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In: Why are ordinary computers bad in recognizing patterns while neural network AI and the brain are not  — view comment
Thanks. Goodday!
August 30, 2021 at 13:12
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Its not that difficult to understand! Everyone says"oöhhh... Quantum field theory..." but actually its very easy.
August 30, 2021 at 13:08
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Who then are the undertakers? The ones who shout: "Philosophy is dead!", or philosophers of the non-metaphysical (is physical?) view?
August 30, 2021 at 13:06
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
:grin: Altough... This would mean all survive. But they cant transmit. "those who don't want them" Who are those?
August 30, 2021 at 12:47
In: Why are ordinary computers bad in recognizing patterns while neural network AI and the brain are not  — view comment
What do you mean by this? Can you give an example?
August 30, 2021 at 12:46
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
:grin:
August 30, 2021 at 12:43
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
:grin: Yes. All three, the body, the brain, and the outer world are interdependent. If you consider the body to be you then the question of who thinks...
August 30, 2021 at 12:42
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
I mean, I have read the book "We are our Brains", by a Dutch writer, but cant you just as well say that we are our body?
August 30, 2021 at 12:36
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
Cant we see the inner world as being on equal level with the outer physical world?
August 30, 2021 at 12:34
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Please... Enlighten me! Im thinking about it but it doesnt click. :smile:
August 30, 2021 at 12:31
In: Theories of Consciousness POLL  — view comment
I believe in the trinity theory of consciousness.
August 30, 2021 at 12:27
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
That being the case its the brain that thinks and our bodies (the true us) seeing it.
August 30, 2021 at 12:25
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
No Against Against To balance the predictability. And because its the true me.
August 30, 2021 at 12:23
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
How predictable this poll. Before seeing I knew the outcome already!
August 30, 2021 at 12:20
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
The shorter the faster has a relation to the uncertainty principle. The shorter the distance the greater the uncertainty in momentum (and thus velocit...
August 30, 2021 at 12:18
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
Now why is that?
August 30, 2021 at 11:15
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
Is this addressed to me?
August 30, 2021 at 10:42
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Especially those headtailslets (or tailheadslets) flowing...
August 30, 2021 at 10:38
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Philosophy will never be the same again! :grin: :starstruck: ...when you go with the flow. Hasnt the singer stopped voluntary to go with flow?
August 30, 2021 at 10:16
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
If the brain can't think then what does? I'm inclined to answer this with a not so appropiate joke. So I won't answer like this (a bit of fun can get ...
August 30, 2021 at 10:07
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Let it all flow!!!
August 30, 2021 at 09:57
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
If patterns are mental than @timwood must be a pattern..
August 30, 2021 at 09:55
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
:lol:
August 30, 2021 at 09:52
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Excuse me?
August 30, 2021 at 09:49
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
:100:
August 30, 2021 at 09:47
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Then why is this a topic so "heavily" discussed in philosophy? When does physics stop to make sense and the meta show up? I like your new image, btw!
August 30, 2021 at 09:41
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
What made them refuse?
August 30, 2021 at 09:28
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
The reason why it took over is powerplay. Pure and simple. LP, of which Feyerabend once was a proponent, is in fact the same as falsificationism, but ...
August 30, 2021 at 09:25
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Okay. Let's analyse this with an actual case. Say I have a new theory about the state of affairs during and shortly before and Planck era. How must I ...
August 30, 2021 at 08:57
In: Deleted  — view comment
How do you envision THAT? A sphere with intrinsic curvature HAS to lay in an infinite flat space.
August 30, 2021 at 08:43
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
:lol: He must have been a mathematician, for sure! :lol: Hawking was right all the time. But even God couldnt give him new tires miraculously! Only a ...
August 30, 2021 at 08:27
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
The creation is the creator? Dunno. What I do know is that god needs a wakeup call.
August 30, 2021 at 08:16
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
:lol: :lol: The fat her!
August 30, 2021 at 08:12
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
:lol: I had to look up those words. First I thought you meant a slith or a woman doing it with all. Both a sloth and glutton are deadly indeed! Consid...
August 30, 2021 at 08:08
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Well, I may have eaten too much math, but I weigh only 83kg!
August 30, 2021 at 08:01
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Whats the effort put in if god was being lazy?
August 30, 2021 at 07:57
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
So, if a particle travels between two fixed points in spacetime it does so on a track which minimizes the action. In QFT, litterally ALL trajectories ...
August 30, 2021 at 07:47
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
It's a kind of least resistance principle, including both space and time.
August 30, 2021 at 07:38
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Youve probably heard of the principle of least action?
August 30, 2021 at 07:35
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Thats interesting! You mean efficiency in space, so also in time?
August 30, 2021 at 07:32
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Im not sure I know what Spinoza has said about this (he probably said it in Dutch, and I would have understood it, being Dutch). What, in short, did h...
August 30, 2021 at 07:29
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Beautiful hey? Those patterns. The beauty argument has been used (is used) in physics to guide mathematical or physical models. I think at the base of...
August 30, 2021 at 07:26
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
There is a song called like that: "Not everything that counts can be counted" (not everything that can be counted counts). I didnt know he got that fr...
August 30, 2021 at 07:12
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
In fact, it DOES imply a brain. A brain, on the other hand, doesnt imply thinking, as becomes clear reading comments and discourses.
August 30, 2021 at 06:29
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
In principle, a brain CANNOT be synthetic.
August 30, 2021 at 06:27
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
What about the auto-repeat on my record-player? It makes the LP play untill Im deda or dead (which might not take too long). What about births of chil...
August 30, 2021 at 06:24
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Was that a lie to quit the subject? ?
August 30, 2021 at 05:32
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Goodnight. In fact it was better talking to you than the "caring" corporate.
August 30, 2021 at 05:00
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
I couldnt agree less! So he should have called his book "My mathematical Universe"?
August 30, 2021 at 04:56
In: is it ethical to tell a white lie?  — view comment
Im not sure. Lets say, Im not standard. Addicted, in Dutch, is "verslaafd", meaning "enslaved". I dont feel as a slave of methadone though.
August 30, 2021 at 04:51
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