universeness

One man's meat is another man's poison, I suppose. I believe all theism is ultimately pernicious, as at the most fundamental level, it steals (with yo...

That's not the point I am making. Earlier in your posts, you suggested (unless I misinterpreted your meaning) that you consider the creation of a cybe...

I was ok with this up to your last sentence, which is a bridge too far for my rationale. I prefer the Greek atomists but as I have stated before, I do...

I already answered this. You are one who asked me to 'place' an existent ASI in the time of WWII, as you asked me how an ASI would prevent WWII, and t...

What??? My culture is Scottish, which has it's origins in the Celtic traditions, but it is mostly now (as are most nations) a very mixed and diverse c...

You are misinterpreting what I am typing. Where did I suggest the universe is alive? I typed that all life in the universe, taken as a totality, COULD...

Another antinatalism thread :roll:

Yeah, me too. The question remains, do you think your great potato is self-aware and created this universe and is used as one of the main justificatio...

Why is this 'it' you keep referring to not 'the universe and everything in it that is not me?' Or is this 'It' you refer to, something you perceive IS...

Yes but the set of 'everything,' does not include non-existents. So we are left with debate regarding what credibility level should be assigned to wha...

You typed: You can't posit 'it doesn't have,' because 'it is.' I am 3 dimensional, in what logical sense, could that mean I don't or a god might not h...

So an omnipresent, immaterial/omnimaterial, outside of what we conceive as spacetime, amoral/omnimoral, inanimate animate, existent. Yeah, I see your ...

Perhaps there are aspects of human consciousness, that cannot be reproduced by self-replicative, self-augmentative, advanced AI. I know we are in the ...

Not at all! as the 'purpose,' I am suggesting, only exists, as an emergence of all the activity of that which is alive, and can demonstrate intent and...

I also like their scream: https://youtu.be/jlMiG7f-Edw

I am less impressed with the abilities of evil than you seem to be. In B5 the shadows (villains) and the vorlons (hero's) turned out to be as bad as e...

In Yoruba mythology, Sango also known as Jakuta is perhaps the most popular Orisha; he is god of thunder and lightning and as well one of the most wor...

It's all relevant Vera, Sango? Yep. Well they can keep trying to but their dilution continues. Would you show any deference or assign any respect to a...

This was just a side track Vera, it does relate to human attraction to capitalism, in the sense that individuals choosing to behave the way they do, I...

Does this not contradict your claim that a future AI system cannot have a body which is capable of the same or very similar, emotional sensation, to t...

Well, I am interested in how relatively respected scientists such as Sheldrake, 'evidence' claims such as morphic resonance, morphic fields, habits (a...

@"Alkis Piskas" Are you aware of this lecture by Rupert Sheldrake (released to YouTube 2 months ago,) regarding his theory of morphic resonance and mo...

But we do know about the singularity, as a very hot, dense concentrate of energy, it's just that, that's ALL we currently know about it. It has very d...

All such current existents trace back to that very hot, dense energy concentrate with no known cost or cause.

I understand that, but as I stated in a previous post. I am formed via 13.8 billion years of very large variety in very large randomised combination, ...

Yeah, I agree, I care enough about my existence to eat, because that maintains my ability to think and act and that can cause change for the better an...

Well said! You agree then, that that is what we can demonstrate. An ability that wax, physics and god seems unable to demonstrate. We are OF the unive...

Perhaps a future automated system will be better able to 'assist,' the person you have taken such a laudable responsibility for. I hope you have not t...

Yeah, but St Anthony does not exist, but study of medicine, WILL save lives. The wax energy was wasted in the former, and well spent in the latter.

Well, I'm not a veggie or a vegan yet but perhaps in the future, good meat substitutes will be found. I have not tasted one I like as much as a real T...

You are citing old habits. Conquest is not the only way to achieve unison! I envisage an AGI/ASI would have an intelligence level that supersedes any ...

Is this the same guy you rescued from living in his car? Not current AI no. Do you reject the idea of a merging of the human brain with a future cyber...

If I present myself to you as 'a know it all,' then I have either presented myself to you badly Athena or your impression of me is unjust. I am conten...

Yeah, as that would probably make such a peasant as bad as some priests, popes, generals, kings and messiah's.

All human endeavours exist within the bounds of the physics of the universe. Theism makes very little effort towards anything of significance in my op...

I was unable to unpackage your meaning here, or understand what your question was referring to. I was suggesting that if an ASI was the main power on ...

At Waterloo, One butcher called 'Wellington' is reported to have commented that another butcher called 'Napoleon,' was not a gentleman. He is supposed...

Absafragginlootely!!!

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There is commonality in concept between free, dom/lunch/love/money etc. 'Free,' commonly defined as: 'able to act or be done as one wishes; not under ...

I have read your posts in which you have professed attractions to some personal concept of dualism or perhaps even an emerging panpsychism but NOT the...

Anything that can be used for evil can also be used for 'walled garden,' style good. In other words, as long as a knife is only ever used to cut food/...

Agreed.

So, do you reject the word 'freedom' as unattainable? https://youtu.be/lLCEUpIg8rE

I agree with everything you typed in your last post. We are stewards of this planet at best. We have the right to exist on it and be sustained by it's...

This is the crux of the matter. The problem IS global capitalism. It's all fear based (same as theism). We need to remove it. UBI offers a good beginn...

There are no bears in the forests of Scotland. The existence of competitors for access to the berries, does not justify some vile human tribe/capitali...

:lol: Sure! and pigs are vegetarians! Even for a starving child? If you were out in a forest, and you ate berries, growing on a bush for your lunch, d...

Your OP exemplifies the folly of a profit driven free market economy. Capitalism fully supports and maintains the pernicious global plutocracy that th...

Sorry to hear your mother went through that. Do you know of Dave Warnock? He is currently dying of ALS and he is an atheist (ex theist), who speaks ag...