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Proof that Japanese Girls Want to be Groped on the Train
04/14/11, 12:21
Someone back this up before he removes it. |
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Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
04/14/11, 11:58
above the phrase "a fundamental material" should read "a fundamental material barrier." |
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Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
04/14/11, 11:57
Mr Chips is really underselling himself here. I do not mean to suggest that computers have an inner life or anything (that would be ridiculous) but it isn't because they are made of matter that they lack this property. Scooter Computer is, after a fashion, also made up of a bunch of dumb processing units (neurons, glial cells, etc) and yet manifests conscious behavior. The computer is more correct when it indicates that the distinction is in the software, but even that is somewhat of an ambiguous notion for biological computers like brains, where software and hardware are enmeshed.
In short, Mr Chips should simply say that he isn't conscious because he lacks that particular program, but that to assume there is a fundamental material between himself and consciousness (rather than one of "degrees") is disingenuous. At the very least, Mr Chips would be implying a fundamental revision of the physicalism which has come to dominate the philosophy of essentially every major serious neuroscientist, and which underlies all the sciences. Never mind the fact that Mr Chips _clearly_ contains at least a program which provides a strong facsimile of consciousness, rendering the entire discussion bizarrely confusing. |
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A Time for TEAHAD
04/13/11, 20:43
What did you do with Cena Mark? |
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I can't wait to put it in my mouth
04/11/11, 11:27
What? How can you drop a hint like that and not provide some kind of link? |
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Trailer for Broskee and the Fam Bam: The Stinky Locker
04/11/11, 07:39
Maybe Secret of Mana? |
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IAmTheEnd Vlogs About Charlie Sheen
04/11/11, 07:29
If you combined this guy with Charlie Sheen, 50/50 ratio, you'd have a normal person.
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The Vacant Lot
04/11/11, 07:23
I kept wanting the wind at the beginning to blow everything away.
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The Vacant Lot
04/11/11, 07:16
Vacant indeed. |
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Reymon14 - How Im Doing?
04/07/11, 21:32
This guy could pass for a hipster any day.
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A couple of hot chicks in prison talked about sex.
04/07/11, 16:47
Your reactions to this video are all surprising.
The trouble with a sex trick like this is you can really only do it once.
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Here's an old one.
04/06/11, 21:18
TEN MILLION SPIRIT STARS. |
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Here's an old one.
04/06/11, 21:18
Sometimes you have to take one for the team. |
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Cleaning a cobra pit
04/06/11, 21:17
Jesus, needs a "Nightmare Fuel" tag.
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Here's an old one.
04/06/11, 09:50
I feel like it is unfair that I was banned for two months for "Peaking Virtue" and this is apparently ok. |
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Doctor Who - Rapping ringmaster
04/01/11, 14:31
Look how he is dressed, though. |
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'no shirt' guittar improv
03/31/11, 13:33
Pete & Pete? |
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Doctor Who - Rapping ringmaster
03/28/11, 10:20
Barack Obama? |
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Kids born in 2000 will shred your world view
03/28/11, 10:19
Pretty much everything in this video says "These are nine year olds." |
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Car Crash Big Explosion
03/28/11, 09:42
CRASH! BANG! WALLOP! WHAT A VIDEO! |
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