Agent Smith

Somehow reminds me of Freedom of Speech

Yes, that's precisely the way I understand it too. :cool:

@"Nils Loc" Sorry if you were offended by my reply, it was wrong to dismiss your post as off-topic. Let me reiterate the issue at hand: God exists & G...

You said that already! :lol:

I see no reason to doubt that.

What were they then?

Update Did language precede thought or was it the other way round?

Kahlil Gibran's quote is apposite to the extent he states that there are things that can be said/written (language) but not meant (thought). Tibetan b...

True, another interesting perspective on these founding fathers of world religions. However, I'm looking for a deeper, more satisfying, connection tha...

Yes, it has to be. How would you isolate the variable intrinsic value otherwise?

I didn't say that, but yeah, I couldn't a more apt quote. Sorry if you found the quote more interesting than the main point of my OP.

Oh! Gibran's relevance is only to the extent that his quote contains the phrase "said but not meant".

L = (I love you & I don't love you). A bit unorthodox/irregular I agree but not something that should undermine my point.

What I meant to say was that the so-called laws of nature are such that they always tend to keep one/two variables at a minimum - nature's lazy. Human...

For anything at all. We don't need to specify what exactly something is useful for; that something can be used (Wittgenstein & meaning of life) is all...

Flexibility is an asset I was told. There's nothing to be correct about. :chin: You're off-topic.

Meaning has to do with cogitation. Try thinking of a contradiction: imagine an apple both (all) red and not (all) red. The issue isn't about love per ...

Yup, that's one way to look at it. There were, back then and as is true in the here and now, the Siamese twins of suffering & evil. Given the diversit...

Try this on for size ahimsa fans: Forrester's Paradox.

More than that I'm afraid. Nature, I was told, is lazy. Limits are restrictions, restrictions are imposed, imposed implies absence of, not presence of...

It's obvious that thinking is involved. Can you describe, in detail if possible, the actual ratiocination involved?

If the most benevolent being of all, the all-good God, dispatches sinners, people with feelings still, to hell where they allegedly experience hypervi...

What's the common thread, the leitmotif, that unites the following personalities? (I'm restricting myself to major religions) 1. Siddhartha Gautama (B...

:ok:

Well, now you know.

ALL robots pass the Turing test.

There are none to whom Asimov's laws apply to. That's the point.

A legitimate government is one that assumes and discharges the responsibility of executing maximally beneficial projects that require large-scale coop...

Yes.

Apparently no.

Necessary and Obligatory are not semantic equivalents. If we kill, we must do so humanely BUT if we do kill humanely, it doesn't follow that we should...

I'm not satisfied with your replies. Have a good day.

Metacognition: The mind forms and image of itself. This image, last I checked, is definitely not a brain.

Yep, one difference between random and nonrandom is algorithms.

Moral contradictions aren't cases analogous to good guy vs. bad guy; they're actually good guy vs. good guy and therein lies the rub.

The old switcheroo!

The camera captures itself, right but neither single neurons nor neural networks see themselves as they truly are, neurons or neural networks; in othe...

Is there no middle ground or a third alternative? I reckon, the universe being mathematical and all, atheists won't appreciate it if math were invente...

If you say so.

@"Wayfarer" is right. Is a neuron self-aware? It can't make an object of itself. Yes, consciousness is a network phenomenon of neurons some might say ...

Never mind!

No, no. Not that kinda difference. I mean in terms of a methodology (a rule). I'm sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean? P is knowledge if P is ...

One exciting possibility is that time is unreal or, to rephrase, time is an illusion. An infinite past doesn't make sense and nor does a finite past. ...

You mean to say each case of knowledge has its own satisfying conditions? In other words, knowledge is undefined? Plus, can you go into detail as to h...

How is "P is true" satisfied?

Cyberspace can't be sacred. The internet has been/is/will be used to initiate/perpetuate/aggravate crime; in fact it'a become a safe haven for many cr...

I see. JTB definition of truth: S knows P IFF 1. P is true 2. P is justified 3. S believes P How do we know P is true? I know you've tried to explain ...

MUH (Mathematical Universe Hypothesis) is just Pythagoreanism (vide infra) resurrected! What if Jesus was an idea?, but that's another story. Lemme se...

The Pattern-Patternless paradox. Assume 3 numerical series: S1, S2, S3. S1 and S2 exhibit (unique) patterns. S3 is patternless i.e. it's random. Suppo...