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Yes. Not sure if you intended that wording and I'm just reading it wrong. But no, atoms > chair and brain states > mind states are not analogous. For ...
March 11, 2024 at 17:40
I wasn't disagreeing with the idea that brain states produce mind states. I'm disagreeing with the idea that brain states and minds states are the sam...
March 11, 2024 at 17:17
This is certainly not correct. if we had the capability, I could write down the state of every aspect of my brain over a period of four seconds from a...
March 11, 2024 at 11:30
Well, if there is free will, then you're wrong. Obligations is another matter. But the choice is still the result of free will. It can't not be the re...
March 10, 2024 at 03:16
Sneaky little things.
March 09, 2024 at 16:36
I can't read that, because I don't subscribe. But didn't John Travolta answer this in Phenomenon? Indeed. Hence, the Hard Problem. But I don't know wh...
March 09, 2024 at 00:45
That post, as I said, makes it clear why AI will never be human. It does not touch on the topic of mediums other than our biological brain being able ...
March 08, 2024 at 23:10
I agree. There's an awful lot we don't know. But we have a problem with not knowing everything. We need to know everything. So we make up what we have...
March 08, 2024 at 19:25
That does not address the possibility of a medium other than our biological brain being able to do anything beyond the physical capabilities of the me...
March 08, 2024 at 17:14
You make it clear why AI will never be human.
March 08, 2024 at 12:16
It seems to me that, if PSI is real, it says something about the nature of mind and consciousness. It would change how we approach, well, everything. ...
March 08, 2024 at 02:34
For the moment, yes. The question is whether or not it is possible for them to do more. Our physical brains operate under physical laws. If we can do ...
March 07, 2024 at 17:48
Where can I find this ample evidence? I say nonsense. These can be tested easily and as frequently as anyone could want. For every time someone though...
March 07, 2024 at 17:35
One would assume Pez, at least, is cultured. The others? Well, we can't make them think.
March 07, 2024 at 04:01
Thank you. Was hoping I wouldn't be left hanging there.
March 07, 2024 at 03:55
I think I understand what you're trying to say. I did not before. i'm more talking about AI thinking the way we do. Our brains operate within physical...
March 06, 2024 at 21:59
I'm not sure how you mean things. I guess humans evaluate each others' output and determine that thinking or reasoning has occurred. If AI thinks and ...
March 06, 2024 at 19:35
I don't think anyone is talking about need. I know I'm not. I'm just talking about possibilities and capabilities.
March 06, 2024 at 19:27
Humans came about due to physical processes of cause and effect without, as far as we know, any intelligent guidance. Our involvement is surely an adv...
March 06, 2024 at 17:02
What is the evidenced that AI will never be as good as human beings, never acquire emotional intelligence, and never go beyond the process or method o...
March 06, 2024 at 14:49
Indeed. Natural Intelligence didn't develop only because of the writings of all previous intelligence. It certainly didn't start because of writing. A...
March 06, 2024 at 12:35
I hope you don't mind if I sit this one out.
March 06, 2024 at 12:16
linked an article that says AI outperforms humans in standardized tests of creative potential. linked an article that says AI get stupider as it consu...
March 06, 2024 at 12:15
I don't. I think it happened through natural processes. And I think we are subject to nature. I don't. I just think the gap between us and any other s...
March 05, 2024 at 00:40
I guess it's this: Whatever the gap between fly and bat is, I don't think it approaches the gap between bat and human. I don't think the gap between a...
March 04, 2024 at 21:49
As I said, I don't know anything about this. Would you know what type of intelligence a dolphin has that a fish doesn't? They certainly seem to have m...
March 04, 2024 at 14:10
Right?? Lol The intellectual gap between any two species of animal may be a gap of degree along a spectrum. I don't know what differences of type they...
March 03, 2024 at 23:22
Watership Down? :grin: I've never thought about it, or looked up what has been said about it. Maybe there is a difference between their ability to tel...
March 03, 2024 at 15:10
If the dog had the capacity to understand mathematics, and it was our inability to teach it that was the problem, it would not need teaching any more ...
March 03, 2024 at 14:28
Indeed. Different material. Different capabilities. Different senses. Different history. An existence as different from ours as can be. If a conscious...
March 03, 2024 at 05:06
I don't know my epistemic from a hole in the ground. But it's certainly possible things aren't as they seem. That's happened enough times that we know...
March 02, 2024 at 03:08
I think a simulation scenario could be otherwise. Maybe we are all AI, and the programmer of the simulation just chose this kind of physical body out ...
March 01, 2024 at 13:40
Anil Seth has this to say in Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
March 01, 2024 at 12:28
Acting on the facts that we're aware of, and have no reason to believe are false? The alternative is to act against those facts. We are certainly maki...
March 01, 2024 at 03:59
We did believe all those things. Until we had reasons to believe things weren't what they seemed. I suppose someone noticed something nobody else had....
March 01, 2024 at 02:55
Many things are not what they seem. But until we have reason to believe they are not, I would say the default is to assume they are. The first one bei...
February 29, 2024 at 15:01
accidental double post. That'll teach me.
February 29, 2024 at 12:36
I know this is bad, and I apologize. But the first thing that came to mind is vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
February 29, 2024 at 12:35
Wow! What an idea! I'm a very slow reader, so I need to try that.
February 29, 2024 at 02:25
I already say "Thank you" to Alexa and Siri. If I had a digital watch, I suppose I wouldn't mind thanking it. I'm gonna need a better scenario than th...
February 29, 2024 at 02:11
How would we know we developed sentient AI? I would think whatever criteria we used to determine that would be used to evaluate all computing devices....
February 29, 2024 at 01:16
Of course. Put a picture of a golden mountain next to block letters spelling out "golden mountain." When told to imagine a golden mountain, I imagine ...
February 28, 2024 at 23:18
I've been pondering something. Combining a few ponderings. It seems I'm awfully wordy sometimes. :grin: I don't know enough about IIT to know how much...
February 28, 2024 at 19:52
I just learned about his new book. Haven't looked at it yet. https://www.amazon.com/World-Beyond-Physics-Emergence-Evolution/dp/0190871334/ref=mp_s_a_...
February 23, 2024 at 19:24
If anything exists, it must have qualities. Is there a bottom level explanation for whatever qualities there are?
February 22, 2024 at 15:51
Interesting point. This, too. :grin: I believe things are as they seem, until there is reason to believe otherwise. And I think BBs are an absurd idea...
February 19, 2024 at 16:23
Yes, I read and watch videos. I'll never understand the physics to any degree, but I try to get the jist of things. Sadly, I can't say the jist is for...
February 18, 2024 at 22:29
Well, whatever way it is that we know they exist.
February 17, 2024 at 14:48
Silence, false memory! i'm trying to have a conversation with Boltzman!
February 17, 2024 at 03:09