But logic (the critical human faculty I was talking about) can be reduced to a computation and that's, if I'm not mistaken, our pride and joy. The res...
What about Leibniz and Charles Babbage, George Boole, people who reduced a critical human faculty to computation? The rest of your post, I'll address ...
:up: Right! I was actually thinking of something else. Take the USA for example - it considers itself the champion of democracy, not in the Americas, ...
The simple fact is climate change, suppose it's true, hasn't produced the desired effect at the level of society - governments, the powers that be - w...
If we take the brain as a computer (computational theory of mind), we need to explain free will (assuming we possess it). Add to that the belief that ...
While we're on the topic, a few excerpts from the section on agriculture & humans from Yuval Noah Harari's book, Sapiens vide infra: That's just to of...
A word is like a Rorshach inkblot, at least the word "God" seems to be so, in that it doesn't seem to have a fixed meaning. A very fluid situation is ...
A very thought-provoking perspective on the human condition. Makes me wonder if there really is an actual villain orchestrating the whole thing, runni...
Interesting thought. Insofar as the human labor force is concerned, it now faces a severe threat from the money-driven partnership between capitalists...
:up: There might be a grain of truth in what you say. However, I'd hesitate to say it's all for show, you know, just for the cameras. It might help to...
Donald Trump was actually responsible for moving the Doomsday Clock forward by a few minutes, taking the world closer to midnight (Apocalypse, End tim...
This, it seems, has much broader implications. From Wikipedia (on the Fermi Paradox): It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself This is t...
We would be joining category of living organisms that committed evolutionary seppuku suicide bombing - h. sapiens is probably well on its way towards ...
Anti-Vaxxers, Creationists, 9/11 Truthers, Climate Deniers, Flat-Earthers. What do they all have in common? Some here have called them stupid but I do...
Art began simple - as mere 2D shadows of the world around us depicting hunting scenes, herds of animals, etc. Artists then developed techniques to con...
Translate that into intelligence, species, evolution, extinction. When I say intelligence, I refer to what it conventionally stands for - problem solv...
:up: Good point. As usual, your piercing insight has taken you to the heart of the issue. In my defense, I'd say that so long as intelligent species a...
Confirmation bias: Requires a hypothesis that is erroneously, well, confirmed. Synchronicity is a hypothesis: Coincidences occur; I'm excluding the ot...
Here's something interesting I picked up from the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - math, as a language, is what linguists call, a partial script i....
It cannot be confirmation bias because that would mean people are selecting events that confirm a hypothesis and brushing aside disconfirming evidence...
You have a point and you make it with exceptional alacrity. If you have the time, why don't we simply engage in an open-ended discussion on the subjec...
There maybe something to synchronicity as in it may not be just some crazy idea that popped out of an overactive imagination. Albert Einstein and Wolf...
I fear you're as lost as I am. No point in either of us asking for directions from each other. Do carry on. One of us will stumble onto the truth, the...
I'm more gut instincts than clear, logical analysis. So, I may not be able to pinpoint the problem I intuit in your statements but if I have to say so...
I don't quite like where you're taking this. Morality is, at the end of the day, transcendence of the self and that's why, my hunch is, it's so hard t...
Did you know? Carl Gustav Jung was only 1 of 3 people involved in the exploration of synchronicity as a subject in its own right. The other two were p...
Your effort to define art is commendable of course for it's a holy grail of art philosophers but what I want to point out is that art has, in a sense,...
I see but...speaking from how humans think and how we're so bowled over by efficiency, is it wrong to say that there's an uncanny resemblance between ...
The quote above, taken as true, implies that without the facticity of God's existence, morality has no leg to stand on. In other words, religions - hu...
Please don't mention cancer as I (TheMadFool) am a chain smoker. Please don't mention climate change because I (Mother Earth) too am a chain smoker. F...
I've said this innumerable times and this seems as good an opportunity to reiterate - the, for lack of a better concept, evolutionary gap between huma...
My issue was with the way you characterized idealism and materialism. You said, Something's not quite right with the above description of the two phil...
In other words, you can't tell whether the three (other humans, true AI, p-zombies) are conscious or not. You can't commit or come to a definitive con...
I stand corrected then. Nevertheless, in my defense, climatologists, probably because they aren't trained in the scientific method like physicists are...
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