Why “sense” is being discussed
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I regularly fully read and try to understand paper contracts before signing them. Every time, it's clear that no time was set aside for me to read the contract, and the other pa…
by GrantMoyer · Oct 16, 2026
I just mentioned it to Claude and it minus-one shotted (that's when you didn't even want to make anything, just talk about it) a Python script it called Folderol that compiles .…
by customguy · Oct 16, 2026
> Now if you could see the buying and selling for the next level below them somehow, that would be a great advantage (and also very illegal). You could probably estimate this if…
by disgruntledphd2 · Oct 16, 2026
>you must be using some completely idiosyncratic definition of "emergent" here. I doubt my usage is idiosyncratic. Rather, the term is so ill defined that people often use it in…
by hackinthebochs · Oct 16, 2026
> Given that all nation states are more or less "made up out of thin air" Not really, they tend to be created through conquest and/or colonisation followed by stabilisation…
by hagbard_c · Oct 16, 2026
I wasn't making an argument for or against the legitimacy of Israel; I was arguing that self defense explains Israel's immigration laws better than a sense of racial superiority…
by thomassmith65 · Oct 16, 2026
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A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. During sensation, sense organs collect various stimuli for transduction, meaning transformation into a form that can be understood by the brain. Sensation and perception are fundamental to nearly every aspect of an organism's cognition, behavior and thought. Read more on Wikipedia