Agent Smith

Magnifique! I wish it were all subjective. 3, w, m, ?.

Agnosticism per se is sterile - it doesn't help you in making critical decisions in life. So agnostics still have to make a choice between atheism & t...

The shepherd features prominently in Christianity. I have a feeling that the OP meant that figuratively. If not, sorry for intrusion.

:fire: Superb! I didn't realize until your post that playing to lose is a variation of the type of games I'm attempting to analyze.

Point made, point taken. The world is, I hope/suspect, big enough to accommodate our two divergent viewpoints.

The first port of call is to make list of casus belli. In my humble opinion that's a good place to start if our aim is to find a solution to the probl...

What would beauty be to AI? Will it be identical/similar to our own (subjective/objective) standards of beauty? Remember wide hips, a feminine aesthet...

:ok: Didn't know that! Gracias. :up: A more concrete instance of what I stated in the OP: survival games which life itself is! To both of the two post...

Excelente! Back when I was in college, we learned of what could be described as an emergency response plan for people an animals. It was taught to us ...

You broached an interesting topic: can AI produce art? https://youtu.be/KfAHbm7G2R0 If we (make the egregious error) of distinguishing AI from humans ...

Let's just say that I know there's always a bigger fish out there somewhere. Perhaps I compare myself to Socrates or Einstein or Gödel, basically some...

Si, we're back to square one! Snakes & Ladders. I always get eaten by the longest snake!

If we look at causality from a mathematical perspective, say as a function (input \to f \to output), I think we have a good place to start as regards ...

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Don't get me wrong, I'm all for transhumanism but I feel you're expanding its scope in a way unintended by its proponents - into modifying our nature ...

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Tough question! I've heard this said more often than I could care to count but don't animals attack only when provoked? In other words, aggression may...

:ok: Great way to get this thread going! Although my intention was to discuss structural aesthetics of the www, it seems content too has a bearing on ...

Well, for some of us who got a raw deal in life, I hope there's a second chance!

I want to run something by you. It's been troubling me for a long time. The Unanswered Questions So legend has it that the Buddha refused to answer th...

For what it's worth, I'd say Kant was right on the money as regards immorality being a contradiction. I'm gonna speak in hedonic terms, hoping for a s...

I like how those who've really thought things through speak/act. Clinical death! :up:

There are two components to a, any, mind: 1. The way a mind thinks (thinking style). Reminds me of Kung Fu and the numerous fighting styles in it. 2. ...

What about so-called hallucinations/mirages?

:up: I like the way you make ideals another type of being. It's close to what I said once in another thread. There's no nonexistence, just different k...

I can't remember the rest of the lecture! :rofl:

Well, I'm of the view that definitions, like propositions, are subject to the Münchhausen Trilemma: 1. Infinite regress of definitions/proofs 2. Circu...

Is it possible for something to have no effect? Here's an example of one: I push against the Great Wall of China. Nothing happens! The force I exerted...

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@"Wayfarer" Thought you might be interested :point: If a first cause is necessary...

Good that you brought it up. It seems all arguments for/against free speech/censorship are those categorized as arguments from consequences. So free s...

You sound like Anselm.

:ok: 1. X is undetectable then X doesn't exist. That means 2. X exists then X is detectable But those who believe in God claim that 3. X (God) exists ...

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Let me try and simplify my problem in a few questions 1. How do we know X exists? We can't! There are no sufficient condition for existence. X is dete...

An eye-opener! It is true that defining God in terms of greatness, the greatest being imaginable to be precise, tends to create paradoxes - the omnipo...

Ok. Can you lay down these standards (of philosophical inquiry) for my benefit? I'd love to know. I've always suspected there is one and I even have m...

No, no! You've made some very important points. It's just that there are too many lines of inquiry for me to handle. I'm feeling overwhelmed. :smile:

I must admit I'm a bit lost. Do pardon me. We not only adapt to truths, we do the opposite as well, adapt truths to us. Stoicism may have been popular...

We're derailing the thread! I'm partly responsible. Sorry OP. Good day Nickolasgaspar!

:clap: Never thought of it that way although I recall you mentioning this before!

I went over that in my preceding posts. Rejecting If X exists, X is detectable means the following: (viii) X exists & X is undetectable. Now the quest...

Fine-Tuning is synonymous with perfection insofar as the conditions for life is at stake, oui?

I won't try to explain why you're wrong. The brain is a simplifying apparatus. Telos? Possible, very possible! Thanks for your comments.

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:up: Excellent overview of the problem, mon ami! Then something's wrong with one/both of the following claims (our premises/assumptions) (ii) X exists...

PSR? You missed the point then. Sometimes it'll do, sometimes it just won't. The trick is to know when it will and when it won't. :up: Maybe some, not...