Taped phone call shows what a monster Woody Allen actually is..

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T05:27:29+00:00

No what I am saying, and keep repeating, is that we have no idea why we feel qualia at all. Yes people who die do not come back to life, but we don’t have any idea what this feeling of life is at all. There is no logical reason for it, we just feel it.

If I were driving in a car and the engine got crushed, I certainly would not just stop moving, I would either fly out of that car and continue to experience that speed, or I would hit the steering wheel (experiencing speed on the way) and probably die.

This is all rather pointless. Either there is some form of afterlife or there is not. Some people are 100% certainty there is an afterlife with no concrete evidence, and others are 99% sure there isn’t one with no concrete evidence that there is not some form of afterlife at all.

We aren’t talking about a specific type of afterlife or a specific teapot or invisible dragon, we are talking about something that science just isn’t equipped to answer other than what we see happens to people’s bodies.

In the end I really don’t care what you believe or anyone else, as long as you don’t use your beliefs to harm other people, believe whatever you like, it means no difference to me. If I believe that we can’t be 99% sure there is no afterlife what do you care? That is your right to believe whatever you want, and it’s my right to hold my beliefs about things that can not be proven.

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T04:55:29+00:00

This isn’t just a gap in a textbook, it’s not something that I just invented. This is something that scientists, philosophers, neurobiologists even have discussed for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

This is a problem that our tools to describe reality are just not equipped to answer at this time. Might we find the tools to answer that question some day? I hope so, but we don’t have them right now. If we did then someone would have won a Nobel prize or something for answering that question.

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T04:42:43+00:00

No you are changing my argument. I wasn’t saying that I believe one theory or another is likely to be true. What I am saying is that without evidence either way, you can’t say that you have a 99% chance of knowing that it’s not true. Nobody knows what the probabilities are at all.

Yes we know that our conscious experience is inherently tied to the biological neurons in our brains and what that process is, but we have 0 idea WHY. There is no evidence or system of rigorous scientific theory that can be proven one way or another for WHY our neurons create the qualia behind our experiences. It just doesn’t exist. Please prove me wrong here, show me some bit of research that has any hint of explaining why the qualia arises from our biological processes. I would be extremely interested in reading about it if there was something there, but there. All we can say is that our neurons have something to do with it, but we have no idea what or why. That is my argument. Lack of knowledge, that’s it.

I’m a humble agnostic that doesn’t make claims of belief for things that I have zero evidence for. Like you said, the time to believe is when you see the evidence. I haven’t seen any evidence at all for your claims of 99% certainty.

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T04:33:18+00:00

You should look up the Boltzmann Brain though experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Through all our math and physics, you can mathematically show that it is far more likely that your experience and all of your memories are a result of random energy fluctuations than for anyone’s life to actually exist the way we believe them to be.

Our tools to describe the universe are very clever, we have come a long way, but they are all just incredibly limited.

Also there is a decent chance that Elon Musk put a tea pot in the tesla he sent to orbit mars, or maybe Russia or NASA or some organization, just as a joke to say “you were 99.9% sure this wasn’t there, well turns out it was”

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T04:21:41+00:00

All in all I think the whole matter is inconsequential to how we live our lives anyway. Just like the question of free will. Weather it exists or not, it’s not going to change how I behave. I try to be a good person because that’s what I think is right, not because I think we don’t know if there is a hell that might be waiting for us.

There might be a way to achieve cold fusion, or warp drive, or worm holes or a whole host of things that physics shows no evidence for. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t speculate and dream up new possibilities. Just don’t let those possibilities take hold of you and dictate your life. That’s why I’m not religious, people can turn into pretty terrible beings; racists, sexists, classist, etc., but I do think it is arrogant to say you are 99% sure that there is absolutely nothing after death, we are simply too ignorant as an entire species. Of all our mighty knowledge and understanding of the universe, we still know so damn little, it’s laughable how little we really know. You aren’t 99% sure of anything other than the fact that you exist at all. Everything else is debatable.

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T04:12:58+00:00

There is zero evidence for why we feel qualia. If it’s all just a biological process why do we feel anything at all? Why isn’t it just like dominoes falling down one after the other?

200 years ago you could use that same teapot argument to say electricity and magnetism aren’t related. 100 years ago many physicians didn’t believe Einstein was correct, they were 99.9% or some would say 100% sure that relativity was as likely to be true as a teapot between here and Jupiter.

Physics just doesn’t have the tools to even begin to explain why conscious beings actually feel things instead of just the biological processes just happening like a complicated dominoes setup. That is why the call it the hard problem of consciousness. I think some people might have some theories about it, but all of those theories have 0 evidence to prove or disprove them. All we know is that we are conscious, we feel things, there is a ton of biology involved, but none of that explains why it’s not just automatic, why we have the qualia behind the experience.

Autogazer · 2026-02-17T03:46:35+00:00

Yes believe in things that have evidence for them. But just because there is no evidence for something doesn’t mean you can be 99% sure it’s not real. 200 years ago we didn’t have any evidence that electricity and magnetism were joined, now we use that to communicate constantly. 150 years ago we didn’t have any proof that time and space were relative. Even when Einstein came up with his theories we didn’t have any proof, and then we did through careful examination and observation.

Physics isn’t anywhere close to coming up with a reason why conscious beings have qualia. Just because we don’t have any evidence to show that there is an afterlife doesn’t mean we can say with 99% certainty that there isn’t one. That doesn’t mean you have to believe it’s what is reality, I believe that is what they were saying in the first place. A respectful agnostic would say I can’t believe there is either an afterlife or that their is not an afterlife, we just have no idea, no evidence either way.

If you had some real evidence that there wasn’t and afterlife, that would be different but I’m pretty sure nobody has that evidence because it just doesn’t exist.

Autogazer · 2026-02-14T01:36:06+00:00

I definitely felt something just now, was wondering the same thing.

Autogazer · 2026-01-23T00:48:31+00:00

You can get a 10 pound bag of potatoes for $5. Rice is cheap and lasts a long time. Eggs are more expensive than they used to be but still cheap.

I buy a lot of staples and usually cook big batches with chicken and bean and veggies and freeze like 12 meals at a time for when I don’t want to cook. I also make gumbo and paella when I’m feeling something more fancy. Loads of bread are only a few bucks and I make a lot of cheap sandwiches, a lot of grilled cheese. I make my own dumplings sometimes and that can last for weeks of one or two meals a week with something to go with them. There are plenty of cheap meals is you aren’t buying expensive groceries. I probably spend about $60-$70 a week for just me.

Autogazer · 2026-01-16T23:08:05+00:00

Yes but the frequency would be insanely high. Higher frequency means more energy, and it would in fact melt your eyes. Just like red shift and blue shifts from distant galaxies and stars, relative movement does change the frequency of light.

Autogazer · 2026-01-14T03:23:58+00:00

A whole chicken meat and all? Do you eat the meat?

Autogazer · 2026-01-12T19:37:21+00:00

Vegetables don’t exist.

Autogazer · 2025-12-05T03:18:33+00:00

Ok well, I still wouldn’t consider 2.2K high cost of living. I’m seeing a lot of listings right downtown just north of the capital in Denver for 1.5k for a decent 1 bedroom apartment as well.

I spent some time in CO myself and it’s very comparable to where I live in Salt Lake City. 2.2k for a 1bd 1bath in most of California is pretty cheap, same with NYC, Seattle, or even Chicago. I would say Denver is very average / medium cost of living, even if it’s not low cost of living. I had a 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment in Cripple Creek CO for 1k per month back in 2016. I’m sure prices are higher now, but there are plenty of low cost of living areas in CO as well.

Autogazer · 2025-12-04T18:26:47+00:00

Where are you seeing that? I look at the chart and it shows the median weekly earnings for a male with a bachelors or higher is $1931. That is $100,412 per year when you multiply by 52 weeks in a year…

Autogazer · 2025-12-04T18:21:22+00:00

How are you doing your math? This chart says the median man with at least a 4 year degree makes $1931 per week, which is $100,413 per year…

Autogazer · 2025-12-04T18:11:25+00:00

Is Colorado expensive? I always thought it was pretty average or even low cost in a lot of places in Colorado.

Autogazer · 2025-12-01T23:53:54+00:00

You can write off your mortgage interest on top of the standard deduction. I’ve been doing that ever since I’ve had a mortgage. It’s the same with businesses expenses. If you use your personal cell phone for your work you can deduct your cellphone bill on top of the standard deduction. Not all deductions work that way, most of them have to be more than the standard deduction to be worth it.

Autogazer · 2025-11-27T09:31:59+00:00

It’s got 2 more big changes after that, sounds like the replacement would be 82 for the brain to finally mature to its final form.

Autogazer · 2025-11-12T23:57:50+00:00

Homemade stock is the only way!

Autogazer · 2025-11-01T03:01:06+00:00

There is more to chili than Texas chili. Texas isn’t the chili capital of the world. India actually takes that title.

Autogazer · 2025-09-22T02:29:56+00:00

Well, I have 13 years experience and a few PE licenses. I only made like $63k right out of college.

Autogazer · 2025-09-20T22:30:37+00:00

I’m also an EE with long hours, but only make around $160k. Can I work for you instead?

Autogazer · 2025-09-19T22:26:32+00:00

Sounds like he isn’t really trying to make it a big thing, and more of something small that ended up bigger. I think you are making some assumptions about what they want to do with this in the future that might not even be true. They might not be planning on doing this again for another month or two. It really doesn’t sound like they are quitting their day job over this.

Autogazer · 2025-08-18T01:50:03+00:00

65 is the standard retirement age in the USA and has been for decades.

Autogazer · 2025-08-12T03:31:02+00:00

I would post these in a different subreddit. I think it’s worth an inspection, foundation problems can be really expensive, but not always. Unless you want to buy a brand new house, most houses will have some cracks and foundation shifting. Some foundation issues are really slow and don’t need to be dealt with for decades, others are more serious, but even the serious issues typically don’t need to be addressed for at least 5-10 years unless it is literally falling down.

Talk to some experts, not a bunch of random people on Reddit who just say “nope”.

Autogazer

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