Nemo2124

Guesswork? GPT-3 passes the Turing test in 2020. That's almost fait accompli, the rest is history, surely.

Human experience is technologically-mediated, but the ultimate reality is still the physically real world, that derived from the laws of nature. There...

I think that the Cartesian procedure as described in the Meditations is very apt in this case. You start by doubting commonplace reality and end-up af...

At a certain stage, when discussing machine philosophy, it may be necessary to invoke the idea of the Singularity. This represents the moment when tec...

What is reality? In referring to this, we are positing some fixed external reference frame, an objectively existing material Universe. According to po...

This is the salient point here: Nietzsche's notion of the Superman. It's not one that we can easily dismiss. To surpass oneself, to determine your lim...

The question here is whether there is a Hegelian master-slave dialectic at work here, man versus machine or human against AI. According to former euro...

From a different perspective, the tortoise’s predominant anima, instinct to move in harmony with nature may give it that advantage already. The parado...

Achilles gives the tortoise a head-start because he is so convinced of his superior speed. As it turns out, even if he gives the tortoise as much as a...

A feature of Zeno’s paradoxes is the counterintuitive conclusions that the thinker is forced into. This seems to go against the faculty for reason, bu...

The zero-point energy of the Universe (or null-point energy) represents the energy of the vacuum according to quantum physics. This has been proven to...

Take the zero-point energy, for example. In relativity it corresponds to the cosmological constant (lambda term) or 'dark energy' of the Universe. Bes...

Time's arrow, time's cycle... Already differing, almost contradictory perspectives on the passage of time. Even if it would take an eternity (infinite...

This starts to point at a discontinuity that seems to recur between quantum physics and relativity. Relativity says one thing, qunatum physics says an...

Yes, this paradox highlights a problem we may have when it comes to perceiving movement, conceptualising it etcetera. Physics is replete with quandari...

The idea that we find ourselves somehow limited by social conditioning and seek to overcome that stage of psychological development by, in a sense, su...

What I like about Nietzsche is how he develops this character of Zarathustra as a proxy to promulgate his wide-ranging views. This is unlike his conte...

Time is real, its passage can be measured using clocks and other devices. These are measurements of change, a concept that also relates to entropy, fr...

No, it does appear as if my original expositions of the paradox were erroneous. That said, it is difficult to find a definitive version on the web. Th...

The perspective I am advancing is the meaning of the paradox. This is interpretation. There are different approaches as has been shown here. So there'...

Yes, but can you shave a barber without being to a certain extent a barber yourself? What I mean to say is this, that if a barber has someone else sha...

Then that person becomes 'the' Barber of Seville, so that's not consistent.

The Barber of Seville shaves only the men of Seville who don't shave themselves. Does the Barber of Seville shave himself? There's the paradox...

That's the point entirely. Are we not just as fallible to this argument, our thoughts just merely elaborate computations with emotions that simply shi...

I thought about this and my best guess is that the barber goes to the nearest village outside of Seville. I don't think this does it justice, so it re...

Not sure what you mean, this is a paradox (Russell)...

Who shaves him, not what's his name. Rephrase: Joe, the Barber of Seville... etc.

This is all very well, but the question that remains is that one concerning subjectivity. At what point does the machine suddenly become self-aware? D...

Regarding the problem of the Chinese room, I think it might be safe to accede that machines do not understand symbols in the same way that we do. The ...

What you have here are two forms of subjectivity, one emerging from organisms, reaching its summit in humans (although there are animals too) and now,...

This is an interesting point about matter having consciousness in certain Japanese philosophies. In terms of subjectivity, then, it's interesting to c...

In terms of selfhood or subjectivity, when we converse with the AI we are already acknowledging its subjectivity, that of the machine. Now this may on...

There is an aspect of anthropomorphism, where we have projected human qualities onto machines. The subject of the machine, could be nothing more than ...

The question is how do we relate to this emergent intelligence that gives the appearance of being a fully-formed subject or self? This self of the mac...

So, AI is carrying out tasks that we would otherwise consider laborious and tedious, saving us time and bother. At the same time, as it funnels off th...

Inner-peace is sought after. That gives the self a sort of function, but I’ll leave it at that.

In conclusion, I think that the true nature of the self concerns a dialectical process of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, whereby the self persists ...

With AI, I've been trying them out recently, there is a level of intelligence there as it pushes on the discussion and it also claims to reason. The A...

Yes, it does seem contradictory, but the self is elusive and what I am getting at now is a precursor to selfhood or a dialectical interplay that occur...

Descartes’ Meditations question whether we can trust any of our senses when it comes to determining our own consciousness, such that ultimately, it is...

Thanks for the responses, very valid indeed. I accede to the point that the self concerns reflective thought in addition to that which interprets sens...

Thanks for the welcome. The true nature of the self, to keep it brief, is the being that exists in the mind prior to any sense perception. In other wo...

Yes, this is a tough one to start off with, but in my view, the true nature of the self goes back to Descartes' 'cogito ergo sum', which means 'I thin...