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Yes, but insulin is still secreted even if you're eating 100% protein and fat and zero carbohydrates, because like you say and show, it prevents fat from being stored, which means you're burning excess protein and nutritional fat for energy, until you run out, and then insulin turns off, and you...

But @Clete 's mouse eating the Moon images weren't completely random. They both clearly expressed a mouse eating the Moon. But there were lots of differences in the details. But in the broadest sense, they both expressed a mouse eating the Moon. So are you saying that A.I. is like a tuned...

I'm going to take a second bite at the apple here. The ancients including Aristotle and Aquinas assigned souls to animals and plants. One of the reasons the problem of identity is so serious is because of the unsubstitutably of humans. There isn't really a problem of identity with animals and...

The solution to the problem of identity has to be mysterious, because of the nature of the problem. It doesn't permit any materialist, physicalist, naturalist proposal at all, as far as I'm concerned.

The Ship of Theseus problem is oddly accurate as an analogy for the problem of identity, because we now know through science that the atoms and cells that constitute our body today, are all going to be different in like 10 years, and 10 years ago, they were all different then too. So we're...

The soul is the most plausible solution to the problem of identity. Turns out Catholicism has believed in a soul from the beginning, because the predecessor of Catholicism (Second Temple Levantine and Diasporan Judaism) was fertile soil for the idea. The New Testament alternates between a...

But if you run multiple quasi- or pseudo-random number generators simultaneously you get all different results, is this because at the micro-second level they're not all actually running simultaneously?

100% A.I. is 100% just math, it's the machine being programmed to transform all manner of data, including visuals and video, sounds, and texts, into math, ones and zeroes, so that it can make math models, which generate new content, that didn't go into making the math models.

Declaratory. Saying it doesn't make it so. Bald assertion. Also, a "just so", very convenient explanation. Also, you're captured by your own position so that entertaining the majority report of secular historians isn't even an ontological possibility for you, which obv has very low initial...

But what is meant by "mind"? I for one cannot see any difference between "mind" and "soul", for example, so if you're saying A.I. has no soul, I agree; and I'd further state there is no ontological possibility that A.I. would have a soul either. It couldn't happen by accident, nor by any...

Oh.

Witty. Weighty. Never heard before stumper.

Oh. Ouch. What a zinger. Never heard that one.

Your dumb and grossly incorrect analysis is noted.

Well you should have been following the discussion instead.

Also, while we wait, Catholicism agrees with this, we just believe the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, is that same sacrifice; it is an eternal sacrifice. iow at the Last Supper, the bread and wine transubstantiated.

Take it up with JR, as he's the one trying to make a point.

I believe what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church just from rational grounds alone.

In that quote, Chrysostom said that the altar went from being just stone, to being a real altar. Chrysostom believed in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and that is why he therefore believed the stone altar was really an altar (and an altar means a priest offers sacrifices to deity...

That's it. We are the Body of Christ because we consume His body in the Eucharist. Yes.