Copernicus

To see if their "artificial" body can generate sapience or consciousness.

@"Banno"@"Metaphysician Undercover" I'm sorry if I had been unwelcoming in my arguments. I'd ask you to bring all your arsenal and attack me reasonabl...

Your point being?

Test synthetic beings. Things would likely go south — the price we pay for discovery.

That's both illogical and blasphemous. Anyway, good luck.

WELL THEN, FOLKS, GUESS I'LL SEE YOU ON NOVEMBER 12, 2025, GOD WILLING, WITH MY NEXT THESIS "IS THE UNIVERSE A DONALD TRUMP?" TILL THEN, KEEP WONDERIN...

life doesn't guarantee me 30 days.

Spare me my bon voyage post. You might not see me again in 30 days. I don't wish my work to go with me. Not everyone has a friend like Kafka did.

@"Jamal", let me publish my last thesis for 30 days, then. If you must make me fast, at least let me have suhoor.

That would be an involuntary manslaughter, though.

How many days' break are you suggesting me?

I did. I did that too.

It wouldn't have been had everyone had the interest and courage to post every day. Because not many of you post, my posts are visible all over the pla...

What is the weekly limit?

That's because I'm a non-native English speaker and I run it through AI to correct grammar, punctuation, and better choice of words. But the theses ar...

Why?

When or If?

I welcome any counterargument. But they need to be convincing enough.

I didn't say it's your fault. I just reacted to the facts you presented.

thanks.

What about AI consciousness?

you couldn't convince otherwise.

no, I used it to denote stereotyping.

Wow. No objections. Looks like finally everyone agreed.

If you're a monist, you might have inputs on this.

I don't see where I got it wrong.

I don't see why.

I didn't counter him. I responded to the fact he presented.

If transwomen are women or transmen are men just because of cultural or habitual identity, does carrying a gun or shooting down schools make a Norwegi...

I'd love to hear your idea of conscience.

This is a chokepoint I've been stuck for a long while in multiple cases. I guess if I can crack this formula, I can solve multiple paradoxes at once. ...

You are not of sound mind. Everything you do that is not done voluntarily (under influence or coercion) doesn't count as action. If you have the liber...

No. You served your agency or desire to act. No. They may had gains or motives other than altruism.

Selfishness=Self-Interest=Self-Serving My definition. Other parties (their gain or loss or neutral outcome) are never my driving force for action.

Sweet.

sounds like you agree with me, with some extra steps.

Perhaps we'd need to redefine the word.

I see no contradiction.

No offense, but basic solipsism is pretty much an undisputed thing unless one lacks common sense.

In the same way I constructed the image of the screen in my head after receiving the lights through my vision. Your true version is unknowable to me. ...

There are sounds outside our hearing range, or lights outside our visual capacity. If we hadn't advanced in science, we would never know they existed....

Now I see the problem. You had an idea of a solipsistic school of thought, which says your mind is a divine entity, if you will, that created the whol...

It is. I can't function without my brain. So my brain gives me the reality. And since the brain is an element of the universe, it's the universe blurr...

Yes. But received and processed by my head. I can't bypass that.

You exist at least in my head. Therefore I want to debate. Just because I might be the only real thing in the universe doesn't mean I'll have to die i...

solipsists don't deny objective reality. They are skeptical because of lack of proof. So, assuming I'm believing in objective reality, what is your pr...

let's not talk about me. Since you made solipsism central to this dispute, let's clear out what your primary objection against it is.

What is your proof for objective reality, @"Banno"?

Conscious intent isn’t the whole story. Most of what drives us operates beneath awareness. Neuroscience has shown that our emotional and instinctive s...