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I'm sure if you read into the details of your (unreferenced) article you would know that first, there are insufficient samples for scientists to have ...

The phrase "imitation game" is from Turing himself, in his 1950 paper. https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238 What leaps out (to me,...

Metaphysician heal thyself!! lol

No, was just acknowledging that life, whatever it is, may well be prerequisite to consciousness.

An elevator forms memories. I fail to grasp your point.

You think people's free speech rights are determined by the color of their skin. You're an actual racist. That said, we're talking politics. Harris po...

I appreciated the correction. I will definitely check that out. I could use some more clarity on the subject. (Must ... not ... take ... bait ...) I'm...

You are absolutely correct. As I was writing my post I was actually thinking of having to talk about life. I think that's Searle's point though I'm no...

I take your point about the cyanide; and if you say reality is not merely a word, then we are in agreement.

If there's no absolute truth, that also is an opinion and not a fact. I'm not up on this dialectic stuff, can you toss me a lifeline here? Tell me exa...

I don't know enough Hegel or Marx to discuss dialectic. I do know that dialectic is a historically contingent idea of humans; and that therefore it ca...

This seems like a logic trick. If two things are the same, they're only one thing. If they're two things they're not the same. In fact it is not possi...

Marxist? Hegelian? Bravo. But you made a claim far in excess of available evidence. You wrote down an opinion, not a fact.

Yes most definitely. He has not started any new wars. The Dems are chomping at the bit for more wars. The selection of Biden is a huge win for the war...

Thank you for such a heartfelt and, may I say, provocative post. For what it's worth, questions of Ms. Harris's race are all over the media, both righ...

Oh gosh. Hard to even know where to start. Everything! Movies based on his work include Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly,...

Even if you don't agree with the points I might make in response; I'm sure that if you follow politics you can at least imagine the points that might ...

Ooh! I like that. Go beyond logic, find ways of using our intuition, our non-computational facilities, to do things. The science of the future. We've ...

It is clear that consciousness can arise (some like to say emerge) from piles of atoms; specifically, in living creatures made of meat. It may be that...

As I took pains to indicate, I vote in California so that there is no danger that my political opinions could have any effect on the presidential race...

I'd let them sign a waiver acknowledging every bad thing that ever happened; absolving the jump company of legal responsibility except in a proven cas...

Yes, I see that now.

One finger pointing at the sound of one hand clapping? Is this philosophical charades?

That's not my metric. Trump just got a peace deal today. Biden falsely claimed it was his and the Dems are upset. Remember that in 2016 and 2020 it's ...

Hi Maw, I just want to make one point here which is that the GOP so far is missing the mark on their attacks on Kamala. There's so much substantive st...

You program yourself? You might be a character in a Philip K. Dick novel.

Remember, the DNC would rather lose with the centrists than let the Bernie brigade take over the party. That's their mission. Hence Biden. And now hen...

In another thread someone asked, at what point does a zygote achieve consciousness. This is the same question at the other end. When we're born, where...

“And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?” ? Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Main...

Society is filled with an awful lot of high IQ people behaving very badly at every level of society.

We're the main show now. I figured out that you're excessively modest. I misunderstood you and drew false conclusions. You're a teacher and I learned ...

Wait I figured this out. Kamala is the white liberal's idea of an acceptable black person. Not unlike half-black Obama. That's the play. And the media...

Yes thank you, you are right. There's me and my simulator. So it's not solipsism.

I have a question for you. As you know, the idea that the world may be a simulation running in a great computer "one level up" as they say. I personal...

You can doubt you're a solipsist. "I can't prove that others exist, but what if they do anyway?" Seems like a perfectly reasonable thought. Gotta go i...

ps to my previous post ... She doesn't bring in a state. California goes to the Democrat, period. Running up the score in a state you've already won d...

Two lines of discussion: 1) Is it a good or bad pick politically; and 2) Is she or is she not a duplicitous, self-serving finger-in-the-wind politicia...

You didn't include any of my quoted text and I'm afraid I don't know what you're referring to. The last thing I wrote in this thread was to agree that...

I apologize. I only wish to tell you that with your background, every single thing that's been discussed on this forum that you think is beyond you, i...

I have never held such an opinion. When have I ever said such a thing? If you can link or quote anything I've ever written to that effect I'll stand c...

What do you mean to communicate here? Do you doubt it could be done? Do you wonder how it's done? Could you produce at least a high-level drilldown of...

A researcher lost his job for reporting a study that said exactly that. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dem-data-firm-backed-by-former-google-ceo-dis...

This.

I did not understand your point in the least. You altered my quoted text to make it appear that I wrote something that I did not write. That's bad for...

Racism can be solved by removing all depictions of ethnic minorities from pancake syrup, butter, and rice.

I'd say you tend to take things too seriously. As to whether you should major in philosophy, that's up to you. You should be aware that the discipline...

You're probably right. I never heard of libertarianism before I discovered a stack of Reason magazines (now reason.com) in the library one day and tho...

As I understand it there are two major strains of 20th century libertarianism. Cosmolibertarians, who are the liberal wing; and paelolibertarians, who...

I'm trying to figure that out. My position would be that a libertarian -- small l, to distinguish libertarians from the collection of oddball wackjobs...

Are you distinguishing between libertarianism and anti-authoritarianism? Even libertarians like a police force to keep some semblance of order. They m...