Yes I agree. Even if they didn't dare to criticize GET/CBT openly, there could have been a warning that ME/CFS patients do not tolerate standard...
Yes. Thanks for the discussion. It has been interesting and informative.
I admit that I know little about this, but I suspect that these were not neuroscientists studying elementary cognition in bees or ants, but...
I wouldn't worry about that too much. We don't fully know how simple computation works in our brain. So it seems like a bit soon to say...
So it seems like we're both pleading for simplicity. In my view, consciousness is a bodily function of animals that was formed by evolutionary...
My arguments against panpsychist philosophy haven't got much to do with evidence. It's mostly about the complexity and extravagant claims it...
There's a lot to say about that trial by Prins et al. 2001. 1) There was an enormous drop-out rate (28-41%, depending on how you define it). From...
Just to be clear: does that mean you think consciousness is unrelated to having a brain? That the computer I write on has consciousness and the...
Interesting. I think I mostly disagree with your broad definition of consciousness. It seems to me like you're talking about complex information...
Sounds like a recycling of Berkely's subjective idealism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism
Didn't know that. Here's my short take on the whole consciousness-question. I think Descartes' philosophy is the most intuitive way to look at...
My argument was that such statements can be said about just about anything, so I don't think that they are of much use in figuring out how we...
I don't see it either. At one point the paper claims: But that seems unlikely since they followed up from 1991 (The Fukuda criteria weren't...
Don't know how relevant this is. I thought the question was when and why does the brain creates which illusions. Would be suprised if...
Thanks for the kind offer, but I think that's not necessary (the essay was written almost a year ago). Think this thread is more useful as a...
Aren't there experiments that show that if you inject people with adrenaline, they interpret things differently, for example, they find a research...
There is this famous study by David Bell who followed up on the adolescents who got sick in the Lyndonville outbreak. More than a third considered...
The authors do not give a precise definition of recovery. It seems like they simply asked patients, and because the clinicians and parents sort of...
Some background: this is not Peter Rowe from John Hopkins but Kathy Rowe from Australia. She is currently on the NHMRC committee. In my comment...
This seems to be the most important sentence in this paper:
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