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Alkis Piskas

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I can really not say anytthing more about neurons than what I have already said. OK, but as we have already established there's no analogue computer. ...
August 24, 2021 at 11:17
I don't know about that, never subsribed to it, but I have been to a couple of other philosophical forums and they suck big time! I can openly say tha...
August 24, 2021 at 10:52
It's time for me to mention that all this stuff with memory, neurons, cells, etc. is kind of "floating on the air". There's still no definite proof th...
August 24, 2021 at 10:48
Actually, computers are created for computations (as the word itself implies). The first computers had a very small memory capacity. You were using th...
August 24, 2021 at 10:23
Exactly! It's what I mentioned at the end of my previous message! :grin: (The topic was --and still is-- "Can we see the brain as an analogue computer...
August 24, 2021 at 10:18
Yes, I got that you are talking theoretically (because this is what "potentially" implies). That's why I gave you a practical example, one that can be...
August 24, 2021 at 09:46
What kind of "process"? Anyway, it doesn't really matter. I am talking from a practical point of view. I will give you a very simple example. Just wri...
August 24, 2021 at 08:59
Don't be so ready to belittle them! Computers can do a million things better and faster than us! :smile: Besides, they are extensions of our mind. In ...
August 24, 2021 at 08:16
Are you Damir Ivancevic? :smile: Anyway, I will read it, because consciousness is always a hot subject! And I'll come back to you ...
August 24, 2021 at 07:37
Re "AI": Yes, speed and also storage capacity (e.g. big data). Human memory capacity looks tiny compared to it! And, although thinking works at the sp...
August 24, 2021 at 07:30
:smile:
August 24, 2021 at 07:15
Certainly. Interesting! Neural networking is also a hot subject in artificial intelligence! As for chess, although computers (chess programs) can beat...
August 23, 2021 at 17:44
I am afraid that you are trying to justify your mistake, making it much bigger than what it was, instead of just accepting the --again, minor-- correc...
August 23, 2021 at 17:21
Good for him! :smile: First of all, computers work on a digital basis. The brain, on the other hand, is neither analog nor digital. It works using sig...
August 23, 2021 at 17:03
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August 23, 2021 at 16:28
Thanks, but I would prefer your opinion, what do you think/believe and why.
August 23, 2021 at 08:43
This is true for some coersive, suppressing institutions that try to prevent people's self-development, independent thought etc. Medicine is a typical...
August 23, 2021 at 08:40
In order to speak about "omnibenevolence" ("unlimited, infinite benevolence"), we must first speak about "benevolence", which is "The quality of being...
August 22, 2021 at 17:32
:smile:
August 22, 2021 at 15:29
What??? Do you mean that if I don't feel anything, I am emotionless, I can't experience anything and/or be conscious (aware) of anything? Do you reall...
August 22, 2021 at 10:44
I just checked two sources and they both talk about Christan texts written in Greek. Nothing to do with Ancient Greek texts. Also, this kind of inform...
August 22, 2021 at 10:31
, cc. Do you maybe mean "morality"? (Morale is "the confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time" (common definiti...
August 22, 2021 at 10:08
I'm not either, of course. For one thing I don't know even where to start from! But, as I said, "I would like to start doing something about that." It...
August 22, 2021 at 09:56
You mean "Churches" (religious/spiritual leaderships), right?
August 22, 2021 at 08:57
You maybe right about that. It's something personal, i.e., it depends on the cases one has encounteredin his life. I personally, avoid to speak about ...
August 21, 2021 at 17:10
Right, Cyril of Alexandria was not with eastern church Most probably not the western either. However, he was contermporary to Theodosius II who in 448...
August 21, 2021 at 16:19
I don't know if you have followed the thread. I have cleared in my comments and the information I delivered that they were based on personal experienc...
August 21, 2021 at 10:30
How does "feel deep down" differ from "experienced as strong feeling" in the definition I brought up? And why "deep down"? Emotions can be very light ...
August 21, 2021 at 09:33
Yes, certainly they are connected, but intelligence does not imply ethics. Ethics, pure ethics (as a system, a philosophy), on the other hand, imply i...
August 21, 2021 at 08:35
This is true, but I would stress more the average ethical than the intellectual level, which seems to get lower with time. And I believe that religion...
August 20, 2021 at 17:42
This is where dictionaries come in handy! :smile: "Emotion" from Merriam-Webster (First definition): "A conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fe...
August 20, 2021 at 09:22
You are right not to judge and I don't either. Besides, in way, we all live in some kind of illusion or other! But I know, from personal experience, t...
August 20, 2021 at 08:58
Some may indeed have. They are usually those who have seriously studied their religion and/or have a religious/spiritual guide, usu. a priest. But the...
August 19, 2021 at 17:28
OK. So I am glad I filled in the hole! :smile: Alright, I like this. Quite creative! :up:
August 19, 2021 at 08:56
I was talking about dualism as a philosophical system!
August 19, 2021 at 07:18
It may be so
August 18, 2021 at 15:00
OK
August 18, 2021 at 14:59
That's an interesting miniature history of philosophy! :smile: Is there something missing here? I was expecting something like "rather that not (to be...
August 18, 2021 at 14:53
Yes, I know, but they insignificant, not worthy mentioning and much less considering. Anyway, we have lost focus (since quite a while ago!) and deviat...
August 18, 2021 at 10:58
OK, :grin: and :meh: it!
August 18, 2021 at 08:38
Please, be a jolly chap again! It's much mor fun! :grin: OK, I admit I disregarded this. My bad! It may well be so! (And I see you got your humor back...
August 18, 2021 at 08:21
I assume you mean physical evidence. Yes, there is. Emotions are responses in the form of wavelengths (physical) produced by non-material information ...
August 18, 2021 at 07:58
"In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical – or mind and body or mind and brain – are, in some sense, radicall...
August 18, 2021 at 07:48
I see. OK.
August 18, 2021 at 07:21
See my above reply.
August 17, 2021 at 16:10
What do you mean by "mental content"? Are you identifying the brain with mind or saying that part of the brain is mind? If this is so, it is in confli...
August 17, 2021 at 16:08
First of all, I said that jokingly. (Didn't you see the laughing emoji?) Second, it's not that irrelevant as you say, since we are talking about order...
August 17, 2021 at 15:57
Whether Einstein, eh, I mean God, plays dice or not! :grin: Note: Maybe physicists know better? I am not good in Physics ... so I can't take part in t...
August 17, 2021 at 10:34
OK
August 17, 2021 at 09:06
You mean the means by which information is transferred and in which it is stored, right? I am referring though to the content of the information.
August 17, 2021 at 09:03