TheMadFool

This is a concept.

The essence of free will is to be out of the causal web and still be in it - to wish not to be an effect and yet be a cause. Free will is defined thus...

What is it then?

I think the person in the Chinese Room, his knowledge of language, any language for that matter, isn't important. If I recall correctly, he doesn't kn...

Well, we would need some real people to decide the matter. Are there/were there people who know/knew what love triangles are before the advent of math...

Sorry to hear that but it actually doesn't prove Wittgenstein right - that people use words without knowing their definitions. "Love Triangle" is a si...

Let me be specific, triangle is not in the definiens Cambridge.Org

No triangle in the definition.

At this point I'd like you to consider the nature of consciousness, specifically the sense of awareness, particularly self-awareness. The consciousnes...

Love triangle = romance between three people. No triangle. To tell you the truth, in my discussion with @"Isaac" I was basically on the same side as y...

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Read below: Where's triangle in your definition of love triangle?

Socrates was put to death for a reason. He was, in essence, systematically demolishing all the cherished beliefs of Athenian society. In other words h...

Sorry, got caught up in some other things. Your view on the issue is that people can use the phrase "love triangle" without accurately knowing what "t...

Yes, that's a reasonable thing to say. 1. It can't be denied that death has a preference for the weak, the poor, the underprivileged for the statistic...

I get what you mean but if that's what's meant by "death is the equalizer" then, why is the world making such a big issue of premature deaths among th...

:up: One of my many faults :sad: but it's not because I'm purposely seeking for words/sentences/paragraphs that I can call somebody out on and cry out...

I maybe misremembering this bit I think I made a mental note of a comment made by one forum denizen (sorry can't recall his/her handle). S/he said som...

Just wanted to run this by you...I recall opening a discussion of the Chinese Room argument vis-a-vis the Turing Test. If the Chinese Room can't be di...

What about funding agencies wanting detailed reports on how their money is being used? There's no way you can sneak in experiments in the paranormal i...

Well, "three people" are three points and the only shape possible with three points is a triangle.

I'm only showing you what a love-triangle is. Since a triangle is a geometric concept, it's best to do it with pictures and that I've done.

The entire process will trace back to ostensive definitions.

It was around fiveish that day. The dust from the convoy swirled in the light breeze and the sun was low on the horizon. Under the shade of a tree tha...

See for yourself

If given a choice between all is mind and all is not mind one would have to consider the possibility of the brain-in-a-vat scenario or Descartes' evil...

I only have to answer where they could be, right?

I don't understand you. You asked where's the triangle and I obliged.

Each person represents a point. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. You have your love triangle.

It appears that when you try and fix utilitarianism by making a distinction between higher and lower pleasures you're infact saying pleasure isn't the...

:rofl: That's a zombie thread tim wood, not a vampire. Jesus Christ!

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Triangle = A three-sided geometric figure The failure to define is not concrete proof of the absence of a definition. Wittgenstein believed so accordi...

It appears that Wittgenstein thought that it isn't necessary to know the meaning of a word in order to use it correctly hence, meaning is use for him....

We should fear death. We're the only ones who die. We should fear death. There are good reasons to fear death. We should fear death. No other emotion ...

It all boils down to living as long as possible - what's best for that will usually win out but not always as rampant obesity indicates.

This raises an interesting issue. I'm reading Richard Dawkins' book The Devil's Chaplain and he makes an intriguing remark - that our phenotype (our b...

In a sense, yes. I believe, and I'm not straying off the beaten track in this, evolution is all about survival and to ensure this it caused the develo...

I'm not quite sure if I catch your drift but since reason is part of your thesis you should know that there are irrational desires/wants/preferences. ...

This is a good question, you know, because I think it's happened for real but we should discuss this some other time as it's not relevant to my thesis...

That bigger is better is an old, now obsolete, mindset. It seems it's far more difficult problem to miniaturize. With modern technology we can easily ...

:up: It's perfect as you wrote it. All I did was gild the lily.

:ok: To be fair, let's hear your side of the story. How would you model the situation using probability.

Reminds me of the saw the dog in the manger. To my surprise it has a sexual interpretation. "Collapsible...er...javelin" :wink:

This is a well-considered statement. I second it but that would mean, if taken only a step further, that an actual Chinese Room is, well, conscious - ...

There's no competitive element to this in the sense it isn't actually a case of one side meeting the other on a batttlefiled where strengths/weaknesse...

To all those who're interested I think we need to look at the issue differently. At this point I'd like to call on stage the concepts of relative prob...

You need a brush-up course in probability theory.

There was research done in the paranormal. Unfortunately or fortunately, you be the judge, all positive findings of such phenomena have been demonstra...

There are two layers to observational data. First concerns its reality and the second concerns its correctness. For both, we need multiple observers. ...