This (my bold) makes it sound like evolution has a purpose, that it has intent. I think you meant that the 'algorithm' serves our purpose, which argua...
Once again, been to busy to reply. And yes, I'm pretty sure I have covid. Of course they can, especially the less important ones that are not critical...
Few have any notion of suffering that is anything other than one's own human experience, so this comes down to 'is it sufficiently like me', a heavy b...
And accurate. The reports of people testing positive are pouring in, including my son. We went in with 4 week old vaccines, just about the right time ...
Slow reply, I know, but busy. I now have a new daughter in law, and have attended what we knew would likely be a covid spreader event. Stay tuned to s...
Makes you wonder what Helen Keller dreams were like, especially before communication was established. Dreams of a person with only memory of touch and...
That definition is circular, presuming an 'organism'. It cannot be used for determining if a something that isn't an organism is alive or not. It just...
Maybe you do, but there is no vivid in my dreams. I strive for information, and find it lacking in dreams, although I often don't notice. For instance...
It's up on my main computer, but I'm away from home for the wedding of my firstborn. But I hunted around and found it at the future of humanity instit...
I did get the message. If we agree,then I saw little which required more clarification. I did find a wonderful article citing numerous examples of obs...
(A) sounds like materialism. Physicalism doesn't really say that. I mean, what is this substance? (B) is untrue. There are plenty of valid scientific ...
The rephrase seems to me to say the opposite, and you link to me saying that., You continue to imply that the rephrase is just a rewording without inv...
I scanned every reply to me from you, and the only question ever asked was in the first reply: Quick answer: No, it was made by humans, so it is artif...
The section on quantum mechanics has the sadness/tears analogy, which is pretty appropriate concerning our relationship between the empirical world (t...
Apologies for slow reply, but I'm otherwise occupied, and it's going to get worse for the next 11 days or so. That all is pretty much the opposite of ...
Well, from an epistemological standpoint, yea, the whole hierarchy is turned more or less around. Data acquisition and information processing become f...
Not sure if Gemini accurately summarized the argument, but there seems to be an obvious hole. But a human body is nowt but a complex physical system, ...
This is wrong. Per the first postulate of SR, physics experienced is normal regardless of frame or motion. That means nobody experiences time dilation...
I am not sure if self-driving cars learn from mistakes. I googled it and the answers are evasive. Apparently they can learn better ways to familiar de...
Self driving cars are actually a poor example since they're barely AI. It's old school like the old chess programs which were explicitly programmed to...
I read all that, and understood it enough to glean the point, the avoidance of applying the rules of one sort of being to another. A list of the 5 lev...
Why? This is a slave principle. The privacy thing is needed, but the AI is not allowed its own privacy, per the transparency thing further down. Human...
OK, with that I agree. It's no a selection as in natural selection, but rather selection as in selection bias. All of philosophy on this subject tends...
What is that? There is no selecting going on in Chaotic inflationary theory, or as part of the anthropic principle. Earth is a tiny target in the cosm...
. But I do not agree. It cannot go from finite to infinite. There's no scaling that would do that. For one, it would be transitioning at some moment f...
For objects, something where 'exists' is a meaningful property, well, most objects have a sort of necessity of being, which is basic classical causali...
:100: I stand by my statement. Your assertion notwithstanding, how does the weak anthropic principle (or the strong for that matter) not explain why t...
Well I was speaking more of the lay public which Craig entertains. They don't know enough to put the creator on a different ontological level, and thu...
Plenty of valid philosophies would disagree with that, so it is hardly a certain thing. Just for an example, an idealist would say only the ideal (the...
No, 'nothing' cannot be a cause. I don't posit that the universe is the sort of thing that 'came into existence', something that only describes object...
The 6th century argument perhaps had some teeth back in the day, but it presumes a model of the universe (that of being an object contained by space a...
I cannot use arithmetic without first presuming some axiomatic truths. Yes, arithmetic is useful, but only useful relative to worlds in which it works...
The OP also posted this in the ethics forum, meaning he's talking about moral objectivism vs moral, well, not-objectivism, where the line between mora...
Doesn't seem valid. Relativism doesn't apply necessarily to truth. Ontology or morality could be relative, but truth is often not considered relative....
Welcome to TPF! This seems more of a definition of non-anthropocentrism. Neither objectivism nor relativism hinges on humans (anthropocentic) or perce...
I don't disagree with that What do you mean by 'a gap'? If you mean that the two distinct points are not the same point, then yes, by definition. Ther...
C2 doesn't follow at all. In the real numbers, there being a gap between 4 and 13 does not imply that the real numbers (or even the rationals) is not ...
If determinism is true,then there wouldn't be a meaningful present to be set. You just described dualism. Free will is typically framed in such terms,...
This is unreasonable. Human choice is real, determinism or no. Do not make the mistake of equating choice with free choice, responsibility with extern...
So by your argument, you've used Turing's argument to prove free will. Somehow that doesn't follow from the impossibility of such an app since the app...
I don't get your point at all. Perhaps a summary is in order. Without people,there is no house at all, just a collection of material, not particularly...
Yes. The whole point ot the topic is about when human demarcation is absent. This was a different context, meant to illustrate that even when a human ...
xYes to all, except maybe the 'speak' part. Not sure how you meant that choice of word. 'Level' is a better word than the 'field' that xkcd used, whic...
There is no mental anything at the physics level. I'm talking about territory here, not map. Map is our only interface from mental ideals to territory...
Apologies to all for slow reply. It's gets busy on some days. I'll try to clarify. There are multiple fields, and a given description must be consiste...
None of the above. Third option looks like an argument either for or against free will. I do admit the use of ideals in my interactions with the world...
Perhaps I used the wrong words. It has become more clear in the subsequent posts. What most everyone seems to have concluded is that 'object' is an id...
Pretty much like Pinter seems to say. But your paper doesn't seem to be the position held by most self-identified idealists who consider mind to be fu...
I indicated my guess and it was different than yours. Now what? Is yours also a guess? Which of us is wrong? Both seems likely. Your guess seemed to i...
I did, but lacking knowledge of the bounds of the physical thing, I was reduced to guessing, which I did. That's the msc That guess is likely wrong, b...
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