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to Godfrey’s post in the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis". These three paragraphs from the Forte Labs article seem to me to be the most pertinent to this discussion:
"What the mind is doing when it “recognizes” an image is not matching it against a database of static images. There is no such database in the… -
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Onenski Replied to the thread Onenski's Recent Philosophy Presentation.
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to Cassius’s post in the thread Onenski's Recent Philosophy Presentation. Looks like we need Onenski to give us some tips on presentation of philosophy - especially as to proper use of slides to add to the effect.
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to Godfrey’s post in the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis". These three paragraphs from the Forte Labs article seem to me to be the most pertinent to this discussion:
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Godfrey Replied to the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis".
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Godfrey Replied to the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis".
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to Cassius’s post in the thread "Headers" in The EpicureanFriends.com " Hero Box " on Page One of the Website. Time to go back to this one:
If, gentlemen, the point at issue between these people and us involved inquiry into "what is the means of happiness?" and they wanted to say "the virtues" (which would actually be true), it would be unnecessary to take any… -
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On this point I am still thinking further, because I have a strong tendency to think that "true" and "false" are descriptions that apply only to evaluations or interpretations, rather than to the raw functioning of a faculty… -
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Cassius Wrote the blog article Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. David Glidden on Epicurean Prolepsis.
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Cassius Wrote the blog article Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin.
In Episodes 156 and 157, the Lucretius Today podcasters interviewed Dr. Emily Austin, author of 2022's "Living For Pleasure." You can access the original podcasts and show discussions in the following links:
Episode 156 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr.… - Trophy
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Cassius Posted the thread Welcome Goblin.
Wecome Goblin !
Note: In order to minimize spam registrations, all new registrants must respond in this thread to this welcome message within 72 hours of its posting, or their account is subject to deletion. All that is required is a "Hello!" but of… -
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Cassius Replied to the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis".
Don what do you consider the word "cognition" to mean?
"The book argues that the structure and functioning of the human brain is actually quite simple, a basic unit of cognition repeated millions of times."
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Don Replied to the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis".
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Cassius Replied to the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis".
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to Godfrey’s post in the thread Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis". Dr. Glidden used, as I recall, two useful phrases to describe prolepsis: pattern recognition and prediction engine. Don brought up the example of the mind interpreting a stick in the forest as a snake, which illustrates the function well as I understand…
