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MikkoFinellon A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

> The presence or absence of consciousness could be empirically verified and experimentally tested.

How?

> consciousness is not an abstract idea, it belong to the category of biological processes.

Okay, describe the experiment which can prove that you are justified in making such statements.

MikkoFinellon A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

I didn't ask whether consciousness is abstract crap, nor did I ask about vision subsystems (which aren't even unique to brains), nor did I ask you to explain the whole process of development from fertilized egg to me. Well, unless that has something to do with the experiment that would show that consciousness exists, which it may or may not, at least you drew no apparent connections in your post.

I asked you to describe the experiment which proves that consciousness exists.

Merely saying that consciousness is a product of the brain is like proving dark matter by saying it's a product of the universe. I hope you can understand why that is not a convincing argument.

MikkoFinellon A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

What you subjectively experience in the morning is not proof of anything.

Since you continue to evade the question, I will only ask once more time: Describe the experiment that demonstrates the existence of consciousness in a manner which is "experimentally proven and replicated".

I'm forced to interpret failure to describe the experiment as your admission that you don't actually require "experimentally proven and replicated" to believe things, or at least that you cherry pick some propositions to require that standard.

That's OK too, no one is demanding that you be intellectually honest or self-consistent. But you should not be surprised if people call you out on it though.

MikkoFinellon A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

You said

  Nothing exist unless experimentally proven and replicated.

Describe the experiment that proves you are conscious.

MikkoFinellon A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

Don't change the subject. Explain how consciousness arises, and describe an experiment that replicates it.

MikkoFinellon A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

Okay. Your consciousness doesn't exist. Plz go away you scary philosophical zombie!

MikkoFinellon Yoda Conditions

Also clang warns "using the result of an assignment as a condition without parentheses".

MikkoFinellon Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

If you autosign every commit then you aren't validating anything anyway. All that means is you have another mindless process running automatically in the background. So what's your point?

MikkoFinellon Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git, says that signing every commit is stupid.

http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...