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Well if the 'state of the universe' changes, then the universe changes. However, I think you made a good point here. Anyway, relativity strongly sugge...

I believe that the 'fire' is an image of change. If the universe was merely a mathematical structure - as Tegmark's MUH (mathematical universe hypothe...

Sorry for the late reply. Indeed, my point was that a person seems more than anything that can be described. But in a sense, everything is more than w...

Excellent quote! Thanks!

If they turned out to be 'wrong questions', then they aren't important. What is important is removing the illusion that they are. I disagree but I thi...

:up: the same goes for me. These kinds of well made discussions, even if do not lead to a change of opinion, helps to clarify one's own. Yes, I hear y...

I don't think that a 'process view' denies what I said. Note, however, that processes in order to be intelligible must have some properties, some stru...

Physics is violated only if you assume it is algorithmic. I disagree with this assumption. I believe that our own existence is 'proof' that physical l...

Ok :up:

While this can be viewed as a tautology (the laws of physics allow life because there is life...), I also think that this is a very interesting point....

Ok, yes, some police officers might break the very rules that enforce on others. Not sure about your point though. What are you getting at? How does t...

Wanted to add that even if 'perfect selflessness' were impossible for human beings - in the sense that humans by being humans can't be devoid of a min...

:up: Yes, I agree. I believe that there is a tendency to read too much into the 'behavior' of machines. By analyzing my own phenomenological experienc...

What do you mean by 'unselfish'? It seems perfectly conceivable to me. I can conceive a human being acting for the good of another without any kind of...

Ok. Note that epistemic 'strong emergence' seems to collapse in a sort of substance dualism where the 'mental substance' 'emerges' in an unexplainable...

I see your point but IMO humans are intrinsically social animals, so social behavior is an essential component of human life. And, hence 'education' i...

Thanks for the answer and clarification. Unfortunately, It'll take some days now for me to respond.

Sorry if I don't answer you in detail. But I believe it is better to begin from more general questions of principle. Do you think that 'punishments' (...

Perhaps in some cases yes. In some cases no. Not sure why one would like to think that in the case I was thinking. Let's say that the stolen item was ...

It was a video that was posted some years ago about a computer simulation of metabolic processes of a cell (I vaguely remember that ATP was also prese...

Agreed. I believe that 'strong emergence' at least in the 'epistemic' sense can't be taken seriously. It basically is like saying: "under these condit...

Standard interpretation-free QM is IMO simply silent about what a 'measurement' is. Anything more is interpretation-dependent.

Yes, I see. But I am suggesting that punishments and fear of punishments is a necessary (or perhaps inevitable) part of education. In my example of an...

Ok. Ok but in the 'ontic' definition of strong emergence, when sufficient knowledge is aquired, it results in weak emergence. So the sound that is pro...

Thanks for your answer. I am sorry but I can now only reply on the part about punishments. I think that the matter is quite complex here. I do believe...

I honestly find the whole distinction between 'strong' and 'weak' emergence very unclear and tends to muddle the waters. When we say that the form of ...

Well, I was lucky enough to have enough time to write those long posts (and I also have a tendency to 'overelaborate'...). I'll have likely less time ...

Let's take the weaker definition. Honestly, I don't think that anything changes in what I said. Partial intelligibility is still intelligibility. For ...

Ok. I'll try to find some of these things. Interesting. Well, it depends on what we mean by 'intelligible'. A thing might be called 'intelligible' bec...

Forgot to mention that 'what is good' for a person seems to be related to the 'what is a person' and this would in turn imply that ontology and ethics...

Ok. A lot of things. I made the example of addiction before. An addict clearly acts against one's own good. And this is because they prefer the good f...

If physical processes weren't intelligible, how could we even do science, which seeks at least an intelligible description of processes that allow us ...

TBH, I never wanted to assume the truth of Christianity from the start in my posts, not sure why you think that. I was just arguing that, in my opinio...

Ok, I watched the video. Nice explanation of how machine learning works. Still, I am hesitant to see it as an example of emergence of intentionality f...

I find interesting that you only quoted this part of my post. You raised the objection that, if all human beings are wrong about 'what is good for the...

It seems that you have an aversion against Christianity and apparently other Abrahamic religions. I just say that generalizations are never helpful an...

Well, I would not say that about all Christians... anyway, I believe that even the most radical vegan would recognize that, in order to live, we have ...

thanks for the video. It seems interesting. I'll share my thoughts tomorrow about it.

This doesn't imply that "for a monkey it is bad being eaten" is 'relative'. At best, it might show that the what is good for the tiger is bad for the ...

Ok. But if there is an 'emergence', it must be an intelligible process. The problem for 'emergentism' is that there doesn't seem any convincing explan...

Chalmers et al suggest that the reason why the problem is 'difficult' it is because it is wrongly stated, i.e. the assumption that we can 'get' consci...

Also, I would add that the apparent 'gradation' of 'intentionality' found in 'entities' at the border of being 'living' and 'non-living' like viruses ...

I was making a point about the current AI and living beings. In any case, until one can find a way to generate truly artificial life, there is no 'art...

Regarding the distinction between 'living beings' and AI, I believe that @"Joshs" did a very good job in explaining (much clearer than I could) why I ...

Ok for the definition! Yes, and GR seems to imply that both spacetime and 'what is inside of it' are 'physical/natural'. i disagree with your view tha...

No, I don't and you don't here provided sufficient evidence to convince me of your view. Rather, it seems to me that, given the impressive results we ...

:up: yeah, I often compare computers to highly sofisticated mechanical calculators. At the end of the day all LLMs are very complex computers and they...

OK. So what is 'physical' in your view? IIRC you also agree that physical properties are relational, i.e. they describe how a given physical object re...

Ok but notice that in most forms of physicalism that I am aware of, there is a tendency to reduce all reality to the 'physical' and the 'physical' is ...

Even if one assumes that physicalism is right, you need to explain how it is so. Generally, physicalists assume that the 'physical' is what can be, in...