That's right but consider how knowledge is, ultimately, an assumption just like a belief. There are a lot of presuppositions (e.g. Agrippa's trilemma)...
Yes, that's what my post draws attention to: E = The earth is flat (actually false) 1. I believe E 2. If I believe E, E assumed true 3. If E assumed t...
However, isn't such a position - working with a seemingly unjustified, arbitrary definition of knowledge - self-refuting? First, the claim is give cre...
In other words there's no reason why one cannot know a falsehood. I can, if I wish to, define knowing such that it's not an issue to know a falsehood....
It can only be a contradiction if, 1. To know p implies p is true. That p is not true then contradicts I know p. However, that's begging the question,...
Can you prove the statement "one cannot know something that is not true"? Does this follow from the JTB (justified true belief) definition of knowledg...
Yes. See below to a Marvel comics reference. Raven/Mystique refers to a shapeshifting supervillain/superhero. Thanks for the link to ELIZA. Very inter...
True but what made "some (religious folk) recognize them (atrocities) and realize how unjust these atrocities were"? Can't be religion itself - script...
So, what's your take? Do you think the Turing principle (identity of indiscernibles) is justified/unjustified? Does it follow that, if X and Y are ind...
Beliefs are propositions that one holds to be true. Belief systems are sets of assumed/accepted as true propositions that constitute an internally con...
Of course there are many reasons, some you've mentioned, why people turn to the dark side but you can't deny that religion is one such reason. History...
I guess I should say that's exactly Wittgenstein's point - even words that have referents that all of us can see, point to (ostensive), we make errors...
You can't write about inner experiences because the definitions of the words are ostensive and that would mean every time you think of a word in your ...
You're trying to eat the cake and have it too. You can't claim religion has been a part of our lives and then go on to assert that religion has no rol...
You can't tell the difference and, ergo, by the Turing rule, the AI is a conscious (makes it a person) OR, intriguingly, if that's a hard pill to swal...
Maybe I wasn't clear enough but I did mention religious morals are acceptable but the reason for doing so seems to rather deplorable - want of reward/...
@"Banno" I like the beetle in a box thought experiment. It goes like this: Exclusively private experiences (qualia and others) are hidden from the pub...
What a superb question. I wouldn't say it's a definite NO!, but have you considered Revelations - these being, in a sense, divine transmissions via pr...
So, the choices are either a benevolent dictator OR ecological collapse? Mother Nature has us cornered, has us by the balls. :grin: Magnifique! Of cou...
The Mind - No Mind Equivalency Paradox. Hence, this thread which is, in a sense, asking is human-like intelligence beginning/ending, evolutionarily sp...
Minor differences, overall agreement. That's how I would describe our exchange. Can you go a bit deeper into this inertia concept? Does it have anythi...
Positive change. Climate change has been a hot topic since 1900's (Svante Arrhenius) and it's now the 2000's - it's taking a hell of a long time for t...
By good civilization, I mean one that's in keeping with how nature works - harmoniously with other species and the environment itself - and so, is in ...
The one positive outcome of the agricultural revolution was morality/ethics - as more and more people began to live together, it became necessary for ...
You mean to say inertia as in a resistance to change like in physics how it's difficult to start/stop motion. You might have a point there; this same ...
I'll have to repeat myself because you seem not to have understood my point. There are a lot of computer systems (Google for more information) out the...
Yes, but arguably our proclivities aren't equally matched - greed/selfishness trumps genorosity/altruism any day. I humbly beg to differ. If we weren'...
Are you saying the earth and all living organisms on it, that includes us, are at the mercy of a few people with vested interests in oil? That's uplif...
I can vaguely discern what you mean to say - does it have something to do with Searle's Chinese Room Argument? Computers are simply circuits and elect...
So, disinformation is not beneath Yuval Noah Harari. His book was just getting interesting. Oh well! I suppose he had his reasons to make that claim o...
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