TheMadFool

Hi. Do you see any metaphysical errors in the dark room problem?

Aye! Aye! The alleged miracle must be, as scientists say, reproducible and before that vetted carefully for reliability. It's just that miracles, the ...

That's why, in my humble opinion, (religious) miracles are a scientific obsession and yet if you look at what Hume says - a miracle should only be bel...

Beyond logic, Jack, there maybe something but it would be incomprehensible nonsense to our minds.

This :point: He = masculine pronoun OR Helium. He took the pen. There was He in the tank. The information has changed (man to gas) but nothing physica...

I dunno why I wrote what I wrote. It felt like the most reasonable standpoint given how the dark room problem is set up.

Globally, I see tremendous strides made in the moral sphere. Local conditions may vary. So yeah, I'm gonna wait a little longer before I cast my vote ...

I have no idea what you're trying to say Cartuna.

That's just silly Jack. :grin:

Why do you care?

Have you heard of Protagoras?

I was hungry, for real. I had 0 burgers, 0 hotdogs, 0 eggs, and 0 liters of milk. I'm, for some strange and unfathomable reason, still hungry.

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Someone mentioned children - fresh minds, tabula rasa. To younglings, the world is full of surprises because they haven't had time or are in the proce...

Some music genres don't do anything for me. I have no clue why? Perhaps it doesn't resonate with me at any level for a good reason. This might be rele...

:ok: To stay in the dark is to level the playing field. Yes, I can't see (you) but neither can you (see me)! Plus, I could be a predator for all you k...

It's kind of a paradox. An insect crawls to a dark spot in a room or outdoors for the reason that it'll escape notice and thus no nasty surprises (pre...

Some insects and even animals prefer the dark...they scurry along until they're in the shadows. The dark room problem = Insect logic! = AI logic :chin...

Love, I learned the hard way, doesn't pay the bills.

This is typical of AI logic. Very much like antinatalism which, as per @"180 Proof" amounts to, paraphrasing, "destroying the village to save the vill...

Cicada mating calls. Annoying as hell to us but very sexy to female cicadas. Go figure!

Youtube has the info you seek. :cool: If you ask me, the worst possible sound is silence. Predators have evolved stealth technology - they're, among o...

String Theory! You might've already guessed. Unfortunately or not, all I know about it is that we have a Theory of Everything when we consider nature ...

When a bomb detonates, it's the blast wave (sound) that blows things & people to bits. Yep, sonic killings do occur and are well-documented.

Shiva is most pleased. He would very much like to grant you a boon. :smile:

Like I said, my IQ is on the wrong side of 69. Education, education, education! Chant it like a mantra and everything will be ok! The demographic most...

I don't know what else to say except this: Record all the sounds humans make, that includes sounds made by machines, and see if they they form a melod...

Chalmers' argument needs a name. I call it The Burqa Argument. Chalmers is saying that because we can't see the woman in a burqa (science can't direct...

Smoking is the best good idea of all time! :grin:

Do the math. Are Americans voting sensibly? Does the ballot demonstrate/indicate that education makes a difference? I dunno, just askin'. Edify me, pl...

I'm mostly interested in melody and harmony which, to my reckoning, is more subjective than objective notwithstanding the fact that these aspects of m...

:smile: My IQ score is on the wrong side of 69 (Wechsler). Does that explain everything going on between us?

Yes! Nonphysicalists can hope that mind is a different kind of physical. I'd consider that a win! Wordplay or something substantive? I dunno!

I'm sorry, Athena my Goddess, if you feel that way. Your vengeful reputation precedes you and I don't wanna be in your bad books. Let's just say that ...

Deomcracy is, bottom line, a compromise between totalitarianism and anarchy. The deal we've agreed to is a fixed term (4 years in the USA, think Trump...

Not backwards! :grin: :joke:

Yes, I'm aware that Chalmers (maybe) setting down some kinda boundary for science - demarcating its borders in a manner of speaking, whatever lies out...

I'm only stating a widely-accepted view on the issue: the older you are (chronologically), the smarter you are. This intuition or belief is reflected ...

As far as I can tell the so-called hard problem of consciousness is just Chalmers, the magician's, sleight of hand. Let me walk you through how Chalme...

Progeria kids are under a lot of stress! :smile:

If only we had a video of the Kenosha killings - that would go a long way in shutting us all, with our own quaint and probably utterly false theories,...

I'm sure @"Alexandre Harvey-Tremblay" has something to say about this. He's of the opinion that if something, anything, isn't mathematizable, it's non...

Claude Shannon's definition of information in terms of entropy doesn't gibe with surprise viewed as having something to do with free energy minimizati...

Look at the bright side. When the next variant evolves, we'll all get a piece of Pie (\pi).

Doubt: I don't know but that which I don't know is knowable. Ouch! :grimace: Skepticism: I don't know and that which I don't know is unknowable. Hoora...

:chin: Darkness represents, in the context of our world where clarity is visually-defined, a state of not knowing or unknowing i.e. darkness, the room...

Good to know. You've got it backwards as far as I can tell.

:up: I feel bad but that's not going to be enough, is it? Reminds me of Kant's ethics. He wanted to reduce morality to logic and I believe he explicit...

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You may have a point there. However, look at how the educational system operates. High IQ pupils are routinely awarded grade-skipping promotions. This...