I have come across that paper before, i actually downloaded the PDF some time ago but i haven't had the time to read the whole thing yet. I'm a little...
For me the answer is forward. The past can more easily be reconstructed than predicting the future. I want to go where we haven't been before, know wh...
Yes i totally agree, but like i said i don't see how it precludes derivability. It simply renders it more complex and that is all. The fact that somet...
I feel you, i'm not afraid of death but the only reason a really want to live forever is to see it all happen before my eyes, to be a part of it throu...
The main idea is that it's not just chemistry but there is another aspect apart from pure genetics and chemistry that is responsible for morphology. G...
This is just a temporary state of affairs due to our limited but growing knowledge of these processes. On the specific issue you mention about the str...
The way i see it is that evolution does have a direction in the same way entropy and time have a direction. It's an inevitable unfolding of a process ...
Survival is not a trivial observation, it is key to selection. It is what selection means in this context. Growing longer legs is not the only kind of...
I'm not sure what that means. What would be a specific aspect of biology that is not derivable from chemistry? I think this is absolutely true. There ...
It may seem to you or most people that there is a clear dividing line, but my point is that this dividing line is somewhat arbitrary. Natural things c...
Speaking strictly from the human perspective our ability to meditate and contemplate are really two extremes of the same spectrum; as it is with hot a...
Oh was i not supposed to reject that? My apologies, i will renew my subscription as soon as humanly possible. I never gave myself any label but if i h...
I would suggest you check out Michael Levin's work in regards to that. Let's look at the parts or things you mentioned: minds, DNA, ecosystems, societ...
Thermodynamics is just one variable or constant in the equation. There are also the forces of nature (strong, weak, EM, and gravity). The confluence o...
There must be an explanation for anything that actually happens. Our level of understanding of something does not preclude it from happening. It does ...
Sure sounds right. First comes data, then information, knowledge (factoids), and finally wisdom. Each one depends on the prior which means wisdom does...
I might laugh but i would first need to qualify what you mean by goblins and dragons. If aliens exist, and had contact with people in the past they ha...
Thank you as well. The evolution of knowledge in the context of the history of mankind started with the development of religion (from animism to monot...
Any instance of mutation happens in just one individual organism. If that mutation is not fatal then the organism survives, reproduces, and multiplies...
Let's see what should i say about meditation... In my opinion meditations involving complex directed thoughts and perceptions should not even be attem...
Yes i agree. This is because you assume that what man makes or creates with his own hand is artificial and thus somehow separate from nature; not true...
Sometimes saying something in another language helps it make more sense. I think you might know what i mean if you're multilingual. If something doesn...
For me it would not make sense for consciousness to exist in a vacuum. For me consciousness exists only in relation to something else. The word consci...
I don't think it started off wanting to be conscious, it had no choice but to develop consciousness. In the same way that a baby before being conceive...
It's okay, none of us are fully 'cooked' yet. We still have a little more to go. The next couple of generations will be more ready for what needs to h...
I noticed your interest in Greek mythology from your profile, and i like mythology too. I think the story of Cronus eating his children is relevant to...
I know, it's still hard to believe, but many things were not only hard to believe but impossible to believe at one point. What we are capable of belie...
The only higher power i believe in are the laws of physics (or the habits of physics), logic, and mathematics. We are gods on this Earth, and any suff...
You're probably right, which is why we need systems that can handle that kind of problem volume. No human or group of humans without augmentation can ...
You indeed are seeing some similarities between what i think and Christianity, but it's not the same, it's actually very different, and no self-respec...
Yes, we are actually going through a mass extinction event right now. It's very possible that we will not make it, but it's worth trying and not give ...
I myself value the progress of evolution, and i live as though the whole of the universe is a subject, although an incomplete one. That subject (the u...
The point here is that you don't really feel other people's pain, you can only imagine it and then relate to it at that level. In a hive-mind the way ...
I am not a Christian, and i don't have a low opinion of humans, only that we have reached the limits of our physical and mental abilities to manage an...
It seems to me like every object is a subject and every subject is an object to some non-zero degree. It seems to be one of those things in the univer...
There are no enemies inside a hive-mind, you are the hive-mind and the hive-mind is you. If it scares you to have your private thoughts shared among o...
I am very proud of what humans have done up to now, considering how flawed we are. My thing is that human civilization or history is a stepping stone ...
I guess i agree if i had to put it in those terms (culture or authority), but both those terms imply some external force or influence imposed on an in...
That would be the global cybernetic AI-Human hybrid hive-mind. In other words everybody including the AI will be responsible for everyone's well-being...
democracy = late 15th century: from French démocratie, via late Latin from Greek d?mokratia, from d?mos ‘the people’ + -kratia ‘power, rule’. A democr...
My main point really is that any government controlled by humans in power positions will always eventually slip into some despotic state. AI i believe...
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