Noone is allowed to do whatever they want. Is private use suddenly immune to the law? I don't think so. Whether a particular use violates the law is o...
Expanding economies include parts which are steady state or shrinking. For example, corporate profits can be high at the same time as the amount of jo...
Not only socialism but also capitalism exploits the fact that we need a sufficient income or outcome for living. A universal basic income means that t...
Ok, if your opponent's arguments are also about the nature of the information processing, then they cannot say whether B is theft. No-one can from onl...
You ask "Why is B theft?" but your scenario omits any legal criteria for defining theft, such as whether B satisfies a set threshold of originality. H...
One difference between A and B is this: You give them the same analysis regarding memorizing and synthesizing of content, but you give them different ...
Because a court looks at the work, that's where the content is manifest, not in the mechanics of an Ai-system nor in its similarities with a human min...
So if a picture cannot become a duplication of what it depicts we have little reason to expect that an increased sophistication of the depiction (e.g....
A and B are set up to acquire writing skills in similar ways. But this similarity is irrelevant for determining whether a literary output violates cop...
You're right, our bodies, sense organs, and interactions with frogs amount to our ability to identify them. The causal history, however, is what makes...
If a simulation exists, then there must exist at least one more thing (or set of things) which is constitutive for the simulation, e.g. a brain, a com...
To expect life to be meaningless has its perks, because whenever life appears meaningless the expectation is satisfied, and whenever life appears mean...
[ According to you, or copyright law? If 'feeding', 'training', or 'memorizing' does not equal copying, then what is an example of copying? It is cert...
Sorry, below is Putnam's argument against global skepticism. The argument is based on the assumption that words don't magically have meanings, they ha...
What's similar is the way they appear to be creative, but the way they appear is not the way they function. A machine's iterative computations and gro...
The user of the system is accountable, and possibly its programmers as they intentionally instruct the system to process copyright protected content i...
Hence, its meaning is expressed. I don't know about you, but some (e.g. postmodernists) refer to epistemological problems, not because they care about...
While many facts are results of critical thinking, critical thinking without fact-learning is anti-intellectual. Lots of propaganda masquerades as "cr...
What do you expect from an expression? Expressing my subjectivity is to exemplify some property that it has, e.g. its first person point of view. So, ...
It's possible to forget words, stutter, or have a neurological disorder, paralysis, brain damage etc. that makes it difficult or impossible to express...
We might have different beliefs about the current market value of a house, for instance, but we can list the house for sale in order to find out wheth...
I suppose we could still have good theoretical reason to suspect that they lack genuine understanding. So far the true test has not been empirical but...
Whether the processing is designed or coincidental doesn't matter. The objection refers to isomorphism and the false promise that by being like the bi...
One process or pattern may look like another. There can be strong isomorphism between a constellation of stars and a swarm of fruit flies. Doesn't mea...
Their training data is, I think, based on our descriptions of the world, or their own computations and remixes of our descriptions. In this sense thei...
Yes, they are radically different. Unlike computational systems we are biological systems with pre-intentional abilities that enable our intentional s...
A human actor already has the ability to understand things, so that's how an actor can learn to understand physics by acting like a physicist. But tha...
It's certainly possible, but why would anyone set up an AI assistant here just to fool me or other members to believe that we're talking with another ...
The difference is, I think, in what makes a simulation different from a duplication. We can instruct a simulation to respond to words and objects in w...
Talk of things on two levels can easily become ambiguous :halo: Must they, though? Some of us who have the same type of eyes / brains may stand up and...
Well, they have the same veridical experience when the object of the experience is the same. But why would that require that their eyes / brain work d...
World maps are indeed conventional, like many other artificial symbols, but misleading as an analogy for visual perception. Visual perception is not a...
The example of seeing rain shows how the content of the visual experience is related to the rain, and how the presentational intentionality of seeing ...
About the presentational nature of perception and its directness. You know I draw a lot from Searle's theory of perception, in particular what he call...
Some believe that the conscious experience that arises when something is perceived can be fully explained in physical terms. Yet little is known about...
Hm, is that you Pierre, or an AI? I'd better ask, because the common-factor view has little to do with an inner representation, and I think Pierre kno...
Thanks for the links! My addition about indistinguishability is not an attempt to misrepresent disjunctivism. It follows from rejecting its thesis tha...
A disjunctivist might say that the smell she feels is not of the same type as that of ammonia. They're not type identical. I disagree with disjunctivi...
For a disjunctivist the seeming experience of ammonia caused by viral damage to the olfactory organ is not identical to the experience of ammonia. I'm...
API access is easy (but looks like a page for coding). In the left upper frame I type my text. Then, on the right I klick 'Run'. Claude's text is then...
The typical work place or office might still be more like a dictatorship than a democracy. But the role of a contemporary employer/manager is less dic...
Its infinite possibilities should be enough. If there would be no difference between beliefs and perceptions, and if you would be stuck in a world of ...
Right, languages are socially constructed symbol systems. Moreover, symbolic representations are asymmetric. However, it doesn't follow that the possi...
A mental state supervenes on a physical state, meaning that the same type of experience can arise under different physical conditions. However, the re...
From the Kantian attempt to explain how the perceived object conforms to concepts, where seeing the lamp means "seeing" a version of the lamp that has...
A reverse? Well, no you cant see the lamp (2) without seeing (1). The lamp that you see is genuine when the seeing is causally related to what you see...
Everyone's a realist in some sense, no? :wink: John Searle argues that many of the great modern philosophers use perceptual verbs ambiguously in two d...
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