It also doesn't help if you try to use supply side economics and Keynesian economics at the same time. Each are appropriate in different economic situ...
Counting private sector debt the US is more like 700 trillion underwater. I don't see why we can't just keep laundering private sector debt into publi...
That is fair enough. But it is far less difficult to prove that one person has a murdered another in a court than it is to prove that a woman intentio...
We are heavily invested in European markets and European markets are heavily invested in ours. Our major banks would be really difficult to untangle. ...
That is not economically viable I don't think. The US and Europe are very heavily entangled with one another at a macroeconomic scale. Even if we did ...
I had not thought of that. I suppose you are right that there was a body even if there is not one now. So you can still argue that the body plays a ve...
Allow me to put it another way. We might disembody a head and sustain the life of the brain without a body by employing machines. Were we to do so we ...
Or it could be a nice example of a poorly constructed artifact. But I will assume the fault lies with me...and hope you can forgive that. The software...
This is valuable insight unenlightened...to get their points across both sides will resort to exaggeration. Forgive me if I exaggerated the extent to ...
That is a good point maybe you are right. I thought we were just looking for a way to encode semantics relative agency. But there could be much more t...
True. We do have to face the fact that in reality some things are more likely to happen than other things. And it may be that is by design but knowing...
I don't agree with this...I would argue that academia teaches that because blacks are a minority that they will have a psychological propensity to vie...
To put it another way I don't agree that a mind is utterly dependent upon all of life's complicated systems. I think it is more dependent upon the com...
I just don't think we have to crack the origin of life before we can crack the problem of machines with minds. That is the bottom up approach. We are ...
I don't either to be honest. I think he may mean something like was mentioned in this thread. If so then I cannot comment on it because I have not res...
What I see as his main issue is that he believes there is something like the measurement problem when dealing with the origin of life. He seems to use...
Tenancies are observed as compared to non-tendencies. Intention would mean there is a reason why somethings are tendencies while others are not. We st...
lol If this were true consciousness would not have evolved. There is no survival advantage in believing in different outcomes that don't exist. Howeve...
I have read some more and you are right he is very technically laden. I was hoping for a more generalized statement of the problem of the epistemic cu...
It may be that nature does favor certain tendencies. But until we can use this assumption to make better models it is not a necessary assumption. If w...
I think intention is knowing that there are different outcomes and having a preference among those outcomes. So if nature was intentional it would hav...
I mean to say that I cannot make sense of the notion that nature is an intentional being. What does it mean to say reality or nature is intentional? S...
No this is simply wrong...unless you mean to suggest that sub atomic particles are intentional beings. If so I can't make sense of that view. Sorry. A...
Again with regular humans there is a human in the loop. As you grew from an infant to a child it was not in a vacuum...you learn from expectations of ...
Even if this algorithm makes that possible it would still take quite a while to teach it how to have any thing resembling the common sense we expect o...
Sorry but this was just inserted with no justification. There is no reason to create an intentional being to understand nature when probability does a...
This is a more a matter of sensory apparatus, dry intelligence would be able to record and recall this input if it had the sensory input to record it....
I don't mean to sweep away your criticisms. I freely admit if we are using a biological metric of life then we are no where close to simulating intell...
No that is not it at all. I was seeking to make a distinction between simulating a human being and simulating general intelligence. I did concede that...
I was not trying to be dismissive and I did not intend for it to seem as though I do not appreicate that epistemology is vast subject with a great man...
The same is true of the brain and the mind I believe. It has taken the course of hundreds of thousands of years for us to study the mechanisms of the ...
Well in the formal sense meaning is just a knowing a problem and knowing the solution to that problem. And formally knowing is just a set of data. I w...
Those who are pregnant do not have to inform any one that they are pregnant, can self terminate an unwanted pregnancy if they so choose, and also not ...
I don't get it? I am not sure what you are saying here. Are ought statements moral statements, and if they are, does that mean that ought statements t...
Maybe I am not wording it very well. I was not making an argument, I was asking a question. Why does the is statement "logic is a slave to passion" qu...
To my understanding the syrian rebels expected to be armed...I was not aware that they expect boots on the ground and for the west to occupy syria and...
Consider the counter example anonymous66 made. The fact that "logic is a slave to passion" is not contradicted by the ought of "logic ought to be pass...
What do you think is an example of a moral fact? I think there are some tautological moral facts. For example "There is such thing as morals" might be...
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