Heiko

I do not see how the dialectic of form and content will save you here. The very existence of the shortcut should tell you something. You know the Kant...

The problem with infinity: No matter which point on the time-line, there has always been an infinitely long period before that.

To both of course as the Kantian thing encompasses both: The real thing and it's mental image. This is already clear if I was to ask whereof the menta...

You can be wrong in statements about Harry because I understand such statements making a claim about something that is not inside your head. But reali...

Apart from solipsism I'm not aware of any philosophy where a statement about the world would not refer to something outside the mind.

If you know a better explanation why Nietzsche called Socrates a decadent I'd be interested to hear that. I was not reviewing Platon.

This sounds more like Marx. Nietzsche stressed that reason has to serve the wellfare of the individual or has lost it's own purpose. In ideals he saw ...

This is not quite the point Nietzsche was going for. He was not a skeptic when it came to the use of reason. This comes closer. Just "being able to do...

What shall "actual Harry Hindu" mean? The actual mental image? If someone shows a picture and says "This is <insert some name here>" it is clear that ...

I wonder about linking Rosen's Paper : The realization Rosen talks about is not a system that operates on symbols but is a "mapping" like you take 10 ...

I do. Introducing time into mathematics is really funny. Like "2+2=4, but only if you answer in less than 3 seconds. It's 5 otherwise." And then I wri...

The interesting question in my eyes is if this proposition is very clever of very dumb. Could be both. The naive dumbness assigns 50% just because the...

No need to search for the garden inside the house. A scientific investigation on the matter would be possible.

Yes, it's about hierarchy. Those have to reincarnate as humans first and then may become Buddah.

Nice post all in all but I'd say it is a popular category error to say this would contradict free will. You can be feeling cold although you are fever...

I guess one could call it a decision whether to fight or not. A dinosaur likely is a genius considering a whole lot of things when compared to paramec...

I just wanted to point out a possibility. In my eyes the initial question mixes up to very different fields of observation: the reflection of nature a...

You really know such things?

Really? That is Harry?

Maybe it has got to do with you being made of matter, so the matter cannot simply think for itself but you have to do it...

There is quite a gap between the atomic happenings in nature and the reasoning of human minds - one may choose the appropriate model depending on the ...

If showing people a sheet of paper - half white and half black - they will recognize a difference between both halves. This cannot be explained withou...

Free Will is a precondition to recognize human beings as subjects. The phrase "to make a decision" already acknowledges subjectivity. Otherwise it wou...

On the other Hand mental products are the kind of things we can assign a definite truth value on. Like mathematics: We just define something to be tru...

AI is exciting only when one cannot forsee what it will do.

But this assumes a similarity between the simulation and the world. In a matrix-like scenario humans might be some kind of giant octopus in the real w...

Paradoxes are interesting. Consider "This sentence is not true."

This is a difficult question. When I listen to physicians I get the impression that the uncertainty is really attributed to nature itself like: the pa...

I guess some propositions are wrong. Saying a simulation in the future is equally likely and unlikely does not take the specifics into account - we'd ...

In QP you get answers like "maybe" if you ask if a particle is exactly at a given spot. On the other hand the subject here is philosophy and hence the...

I guess the Turing-test is much too technical. Over the procedure the main point is forgotten: There is no self-conscious AI until it proves itself to...

read Heidegger... There seems to be something special about it if one can make a difference between "a human" and "a human being". What is it that get...