Enumerate these feelings. I know that understanding is important but that goes for everything not just art and so understanding as a notion fails to d...
Here's an analogy fir you to consider. To my knowledge, traits like selflessness, not expecting anything in return, to name a few, define a good perso...
Causation, as far as I can tell, is, all things considered, simply a pattern in events. I pot a plant, keep it where it gets good sunlight, water it, ...
Oh! I see. In the reverse Turing test, people are tested if they can mimic a computer or a simple chatbot I suppose. I didn't say ALL people are capab...
A generalization that plays a role in my thesis: No chatbots can simulate emotions. Where's the "faulty" generalization? Are you saying, some chatbots...
There's no dearth of doomsayers in the world. In fact, many great minds have apocalyptic predictions down to a science to the extent that that's possi...
I'm veering dangerously close to suicide by mod but one has to walk the talk as they say and I'm not all that keen to flip the kill switch...not yet.....
:ok: What if an AI saved your life? Last I checked, the deep bond that occasionally :chin: forms between a savior and the saved is based wholly on the...
Yes, there are other problems mods have to deal with but what I wanted to touch upon was how close to the reverse turing test the mods' methods are. R...
I see a paradox in the way forum mods are handling the matter of emotional outbursts with their accompanying offensive behavior. If memory serves, abo...
Given the above is true, there's more than enough room for anyone to draw erroneous conclusions based on bad definitions (of life). Imagine an assassi...
At the heart of altruism lies the desire to spread joy and in that finding one's own joy. Sharing that experience is a win-win situation as far as I'm...
I suppose you're on the right track on this score. If the self is nowhere as important as in ethics and its emphasis on responsibility, an exploration...
Ergo...consciousness enjoys eternal existence but the catch is only in a backward sense and not forward in time. Things can go out of existence. somet...
In one word, beauty :up: I can relate to the goth subculture although my experience of it has been very superficial. Black is my favorite color - keep...
Personally, and I maybe completely off the mark on this one, that art has a subjective element to it is an illusion created by the complexity of the i...
I'm reluctant to accept works that don't have an aesthetic quality to them as art. All said and done, there's got to be something different, something...
First of all, I haven't been able to establish a necessary connection between wisdom and morality except one that seems to be true given what we know ...
Off the top of my head all I can say is that the key ideas in art are to, 1. the beauty of nature (paint, sculpt scenic landscapes, handsome men, gorg...
An artist, a real one, must be able to infuse objects, from highfalutin ideas to lowly flush toilets, with beauty. It ain't easy; I'm not an artist bu...
One way to look at it would be to look into how many other lies need to be told to prop up the lies in question. Suppose Tom came into Sarah's room an...
We, all of us, are capable of thinking, acting, speaking but only a handful can do them beautifully and those so blessed are the artists. My idea of a...
What do you know about self-fulfilling prophecies? My take on it is that a prediction is made by a seer of sorts and the person who's the key to the p...
Me too! It'd would be really interesting if it's a rock, paper, scissors kinda scheme. I mean here I am envying the rich and pitying the poor and the ...
I'm curious though. How does Markus Gabriel tackle the Munchhausen trilemma for he must if he's to make his case that "Sekpticism...is completely unju...
:rofl: That link leads us back to your post. I'll read Markus Gabriel when I have the time. Thanks. His argument for why the world may not exist must ...
Whoever has the gold, makes the rules. I don't think there's anything wrong with candidates advocating policies that are in favor of campaign donors w...
Freedom is the power to act, speak, think what one wants Free speech is the power to speak what one wants. Spending money on a candidate is an act. A ...
You wouldn't have known this if you hadn't done philosophy. Oddly, the truth is that there's no truth or something like that. Amazing, no? Imagine get...
To the extent that I understand, I fully agree that the self is intimately tied to ethics as nowhere else is responsibility as central and as critical...
We already have such a world and it's logical argumentation. All arguments take place outside of time or if that seems too far-fetched in a temporal l...
You hit the spot as far as I'm concerned. Wisdom is, if I understood the term correctly, a pan-discipline. It seems that wisdom is, all things conside...
I second that. The problem, as I see it, is not too much philosophy but actually too less philosophy. Do you have any examples of philosophy solving p...
Up until a few weeks ago I was under the impression that doomsayers were invariably of the religious type. Apocalpyse, Judgment Day, Day of Reckoning,...
What do you have to say about this: ? Is there such a thing as too much philosophy? I'm sure you're fully aware of how some people look down on philos...
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