Indeed, you've defined it but my contention is that you had to make the definition so very broad, necessary since art is so variegated in nature, that...
To begin with, thanks for keeping it simple. Can we then say that simplicity (I don't know how it's defined but my understanding is that it means some...
The problem as to mathematical probability is rather simple - the answer to the question, what is the probability of the conjunction of two events, 1)...
@"Jack Cummins", an update for you if you're interested that is. The examples I gave above are inappropriate for what I want to say but they're not a ...
As far as I know, the difference between idealism and materialism is that in the case of the former, whatever you perceive is mind-generated i.e. the ...
:up: Even the greatest thinkers suffer the occasional bout of stupidity and sometimes it can be...fatal. It appears that we haven't learnt our lesson....
I thought all the fuss was about what you call apperances - the phenomenal world. Is the phenomenal world all conceptual or all material? I'm out of m...
That's deep! Convergence, as determined by matters such as convenience, efficiency, to name a few of the possibly many factors involved. More on this ...
That's a thought I had not long ago. Nothingness is, literally, the apotheosis of potential - with not a thing in nothing, there can be no contradicti...
My point is simple: Your definition is, all things considered, broad, very broad, an indication that art has a rich diversity, there's a lot to includ...
@"Pop" The way it seems to me is philosophy of art is in the business of, ultimately, constraining art by defining it; a definition although good to h...
So, a lot's going on between composer, conductor, orchestra, soloist and so on. I didn't know music could be thaaaat complex. An eye-opener for me. Go...
Hi. You dug up a corpse of a thread. My point is simple. Imagine an AI (X)that looks exactly like a human i.e. externally, you don't have the option o...
The Achilles' heel of determinism is the problem of induction. Determinsim seems wedded for all eternity with the so-called laws of nature (go to the ...
You said: Basically, you're talking about garden variety computers like your laptop or your PC. Thus, I tried to steer the conversation into the domai...
Giordano Bruno was, unfortunately or not, burnt at the stake for heresy. Now, no one would look askance at you for asking the same questions he did. M...
1. I hate emotions. 2. I love reason. 3. I love emotions. 4. I hate reason. 5. I love both emotions and reason. 6. I hate both emotions and reason. 7....
:point: Holism A fascinating vision of the future (man-machine symbiosis) and who's to say that that isn't already the case? Have you ever argued with...
@"Wayfarer" I can't seem to get my hands on the quote but allow me to paraphrase it, the best I can. If you can tell me the name of the saint and the ...
What is your understanding of a Turing machine and what's a Von Neumann architecture? As for the second part of the post, looks like humanity has only...
:up: Insight However, Archimedes was bathing, not thinking. Come to think of it, my humble laptop can play music as it displays a PDF document for my ...
Which word, if not "all", do you suggest that I use to refer to and/or include, and I quote, "...unpredictable, even random, novelties..."? I mean it ...
You mean to say that most of the time, there's background activity going on in our brains, stuff we aren't conscious of but occasionally, there are ti...
Sorry, couldn't read the OP in full - it's too long and I have ADHD. Addressing the title "The Art Of Losing Yourself" if it's true to the gist of the...
It seems our problems have doubled over the past 2000 years - first, it was evil, whatever that is, we had to deal with and now, pure evil! This task ...
I'm not saying my talking about Will Smith affected the probability of him walking by. That's silly. I'm saying he could've walked by me at any time i...
So, you do agree to the gist of the OP. See :point: The Old Man And His Sons A single person could dispatch a whole batallion of soldiers one by one (...
Have it, flaunt it! Isn't that a rule of life? I take it - beauty recognizing itself - as part of the Socratic principle of temet nosce. It's odd that...
Keep in mind that this difference may not matter. Re-education Camps How do we do that? "...it (AI) goes and makes up its own instructions after a poi...
Could there be a set of instructions (code) that's sufficiently general to effectively tackle all possible problems? Or, as some computer scientists h...
Speaking In Tongues (Glossolalia) In a strange reversal of conditions, a person who simply repeats (oh! Talking Birds) a sentence in a language fae do...
This doesn't seem to do the trick. Firstly the "second party" itself is programmed, has a nature and secondly, this "second party" must still work via...
@"Alkis Piskas" You might the following conversation between a caterpillar and Alice in Lewis Carroll's book Alice In Wonderland interesting: The Cate...
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