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didntask 2 months ago

Noahie's a cool guy!

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discreteideas 2 months ago

New "treatise" (essay). I have attempted to argue in favour of a physicalist understanding of the mind whilst not contradicting creedal Christianity. Bit of a long read tbf

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polydactica 2 months ago

The "P-car" allegory is interesting.

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discreteideas 2 months ago

Glad you thought so

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othala 2 months ago

HEY! This is exactly the type of thing I was talking about in my post just now!

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rainight 2 months ago

Thanks for replying :)

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discreteideas 2 months ago

Thanks rainight, really appreciate the chance to think about these ideas (or am I just simulating thinking about these ideas). I was slightly obsessively typing away at this on my phone notes app all weekend.

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duvarki 2 months ago

Great article! I have some comments of mine own, but I think I will keep them in case you have any elaboration you plan to make in the future

discreteideas 2 months ago

Thanks duvarki, I think there is definitely more to explore here

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sincerely arriana

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putting this on ur profile so ik you'll see it since i can't directly reply to u but if you want i'd upload your favs on sims4cc too! (or link ur organized site when u make it) if you have sims 4 CC manager, it'll should you know when to update the CC since a lot of creators update the files ! so as long as it's upkept CC we link, it'll be fine for anyone downloading anyway !!

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arriana 2 months ago

REALLY? i think im going to make my own page, and will reply w it here when it's done. then u can link it there if you'd like :> it might take a bit though LOL

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sincerely 2 months ago

YAYY lets !!

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rainight 2 months ago

I don't know any Christians so I'm not sure what do you mean, but people *still* read Mere Christianity today and they still praise it. If its reception among modern Christians is overwhelmingly positive, then why couldn't a book like that be written today?

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orison 2 months ago

In 1952 Lewis was still able to find doctrinal commonalities among the handful of "main" Christian-types. Given the emergence and prevalence of "non-denominational" and "ideology-based" Christians today, there are no such presumed commonalities. And perhaps there are no longer even main Christian-types.

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arakiah knotnu

2 months ago

Yooo, congrats on 25k

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arakiah 1 month ago

congrats on 30k too!!!

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knotnu 1 month ago

Thx! Didn't really came around in the summer but feel like posting again :)

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discreteideas

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New post on my Chronicles page addressing the qualia in the room :)

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rainight 2 months ago

oh wow thanks for reading! :D

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discreteideas 2 months ago

Oh yeah your post had me really thinking! Probably procrastinated too long today writing my post

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arriana jcutting

2 months ago

i found you browsing status.cafe ! how crazy it is that i found a fellow Christian from there!!! i love ur discipleship page. thinking it'd be cool to add something like that to my site to outline my faith :D i am following and taking ur button !!!

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jcutting 2 months ago

Thank you so much!! Just signed your guestbook, adding your button too! You should defo write some about your faith if you're able to! And cool to see that you've got a tag on here for Christian too, I gotta try and see how I can do that too! God bless! :)

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rainight discreteideas

2 months ago

Nice site! I'm curious what's the technology that powers the simulations for your research? I'm assuming you're ssh-ing into some shared compute and editing something?

discreteideas 2 months ago

Thanks! I mainly run GPU accelerated simulations. Some people run massively parallel simulations on CPU research clusters (e.g. Archer 2). However accessing GPU clusters is expensive and difficult (you need a large budget) and funders tend to prioritise AI related work. With my limited budget then I run my simulations on two desktop GPU workstations which works well enough for up-to several hundred thousand particles

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rainight 2 months ago

Very cool! I once worked on a simulation project and I can relate to the pain of having to wait for computations to finish xD

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arakiah vihmu

2 months ago

Your button has been added!!! :D

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vihmu 2 months ago

Thank you!

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rainight 2 months ago

Well Said. Nothing worth doing consistently "feels good" all the time. The initial excitement of going to the gym will fade away as you wake up to sore muscles within a few days. The anticipation of learning a new language is replaced with the drudgery of practicing inconsistent grammar rules. A cool programming project becomes boring as you fix stupid bugs and edge cases.

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rainight 2 months ago

Feelings can give us a kickstart but we ought to to sustain ourselves on something deeper. I think the modern west puts too much emphasis on feelings. I don't think its a coincidence that some teachers are criticized for not making class "entertaining" as if the object of education is entertainment; or how in dating, there's so much emphasis on "being in love" as if that's the sole foundation of a relationship.

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rainight 2 months ago

To be clear, feelings are awesome! But they are transient. It's not so much that we should be content with a dry soul, but that we must look deeper during the dry periods. The nice feelings will eventually comeback, but they'll eventually go away. Such is life. Our hearts jump through peaks and valleys but our resolve must remain unchanged.

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othala 2 months ago

Yes I'm so happy you said this. I find this most obvious when you examine the way different people pray. For example people at my mom's church have to pour their heart out and reach inside for their own words and the prayers have to come out like a Hallmark gift card writer. Not that I'm saying there is never a time where this happens. But they look down on our Liturgy of Hours for example.

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orison 2 months ago

I debated with myself about posting it. I thought maybe it would be too "heavy" or edgy for some people. The ideas come from my reading of St John of the Cross. He helped me so much back in the day, when I was trying to figure out what was going on in my own relationship with the Lord.

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discreteideas

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Does anyone have any idea why my post previews show a blank page with 502 bad gateway - the website works fine when you click on it?

discreteideas 2 months ago

I just refreshed and it seems to be working again ... weird

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