I was kinda kidding, but there are different ways to configure a hivemind and the Borg is not a type i would willingly enter into either. The hivemind...
This is basically the whole reason why i even joined TPF. I appreciate when someone agrees with me, but i value even more a challenge or a critique. I...
I remember learning this lesson a long time ago; it's one of the best lessons i've ever learned because it's so versatile. This is probably the best a...
I think they are fundamental enough, but not completely. For me there can only be one fundamental: the bit. A true fundamental would only need one bit...
Since you asked and you seem troubled: I think your mind is probably working against you, and you probably need to refactor and refocus. What do you r...
Teleonomy is the quality of apparent purposefulness and goal-directedness of structures and functions in living organisms brought about by natural sel...
I have a lot of theories about a lot of things and what you express here sounds much like a theory i formed not too long ago that attempts to explain ...
That's a good start, and it doesn't bother you that these vacuum fluctuations are there for apparently no reason? It does me. Vacuum Fluctuations beg ...
Ok, it is fine that the answer "vacuum fluctuations" is sufficient for you, but it isn't for me. Why "vacuum fluctuations" and not "God", that is if a...
Yes, i think part of the problem has to do with how energy is conceptualized. It is a very slippery concept to grasp "ergonomically" in the human mind...
Cold is the absence of heat, and darkness the absence of light. The difference is only in the magnitude or degree of the one thing in question. What r...
You don't think it's possible for an advanced civilization that evolved naturally to create a simulation in an actual real world computer that produce...
Correct. It is not to say that our universe could not be a simulation with a complex programmer behind it, because even if that were true the programm...
Comparing the universe to a computer: ---------------------------------------------------- universe = computer energy = power / electricity time = pro...
I don't have a better way to think about it than the universe being some sort of computational system. I hesitate to call it a computer since i don't ...
It's funny that you say that because i think about the forces of nature as akin to simple algorithms like how gravity tends to sort matter by specific...
Yep you are essentially right, but i would adjust your statement to say that nature (evolution) explores all possible branches in parallel in the avai...
That is also my educated guess, but i'm trying to probe deeper. I have a sense of how this symmetry-breaking happens, but it feels incomplete. I'm try...
My point actually is that there really is no difference. The difference is illusory and relative, and it makes no difference to me if one calls it phy...
I'm not sure if i am, perhaps you can tell me if i am. I think energy is the only thing that really exists and in it's primordial form from our perspe...
Hi Gnomon, my ontology centers around non-physical things such as time, space, certain forms of energy, logic, number, and information. Some of my phi...
I think you're pretty much on target, and it's how i suspect things will develop. Part of my working theory is that we live in a young universe and in...
If the solution to a problem takes one step then one correct mistake would suffice, but if a problem needs more than one step then it takes a series o...
Another example i forgot to mention is how DeepMind's AlphaGo AI learned to play Go by playing itself over and over. It was only given the rules of th...
"“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison It's how the light bulb was invented. Many scientific discoveries w...
In the context of my post about sublimation, and how pornography can be seen as a desublimating agent; it can also be seen as a kind of release valve ...
You're right but it's worth mentioning that sexual energy (libido) can be sublimated into other areas of activity. Culture can be thought of in one se...
The first atom was a singularity, the first cells, the first animals, yes these are all lower level singularities that occurred in the past. AI will b...
That's probably an accurate way to put it. The thing about China you mentioned is very similar to the process of transferring genes or genetic materia...
Evolution is not as blind as she used to be. It's all part of the same evolutionary process. Evolution is simply operating at a higher level of effici...
Convert it all to computronium, and then connect it all into a galactic network of artificially intelligent planets. In essence make the galaxy consci...
The only real solution to the "problem" of AI is to create a symbiotic relationship with it at the level of mind, and not just at the level of resourc...
I addressed pornography because it was the topic of the OP, but there is much more that dwarfs the problem of pornography when it comes to the reprodu...
Pornography is a kind of supernormal stimulus, since it offers unending sexual novelty, surprise, searching and wanting. This can make real sex seem b...
Just wanted to put on the table that modern medicine has had a significant impact on human evolution, as it has allowed weaker individuals to survive ...
It is my current position that the nature of nothingness (the kind of nothingness that actually "exists", and not just our arbitrary concepts of it) i...
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