universeness

I was thinking of a thread about the lyrics of 'protest songs' and music that people used to go into battle listening to etc. It came to me when I was...

Ok. I broadly support your thread title;Avoiding blame with 'Physics made me do it' is indefensible. I think it's important that the human race take f...

Do we not just end up in the paradox of "the only objective truth is that there are no objective truths?" Is not every point on a circle, a potential ...

Is your OP not dependant on whether or nor the universe is in fact deterministic? I asked you once before if you thought quantum fluctuations were a t...

I don't have a great deal of confidence in a New York Times article. I am cynical enough to treat all newspaper articles, as deserving only a base lev...

Typed like a true emotionless AI! It may diminish, but will be freshly remembered by a significant few of the highest quality!

Has @"Jamal" or his mod minions, decided to 'diminish' this thread? I apologise in advance for such a terrible accusation if it's just a tech hitch. I...

Daddy!

Don't tell him our cunning plan! https://youtu.be/ACnqI1l4I9s

Thanks for the very interesting response. 1. I understand your 'balkanise the globe' projection but I don't agree with your bracketed ('even when AGI ...

NOOOOOOOOOOO! For f*** sake, don't go there. Especially not as Jamal! They might get all Jamal Khashoggi on you! Putin is probably a direct descendant...

Anyway, I would like to officially request that you and your 'we arra mods' security team use your obvious knowledge of electronic wizardry, to usurp ...

Perhaps it's wiser to just insist that I am an Earthling, but I don't think many sectarian Scots or compulsive aggressive nationalists in all their co...

:lol: I sooooooo relate to that same indignancy, but not for quite the same reasons as you describe, and only when I am not in Scotland. I expect the ...

:up: I read where you said you were born down South. Is national identity something that plays a significant roll in your own persona?

How many non-brits here will watch the coronation (this Saturday) of another inheritor, of the now stone dead 'divine right of Kings,' inheritance, th...

Yes, I would broadly agree with your analysis. It would be fun to drill more into how much of an individual identity you think could still be maintain...

I enjoy your more 'optimistic' posts whenever I come across one. If I need cheered up, I can always write more of my own. If you ever watch the Jeff H...

:clap: Me to. (Although I would replace 'atheist evDEVILists,' with secular humanist. I will continue to support such folks in anyway I can!)

:lol: Well done in finding 3 out of your almost 12,000 posts. :joke: I am sure you could find more, if you had to. I won't suggest 6 examples of your ...

I just heard that: Geoffrey Hinton, (the godfather of AI,) 75 has just resigned from his post with Google. He helped to design the systems that became...

In his discussion, in the video, with 3 other folks involved in the area, you will find that Jeff, does not currently hold the same opinion as you do,...

I will have to now buy Jeff's 'thousand brains book.' YOU keep adding to my homework sir! :rofl: I recently completed The memoirs of Ulysses Simpson G...

Have you watched this? https://youtu.be/6VQILbDqaI4 I watched it last night. It's 2 hours 35 mins, but worth the investment. The term emergence/emerge...

:100: :up:

Are we an evolutionary apex? Can we exemplify enough of what we might claim are improvements throughout our history on this planet, that shows it is g...

Fair enough.

Why not?

That's ok, you are free to bail out anytime you wish.

Sure, if you feel that change would better fit it's content.

That's called the fetch-execute cycle and happens to the clock pulse of the clock line of the 'control bus' (not really a bus, as the lines operate di...

"where he leads a team in efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex" :grin: What a brilliant Job! You should try to emulate @"Mikie" and try to contac...

@"180 Proof" Do you think there is any progress offered by labelling 'consciousness' a system? From Wiki: A system is a group of interacting or interr...

Put lipstick on your Jesus blow up doll if you wish but you don't need to tell the world about it. https://youtu.be/LxB6-HnXZEU

Jesus will have you for a sunbeam sonny! Having a purpose to look forward to must be wonderful for you.

I am sure you will 'categorise' those on TPF you clash with in your on way and in your own time. I am meeting folks in town for a wee Saturday pub cra...

Its a good exemplar for you Eugen and good fun for me.

What are you talking about now? Is there a sale on in your favourite crucifix shop?

Might be better to simply focus on the TPF members you prefer to exchange with Eugen.

You seem a little sexually obsessed. Can your god not help you with that?

Did your god tell you to try again to communicate with me?

But any thread about fundamentals offers a path to theism as theism posits that THEE fundamental is god! It's not unreasonable for interlocuters to pr...

Did you not notice that I ran way past you, ages ago! Do yourself a favour and stop responding to or referencing me. You will cry less!

No, he just does not think your questions are very good but maybe he is choosing to be disrespectful to you as you have typed disrespect towards him. ...

Water off a duck's back, but you imo, represent yourself on TPF as little more than a troll.

I think the mods should keep an eye on your postings, you are such a bitter wee sweetie.

I broadly agree with this. In the field of Computing science, ontology is used all the time, to name and categorise data types and data structures, th...

Or we could just decide that this imaginary god has never existed and any trolly problem style scenario's/dilemmas, are ALL OURS and ANY individual fa...

Oh, I get what you mean now. I think you are saying that you posted your question again, before you read that 180proof had already answered it. I did ...

Saw What?