Yeah, that sounds very unlikely. The full paper dismisses the possibility:
> Another possible explanation to consider is that the current indings were caused by cross-cueing (one hemisphere informing the other hemisphere with behavioural tricks, such as touching the left hand with the right hand). We deem this explanation implausible for four reasons. First, cross-cueing is thought to only allow the transfer of one bit of information (Baynes et al., 1995). Yet, both patients could localize stimuli throughout the entire visual field irrespective of response mode (Experiments 1 and 5), and localizing a stimulus requires more than one bit of information. Second, [...]
I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness. But they also mention this possiblity, which seems more plausible to me:
> Finally, a possibility is that we observed the current results because we tested these patients well after their surgical removal of the corpus callosum (Patient DDC and Patient DDV were operated on at ages 19 and 22 years, and were tested 10–16 and 17–23 years after the operation, respectively). This would raise the interesting possibility that the original split brain phenomenon is transient, and
that patients somehow develop mechanisms or even structural connections to re-integrate information across the hemispheres, particularly when operated at early adulthood.
> I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness.
Indeed:
"Our findings, however, reveal that although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other, the brain as a whole is still able to produce only one conscious agent."
Which is materially impossible, given the premise.
They are regulating websites anyway, surely they can just invent some standard format to say what function each cookie has. How about requiring that the name of every cookie has to start with one of "Strictly Necessary", "Functional", "Performance", and "Targeting/Advertising"?
The F-22 itself was delayed because of the end of the cold war. The original plans were to have it enter service in 1995, and then this slipped by a year or two. They could have had it being pass produced from 1997, but they delayed it because of the peace dividend. (This is from Aronstein et al, "ATF to F-22 Raptor"). So one should not consider the 2005 date as "how long it took".
The Rust compiler always produces quite large binaries compared to other programming language. I notice there's a (closed) issue on the Zed github [https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/34376],
> At this time, we prioritize performance and out-of-the-box functionality over minimal binary size. As is, this issue isn't very actionable, but if you have concrete optimization ideas that don't compromise these priorities, we'd be happy to consider them in a new issue.
I'm guessing they mean it detected a different vehicle and pedestrian but not the ones it hit. (If it was the victim I don't think they would have said "a".)
The radioactive lead isotopes come from decay of uranium and thorium, so lead from different mines will have different isotope ratios depending on how much U and Th happened to be in that ore.
Not all leaded gasoline was the same either:
> 206Pb/207Pb ratios commonly found in Pb ores
throughout the world range between 16.0–18.5 and 1.19–1.25,
respectively (Hansmann and Köppel, 2000). Exception to this
rule is the commonly used Pb ore from the Broken Hill deposit,
Australia, which is characterised by extremely low 206Pb/207Pb
ratios (1.03–1.10). On the other hand, Pb originating from the
Mississippi Valley ore deposit, USA, exhibits significantly more
radiogenic Pb isotopic composition (206Pb/204Pb N20.0;
206Pb/207Pb= 1.31–1.35) (Doe and Delevaux, 1972). American
leaded gasoline reflected therefore significantly higher
206Pb/207Pb ratios compared to European gasoline (Fig. 1). The
introduction of the European leaded gasoline around 1945
resulted in a steep decrease of the 206Pb/207Pb ratio of
atmospheric Pb (Weiss et al., 1999; data from peat deposits).
The isotopic composition of leaded gasoline was to some extent
dependent on economical factors, such as the availability and
price of Pb ores and has evolved due to the different Pb ores used.
For example, Pb used for French leaded gasoline originated from
Australian, Moroccan and Swedish ores and the contribution of
the separate ores changed during time (Véron et al., 1999). It is
therefore indispensable to gather data concerning the origin of
gasoline used in studied regions.
Currently the cheapest non-intermittent energy source is gas; solar costs about half as much, and nuclear costs 50% more than gas [0]. Battery storage is currently competitive with gas for storing around 4 hours of electricity [1].
If we would want to replace the baseload with solar + batteries we would need to store 12 hours instead, during the dark half of the day, so it would cost 3x as much, 200% more than gas.
Maybe we can hope for battery prices to drop, but extrapolating from a Wright's law curve, for them to become cheaper by a factor of 3 we need to produce 32 times as many of them [1, again], it won't happen in the near future.
I mean, you definitely can't build your own unsafePerformIO without dropping the state token. I have never thought deeply about it, but if you had asked me I would probably have guessed that using the token linearly would be enough to ensure safety. That's not the same as it being "normal", of course.
> Another possible explanation to consider is that the current indings were caused by cross-cueing (one hemisphere informing the other hemisphere with behavioural tricks, such as touching the left hand with the right hand). We deem this explanation implausible for four reasons. First, cross-cueing is thought to only allow the transfer of one bit of information (Baynes et al., 1995). Yet, both patients could localize stimuli throughout the entire visual field irrespective of response mode (Experiments 1 and 5), and localizing a stimulus requires more than one bit of information. Second, [...]
I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness. But they also mention this possiblity, which seems more plausible to me:
> Finally, a possibility is that we observed the current results because we tested these patients well after their surgical removal of the corpus callosum (Patient DDC and Patient DDV were operated on at ages 19 and 22 years, and were tested 10–16 and 17–23 years after the operation, respectively). This would raise the interesting possibility that the original split brain phenomenon is transient, and that patients somehow develop mechanisms or even structural connections to re-integrate information across the hemispheres, particularly when operated at early adulthood.
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