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This is good software I use to help me download videos from scammers

https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

I can paste either the full youtube url or just the raw video id.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVdSbsDsYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGygv4AzOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Wp5TvccBc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlvSt0J9D5o

xGErm56tff0

yK5i4vN-XEo

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and it downloads them

This downloads videos VERY QUICKLY

 

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This is good software I use to help me download videos from scammers

https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

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I can paste either the full youtube url or just the raw video id.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVdSbsDsYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGygv4AzOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Wp5TvccBc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlvSt0J9D5o

xGErm56tff0

yK5i4vN-XEo

CpqrCKwVsQw

and it downloads them

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This downloads videos VERY QUICKLY

You seem to know a lot about coding and graphic arts. I wish I knew more; seems pretty useful.

 

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You seem to know a lot about coding and graphic arts. I wish I knew more; seems pretty useful.

For graphic art I use gimp 2.10 and real world paint. I don't know really much about coding, only basic html.

 

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Why are you so interested in free will? I get afterlife is a major concern, but why does it matter if I'm just a bunch of cells living?

 

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Why are you so interested in free will? I get afterlife is a major concern, but why does it matter if I'm just a bunch of cells living?

my entire life was according to materalism, a scripted movie I was forced to watch.

Cells are capable of taking advantage of quantum mechanics.

 

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my entire life was according to materalism, a scripted movie I was forced to watch.

Cells are capable of taking advantage of quantum mechanics.

I guess the scripted movie thing doesn't bother me since I think everyone else has a scripted movie as well. It's all relative so I don't feel like I was bamboozled. The scripted movie thing also helps me feel like I don't bare blame for my problems; it humbles me because I don't receive as much credit for my successes.

 

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I guess the scripted movie thing doesn't bother me since I think everyone else has a scripted movie as well. It's all relative so I don't feel like I was bamboozled. The scripted movie thing also helps me feel like I don't bare blame for my problems; it humbles me because I don't receive as much credit for my successes.

I don't understand how predictable particles interacting gives any sophistication to reality. ie human and animal intelligence and goals.

 

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I don't understand how predictable particles interacting gives any sophistication to reality. ie human and animal intelligence and goals.

The sophistication is the unknown computational power and limitations. The reason I always will feel like I have free will is because my brain is incapable of prediction. For me, I don't care if it's there or not. On the other hand, feeling like I don't have it...that's scary.

 

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The sophistication is the unknown computational power and limitations. The reason I always will feel like I have free will is because my brain is incapable of prediction. For me, I don't care if it's there or not. On the other hand, feeling like I don't have it...that's scary.

The opponents of free will (Blackmore, Harris, & Denette) say genes have tricked consciousness into thinking it has the drivers seat when it doesn't. They aren't arguing from just complexity in the brain, they are saying the genes are just reacting to environment. The environment and genes obeys the laws of physics. Our Biological life is a dumb particle reaction that was predestined since the time of the big bang.

 

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The main reason they believe conscious agency doesn't exist is because it violates their sacred *known laws of physics. (it's okay if stars, galaxies and blackholes violate the known laws of physics though because muh dark matter and muh dark energy)

Show me the genes that give rise to the illusion of free will or allow a beaver to build a dam, or a spider to spin a web, or a baby bird to migrate half away cross the world. Genes are given fictional roles that they don't have. Disprove this by putting a spiders web spin gene inside a robot and see attempts to spin a web.

 

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If you debate a materalist about free will, you have to ask them "Why would evolutionary biology go out of it's way to give us this extremely strong persistent illusion? Why are we even conscious in the first place? Why aren't we zombies as David Chalmers put it? If consciousness doesn't do anything, why does it exist?

All this shit could go on in the dark without it. The biochemical puppet reacting could process sensory input without any experience. The firs person perspective would be useless. Dan Dennette proudly supports this shit for brain idea, as if it's intellectual.
https://theconversation.com/science...nsciousness-but-a-revolution-is-coming-126143

If conscious agency doesn't exist , then every intellgiable meaningful event, idea or art in human history was scripted particle interactions or quantum randomness (not free will). The same would apply to a beaver building a dam, a bird building a nest. Biochemical reactions can hit extremely complex stages where they appear to have agency of their own by dumb chance. This would happen with or without consciousness because the chemicals reacting would produce the same result.

 

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Everything I needed to do to take care of the scammers is done. It's up to the State of Hawaii to decide what to do. Dr. Ossai will still be rolling out new reviews on their products, so make sure to check https://contrahealthscam.com

 

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https://www.skepdoc.info/alternative-medicine-exploits-coronavirus-fears/

 

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Remember this is the "rational" alternative to consciousness collapses the wave function

 

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he scripted movie thing also helps me feel like I don't bare blame for my problems; it humbles me because I don't receive as much credit for my successes.

I fucked up miserably, but it could have been different. Why would evolution evolve a useless mechanism that appears to do everything? How does intelligence and creativity emerge from random arrangements of matter? Why aren't we philosophical zombies without inner life?

 

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I fucked up miserably, but it could have been different. Why would evolution evolve a useless mechanism that appears to do everything? How does intelligence and creativity emerge from random arrangements of matter? Why aren't we philosophical zombies without inner life?

I don't know if I would describe it as useless. Maybe self-awareness is what motivates us. Also, the arrangements aren't random, as they have been carefully evolved over time to aid with survival. Notice that (with the exception of recently) life expectancy always increases with time. This means, through it all, despite all of the stress, anxiety, depression, etc. we are living longer. Therefore, the human self-awareness typically aids production and survival.

Regarding philosophical zombies, you are using two definitions of zombie. If humans are like zombies then the zombies (created by humans) are something different. It's impossible for a human to be a zombie since it is a human construct.

But yes, I fully accept that I may have no say in my choices. But others don't either so it doesn't bother me. I and others feel like they are the ones making their choices. That's all that matters.

 

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How does science know the Universe is not organism-like? I am not implying the Universe is like organic cell based life on Earth, but I am implying it could be more like an organism then a dumb random mysterious machine. Dark matter and dark energy model had 90 f#$&king years and so far they can't be detected. Modifying gravity at giga scales still doesn't explain the galactic web or half what galaxies do. 17th century christian theologians were the ones who wanted a dumb machine/clockwork universe so God, heaven, angels, souls and human mind could exist outside of space-time. They wanted dualism (spiritual/material world) so early science would not conflict with scripture. Now mainstream science abandoned the fictional spiritual world, but it made an assumption that the material world is unconscious, when in reality the Universe could be an organismic process.

I'm getting skeptical of mainstream science telling me free will doesn't exist, the universe is a dumb machine and I exist against virtually impossible odds. Yet here I am typing this shit-post. That according to them already existed in time preplanned 13.8 billion years ago as a mathmatical equation.

 

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others feel like they are the ones making their choices. That's all that matters.

How would evolutionary biology go out of it's way to give us such a strong illusion? It goes against occams razor.

 

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Regarding philosophical zombies, you are using two definitions of zombie. If humans are like zombies then the zombies (created by humans) are something different. It's impossible for a human to be a zombie since it is a human construct.

We would have zero consciousness but the biochemical reactions that lead to this shitpost would be the same as consciousness doesn't do anything in a materialist universe. Zombie is not a man made construct as it can be defined.

 

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self-awareness is what motivates us

The particles are going to obey the laws of physics with or without consciousness

 

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How would evolutionary biology go out of it's way to give us such a strong illusion? It goes against occams razor.

I think the answer that is compatible with evolution is team survival. If we feel like people have choices, it makes us empathize with them more. Our illusions of free will are just motivational neuronal processes.

 

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Perhaps one reason why I'm a materialist is because being a mathematician has taught me way more about what I don't know. I'm literally 1000x more knowledgeable of math than I was 10 years ago, but way more humbled.

You often ask "how do you explain X thing?" The answer is always it just hasn't been explained yet. Or maybe humans just can't understand it and logic is a super limited human construct.

 

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I think the answer that is compatible with evolution is team survival. If we feel like people have choices, it makes us empathize with them more. Our illusions of free will are just motivational neuronal processes.

that doesn't make any sense according to materialism because "neuronal processes" are reductionized to mindless molecular -particle interactions that have no goals or agency.


Biology picks materialism apart because organisms have complex goals and they do not behave like chemical reactions, and only a small degree of robotic algorithims are present in an animals brain. Animals do not seem to be strictly following robotic algorithms.

 

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Perhaps one reason why I'm a materialist is because being a mathematician has taught me way more about what I don't know. I'm literally 1000x more knowledgeable of math than I was 10 years ago, but way more humbled.

You often ask "how do you explain X thing?" The answer is always it just hasn't been explained yet. Or maybe humans just can't understand it and logic is a super limited human construct.

A math equation can be correct, but the question rather or not it applies to the real world is a totally different story. An elegant math equation that states we exist in one of infinite universes with 11 dimensions may be a elegant TOE (theory of everything), but is it true? A elegant math equation needs to be empirically tested, not accepted on elegance alone.

We know up until this day that many of Einsteins equations apply to everything until we reach the size of galaxies or the quantum super small. Math is a extremely good way of mapping/predicting non-living matter, but I don't think mathematical equations can be used to describe conscious organisms because they have limited free will that is not predictable. Quantum physics probably has something to do with consciousness and science has not discovered it yet. Animal and even plant life does NOT play by the same rules as a marble or glass of pear juice.

Scientist of the 20th century were arrogant to ignore life and consciousness's role in the Universe. As research and philosophy on consciousness emerges, materialism is going to either sink or swim. imo, They shot themselves in the foot by saying consciousness is a useless illusion. But hey, what if I'm wrong about everything and we have no free will and they're right?!

 

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Biology picks materialism apart because organisms have complex goals and they do not behave like chemical reactions, and only a small degree of robotic algorithims are present in an animals brain. Animals do not seem to be strictly following robotic algorithms.

That's my entire point though. Maybe biology doesn't know enough to pick apart materialism. Maybe a complex goal is a complex biological process. Maybe some levels of complexity are incomprehensible by human beings.

Do you know how much complexity there is to one neuron in the brain firing one time? Yet this is something that is now largely understood (action potentials and the neurophysiology behind them). It took Hodgkin and Huxley's Nobel prize winning experiment and papers (1950's) to even have a simplified caricature of the squid giant axon. Bare in mind that neurons ( 100 billion of them in the brain) each have tree like receivers (dendrites) and axons. To even model a few neurons interacting in a small network requires many assumptions to get something out of it.

I don't find it that hard that we don't understand goal setting is material. We already know that certain neurotransmitters play roles in motivation; it's not hard (for me) to picture that in 500 years, we will look back at these shitposts wondering how we survived knowing so little.

 

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That's my entire point though. Maybe biology doesn't know enough to pick apart materialism. Maybe a complex goal is a complex biological process. Maybe some levels of complexity are incomprehensible by human beings.

Do you know how much complexity there is to one neuron in the brain firing one time? Yet this is something that is now largely understood (action potentials and the neurophysiology behind them). It took Hodgkin and Huxley's Nobel prize winning experiment and papers (1950's) to even have a simplified caricature of the squid giant axon. Bare in mind that neurons ( 100 billion of them in the brain) each have tree like receivers (dendrites) and axons. To even model a few neurons interacting in a small network requires many assumptions to get something out of it.

I don't find it that hard that we don't understand goal setting is material. We already know that certain neurotransmitters play roles in motivation; it's not hard (for me) to picture that in 500 years, we will look back at these shitposts wondering how we survived knowing so little.

tldr, the brain is probably a mysterious quantum computer and takes advantage of backwards time to give an animal the ability to act on it's own agency. I know neurons are extremely complex.