FlagonOfMe

joined 2 years ago
[–] FlagonOfMe 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a test community.

test

[–] FlagonOfMe 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Jerboa is an app, not an instance.

[–] FlagonOfMe 1 points 2 years ago

If you're subbed to Adobe and cancel, it, you can't do anything with your files. So Adobe not only owns their software, but your work as well.

You know other programs can open PSD files, right?

[–] FlagonOfMe 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The author lost me at:

[Now raise your arm]. For you to do what you just did, consciousness must be capable of influencing neural activity. It must be capable of influencing the material world. It cannot, in short, be an epiphenomenon.

I don't see how. The impulse to raise my arm started with reading some words on a screen. If I hadn't read those words, I wouldn't have raised my arm. A simple machine could do the same thing.

Photons entered my eyes, triggered my retina, which triggered some neurons in my visual cortex. The language part of my brain determined my vision contained words and decoded them, and then something decided to comply with the instructions contained in the words. Whether that decision was made by neurons or by my consciousness is not yet determined.

We know through fMRI that decisions can be seen happening in the brain (relatively) long before we ourselves are aware of them.

I'd like to read what John Foster actually wrote in his book. Maybe the author's summary is poor.

This book review makes me think I shouldn't bother. https://vdocuments.mx/john-foster-the-immaterial-self-a-defense-of-the-cartesian-dualist-conception.html?page=2

[–] FlagonOfMe 3 points 2 years ago

Literally thick air

[–] FlagonOfMe 4 points 2 years ago

Ah, seems like it's just a default icon in Connect for Lemmy (Android)

[–] FlagonOfMe 1 points 2 years ago

I was too tired to figure that out. 😅

[–] FlagonOfMe 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People who had bad teachers and learn it's always "friend and I", or that's all they remember.

But I don't get how they don't know it's wrong when it just sounds so wrong.

[–] FlagonOfMe 4 points 2 years ago

Was this posted by the homeowner as some sort of vanity thing?

[–] FlagonOfMe 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Says who? Just because I download a copy of a photo from Getty Images doesn't mean I now own the copyright on it or I can do whatever I want with it. The image needs to be licensed to me, and the terms of the license dictate exactly what I can do with it.

You can grant federated instances a license to download and display your content without the right to monetize, package it, or distribute it in certain ways. This is what licensing was made for.

Instance owners can make each other agree to a license before federating.

[–] FlagonOfMe 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] FlagonOfMe 32 points 2 years ago

It's barely been a week! Let me grieve!

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