It sounds like the idea is to conceive of AI as a "soulless" human. So that it has no goals of its own, but if someone gives it a task/goal then it wi...
Pardon, but I think this is a bit too easy. For example: 4. Jihad is a religious tenet. 5. Religious tolerance applies to religious tenets. 6. Therefo...
How is it empty if it supports the second premise of the argument that you ignored? Truths about the nature of computers may be "truisms" in that they...
I think you just haven't understood the argument, and thus are engaged in a "lazy dismissal." You could disagree with the claim that humans are able t...
But I have nowhere said that there are two thoughts. That is not the issue. I wonder if you are conflating the issue of simultaneity from the other th...
I am wondering what it is supposed to be. Again, as I understand it what is at stake is self-conscious thought, not conscious thought: - See: So the c...
This doesn't help with the logical fallacy of equivocation, for "the essential and enduring structure" of humans and computers are very far apart, bot...
The issue here is that we reason discursively, and we do not (strictly speaking) ever simultaneously engage in more than one judgment. So when <I judg...
Yep. :up: What's interesting is that, even for adults, the "I think" is quite difficult. Most people have difficulty understanding how others could th...
Well without those arguments I have no reason to assent to their conclusions. Again, Rodl is giving a reductio, and I am pointing out that no one sees...
We live in the Dark Ages of philosophy, where we cannot discern the difference between a human and an animal, much less the difference between a human...
I think the difficulty with your position here is that when one says, "AI is designed and humans are designed," or, "AI has an architecture and humans...
More simply: I can think 'p' without thinking 'I think p' Judging 'a is F' is different than judging 'I judge a is F' Rodl says that these are both fa...
That seems right to me. In fact I was recently quoting Aquinas saying something very similar in 's thread: 1. a is F 2. I know that a is F Aquinas is ...
Sounds good. The idea is a little bit off the cuff itself. I'm just trying it on for size. Whether or not it holds up to rigor, that basic model of "a...
Like the way "we might pick up litter for the sake of the community"? The community is the people as a whole, not the government apparatus. In a democ...
These are some of the papers from Rödl's Academia.edu page that popped out at me. Some of them are extremely closely related to @"J"'s interest in Fre...
- It looks like Rödl has an AcademiaEdu page where he makes some of his papers available. Maybe there is some article there that would be able to make...
- I don't believe @"Bob Ross" counseled you to go into threads that are not about Thomas Aquinas, complain that not enough is being said about Thomas ...
It's well known that the word is most commonly and strongly associated with Australia, but that is helpful to know that it flows out of British Englis...
From a different thread: Yes, and this is what I was trying to point out <here>. "Forms shaping purely undetermined goo" is similar to the idea of the...
Fair enough. That is helpful. This is such an age-old question and puzzle of philosophy (the problem of universals) that I think many people have desp...
Nice post, Paine. :up: - @"Wayfarer", In some ways I want to see a spectrum: On the far left of the spectrum we have a conception where mind and reali...
- Yes, but what I am saying is that this did not cause the early Christian to stop abstaining from animal blood. So the theology of blood-abstention r...
:lol: Sounds good. Those questions of the Q&A reminded me of you. --- Edit: I have noticed a lot of secularism from the Australians, both on this foru...
Okay, and that would be a good starting point for a discussion. :up: When I arrived here I had given up for the moment on starting my own philosophy f...
Well, this is the point at which you tend to lose me. I don't have any real problem with that SEP quote, and I don't really understand the critique yo...
I would argue that there are metaphysical considerations that are bound up with mathematics, such that mathematics does have a very broad reach. For e...
On a broadly Aristotelian understanding, disciplined thinking involves rational movement. For example, when we think in a disciplined and structured w...
@"Mww" explained the difference between thought and representation in some detail, but the basic logic here is straightforward: vs. (Or else, <The I t...
In my opinion it seems correct in large part. When we talk about "realism" and "idealism" and such things, we really need to set out what exactly we a...
Yes, good point. :nerd: - I suppose what is tripping me up here is the question of whether thought is a form of representation. Thought is, "the synth...
Why is it that our culture is so often allergic to the idea of truth? I think it's because it can't be bought. It doesn't fit neatly in a model. And i...
I read Kant to be saying at minimum that representations are unified in relation to the subject which has them. For a more detailed exegesis than that...
Also interesting on this point is that many Christians maintain this prohibition, for it is reiterated in Acts 15:29. That is, John 6 is not seen as a...
- The OP is about two related approaches to philosophical issues, the "Model Building Style" and the "Deflationary Style." It says nothing at all abou...
Okay, great. That is very helpful. :up: @"J" is probably taking Rödl at his word when Rödl tells @"J" that Kant holds the position. Seems highly relev...
This, I think: Pat: "If I interpret your claim at face value, it is false . So the onus is on you to give the words some non-standard meaning in which...
That's a good counterargument. For myself, I don't see the philosophical point of these threads on Kimhi or Rödl where we play this game, "Here is an ...
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