Heiko

A little joke: Of course you have a purpose... Who else should pay your elders pension?

Associative speculation: Artificial neural networks are modelled based on physiological properties of the brain. Mathematically what these things do i...

I tend to the opinion that we do not understand those as they are real corner-cases that are largely irrelevant to our existence. Hence they lack real...

Given: Schroedingers cat would know if it is dead or not. But e.g. finite space gives us a headache. Seems we cannot image finite space as there is al...

I guess with formal means (maths) we can get quite beyond things we could understand intuitively. If we really "understand" those relations is quite a...

The tale makes sense, yes. This is just like the color-blind without any apparature. He does not really get the difference between colors.

Would it? I see it this way: Imagine an intelligence being present in two parallel universes at the same time. We would never really get why it tried ...

Comprehensible to whom? I would understand the difference between abezido and nuralemina :D

As I tried to explain: What is comprehensible must be rooted in reality. A color-blind cannot understand the difference between colos. He may understa...

What do you mean by "understanding"? As the example per se: There is no dissent over the equations of quantum mechanics but what do those mean? The fa...

Has anyone ever proven one or the other? All this does is rephrasing common opinions. From this foundational basis then "arguments" shall be made why ...

What does he know? Did he die before? "Rotting body"? - Death in particular can come quickly. Seems he is lacking introspection wrt to what he is talk...

And if I think about it: This is what is pretty annoying about this discussion and the question "But is it conscious?". First one should be able to an...

As I see it there are numerous fields where computers generate intelligent solutions for particular problems. But there is no implementation yet that ...

If two subject are the same and one of them is the same as yet another, then all three are the same. It is anthropocentric. If it can it's behaviour m...

I guess this is more about transitivity. Humans are assumed to be intelligent. Commonly this is assumed to be indicated by intelligent behaviour and c...

Turing wasn't concerned with philosophy. And without reading his papers I guess he spoke of intelligence, not consciousness. If p-Zombies make you hea...

No, they just accumulate power.

So if you are in spirituality why do you even bother with science? Your could know that arguing scientifically you get scientific explanations. Modern...

It is clear that in philosophy all statements are made with a certain interest. In my opinion the reputation of philosophy suffers from the fact that ...

Well, it's just a presumption that drops are drops no matter when. If this was dependend on time physicists were very interested to find out. Just so ...

I guess the point was: something is intelligent, if it is called intelligent because it appears to be intelligent. The judgement is already made by pe...

The p-zombie has no consciousness per definition. On the other hand, nobody has proven that a sheet of aluminum does not have feelings. So what was th...

Seriously - there is not much to say: The young are far out on the gaussian curve of voters - society is not yours, and will never be until you do not...

One step further: There is no relation as there are no distinct entities.

How would you know? All you relate to is consciousness. Because you call it such?

No, a perception is consciousness. You seem to image an entity "consciousness" which could then have perceptions or not - which is empirically never t...

Ex falso quodlibet.

I guess one could say, Subjectivity is objective.

Sure. But there is some epistemology also. See http://marxistphilosophy.org/stalin1938.pdf

Isn't this readily solved by dialectic materialism?

Isn't the whole point about what defines the subject in the first place, mind or matter? Why should intrinsic properties of matter constituting a self...

Rights are essentially a relation of one party bending the will of another. Property rights limit foreign access to possessions, your rights as a citi...

That was the difference we started with. All there is is there.

Big point: There is no "self".

Because your body does not need to be there (as normal) in dreams. You may very well be right that "dreams are dependent upon the workings of an organ...

Not in the case of dreams. It is literally the empty form of perception.

This is merely a differentiation between mind and body. As far as "duality" goes - that word carries some meaning (substantiality and stuff) in which ...

Yet the "subject" in that case means the worldly self. This is quite different from the epistemological subject of transcendental philosophy. In fact,...

Why should thirst be that different from a chair or tree as perceived content? Isn't this based on presumptions?

It is known as the form of it's perception. There is always the perceiving and the perceived. But this only establishes it's mere existence. If it was...

In a broader sense an event or thing whose present or future existence or happening is not ruled out. From my perspective there is a possibility that ...

There even are philosophers who actually explain the objective aspect from the subject itself. Although coherent in themselves none of them could be u...

A try: Virtuosity means seeking the opportunity to be a hero. The obligation opposes itself.

This would mean I had less time to do other things which may be even more important. When your are "telling the truth" you are telling one way or the ...

You either get the distinction between subjects and objects or don't. To quote M.Heidegger (Being and Time) Or with Descartes: Ego cogito, ergo sum

Yes. Your aren't me. That's a no-brainer. But the question is not "what works". There were many things that kinda "worked" but weren't right either. T...

I guess "will" cannot be taken as a thing different from the subject. It is part of it's being. A mode of existence. After all, when you do something,...

You cannot have a relation between two points where one end is defined by the relation. Either there is something to relate to or there is not. :grin:

But to be an object it cannot be a subject. It just has to be there to be an object. An object is per definition what is not-the-subject. So what are ...