NotAristotle

SophistiCat, I have to admit some confusion about your position. It is as if you are saying determinism is true and untrue. Is that your view? If it i...

Perhaps your concern with Chat GPT is that AI really lacks the ability to evaluate good information from bad information. Infsofar as AI is a collecti...

If it's scientific knowledge, can't it ultimately be tested and therefore verified without AI? I don't need to figure out all the algorithms that went...

I think this is well-articulated even though I'm still not sure that I understand Bell's Inequality. So the sin^2 rule does not adhere under 45 degree...

Counterargument: a lot of scientific knowledge is trusted anyways, the verification objection: (that verification is a prerequisite for scientific kno...

Interesting point about the way the AI tech can sidestep personal experience, and the entire experiential aspect of art (both in its creation and its ...

I do not know enough about socialism to opine about it. My opinion of Marxism is that it is right to admonish against commodification of labor, but it...

Lack of accountability is still an issue; randomized officials would be insulated from what the majority of citizens deem right. Voting is a virtue of...

And that's not to mention that a lottery-selected candidate is accountable to no one.

My primary concern is that a non-expert might not make good decisions concerning a policy. My related concern is that an extremist would make decision...

Okay, but why does something need to be an "it" to have a position in space? Why do only things with mass get a position in space? Surely even somethi...

Recommended to read the indictment. My understanding is that Trump is Not being charged for inciting violence. Rather, he is being charged with both (...

Maybe there is no ethical difference in what the electors did, but there is definitely an ethical difference between conducting a recount and conspiri...

Geez NOS, how far would you let someone go in "contesting an election" ? Would you let them overthrow legitimate elections?

T Clark, we may stipulate that you are too important to the shelter society to sacrifice yourself (you're president or something like that). If you tr...

I save mom. But, being a utilitarian, I also kill the stranger (they would've died anyways) harvest their organs (we might use those later), and head ...

I think Hegel was influenced by Fichte. In Fichte's Foundations of Natural Rights, he posits humans as finite beings; finite in body, finite in our ab...

Empirical findings are helpful. Thanks for the research advice.

Antony, I like the dialogues you wrote, cool. Also, I appreciate you engaging with the issue I stated. I have two questions to ponder: (1) where do we...

The law of non-contradiction seems like a rational insight. And it seems to be both a reliable source of justification as well as something independen...

I am not looking for an argument, I am just saying, we can recognize objects as such, that's kind of strange is it not?

That sounds right to me wonderer1, it just seems strange to me that we should be able to perceive objects as objects at all. In other words, it seems ...

I get that we perceive objects in contexts. My question is, after we have applied the Gestalt principles: how do we become conscious of an object? Sur...

Question 1: yes, something unchanging must be eternal. But to come into existence, as does light, is a change. Therefore, neither light, nor the speed...

Is it not possible to perceive, except in an object-oriented way? I'd grant that we can comprehend non-objective matters like the good or justice, but...

I am not sure I am getting the argument. In particular, I am not sure I understand Premise 1. Why would the explanation of a belief in terms of non-ra...

Seems to me that even if we are mistaken, viz. interpretation, about what is there, when we are faced with some illusion, we are never mistaken that t...

I do not understand the paradox. Why would people walking in different directions have radically different perspectives of events in the Andromeda gal...

I think I understand your objection now. You are saying that a prediction of a prediction is necessary for the computer to printout anything intelligi...

I think the self-reference objection you are describing is a good one, I am just not sure that it applies in every case that Ned reads the printout. I...

Asking that question seems to suggest that a computer is conscious, does it not?

So then the question may become: "what about the structure of the brain allows information processing?" In other words, structurally speaking, what is...

I am supposing that the details that went into making the prediction are known. Ned has every reason to believe the prediction, there is no reason to ...

Right, the contradiction is the paradox that the thought experiment expresses. Ned's immediate actions can be predicted.. if determinism is true, they...

@Philosophim @wonderer1 @Bob Ross So there is what Ned Block has characterized as the "Harder Problem of Consciousness." This speaks to Philosophim's ...

One of the papers I included in my original post does go into what is known as the "Halting Problem" - a problem in computer science proposed by Alan ...

1. With sufficient information about Ned’s internal states and sufficient information about the surrounding environment, Ned’s immediate actions could...

I suppose we could stipulate that Ned has enough information about his immediate environment to make an accurate prediction about how he will act. It ...