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From here: "Snatch squads"?? damn US army has their fingers in everything. :eek:

DNA's not a bad call, but the case of identical twins (and cloning) argue against it being necessary and sufficient for identity. Also you still have the same DNA when your dead. :cool: It makes more sense to punish them than someone else. Like I said, it's a statistical-type argument (most of...

but what is it?? We're not made of the same stuff, we don't look the same, we don't act the same, hell if I legally changed my name we wouldn't even be called the same thing, my memory of events has probably changed enough over time that I don't even have the same memories as before. What then...

Yes another classic dissensus thread derailment. I think my new thread-starting strategy will be to start threads completely unrelated to the topic I wish to talk about in hopes that somehow we'll end up talking about it anyway :D Anyway, I knew I was getting into potentially shaky ground when...

Can you describe to me what gives a thing or a person an innate essence? Can you point out where one thing's innate essence ends and another begins? I can't exactly. I can make a general hand-wavy statement about it that's more-or-less true, but when it comes down to particulars I can't, which...

You do the same thing to yourself as to the ship though, you define a set of functionally related and physically collocated things an identity as a coherent object because it's conceptually useful and efficient, and then basically ignore/gloss over the constant change that is going on underneath...

As for the whole "what makes an object an object" story, I think what Theseus's Ship shows is that the concept of continuously existing objects breaks down under close scrutiny, and is essentially just a convenient, contingent way of dealing with the world from a perceptual standpoint. Our...

But in the xml of life, what is the dtd?? < /nerd>

I don't understand fixies. Do you people not have hills in your cities??

what about the rachel steven's album from a couple years ago? definitely more on the pop end of the spectrum, but I remember really enjoying it at the time...

@swears: on the fiction front, I would highly recommend reading some greg egan, specifically "Permutation City" and this collection of short stories. He approches it more from the computer angle rather than cell-replacement, but he has all sorts of things with people having exact clones of their...

Yeah cancon specifies 35% canadian content on radio stations. But the canadian stuff on that station doesn't really sound all that different. for instance, and I hate to bring it up, but vancouver is the city that brought you nickleback :eek: really, that station is absolutely horrendous. i'd...

In regards to "working class rock" in america (well canada, actually) I present here the FOX's current Top 30, which anecdotally, according to the handful of people I know who work in construction or as mechanics, is basically the default work place radio station, along with classic rock. Note...

Biscuits, yeah the IQ rise is mainly in one part of the IQ test: But this doesn't really change the argument. Basically he argues that what is being tested in the "similarities" category is a type of abstraction favoured by people who do science (hence the "modern" quote in my original post)...

For some reason I haven't heard anything from these folks that has really caught my attention, even though it sounds like it should be right up my alley. i love italodisco! what's best? should I start with the comp?

What i was into two thousand seven, or at least a close approximation, by genre, because i feel like it: house/techno: pan-pot - best in coal-dark minimal. Pan-o-rama was unsung minimal LP of the year for me. marco resmann - 1/3 of pan-pot. 12" for mobilee was great guillaume & the coutu...

This New Yorker article about race and IQ tests (at least partially in reponse to the Saletan articles) pretty much puts to bed a lot of the things discussed here--from asians having higher IQs to what it is that IQ really measures--by being very thorough about analyzing the statistics behind IQ...

Hey if we're talking about ravey hip hop can we talk about 50 cent/J.T. "ayo technology"? Fuuuuk those damn constant twirling synthesizers! Can not get enuff. Also, best song about internet porn ever? I mean this song is GREAT on ALL LEVELS (sorry folks, just in the midst of a slight obsession...

Hohoho mistersloane you just gave me a whole bunch of great ideas for inappropriate-yet-innocent-seeming christmas gifts :D Anyway I would like to hear more of your drunken theories about different clothing items like say, scarves or raincoats or socks...

Hahaha...phew! For a second there I thought I had inadvertanly revealed all my innermost sexual secrets to all of dissensus :eek: