail and beginning to swallow it's own face!!
Gonna loop itself right into a singularity.
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This dude is so damn cute!
2nd time working with him....so smart.
I love this "game" for winter time, or rainy days.
Gonna teach it to all the dogs this time of year.
I live watching them go past one, and seeing their nose yell them they missed it.
Black table, goes right past 1.
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Little by little.
Finally settled enough to "sit" on her own.
A MASSIVE step towards trust.
She doesn't feel the need to be ready to "flight" anymore.
And she let us both pet her, a lot!
I LOVE this gig man.
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Hey @ThouArtThat glad to see you're making content more again.
Great stuff lately.
The most recent one, at around 45 mins, on the question about if working biologists are aware of context....they sure don't speak that way to the public.
Way more A --> B kinda talk, for most.
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Lets GO @evan_mcgl.
I've been super busy setting up my new gig and meeting clients and dogs....but I don't miss @RichardWatson90.
Anyone in the Levin crew gets time slotted away for my listening pleasure.
youtu.be/wAGFE2S6qXg?is=4VAL…
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My 5....
1. What Dreams May Come
2. The Whole Ten Yards
3. Don't Be A Menace....
4. Powder
5. Contact
Go ahead...judge me.
I stand by my choices.
You can only watch 5 movies for the rest of your life.
What are your 5?
1. Sound of Music
2. Beaches
3. Miracles from Heaven
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Amadeus
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Anil is cheating here.
Ya can't establish consciousness exists in anything but your own damn self....and he knows that. It makes zero difference what correlates ya find.
Unless that magically equals causality now, he is cheating.
Brain dudes are HILARIOUS!
No it doesn’t. The new research is suggestive of interesting behaviours, but it does not indicate that consciousness is present in slime molds and plants. This is very far from being established. Also, consciousness is not the same thing as intelligence.
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