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I was looking at Google Earth and noticed that a high percentage of the housing in Grand Rapids, MI is single-wide trailers. Anyone from MI care to ex...

Even with our embeddedness taken into consideration, we still don't have a working theory of consciousness which we could use to assess AI's. Do we fo...

My brother is a software engineer and has long conveyed to me in animated terms the ways that C++ mimics the way humans think. I have some background ...

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No.

Yes.

It would have to understand truth, and it doesn't. All it has is rule following.

So she's getting rigorous about the problem of induction?

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Right. In Dante's Inferno, Hell is underground. They thought volcanoes are evidence of it. When Dante and Virgil go all the way to the bottom of Hell,...

The Greeks believed in reincarnation, and in a realm of the dead ruled by Hades, and most Jews in the proto-Christian world were pretty thoroughly hel...

I was thinking of waving like the three gunas, or a silent wave, where a motion in one direction turns into the motion in the other. You could beat up...

Tai chi, massage therapy, or dance

Anybody who can become a central figure in Western Civilization while walking in bumhood is a freaking genius.

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Could you please start running your posts through an AI so they make sense? :grin:

Just do an experiment where all the OP's and comments are AI generated in one forum, and another forum where everything is hand-written by mere mortal...

Davidson would say they have to understand truth to have beliefs. I don't think present AIs do. Maybe future ones will.

There is no disagreement without agreement, and neither can encompass the experience of a living being.

I'm aware that all appearance of agreement on your part is accidental.

Pretty much, yes. You're agreeing with Adorno. I disagree that his critique hits home, but that would be for some other thread.

@"Metaphysician Undercover" Explain why Adorno isn't a nominalist. It relates to existentialism.

This is my take, shoot it down as you will: Existentialism says existence is prior to essence. It has a root in Kierkegaard, who emphasized direct exp...

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I suppose so. I don't have any opinion one way or the other. :smile:

I guess in an educational setting that makes sense, but if AI cures cancer, we'll all own AI as an extension of human creativity. Once it becomes that...

How do they police that?

Is this thread geared toward philosophy students? Amateur philosophers just spend their lives struggling to understand the world, ping off a few cool ...

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By 2100, the average temperature in Jerusalem will be 14-16 degrees hotter than it is now. The whole area will be well into irreversible desertificati...

Logically prior. That doesn't compute. I'll give you an example. I was walking through a park with a forestry student who was learning the latin names...

I read through that again, and I really don't know what he means by this. But pre-eminence doesn't mean "prior to." But that issue aside, when you say...

I think it's like this: the score of a symphony is like what Adorno means by form. A particular production of the symphony, alive in time, is part of ...

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ok.

You're the only one who cares how impressed you are. A fascinating post is a fascinating post.

It's that form and content imply one another (just as subject and object do). It's dialectics lingo/jargon to say the form is in the content. Think th...

I tried to disagree with this, but it's basically true.

All energy projects should get this kind of analysis.

well said

This is a pet peeve for me. Though people may use the word "construct" to deny the reality of a thing, that's not the philosophical meaning of the wor...

Nice to have you back, dude.

Don't look for an all purpose essence. Look to particular cases of use. I think the imperative to refer to transwomen as women was part of a political...

My point was that meaning is found in use, which is why I told a story about a particular case. I didn't claim to know something about it that isn't k...

He most certainly did.

The fact that you don't know that a moderator threatened to ban anyone who denied that transwomen are women just shows you weren't paying attention. I...

Did you know we had a longstanding member who became trans and subsequently committed suicide?

You really want me to look it up?

Actually, yes.

Heh, we used to have a moderator who warned he would ban anyone who said what you just said, as if that was hate speech or something. I guess times ha...