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And you should learn to read between the lines :joke: I got no beef with you. For someone who is interested in the knowledge, it surprises me that you...

I love the absurdity of arguing against fairy tales and ignorance by telling fairy tales and embracing ignorance. Brilliant!

Haha, I couldn't think of a better way to frame it. I meant the scale of "me and the few other people who I can discuss philosophy with." The scale th...

Thank you for articulating your view. That's a great way of looking at things, and definitely practical for the people studying philosophy. I will att...

That's a great way to put it! Do you think there is an analogy to the musical world? In the musical world, there are people who contribute by writing ...

Forgive me, I made a false connection between conclusions and contributions. I meant to aks: If two people offer the same contribution to the field, w...

If two people independently drew the same conclusion in the field of philosophy, would only one of them become a philosopher, the one who did it earli...

Can one study philosophy without becoming a philosopher? Can one engage in philosophical thinking without contributing to a philosophical school of th...

Sorry, I wasn't sure who the question was directed to. I also wasn't sure what kind of answer you were looking for. Personally, I don't believe that t...

Here is the definition of a phisolopher: Does this change your determination of what a philosopher is?

Perhaps. And perhaps you owe an apology to Bernie Sanders, Jordan Peterson, Freud et al. for treating them less than philosophers :grin: But I had a s...

When I was six years old, I was reading a book about mathematics and there was a chapter about philosophers. I asked my mum who philosophers were. She...

I was thinking about this when I was writing the comment. It's not about the system interpreting information, but it's about the people who design the...

To be fair, the original comment was even more more arrogant than T Clark's response

As a software engineer, I'm involved in building backend systems that collect information and then use it as a source of knowledge for decision making...

That was quite true in 2014. After that, Ukraine started Ukrainianizing the eastern half by promoting the Ukrainian culture and language. Many native ...

Russia: Invades Ukraine and annexes Crimea in 2014. Ukraine: There is a hostile country at our borders. We want to join NATO for protection. Russia: U...

Ah, so the purpose of the thread is to invite others to share pragmatic approaches to knowledge. Initially, I thought it was about the benefits of the...

I don't disagree with everything said in this thread, but I feel that I start losing the track of what it means to be pragmatic vs not pragmatic. Coul...

I recently came across a book called Moral Uncertainty. It provides a framework for making ethical decisions in the face of uncertainty. Basically, th...

Yes, it is a requirement, and some people treat it as an inconvenience: "I understand the problem, and I have a solution. Why should I be wasting my t...

In software engineering, we have a practice of consolidating knowledge in Design Docs, also called RFCs (Requests For Comments). E.g. Google, Uber. Ov...

This is an interesting explanation. Where could I learn more about it? I’m curious to know what a periodic state without a temporal direction is, and ...

Problem of time: In quantum mechanics, time is a classical background parameter and the flow of time is universal and absolute. In general relativity ...

You articulated well your experience as a civil and environmental engineer and how it formed your view about knowledge. It appears like you're describ...

One thing that I know about these systems is that they model the brain mathematically rather than biologically. The biological inspiration is how neur...

Sorry, I think you confused this with something else. This is an example of the cutting edge technology in the field of deep learning that is actively...

That is a good point. In most of the modern video games it's not possible to lose. If you die, you just start from where you were a minute ago. But I ...

That would indeed be interesting! Let's keep the artist.

It appears like you're drawing a significant distinction between computers and the physical world. Programs don't fly and brains don't compute. I'm no...

I'm saying “replicates <…> brain” because the fundamental mathematical model was influenced by how brain neurons work (each neuron receives multiple i...

How would you summarise your arguments? Here's is my attempt: 1. We cannot trust a perfect epistemological system because it can deceive us 2. We need...

There are two ways to answer to your question, but I think that you'll find both of them unsatisfactory: 1. Yes, it's in our best interest to prolong ...

If proving something like this seems impossible, then what makes you ask for a proof? :smile: All I'm saying is that it's hard track the causality of ...

Thank you for explaining this. I always wondered why my programs didn’t fly.

My interest in philosophy comes from programming. When you program, you create small functional models of the real world. If your program is used by m...

All subjective experience is caused by consciousness, but consciousness does not give birth to itself (not an illusion). Does this make consciousness ...

According to an online dictionary, virtuous means "having good moral qualities and behaviour", and moral means "relating to the standards of good or b...

Thank you, that’s a well-articulated answer. I think it’s a valid standpoint, and it’s quite realistic that the problem will just fade away over time ...

According to whom? I just watched a quick interview with David Chalmers where he very clearly articulated that scientific methods (such as MRI) will d...

The easy problem of consciousness attempts to explain how the brain works as a complex mechanism by observing causes and effects, such as the activati...

Thanks! That’s a good answer, well articulated too. You’re saying that once we understand the nature of an illusion, the illusion no longer affects us...

Sometimes it's not really a dog, but a bush shaking in the wind that you momentarily mistaken for a dog. Your experience was real, and it matched the ...

If you're curious about the nature of sleep or wish to improve your sleep, there is a good book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. In this book, Matthe...

Thank you for your replies! I must be repeating countless discussions about consciousness that already happened on this forum. I don't intend to keep ...

I think that you're right and there is a technicality that makes "the mind is an illusion" self-contradictory. But despite the technicality, I cannot ...

That's a well-articulated post, thank you! Your terminology is much sharper than mine, and agree with everything that you said.

What if the subject that you're talking about is not an atomic thing? What if it can be divided into multiple parts? Some studies suggest that if we s...

I see! I didn’t use the word illusion in a negative sense, just neutral. Hope you can see what I mean. For example, this comment is not me, but an ill...

You don't seem to agree that consciousness is an illusion, do you? What alternative perspectives do you have in mind? Personally, the idea of consciou...