Heiko

Strange how free will suddenly can become irrelevant, huh? On the other hand you say This sound like you had an idea what was worth how much.

Okay... as I read this those non-standard models are those where contradictions would be allowed without leading to arbitrary conclusions. ( like http...

Would a definition be true in respect to itself?

Who? Which model? Again: Which model? No, no... The sentence could be coded into the all-system. It just blew up then.

And I meant there cannot ever be another cause of unemployment but the two mentioned. Which underlines the above statement. How would you define what ...

The ability to understand and maybe manipulate the world without limitation. I do not understand. There is math and there is... stones. How are stones...

Oh... the syntax was a metaphor. "2=3" ain't true either and looks like some equation nontheless. When using "syntax" in the sense I did this does not...

Obviously the left a is not the right. This only means that, when talking about the law of identity, we do not mean the self-identity of the letters, ...

We are talking about formal systems of symbols here. The word "symbol" already indicates representation. Formalism was more or less concerned with mak...

No, unemployment is caused either by people not trying to get employed or by firms not employing them. You have to be deep into some ideological thoug...

Because Gödel showed that there is at least one true - and hence in the sense of mathematics: existing - sentence that cannot be deduced from any set ...

So you would call the world a formal system? This is part of what Gödel pointed out: There is a difference between formal deduction and existence of a...

If this was true then why are there so many, many paragraphs about exceptions that seemingly need to be imposed on what may be "done" with money? What...

If it itches, you scratch. If you should not scratch there is a problem: You want to anyways. Katharsis is said to help dealing with emotional conflic...

One side is the reflected judgement, the other is the urge. How long could you blink with one eye first and then the other instead of blinking simulta...

What springs to mind: drunkenness of emotion (Dionysos), cultural decadence (noblesse of suffering) and the turning-backward of natural destructivity ...

Nietzsche had some interesting theories about this. Like some kind of morbid deformity. For example the will to feel bad when listening to sad music.

Rationality is knowing purposes and means as such.

Reality in Germany. The bitter irony about this is: They should have done themselves. From one point of view they did for sure, from the other they di...

Survival of the species is achieved by progressive adaption that prescribed targeting of immortality as such can only hinder. Rationalists know the me...

You are ruining the joke: My thought was more of a redesign of public pension schemes. The question who would care for someone has some propositions. ...

Right - we need a morality shift. Nobody should live without affording his or her own life - a simple question of justness. Suicide should be an open ...

Funny enough that brain would not be him.

An interesting question would be how the causality between mental and physical states could be upheld in the simulation. If a certain simulated state ...

But in the case of Schroedinger's cat we cannot. This is why it's said it was neither dead or alive. If the cat knew it or not is not taken into accou...

That was not the point I was trying to make. The cat is said to be neither dead nor alive because from outside the box we do not know it.

Schroedinger's cat may have an idea that it is alive - or it does not....

If taking "stones" and other materials to build a machine from it and this machine then told you it felt conscious things seem to get complicated. Tha...

Sure there are other methods. But the ones that are derived from the functioning of the human brain, which generally means interconnected neurons pass...

That's the problem. We do not know if stones are self-conscious or not. We assume they are not as they show no signs to be so. The construct in Neurom...

Exactly. But Turing's argument was that there simply was no way to determine if the AI was thinking or not. It seems this was aimed exactly at the not...

In the long run, I think this will be the case. And this is good news. Too much work is spent on tasks which are obviously suited to machinal replacem...

If they stay alive they are right in their own rights. Why should one burden oneself with problems when the alternative is causing someone else proble...

The AIs whose construction is inspired by the human brain are merely a bunch of matrices chained together resulting in a map from an input to an outpu...

Know what is yours.

Now the discussion is reaching an appropriate level. Not being able to distinguish yourself from the rest of the world is classified as a serious ment...

A "chair" is a product of human work, manufactured for optimal comfort and/or low price in sweatshops for fat a**e* to be placed on. No... my fat ass ...

Dunno - are you?

What is clear is the form of the conclusion. It rains, so there is rain and rain is defined by raining. The most to-the-spot explanation of metaphysic...

Whatever - I guess I understand pretty well if somebody tries to tell me something. It is not that I'd have to speculate much to understand it that wa...

I'm not quite sure why I wouldn't - without restriction - call a discussion on an internet-forum a human relationship. Look at this post - I'm not res...

Following Kant the transcendental ego is the noumenal determination of that, which thinks. If there is thought, which we ought to know for sure, there...

The latter, ironically. It was often pointed out that the transcendental ego cannot be thought of like something being present at hand that is set in ...

No, this just really appears that way because the consciousness of me being myself is often assumed to be something different from me being myself.

The body is what I am. This being involves consciousness but the relation between me an my being is not that the being could be substracted and then o...

Where should be the fundamental difference between pain as the content of consciousness and your pc?

Where exactly would you draw the border between an idea and a concept?

Which is obviously not correct. If that was the case I would not bother to look at the thing. An "Apple" is not in the mind but a real thing that is i...

If there is a need for it, it must be progress. Technology is only concerned with how to do something. You do not raise the question why there is such...

That the discussions here are driven by some kind of deep need to question. The explanations are good and nice - but the question YOU made up here is ...