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Wouldn't you say that the problem with the 'big bang' theory is Parmenidian? How did all of this matter come into existence from nothing? We start to ...
August 04, 2016 at 08:42
Searle says that humans have the unique ability of being able to lie, some animals can deceive but cannot lie. I am not sure if I understand properly ...
August 04, 2016 at 08:33
The ability to form a semantic conception from syntactic actions must be the measure for intelligence / awareness / consciousness. Sheep have some int...
August 03, 2016 at 16:47
Obviously the literal reading is no more but has the deeper problem of 'being' actually been understood or are we just much better at 'explaining it a...
August 03, 2016 at 13:06
Searle already answered this question. Even if the robot can seemingly 'display' consciousness, it only a syntactic display of consciousness lacking a...
August 03, 2016 at 10:53
We first need to recognize the human brain / mind as the crowning achievement of evolution / creation / the universe as we know it so far. To fully un...
August 02, 2016 at 15:22
I think that with all of our modern technological advances, the fact that we are no closer than Descartes to having the answer might mean that we are ...
August 01, 2016 at 16:49
"But the nature of intelligence and that of consciousness are surely different questions, as there are conscious organisms that are unintelligent." It...
July 31, 2016 at 11:05
I think that the whole subject is being approached from the wrong direction. I think that the metaphysical question that must be first answered is 'wh...
July 30, 2016 at 09:17