All we can be certain of is consciousness in the present. What can we conclude about consciousness in the past? Can we even conclude that it existed? Whenever someone presents &quot;evidence&quot; of having consciousness in the past, what they really mean is they have a memory in the present of some past experiences. If one totally forgets some past experience, what can we say ontologically about the consciousness of that experience?
People seem to believe that one's consciousness is a "different" consciousness than that of others, but the "same" consciousness as the one that has been in one's body in the past and the one that will be in one's body in the future. How likely is this to be true and why?   Also, I have almost no knowledge about neuroscience, so please refrain from using neuroscience jargon if feasible.
Are nuclear weapons simply non-existent in the Star Wars universe? The resistance is attacks the Starkiller Base with what appears to be pretty small time ammunition even by modern earth missiles, which requires a long running sequence of repeated flybys.  The objective, IIRC was to destroy a critical piece of machinery on the surface which would then destabilize the entire planet/weapon (feel free to correct in edit if I remember incorrectly).  OK cool, but then why the force wouldn't they just drop a nuclear bomb on it?  Have nuclear weapons been used any other time in Star Wars (including EU), or, like smart phones, have they just not been invented in that world? KKT points and nonlinear optimality (theory) I have some questions about Karush Kuhn Tucker conditions. I am not clear about the theory. There are plenty of theorems and I am confused with it. Let us say we have the following problem: We have a general problem, not a convex problem. $$\min f(x)\\g_{j}(x)\le 0,\forall j\in J\\h_{k}(x)=0,\forall k \in K. $$ I will solve it.....Lagrange function, verifying primal feasibility, dual feasibility and complementary slackness and I will get some KKT points. Now what is the conclusion?  If I get no KKT point, can I say that the problem has no solution or what is the conclusion? If I get only one KKT point, is it a local minimum or even a global minimum? If I get more KKT points, what is the conclusion? In which case I will verify SOSC condition? If I get more KKT points or even for one point is it necessary? And the conclusion is what? The KKT points which satisfies the SOSC condition are strick local minimum and the poins which does not satisfy it are not the solution of the problem?  I am so sorry for so many questions, but any help would be very appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Suppose $p$  and $p^2+2$ are prime numbers, prove that $p^3+2$ is also a prime number. Actually I do not know what is the relationship among square numbers, cube numbers and prime numbers Data inconsistency prohibition if a table refers to another via two many-to-many relationships I have following database design (by =&gt; foreign key constraints are depicted):   Company[id] CompanyRealm[id, company_id=>Company.id]many2many  Project[id, company_id=>Company.id] ProjectRealm[id, project_id=>Project.id, company_realm_id=>CompanyRealm.id]many2many   Problem is that provided database design allows inconsistent data. For example:   Company1(id=1) Company2(id=2) CompanyRealm(id=11, company_id=1) Project(id=33, company_id=2) ProjectRealm(id=44, project_id=33, company_realm_id=11)   (Company can have many Realms, Project belong to Company and  may concern any number of company's Realms)  ProjectRealm refers to two different companies:   Company1 (via CompanyRealm); and Company2 (via Project).    Is something wrong with my DB design? If yes - which prescriptions are violated? If no - how to prevent incorrect data insertion (via constraint? trigger with exception?) How to find unused/dead code in java projects What tools do you use to find unused/dead code in large java projects? Our product has been in development for some years, and it is getting very hard to manually detect code that is no longer in use. We do however try to delete as much unused code as possible.  Suggestions for general strategies/techniques (other than specific tools) are also appreciated.  Edit: Note that we already use code coverage tools (Clover, IntelliJ), but these are of little help. Dead code still has unit tests, and shows up as covered. I guess an ideal tool would identify clusters of code which have very little other code depending on it, allowing for docues manual inspection. Overflow: Visible on SVG How many ways to arrange people on a bench so that no woman sits next to another woman? How can I show that $n! \leqslant \left(\frac{n+1}{2}\right)^n$? Show that $$n! \leqslant \left(\frac{n+1}{2}\right)^n \quad \hbox{for all } n \in \mathbb{N}$$  I know that it can be done by induction but I always find line where I do not know what to do next. 32 bit or 64 bit OS on a 512 mb VPS? I am planning to rent a VPS service with following basic specification:   512mb of RAM 1 CPU 20gb HDD (4gb of it is swap) Ubuntu 10.10 server   I am able to choose between a 32 bit or 64 bit install of Ubuntu server as the operating system.   My question is would it be better to chose a 32 bit operating system since I will have only 512mb of RAM, rather than using a 64 bit operating system and dealing with the additional overheads?  edit:  I have installed Ubuntu server 10.10 32 bit and 64 bit on VirtualBox. After a minimalistic installation with only ssh server, the 32 bit installation consumes 63mb of RAM when first boot up and 64 bit consumes 85mb of RAM.  After installing and running  daemon, 32 bit consumes 99mb of RAM when first boot up and 64 bit consumes 128mb. Today i was at a arena. A player from the red team put a Grimer there, which causes my game to crash every time I select the arena (Samsung Galaxy S4 mini). All other pokemons i saw so far did not make any problems  I searched a bit, and found out that this is a known bug, e.G.:   Now my question, is there a way to battle in the arena or even select it without crashing my app? Some option like "hide model in arena",changing some smartphone-settings or another trick? Or do i have to wait till a bugifx from niantec comes or somebody else which has a handy which dont crashes with grimer clears the arena, before selecting the arena?  Because somebody could place him there i guess this is only a bug for specific smartphones, but this could be used to exclude a lot of players from arenafighting by only placing grimers in arenas to let the game crash for them, are there some official notes about this from niantec or how to avoid the crash? Which locations are traditionally Santa's home - i.e. where can you visit Santa Claus year-round? Obviously around this time of the year, Santa and his minions will be out and about, finding out who is naughty and nice, and delivering presents.  However, the rest of the year he's back at his home.  Where is that generally considered to be visitable?  Yes, in some traditions it's the 'North Pole', but I know at least one other country (Finland) has Rovaniemi as his home. What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions? Origin of electric charge What is the meaning of modular fractions? What is the meaning of $$ \\\frac{m}{n}\equiv k\pmod l $$ and $$ \\\frac{m}{n} \mod l $$ $m, n, k, l \in\mathbb N$ and $\gcd(m, n)=1$. If I had a very shallow question, then I am sorry. $x,y,z\in\mathbb{N}^{+}$ and$$\frac{x}{y+z}+\frac{y}{x+z}+\frac{z}{y+x}=4$$find $x,y,z$.  I try with AM-GM, just get$$ \frac{x}{y+z}+\frac{y}{x+z}+\frac{z}{y+x}\geq\frac{3}{2}$$  This means that the equation must have a real solution, but can not be sure there is an integer solution.  Let: $x=ay=abz$, then the equation becomes:$$\frac{ab}{a+b}+\frac{b}{ab+1}+\frac{1}{a^2+ab}=4$$  Which makes the problem become non-homogeneous, and seems to become more difficult. I have no more ideas. Could anyone help me? Thanks a lot. I have this new problem since 2014 begin. I cant remotely login to this enterprise network for giving them support. Its keep showing this new error.  How to fix it please?    EDIT: I am really confused.  Which preposition is correct?     She is in/at the park.   They are in/at the park.   I am in/at the park.   Should I use in or at in these sentences? Boxplot interpretation: is it correct that a boxplot is missing a whisker? How can I detect if my apple device supports Bluetooth Low Energy Please see the following image, where you can find the inconsistency of SO reputation score among different flair themes (one with 7165, while all other three 7265).   I always thought that these four themes are based on the same data until now. Is this a bug? Are different flair themes really updated individually?    P.S.: The inconsistency only shows on my mobile, no problem from my desktop.