universeness

I couldn't upload the photo from the pdf but here's the caption: Fig. 1. The building of the Main Computer Center of the USSR State Planning Committee...

Correction! I looked at a pdf I downloaded about the Gosplan and it had: In October 1959, as a result of initiatives and publications of a number of p...

Oh, sorry! The computerisation started in the 80's.

The Gosplan started in 1921. There is some decent info on-line but limited details. I don't know if that's because the USSR was not keen to share the ...

I don't want to present you with any spoilers but the attempt to upgrade the Gosplan system by using computer technology is covered quite well in the ...

I have watched all 7 episodes 3 times, as I wanted to make sure I didn't miss any pertinent points. It also made me want to know a lot more about the ...

I would be very interested in your opinions of 'Traumazone.' Episode 1 is posted below. All 7 episodes are free on YouTube. I thought it was very good...

Scotch is one of my favourite words and beverages. Do you think this 'very basic public dentistry,' provides better dental care for the majority of pe...

So, is there no more free dentistry for the poor in Russia?

That's because you have capitalist sympathies and like to see your teeth on the big screen!

No, I am asking you for what convinces you most that 'mind' and consciousness are not the same thing. But, it's ok if you would rather leave that disc...

I will tell my dentist that his capitalist, profit driven, surgery/private enterprise, has a poorer screen for showing his patients their Xray's, comp...

For me, 13.8 billion years old, would mean I would have just about lived long enough, to be 'getting it all right!'

My local dentist doesn't, but he will show you your Xray on his wee laptop screen.

:smirk: Yeah, and it may even try to 'create' an abiogenesis. ASI becomes god? :lol: NO NO NO, theists!!! Don't seek that gap for your favourite god s...

The point is, they are not 'thoughts,' the song was produced by chatGBT, an AI system, yet it was able to invoke an emotive response from you. Not bad...

I don't choose to live my life based on the fate of others, even those I love. My life is certainly diminished by loss but it is also reinforced by ne...

Consider: "The instructions LDA and STA move data between memory and A. The instruction MOV either moves data between registers, or between a register...

Hopefully, all energy will be renewable and not have a detrimental effect on the Earths ecology so, distance travel may not be considered so wasteful ...

I don't know how many people you have encountered, from the type of economic group you are categorising here. I would suggest you need to personally e...

You are guilty of 'lazy thinking,' Future restaurants are not doomed to offer humans a poor, boring service due to the fact they will be a lot more au...

No, have not heard of him, but I googled him, and read the wiki entry for him. A highly qualified physicist, who has had a very interesting career. I ...

:lol: You can't just 'hand wave away' @"180 Proof"'s valid question and replace it with a question you invent and are quite willing to answer :rofl: T...

I hold the same opinion as Christopher Hitchens, that all religion is pernicious and I agree with the opinion behind his book title "God Is Not Great:...

Ok, I now understand that your 'significant separation' is with what you are calling 'the human mind' and 'the human brain/consciousness.' My 'quick' ...

I agree that dynamic interaction between a human being and the environment it finds itself in, will have a major effect on it's actions, but so what? ...

Well, I accept your refusal, to be labelled a dualist. BUT, if you believe that human consciousness is partly due to the workings of the human brain a...

I am surprised you ask me to explain this Alkis. From the start of our exchanges on TPF, you have suggested that you do not accept that human consciou...

Our exchange regarding your enformationism and your enformer has again reached a panto style exchange of 'oh yes it is,' and 'oh no it's not,' impasse...

Then we agree on that one. :up:

By using the phrase ' self-reflexive,' probably from (according to your profile info) your involvement with human psychology, I assume (based on a goo...

Irrelevant imo, to the fact that the concept of the speed of a process has been around long before any use of it you have cited. The same applies to t...

Processing speed is akin to the speed of anything and memory capacity is really just how much space you have available to store stuff along with your ...

Thanks for the tag 180proof! I think you make the crucial point here. As long as any AI 'mecha' based system remains dependent on human input/programm...

It would still be interesting to push you a little more and ask for more detail about how emerging tech 'affects' your dualism. If science EVER demons...

I understand, BUT, as long as they try to spread their BS, they need to be combated, otherwise, their influence grows. Often, evil grows because good ...

Such questions have to be posed very carefully, to achieve crystal clarity regarding what you are asking. 'Favours' for example, is a poor term to inc...

Absafragginlootly I posted a debate recently between Matt Dillahunty and an Eastern orthodox who used the ID 'Posh.' It was titled 'Is Christianity ra...

We will never know! A future ASI might be able to ............. nah! perhaps my ASI speculations need to take a break! :halo:

I hope you have become a little more intrigued, regarding 'The biological computer.' I think it's worth trying to keep up with developments in quantum...

Sure, and I think that's all both of us are doing, when it comes to a possible future AGI/ASI, 'a little speculation.' I am always a little reluctant ...

I don't keep referring to interstellar travel, I include it, merely as a category of extraterrestrial travel. I am also aware of the reasons you cite ...

:yum: I kissed an accumulator, and I liked it! Sorry for my poor singing voice!! You could have told a great story to my S5/S6 students. I was forever...

Well, as I suggested earlier, I find such speculation far more credible, than anything the theist or theosophists offer, for the distant future of hum...

I'm not as convinced as you seem to be of that one. What do you think about the currently slow progress, but definite progress nonetheless, in 'biolog...

My knowledge falters somewhat, when it comes to the physics level of electricity, and signals flying through the air and rushing down cables and analo...

Something like that, yes. I would call it an AGI or ASI, if such was created and became conscious. It would not be much of a shift in direction. It's ...

Well, hello again Mr Gaspar! I hope any exchange between us, can be more fruitful than it has been in the past. I agree that order/disorder can be obs...

AlphaFold is considered a major breakthrough for protein folding, from DeepMind AlphaFold, we have: This can produce a better understanding of protein...

I agree that any initial attempt to get to alpha centauri will not involve any 'orga.' But I don't think that will still be the case, on a timescale o...