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  1. Feb 2022
    1. efferen

      Efferent neurons, also called motor neurons, are the nerve fibers responsible for carrying signals from the brain to the peripheral nervous system in order to initiate an action. In other words, they are the neurons that tell your body to perform an action, such as removing your hand from a hot pan.

    2. afferen

      Afferent neurons, also called sensory neurons, are the nerve fibers responsible for bringing sensory information from the outside world into the brain. Sensory information may involve special senses, such as vision, hearing, smell, or taste, as well as the sense of touch, pain, and temperature. Afferent neurons are typically associated with specialized sensory receptors that are classified according to the stimuli they respond to.

    3. . If you define 'machine' broadly enough, then terrestrial creatures including human beings could count as machines, and the question would be trivialized

      descartes looking ass

    4. unctionalism,

      Functionalism is the doctrine that what makes something a thought, desire, pain (or any other type of mental state) depends not on its internal constitution, but solely on its function, or the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part.

    5. 'nomological

      nomology refers to a "science of laws" based on the theory that it is possible to elaborate descriptions dedicated not to particular aspects of reality but inspired by a scientific vision of universal validity expressed by scientific laws

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    1. Kviečiame padainuo visiems Vytautoi Kernagio dainą „MŪSŲ DIENOS KAIP ŠVENTĖ“

      Kviečiame padainuo visiems -sm. pause- Vytautoi Kernagio dainą „MŪSŲ DIENOS KAIP ŠVENTĖ“

    2. dirbi ir dirbsi savo darbą.

      Istarti puskitine sakni kiekvieno zodzio(ne-ra svar-bu, ko-kiais lai-kais, ko-kiems), ir taisingai istarti "dirbai, dirb, ir dirbsi"

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  2. Jan 2022
    1. f polio had been present, but in which the virus had been absent, had turned out not to be cases of polio at all.

      oh i think weve heard this argument already... lets see

    2. he physical test sentences of which you speak are absolutely incapable of formulating the intrinsic nature of a mental process;

      Thankfully, we'll see our author argue a point I was hoping would be brought up

    3. n the case of your own states of mind (and unlike the case of states of your own brain), however, you are in a position to observe what no one else could observe-or at any rate, not directly observe. (Others might be said to observe your states of mind indirectly by observing effects of these on your behavior or on instruments scanning your brain.)
    4. A view of this kind worries materialists (or 'physicalists') who are skeptical of the existence of imma-terial Cartesian egos.

      In philosophy, physicalism is the metaphysical thesis that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical.