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In this woman's case, she can probably look forward to better stem-cell based skin regeneration within the next couple of decades. Scientific progress... it works.

Hey, you might like the movie "Regeneration" if you havent already seen it, deals with the war poets. I thought it was very good.

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My favorite poem.


Me too. Had a big affect on me in highschool. I've always thought Owen's life could make an amazing movie.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other." - John Stuart Mill


"There is no right not to be offended; indeed, as part of offering free speech to all we must often endure the opinions and expressions of others that strike painfully at the very heart of our most deeply held beliefs. And we, conversely, may tell those people exactly what we think of that in words just as strong, but there is absolutely no place in a free society for any group or figure or institution to claim the privilege of being exempt from ridicule, criticism, or depiction, and particularly to claim it on pain of death." - Laura Hudson

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Doctors didn't say Hawkins would be dead 43 years ago. They said 'based on available data, your life expectancy exhibits the following probability curve (with the most likely outcome being that you'll be dead [43 years ago]).'

Science always wins in the sense that it always creates the future, the same as it created the modern world. If we think science and technology will never progress past the current cutting edge of organ regeneration and iPhones, we're the same as the luddites that have characterized every other era in the history of science.

As Hybrid says, power points can be a bit tricky. We have a regenerating amount, which is 1 (or 2 if you're a charter) and as long as you already have those, your pool doesn't recharge. If you have 1 as a charter, it will start a recharge counter and when that has reached it's goal (2 days, I believe) your power point pool is set to 2. If you gain points in other ways (comments, top 15 videos, qualityed talk posts etc) they are added on top and if you get over your normal maximum, the recharge counter is reset, as far as I know.

No points will ever be deducted from you, unless you use them yourself. And if you buy points you always get them, but your recharge counter will stop.

Does that make sense?

The maximum refers to the freebie 1 powerpoint that "regenerates" every few days. If you earn powerpoints by getting top 15 videos etc, then they are added onto your existing amount. You get every power point you earn. This is how people are able to doublepromote etc. I, for example, currently have 7 powerpoints.

The same also goes for purchased ones, they are added onto your current amount I believe.

Deus Ex remains to this day my favorite game of all time. I wasn't impressed by DX2 and I don't have particularly high expectations for the third, especially with regards to some of the gameplay features. (Call of Duty style health regeneration, a cover system (what's wrong with leaning?), focus on combat, etc).

Also, what's with all the recent games and tinting everything certain colors. It's certainly stylistic, but it definitely starts to wear on the eyes. You can make a cool looking game without the annoying tints. (And the yellow here is particularly harsh.)

In any case, I probably won't bother with the game, as it's going to be a console game ported to PC, and I've decided to swear off non PC-exclusive games. (Or at least, games that aren't developed for the PC first, consoles second.)

The trailer does look cool and all, hence my upvote, but Square cutscenes always look cool.

As much shit as Obama was given over his "cling to guns and religion" comment, when you read it in it's proper context, you realize he was absolutely 100% dead-on correct:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I've always believed a factor of Mind over Matter exists. I'm not saying regeneration of a limb is possible but with a percentage of ailments, we can think them away just the same as we can imagine them being real.

On that same note, I've heard of girls who wanted a baby so bad that they actually changed some of the chemicals and hormone production in their body enough to fool a pregnancy test and the doctor examining them - that in itself is quite strange indeed.

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One argument that he deconstructs is the "cells are replaced so we're not even the same body" argument. Surprisingly, he doesn't mention that brain cells have traditionally been held NOT to do so, though this may have been an abandoned argument in light of recent studies that suggest some regrowth\repair may be possible.

Cells are indeed replaced quite quickly at the periphery of our body, like the limbs, the stomach/intestine (remember that they technically face the exterior!!), but cells in mission critical organs like the brain and the heart are not repaired when they die, most of the time. Yes, in the brain cells are replaced and pathways are rewired, although with inevitable change, but the heart remains mostly the same, always beating. Thus even a minor heart problem can be crippling and irreversible. That's also why bypass surgery is sometimes the only solution when an artery attached to the heart becomes clogged (a recent study showed 40% regeneration of heart tissue over 70 years, while we thought 0% some years ago).

It's also been suggested that consciousness is all post-hoc. That everything we experience has already happened, even if it's fractions of the second later. That we "feel" like we've made decisions but really we're just experiencing the machinations of the brain's processes after the fact. This works pretty well for dualism, because then you no longer have to account for influence on the process. (However, it blows a hole through the theories of most dualists, who are arguing for a soul and the free will that accompanies it.)

If we look closely, we can see it cannot be otherwise. What you call "consciousness" here is really "conscious awareness", the intertwining of consciousness and awareness. Consciousness is intentional, though not really causal, and awareness is plainly passive. Consciousness is really like a recursive loop program, which has a variable (the object that is aimed at) which can refer to any kind of object in the world, be it the mental world or the perceptual, outside world. Consciousness cannot then be said to be responsible of the actions that follow it aiming at an object, nor can it be said strictly to be choosing what to aim at, but what we know is that this is where our illusion of freedom comes from: the selecting of objects to be aimed at intentionally. No doubt part of it is unconscious, like when you turn your head after seeing something move on your peripheral vision, but since consciousness is recursive, it must be able to change the reference of its own variable. That does not mean it has absolute freedom in choosing the new reference, in fact it can't be since we're not omnipotent, but it must have a means to do so, otherwise the very existence of self-awareness would be useless. If consciousness was strictly determined by the "outside" i.e. by external processes from elsewhere in the brain, then consciousness + awareness would not give rise to the kind of self-awareness that is evident in higher mammals. As we know, evolution does not do things for no reason, i.e. it must have a purpose, which gives an adaptation benefit. Here the adaptation benefit could be that by doing this we can reflect on some of our own thought processes and can influence their course (by "concentrating" on them, making them the aim of our intentional consciousness). It may also be that we can broaden our intentional objects to things which are not in our immediate senses/memory, i.e. imagination.

You are right though that dualism is not that easily dismissed, but it is always in the end shown to be either naïve, unfounded or plainly superfluous (i.e. useless per Ockham's razor).

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Blame the bot - she's a cruel task master.

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CURSE YOU DAG AND BLASTED POWER POINT REGENERATION!

I wanted to promote this.... but noooooo someone wouldn't let me.