What is ETI? That means extraterrestrial intelligence to me, but some AI built by us isn’t extraterrestrial. TS isn’t a thing that saturates satellite...
Fine, but the desires of the individual does nothing to help humanity in the way that the transhumanists envision. All it does is drain limited resour...
The transhumanists are actually on some of the right tracks, but need to address some important roadblocks. Cryonics is about as useless as mind uploa...
Taking you up on this. Been too busy last couple days to respond to posts. Ah, ‘near the equal’ like there is some sort of single scale by which nothi...
Don't get the last bit. It would seem that if you measured something's location, it is the location possibility which gets reduced to some much smalle...
If one is seriously averse to wave function collapse, the list of interpretations on wiki (about 13) has only half of them supporting collapse. Point ...
Humans were not the first to do this. A huge extinction event 2.7 BY ago took place upon the emergence of Aerobic Metabolism, wiping out or at least d...
Don't know how to answer this. All interpretations are supposed to yield the same empirical results, so if there is an empirical problem to be solved ...
OK, I’m mostly familiar with the list, but it seems to only apply to that already designated ‘biology’, leaving it open as to whether the thing in que...
Not sure exactly what he suggests or how he words it, but there seems to be problems with two different universes (one with each measurement) existing...
I talk of universes splitting. It's part of the language of the subject. Don't know what you mean by this. Certainly not that empirical evidence of ro...
You seem to be online a shortish time (but long enough to type all these replies) because you reply quickly to posts during that period. Unfortunately...
I don't see how classical observations in any way would have difficulty 'squaring' with that to which I answered 'Yes'. Just so, but I'm not claiming ...
Also superposition of which particles exist in the first place. A "world" is when a huge ensemble of entangled particles contains observers for whom t...
I've concluded pretty much the same thing, without knowing about Hoffman. Parts of me believe the illusion (and cannot un-believe) even though other p...
Well I hope the craic was mighty then. I awaited the second half of the reply. Again, depends on a definition. We're not just made of carbon. By atom ...
Any truth about our origins is relative to us, no? I don't see objectiveness in just about anything, but that's just me. Yes, we're a result of, among...
So if I cure somebody of leprosy, that brings back pain (an unpleasant experience) into their hands say, and I've done them harm in doing so. Unpleasa...
This reduces the immaterial part to the role of a nametag, but I've said as much myself. The proponents also (usually) give it more function than that...
Totally agree. So don't draw conclusions from that convention, since it doesn't stand up to scrutiny, however functional it may be. OK, poorly worded ...
The fruit fly on my banana is a physical body, but is not a person. A 'person' is a legal human entity. My (deceased) father is still a person, despit...
Natural selection is not particularly a statistical process. The mutations are, but the selection of them is not in any way random, so I guess it depe...
Entropy doesn't seem to piggyback off biology at all. It occurs in completely non-biological systems and depends on it not at all. I would agree that ...
But there is no one body that belongs to you since it is a different one each moment by your definition. Since you have a different body every moment,...
OK, so you're arguing from the standpoint of tact. You feel the ""Shouldn't we ask first....?" is a more polite way to convey the exact same thing, wh...
Oh it can very much be wrong, say if the question cannot be answered with anything that isn't contradictory. The realization that a question is a wron...
That's the pragmatic language answer, so I agree, at least until the assumptions upon which the pragmatic utility is based remain functionally true. T...
Seems pretty obvious to me, but perhaps not to all. That creatures (not just humans) do this doesn't seem to be your point. Your point seems to be the...
Similar to staticphoton, I do something else (low level database implementations) but I read what I need to in order to support or criticize various p...
I asked a question. If you think I have made a claim, quote the claim. Your reading list is pretty short then. The same could be said of the opposing ...
Agree, as per my anesthesia example. Heck no, especially since I heavily doubt the accuracy of such a statement. But you make an assertion, I didn't. ...
Similar to my treatment of fingernail clippings. I don't define my life in terms of the state of some optional parts that I've lost. If I'm conscious,...
We understand each other then. I agree. I only interjected because you didn't say 'inertial' the first time (below), and light moves at different spee...
That would seem to be a continuation of life, not an afterlife, a word which implies the conscious thing is no longer alive, a contradiction as far as...
"A high speed traveler is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to." That reference out of the way, km is no different than ...
'Afterlife' seems insufficiently defined to answer this. Of course there's an afterlife. If I die, my biological matter is quickly rearranged into wor...
The selected quotes from the above physicists concern infinity, which I did not mention in my comment. I did reference infinite time. My comment conce...
This is true only of an inertial frame of reference, and only in flat Minkowskian spacetime (with no gravity anywhere). It isn't true of any other kin...
Speed is a relative thing, so a more correct way to say this is that anything (Earth say) contracts in the direction of motion relative to any referen...
I cannot agree to a statement that just says something exists without being specific about in which way it exists. They're both mathematical structure...
There's are mathematical structures where geometry is valid. There are mathematical structures where our physics is valid. There is a world where a un...
Free of all meaningful ontological commitments perhaps. I've never seen a geometry book talk about the difference between a triangle and an actualized...
Hi Apo, I will be on the road for a couple weeks will little enough web access to make long replies. They’ll come less frequently than one a day. Got ...
Measurement isn't even defined objectively. It only seems relevant to certain kinds of structures like the one we live in. You asked about objective m...
You the one who asked how one would objectively measure the quantum foam, so if it was epistemic measurement you were talking about, then it is you th...
By definition, measurement isn't objective. I suppose that point can be argued. Agree, which is why I point out in the OP that "tell me why it exists'...
But I'm arguing against any act of creation, so yes, at least one of us is not following what the other is saying. I'm hardly an expert in the views y...
It isn't answering the question at all. Do you at all understand what I'm getting at? Any cause (material, formal, whatever) is still only related to ...
Thanks again all for your comments and patience with my slow replies. The role of time has to do with my selection of an alternate definition of exist...
This doesn't seem to be the sort of humanism of which MSS is speaking. I read the wiki page and it seems to focus very much on natural everything, and...
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