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Help, help. I have interacted with a lot of right wing accounts coz argumentative and now Twitter is serving me unrelenting horror.
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Ezra Linley
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Ezra Linley
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Government scientist. Not a Sinister Government Scientist. All views are my own.
Liverpool, England Katılım Mayıs 2011
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@AndrewZywiecMD there is a difference between eating it through the digestive tract and injected concentrated forms into the veins of a newborn @PascalMS1
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There is actually no excuse for this level of ignorance. None.
Injecting aluminum is completely different than ingesting aluminum.
How many times does this need to be explained? It isn't exactly a difficult concept.
Pascal Meyer MD@PascalMS1
@unhealthytruth But you would also know that the amount of aluminum is a fraction compared to the amount you have with your food. Do you warn people of spinach and tea as well?
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@ctjlewis If you think the purpose of DNA is to carry the genetic code, you would be mistaken. The "purpose" of DNA is to serve as a scaffold on which other nucleic acid structures can form.
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@ctjlewis Yeah, and if you get the chemistry just right, you get electronics. If you get the chemistry just wrong, you get biology instead. Thinking too reductively about the end-point of a process might lead you to misunderstand what the process actually is, or even the true end-point.
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“Explain biology via computational metaphor.”
It’s not a metaphor. Your DNA is literally code. DNA replication is a computational process. It is an algorithm. There is no metaphor.
Ewan Morrison@MrEwanMorrison
Two things have happened with Richard Dawkins here with his claim that the AI known as Claude is "conscious". 1. He's fallen for the Eliza Effect, first diagnosed in 1966. "A psychological phenomenon where humans anthropomorphise computer programs, projecting understanding, empathy, and intelligence onto them." 2. He has a mechanistic view of consciousness anyway. He frequently employs machine and computational metaphors to explain human consciousness and biology. He views the brain as a "complex computer" and humans as "survival machines" or "gene machines". So his framing belief system can only lead to his erroneous conclusion - that he and the machine are both conscious.
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@ctjlewis It's exactly the opposite. To understand what's going on, one needs to deal with the reality of DNA as a chemical, "like a tape head" isn't going to cut it, it's a very weak simile to reality. Knowing that DNA contains the genetic code tells us very little about the processes.
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@EzraLinley This is pedantic but even if I grant you that just avoids what’s going on. Polymerase slides along the strand like a tape head and writes complimentary base pairs. Whatever we wanna think is going on, on some level, that whole series is reproduced, the whole thing is code.
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@JamieAA_Again And Jamie, your Robot Friend was claiming earlier that the Murexide test is for urea, remember? He imagines all kinds of nonsense
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@JamieAA_Again Sigh. The stock images site wasn't Shutterstock, it was Science Photo Library, and I chose the image to show how trivially easy it was to find and access. Here's a paper you should be able to access if you want to see similar images: #Sec2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4159…
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I deserve more intelligent trolls. Seriously,I find it insulting this is the best they could send.
This one takes shutterstock hashtags as gospel and ignores AI which analyses every single published peer reviewed paper in existence. 🤪
Ezra Linley@EzraLinley
@JamieAA_Again Apart from all the TEM images of human DNA there are in existence eh Jamie? Here's one from a *stock photo* site, FFS:
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@Philip_Goff But in your simile, water is consciousness and H2O the physical process. H2O does "give rise" to water.
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What you're describing is David Chalmers' naturalistic dualism.
Physicalists think consciousness *is* a physical process just like water is H20.
Water doesn't *give rise* to H20.
Abel TM@Abel_TorresM
@Philip_Goff What counts for physicalists like me is that there is a physical process that give rise to any phenomenon. Any physicalist agrees that moving charged particles generate an electro-magnetic field. Similarly, brain activity can generate experience in a physical system.
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@TerryHaffnerMD @JamieAA_Again It is from a stock photo site Terry. The evidence it provides is that there does in fact exist TEM images of human DNA. I make no further claims based on it.
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@EzraLinley @JamieAA_Again No scale provided. No labels on what anything allegedly is.
Presumably (?) showing “unwound” DNA strands that are virtually the same size/dimensions as the “double helix.”
Not very good evidence of anything.
Got anything better?
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Did you know there are no Transmission Electron Microscope images of Human DNA in existence?
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@ciacy_numero1 @JamieAA_Again Almost like Jamie doesn't know what he's talking about.
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@ciacy_numero1 @JamieAA_Again Therefore every part of Jamie's Tweet is wrong. Kossel didn't show that urine contains urine. He showed that it contains purine bases.
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Albrecht Kossel took Urine and Bird Shit and tested them for Urine with the Muridex test.
When they tested positive for Urine, instead of concluding the Urine was Urine, he concluded he had discovered Nucleotides, the claimed building blocks of DNA.
Now you know.
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Has there ever been any series of films with diminutive returns than the Cube films?
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@AutoAnarchiste @JamieAA_Again I've thought about it longer. I reckon it might be surprisingly expensive. He should do it anyway.
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@AutoAnarchiste @JamieAA_Again Actually, thinking on this, as it appears that a lot of people don't realise that if you got all the DNA out of a human, it'd be a great big glob you could see, why hasn't that weird cadaver plasticiser fella done that for his show?
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Riddle: What is so long it can physically stretch from Pluto and back to Earth 5 times, but cannot be seen even with a microscope?
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@AutoAnarchiste @JamieAA_Again Pregnancy tests are more than 99% specific for pregnancy, Jamie just struggles with things like numbers and facts.
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@EzraLinley @JamieAA_Again Jamie I believe is enjoying the manifest lack of specificity for any particular ailment, not saying it couldn't be a clue to cancer a-brewin'. Perhaps extend him that generosity?
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@JamieAA_Again Still struggling with the old reading, aren't you Jamie? They didn't see any virus multiplication in the *mosquitoes*, rabbits got infected from the bites. Their conclusion was that mosquitoes transmit myxy purely mechanically - they just act like tiny needles.
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Myxomatosis was claimed to wipeout rabbits in certain countries yet, they never actually fully died out and when they tried to infect them on purpose, nothing happened.
It was just chemical poisoning, when they stopped the rabbits came back.
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@JamieAA_Again @AutoAnarchiste So if, as a man, you do a pregnancy test for a laugh and it gives a positive result, it's not a fun thing. It's time to consider saying good bye to at least one of the old crown jewels.
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@JamieAA_Again @AutoAnarchiste Pregnancy tests measure the hormone hCG you see, which is an excellent marker of pregnancy in women. It's also a marker of certain aggressive cancers, including testicular cancers.
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