Arguably, for a lot of athletes, their best "records" are from practice and not actual competitions. Same can be said about gamers: you don't just see everyone break world records in tournaments all the time unless it is an interactive game (where you fight for wins in LoL), you see them broken in practice.
Singing in the shower might be better audio-wise and worse for the recording equipment.
Knowledge is considered a continuous journey that requires ongoing learning, questioning, and a commitment to updating one's understanding. The concept of "constant" applies because knowledge is not a static destination but an evolving process, demanding a lifelong dedication to research, acquiring new skills, and challenging existing beliefs to stay relevant and grow.
Watching some episodes of Columbo.
Musing on the benefit of catching some of the suspects.
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'Why do we care about catching criminals?
. . . The answer I've tended on for a few years, is to prevent future crime.
Whether by the individual, or to prevent others from being inspired.
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But many of the murders in Columbo, are unlikely to result in another murder.
Whether by the murderer, or society at large.
Often the murders are disguised as accidents until Columbo manages to eventually unravel the mystery.
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Arguably society is 'damaged 'more by holding some of the murderers accountable.
Tax money spent to prosecute and imprison,
The individual is no longer taxed, and is removed from a productive job in society.
. . Society at large hears of another crime, Hm, is there benefit in society seeing how good the police are, or is there fear of copycats thinking they could do better.
. . . Consequential thinking though, doesn't quite fall in line with the 'Revenge Concept of Justice, personal retribution.
. . I do have a harder time telling 'others to forget, than myself. Though, I have yet to suffer 'Great injustice, so hard to say.
Though I am not 'terribly found of Revenge, Retribution, as something to extoll.
It's funny how the murders in Columbo and Murder, She Wrote are like always some normal person who committed a clever one-time murder. I never did see Angela Lansbury go after a serial killer who was raping and killing dudes in his apartment or something.
But yeah, our justice system is very much retributive. I remember watching a TED Talk about how juries are unconsciously just seeking emotional satiety for their own outrage over the crime.
Within the scope of the show, though, you can't let someone who's proven themselves capable of murder just go free because they got what they wanted and are no longer planning another murder.
It would take a whole new system of re-engineered humanity, before it would be possible to refer to an individual as "normal".
Have you ever heard that motto in statistics, "all models are wrong; some models are useful"?
"Normal" is like that. There's no such thing, but it can be a useful word.
What would be considered a normal person?
Behavioral normality
A person without any mental illness is considered a normal patient, whereas a person with a mental disability or illness is viewed as abnormal.
"Within the scope of the show, though, you can't let someone who's proven themselves capable of murder just go free because they got what they wanted and are no longer planning another murder." Wryly
I think the only episode I remember Columbo letting someone go, was some older lady with dementia, who was going to die of some other disease in a few weeks or so.
I suppose one 'would want to at least 'record the fact that someone murdered.
In case they were to do it again.
. . . I 'think that 'many people are capable of murder though,
Just need a slight push of situation.
When that situation or person is removed, no longer any likelihood of murder than any other person.
Revenge killings by parents for instance, unless they have another child murdered by someone, unlikely to kill again.
I sometimes find Public Social Media Accounts odd,
Non anonymous accounts I mean.
Especially when I hear of people being in hot water for something they said online, why take the risk?
Most people maybe, aren't islands in themselves, we kind of 'depend on the good will of others.
Sure one doesn't get punched in the face,
But losing one's job or a a business opportunity 'hurts I'd imagine.
. . . Well it's a less immediate and less common response maybe.
. . . . . . Though, I'm not sure people get punched in the face for rude comments made in real life, all that often.
I also don't really get criminals who leave 'such 'obvious online activity.
. . Course some fall into it slowly, bit by bit I imagine, frog boiling in water. Taking actions to hide presence doesn't occur to them until later maybe.
Course maybe it's harder to hide one's presence, than it seems at first glance.
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. . . One could hide it from 'ordinary people and news outlets easy enough I'd think.
Just buy a laptop with cash, and only ever use it in places with public WiFi like a public library.
Government though, could still maybe find you though, cameras everywhere, just watch who went into the library at X times at X dates.
There is no public record of you if you are unemployed.
I thought this was in the Personal forum
I still don’t know what to type!
Oh and I’ve posted in here before and forgot about it
I still don’t know what to type!
While intelectually I realize fiction is fiction,
Emotionally it doesn't tend to 'hit that way for me.
One of the reasons I dislike evil fiction, I'd suppose.
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The 'purpose of representation graphic, often 'is to trick the mind into acceptance of fiction as reality, illusion, sensation.
I get people who say it's just fiction, intelectually I get it,
But emotionally it bothers me sometimes.
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Ought experience be experience, even if illusion?
If one cannot tell the difference, does it matter?
. . . Perhaps, perhaps trauma might be lessened if one realizes something they were experiencing, was 'not.
Horror pranks for instance, but such instances are 'short in duration of experience, and quick after revealed.
. . . Well, one can theoretically always stop reading fiction, and there is always that 'slight sense of unreality, except the point of fiction is often to captivate 'despite such.
If we had a machine that gave the illusion of the hand being burned, if pain receptors fired,
Hm, peppers perhaps,
Well, the fire is an illusion perhaps, but not the pain,
. . . Can pain be an illusion?
. . . It 'can, one can over react to pain, 'think and fear it will be more, then no pain comes,
Other times though, I don't think the pain 'is an illusion.
I sometimes dislike the idea of people creating evil fiction.
Though I 'have heard before, that the map is not the territory.
The concept in itself, being given some physical form, through paper or sound, bothers me sometimes.
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Emotional differences pertain to our feelings and moods, influencing our empathy, relationships, and adaptability, whereas intellectual differences are about our cognitive abilities, including logic, problem-solving, and reasoning. Intellectual Intelligence (IQ) deals with processing information and learning, while Emotional Intelligence (EQ) focuses on understanding and managing emotions. EQ can be developed throughout life, helping with stress and social skills, while IQ is largely set after adolescence and is important for academic and technical success.
I find the idea of AI or machines using brains as neural networks, interesting.
The AI being people but lacking ability until commandeering a brain. . . .
Though I'm still not sure the AI 'would be a person, so much as the brains would be,
Just be that the 'body would be overriding the brain. As even human bodies do sometimes, the mind is a plaything of the body, as the saying goes.
Course the body is also a plaything of the mind, chicken and egg.
. . . And then there's the possible error of mind/body, why not just body?
Random thoughts themselves aren't inherently unhealthy, but excessive mind-wandering and negative "intrusive thoughts" can be detrimental and are often linked to anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and high stress. While everyone experiences unwanted thoughts, if they are disruptive, distressing, or interfere with daily life, seeking help from a mental health professional is important, as they can offer strategies like cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to help manage these thought patterns.
When Random Thoughts Are a Problem
It would be funny if all the votes of people who didn't vote, went whatever third party candidate had the most votes.
Supposing that necessities were provided,
I wonder how many people would choose deportation to Antarctica, instead of some other countries.
Global warming would make that a possible choice.
Lowkey like the DART thread better
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That is a matter of opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics_in_learning_and_memory
I'm not sure that memory equates to instincts too well.
Whether in the short or the long of it.
Short, mother does drugs while pregnant, health consequences for that baby.
Long, some humans go somewhere with little sun or much sun.
Skin changes.
In either case, I don't think we'd say we have 'our ancestors 'memories.
Though it is true that our genetics can reflect past roads and actions of our ancestors.
Memory seems more to me something one 'remembers.
Not ability, talent, susceptibility.
If something has a strong talent for being aware to threats because it's parents were in a heavy predator location.
I still would not call such 'memory.
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I think the scope of memory they said in Assassins Creed was science fiction.
Not that I've read any more on the subject of epigenetics than a few webpage skims.
I'm not yet convinced either, that I'd call epigenetic memory, memory.
But if it 'were classified as memory, I don't think there's enough of it, that one could have such detailed memories of past lives.
. . . Though one could argue that in Assassins Creed most of the memory is fake, filling in the blanks by the scientists and person remembering.
. . . But even then, I don't think there'd be 'enough memory (If there 'is any memory) to be useful.
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Maybe a species other than humans,
or if humans were modified could inherit clear memories.
In Warhammer, some space marines can eat people's brains to gain their memories.
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But having a fear of spiders because your great grandfather lived during the poison spider swarm in ages past and was bit a lot,
Isn't the same as being able to remember your great great grandfathers various sense memories or data acquired by great grandfather.
For instance his name, without ever being told, seeing, or reading about it.
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I also don't think you 'remember or have 'memory about something, from indirect nurture consequences.
Parent is abused as child.
Parent abuses you as child.
You do not have 'memories of your parent being abused as a child.
You are 'effected by your parent being abused as a child.
There exists information by your parents 'actions towards you, that they may have been abused.
Still not memory in my view.
How is memory related to experience?
Memory plays a vital role in shaping our experiences and enabling learning. It helps us learn new knowledge and skills by allowing us to retain information and remember when needed. It is also an important part of our identity, as it enables us to remember who we are, our experiences and our relationships with others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
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Took a ride yesterday with Mrs SergeantLynch (AKA Mrs Zed) into our nearest big town, namely Shrewsbury....To do some some shopping, have some lunch, and generally ogle some cute babes in tight leggings...Only to be confronted by a mob of parading rainbow warriors banging drums and making a general nuisance of themselves...Fat ladies with big boots, bewigged bozos in miniskirts and fishnets and an accompanying horde of variously clad sycophants.
Managed to purchase two very nice pictures and some clothes from various charity shops though, and the bus rides there and back were enjoyable. So not a bad time of it really.
Such was Saturday morning 27 9 2025.
Hmmmm. I must make it clear that Mrs SergeantLynch, doesn't ogle...Well I assume not.
Eventful.
That is not what he posted.
read his post. “It would take a whole new system of re-engineered humanity, before it would be possible to refer to an individual as "normal".
That’s a major makeover.
Yes, the durations between points of mental and physical reference are surely events.
Birth and Death.
Or getting on the bus in my home town, getting off in Shrewsbury, or getting off back in my home town.
Or was it locking my front door and unlocking my front door.
I suppose that I could identify a thousand points of reference, probably more.
Blinking...On average, we perform approximately 900 blinking events per hour.
So if we estimate that my Shrewsbury event had a duration of 5 hours, then we can break that down into approximately 4500 blinking events alone.
Does that qualify as a blinking idiot?
For sure, involuntary facial movements are also the remit of the idiot.
