Bill Nye, the bloviating low-information "climate guy" not taken seriously by any meteorologist.

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I just really like hearing Billy Nye curse!

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Tyson's only interesting statement before Nye spoke was to suggest Dawkins' question was wrong, or at least premature as he wonders, "...whether there is no such thing as consciousness at all".

It is a silly suggestion because we all agree we experience consciousness, therefore, de facto, it exists, as an experience. The question is why we have the experience, not whether we have it. This conclusion that experience of consciousness might not exist is what Nye was reacting to because Tyson hadn't said anything yet about where our understanding of it might come from.

After Nye's comment, Tyson says our understanding of consciousness might come from some place altogether unexpected. Most answers to the big questions do. That's why they're big questions. So to a scientist, that's an unremarkable statement, not worthy of comment. But you can't go from there to, "asking why is a bad question". Tyson's analogy with the procession of Mercury was a bad one because nobody suggested that perhaps Mercury's procession didn't appear out of whack. It did. People only asked why it did.

I think Tyson was actually stoned or otherwise impaired, and Nye was calling him out. Watch his behaviour from the start imagining he's smoked a big bowl before going on stage.

His statements are related, but really not logically connected. He overexplains things people already agree on. His statements seem profound and philosophical to him, but not to anyone else. He is unaware of his physical space (his arms). He loses his place in his thoughts and has to go back and work them out before he can continue... or maybe he just says something else at random, like, "...there is no such thing as consciousness at all..." to save face because his initial train of thought plunged off a cliff.

Remember, Bill Nye got his TV start on a sketch comedy show in Seattle called "Almost Live" (one of my all time favs growing up).

Sheesh, Bill Nye makes a joke (and a decent one at that), and the whole world comes unhinged.

*quality
Easy there, Nye - Neil stood up for you quite recently, so don't go dissing him.
Epic reply, though.

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*Quality video of a *skilled landing of a *quality-built aircraft. Bill Nye sure designed a quality aircraft.

"...and told a story. The way you might do if you have had too many... jello shots."

THAT'S my Nye. Right there.

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