The way I'm usually referring to information is in the sense of physical data contained in particular arrangements and regimes of interaction between ...
I think that to us humans there will always be de facto indeterminacy primarily due to limits of measurability and the physical horizons of knowledge ...
Where information begins to regulate chaos is the semiotic ground level (how that base dataset first emerges aside), but there's no difference in prac...
I simply cannot get away from the idea that the material instability you describe (providing a mechanism for information to express through) is actual...
What is the inherent lack in the human condition? My point is that God and religion do not appropriately use reason to convince people to be moral. Of...
The kind of computation to which I refer isn't just basic computation; "deep learning" is an example of the type of computation that I would compare t...
So I take it you're not agnostic then... What is the actualization of humanity? Atheism is itself a lack of theistic beliefs. there's a difference bet...
For me, belief in God is so distant that it's outside of my observable universe X-) I think the hardest part for a believer in understanding "the fenc...
The fact that data contained in DNA exists in an environment where it interacts in a complex network (and hierarchy of networks) of interactions (whic...
I wouldn't say a regular computer is alive, but a (true)artificial intelligence that exists within the environment of digital infrastructure (with inp...
The point of the analogy is that nobody has access to the closet (i make it my closet in the analogy so it makes sense in the real world; you don't ha...
The analogy describes the agnostic perspective. Having access to my closet equates to actually having evidence or knowledge of god as opposed to being...
We're both operating fast and loose with the definition of life, so let's not forget that all I'm trying to do is compare and explore given examples o...
The label I wield for myself is "agnostic soft atheist". You're likely familiar with the way I use the term "agnostic" (I believe we don't have knowle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXI5oUhseo I can't take full credit for "knowing" this song, You-tube brought me there after I searched and enjoyed "...
The problem in bold is that I don't understand how my faith and I might relate to "the infinite". I can recall the feeling of doubting god from my rel...
I'm just pointing out that the intention to procreate or go on living is not present in all examples of life. These examples of life die, but they con...
I'm skeptical of this claim. I'm skeptical because I've made effort in life to over-apply doubt in hopes of eviscerating the requisite beliefs of fait...
There are definitely some sports where women can keep up. I don't think there is actually such a thing as a professional open water swimmer, but I bel...
Compared to the epic throes of such sarcastic existential neediness, what alleviation of suffering could there ever be? My point is that religious fol...
How about antibiotics then? Surely not requiring limb amputation or death alleviates suffering. How about the combustion engine? Electric heating? Air...
What alleviation from suffering can science offer an atheist which it cannot and does not also offer to the religiously devout? From my perspective (a...
What benefit accrues? The validity of my own particular definition of course! *Badumptss* Arbitrarily extending word use will accrue no benefit, but I...
Not all life has reproduction or self-perpetuation as a goal. Humans can be anti-natalist and also suicidal. Pretty much all standard life we observe ...
When in cynical doubt, add more cynicism. (Y) Exploring the rhetorical question I asked really does shed light on why we have women only sports teams,...
Plenty of stuff undermines western values. Being free to undermine values happens to be itself a western value... We don't all of us oppose terrorism ...
As far as can tell, all free-diving records are held by men. Unfortunately free diving is not much of a spectator sport so there are no leagues, altho...
Point is, they can't. Which professional female athlete of which sport can compete with professional male athletes in the same sport? If they could co...
Our values are definitely being tested... The increasing social and political complexity of the modern world seems to generally pit reason against emo...
It means that in the grand scheme of things the infrastructural damage caused by 9/11 amounted to less financial cost than what a single insurance com...
Not at all, but the fact that Larry Silverstein (WTC owner) had the towers fully insured puts a damper on the idea that severe or lasting infrastructu...
It seems that our reaction to terrorism, on both the public and political level, is well typified by terror. On the level of the public it seems to ai...
I have a harder time seeing and believing that radical Islam and Islamic terrorism poses even a remote existential threat to western civilization than...
Rest assured you would have received a direct reply. This was an open post formulated in response to reading an article that Wayfarer posted which des...
AndrewK is quite right to point out that it's no more practical to throw money at the domestic "war on terror" than it is to throw money at the war on...
I didn't quantify/compare AI with mitochondria intelligence. That's apples to oranges. Why would a fully functional AI that can think and act on it's ...
It sounds like you're just presuming that some sort of separate entity exists apart from the brain and it's goings on which has something to do with h...
Decoding the physics and chemistry of human intelligence is well behind other fields of biology, but what about artificial intelligence? Granted we do...
I agree, but fearless should not be confused with strength. The image of a lone child doesn't speak to collaboration, to me is expresses desperation. ...
Let me try to be more specific: "Life" is any entity capable of intelligent reaction to it's environment. We still mostly have the problem of defining...
O.K, let's talk about the brain then, along with it's accompanying nervous systems. The structure of the brain and it's goings on is what produces hum...
As far as I can tell, the bull was originally about strength (and capitalism?). Whoopdedoo! The addition of the girl seems to put innocence at odds wi...
Yes and no. The brain is the seat of consciousness. If we meddle with the brain, the consciousness gets meddled with. If the brain gets destroyed, as ...
Isn't block theory of time (eternalism) just a fancy way of saying "determinism"? Time is a measure of change (from our perspective), and it is the ne...
No the hard problem has not been solved. Our best guess is that the consciousness is a kind of reflection/illusion produced by interactions of matter ...
Fire fits the list indeed, but I wonder if you could find a satisfactory exception for my definition too: "Intelligence" (decisions from "memory" (sto...
The bull was only installed in 1989 as an act of guerilla art. You must be confusing this piece of art with a different one! (or else are making a ref...
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