That was in 2013, but I think it exemplifies the kind of Ai-related disasters that will plague us for another decade or so. Eventually it will be comm...
Is energy "either dynamic or static"? Its random fluctuations might seem "dynamic", but arise from the uncertainty principle. Perhaps it takes time to...
I'd speculate that before the Big Bang, there were (and still are) fluctuating quantities of energy at the most fundamental level of reality. Possibly...
We're part of nature, and co-evolve with other parts of it, such as our environment. This parthood-relationship can become better when we achieve a su...
Despite working within an increasingly industrialized building industry, Sigurd Lewerentz did in fact learn more about bricklaying, and as a result he...
Right, but the world is not experienced by way of sense-data, it is experienced directly. Therefore, there can be no demon in between the world and ou...
A variety of things can make a person interested in philosophy, but in general I think the subject satisfies curiosity and will to think clearly. Unli...
It is easy to understand how silence is significant in music, poetry, environmental design, health care and so on. Not so much in cookery, fundamental...
The cat exists independent of your bundle of sensations. If you'd only experience sensations, then you'd never experience anything else. Yet you know ...
Sensations may arise when you see a cat, for instance, but what you see and sense and thus experience is the cat, not sensations. To say that we only ...
To say that knowledge is direct and immediate yet conceptual seems incoherent. Do we experience the cat or the concept? The belief that the cat is on ...
Perhaps it's already been mentioned in this thread, but apparently he became a conservative after witnessing the student riots in Paris in May 1968 wh...
I'd say seeing it presents it, unlike the belief which one can maintain or change regardless of the whereabouts of the cat. You won't keep on seeing t...
Perhaps because perception and mobility are direct interactions with the environment? Unlike indirect interactions via computational or mental represe...
If your argument is not about the physical world, then what is it about? Sure, meaning is found within the universe, but you also write that there is ...
Hence I said that your paper says little or nothing about cosmology, physics etc. so I propose an approach to the logic of a universal origin from ava...
What you've written is about the meanings of 'scope', 'causal chain', 'limit' etc but there's little or nothing about cosmology, physics, or current r...
On the logic of a universal origin, my "viewpoint" is that it takes spacetime for origins to be possible, and the universe includes arguably not only ...
For every effect there must be a cause, except in parts of ithe universe where time has stopped (black holes?), or for a possible origin of spacetime ...
Then we'd better avoid those categories :cool: I think it's fairly clear that matters of taste refer to features of objects, and how an object affects...
What sets aesthetic experiences apart from other experiences is not intrinsic and extrinsic features but the fact that some experiences are attractive...
No, my claim is that the curve is visible, and that its straight or flat looks are features of some angles of view. We could limit our visual field to...
Well, during the traditional discussion between the Nobel prize winners, Hinton seemed to hold a grudge against philosophy and the notion of subjectiv...
Granted there's an angle of view from which a visibly curved object may look straight. Its straight look arises from the angle of view, unlike its cur...
How can you be sure? The curvature might be too small to notice, say, if you only see a narrow piece of the horizon, but I'm pretty sure it's curved, ...
The earth's curvature is visible wherever there's a visible horizon. What's an example of a place from which the Earth could appear flat? Is there goo...
For example, can a model of conscious verbal behavior be conscious? A model of a duck is arguably not a duplication of a duck. It's a model or simulat...
Perhaps this has already been mentioned, but one theory (link here) seems to be that spacetime emerges from a network of entangled bits of information...
See, apparently one must read his numerous texts again until one gets it "right", which exemplifies my point about postmodernists thinking that there ...
The Spanish Inquisitors, like witch hunters, used a mix of secular law and religious scripture so that the basis for judgement appeared lawful yet dep...
At some universities postmodernism has become as scary as The Spanish Inquisition. A rejection is that you haven't described anything to speculate abo...
We're creative not only when we need to, but also when we want to, or when it's expected of us (i.e. various reasons). Sometimes it's necessity that m...
Unlike a balloon, the universe has no outside into which it can expand. It creates the space. The problem is that you don't explain anything, you only...
When one instance of the extended universe collapses into an unextended nothingness, the following compression of all remaining energy and forces caus...
There's no contradiction in things having different modes of existing. A room with people has an objective mode of existing. The room and the people e...
It struck me that if the forthcoming US president is not so interested in maintaining foreign power balances around the world, then it seems likely th...
Breakthroughs in medical science seem to have been historically rare until we began to use microscopes (or the hypothetical-deductive method seriously...
Speaking of cosmic inflation and the idea that things are either extended or unextended... Consider Roger Penrose's suggestion that the universe expan...
No, I posit a physical world in which things evolve (including minds). You posit a mental world (the mind of the solipsist) in which experiences and p...
We don't appeal to evolution in the same sense. Your appeal to evolution omits the mind, as you just assume that it exists, and that experiences appea...
The idea that only one mind exists is not simpler than the idea that only one substance exists. Any monism is simpler than the dualism assumed in a "m...
Lots of politicians use philosophical visions (e.g. socialism, liberalism, conservatism, fascism) as means for their political ends. They may also use...
Because it's good, an end in itself. However, to exploit goodness as a means for other ends is not so good. Lots of people want to be good, or appear ...
Yet you grant them physical presence as neurons in the brain. Whence the reluctance to grant the concepts physical presence as money and paper? The as...
Well, it's open to read what you say: that paper and money exist as concepts, and that the target of those concepts also exist as a concept, and that ...
What you're saying seems to vacillate between the circular statement "concepts exist as concepts", and the compositional fallacy "since concepts exist...
Sure, both exist as paper, but only one of them exists as money. A distinction between fake and real paper would be meaningless, but the distinction b...
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