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I would imagine an example of this would be something like language generation creating exponentially greater cultural learning which then favors a tr...

Indeed, so putting this together with my scenario in the OP, you think the trash-pickup belongs to Example 1, whilst hardcore survivalism belongs to E...

Artificial intelligence does not entail artificial consciousness. But, how to tell is indeed tricky. My point was to simply explain when it is conscio...

This is the one. Thermometers and p-zombies are not conscious. A robot that does everything like a human but does not have any internal "feels like" i...

Yes, I agree with that. Hume might say the same. The law of non-contradiction was a kind of bone I was throwing out. It seems like something whereby t...

I might even say it is superficially analytic, using modal logic as its determination.

I get that. It is a traditional notion. But, maybe not Kripke, but I can see there being a difference between X is NOT ~x and bachelors are unmarried ...

Yes, with all of these do ethical considerations of using people's as ends come into the equation? What of the idea of "aggressive" paternalism? Is th...

So much to unpack knowing your political stance regarding non-interference and impositions... But first off, does the outcome matter when considering ...

If you are referring to the bachelor- a world without marriage has no use for the term bachelor. Strictly speaking, bachelorhood might not obtain in a...

I would suppose Kant would say something like triangles are discovered yet true by our faculties that observe this so a priori synthetic perhaps? The ...

Right, but the key idea here is they discovered something about the concept first. I guess it's two different questions: 1. The name is attached to th...

You can't do that! Leaving me hanging! :smile:

Further, Kripke might say something like: I guess you can say that if there are a world without bachelors, then bachelors wouldn't exist and therefore...

So the overriding question becomes, "Is it ever morally right to cause someone a burden just so that they can overcome the burden, in the name of some...

Yes I was actually going to point that out regarding the difference between "A triangle is 180 degree, three sided polygon" and "Bachelors are unmarri...

Yes! Exactly what I am suggesting. And I know others have posited something like this, like Quine. It seems to have been a holdover from 17th and 18th...

It could be the case that all analytic statements were simply one-time synthetic statements that were conventionalized.

The idea becomes muddled as analyticity is often associated with a prioricity. The idea being that logic is both analytic and a priori (needs no inves...

The argument answers itself. There would be no humans if people were following what is good, as to burden the next generation with life, is itself not...

Yes this has been a classic debate of connectionism versus computationalism which this article provides a good overview of: https://plato.stanford.edu...

This very much aligns with what I was discussing here:

So I think it's half-and-half. In terms of grammar generation, Chomsky seems to believe language can be wholly internal (I-language not E-language) an...

Good question, which is why it's interesting to me that Chomsky doesn't seem as interested in concept formation (the content or representation of what...

So my response is based on the fact that describing the mechanisms of how phenomenal experience evolved, doesn't account for the phenomenal experience...

Easy problems can be quite elaborate and even proven accurate, but still don’t actually touch upon the hard problem itself.

Yet, this might point more to Chomsykean ideas of a "mentalese" (I-language), not that there is no language at all. It complicates things that Chomsky...

After reading the article, I am uncertain about its implications. Although it is possible that some individuals have a lower frequency of inner speech...

I think this is the most interesting theory he holds, and at least prima facie, seem true. Much of language is basically self-talk. It is our thoughts...

Am I mistaken or was Kripke only accounting for meaning in regards to proper names and scientific kinds (like water is H20) which unlike other terms, ...

Tucker, is that you?

Perhaps. I was suggesting that strong emergence is really just a synonym for the question at hand. Something like qualia is something that exists. It ...

Yeah that makes sense, but I guess the argument is whether he thinks there is a definite specified structure for things as you describe (constant conj...

Yeah I get it, but my point was to show an example of fully reducible (weak emergence) and something that is not known either way. There are processes...

I think it’s simply unclear what’s being described. As I said “learning” is a vague notion and has its own cognitive and brain mechanisms. So it becom...

Chomsky doesn’t seem to know if there is a conceptual apparatus so apparently that aspect isn’t part of his LAD?

This narrative only works if it’s going to something better. The rebel alliance banding together to defend various forms of authoritarianism isn’t tha...

It might be useful to parse out computational aspects from sensory aspects. There is a difference between: 1. *sensing* blue and 2. a single cell is a...

Good quote. I'd have to read what he says before and after this to get full picture probably. However, it seems that he thinks that there are beliefs ...

I think one criticism of his general tendency is to change the goal posts as to what the innate structures are and how innate they are. For example, I...

My animosity mainly comes from the very project of the Tractatus itself which is ultimately speculative, but poorly done speculation, as it doesn't ev...

That's for HIM as the PHILOSOPHER (not Fooloso4) to explain. No, I get. God, free will, the green idea that sleeps by the dreamy number 3, etc. is "no...

You added what the text didn't say. You quoted something, then you said other stuff not in the text that you gleaned from the text. The text said: I d...

Edited the above post a bit.

So it's neat that you interpreted him this way (that he means by pictures of reality- empirical observation or whatnot), but let's say this is the cor...

That’s precisely my question and doesn’t seem Wittgensteins enterprise here. He doesn’t really go into a thorough investigation on how to determine tr...

What value does any of this obviousness have? The important part is figuring out the true propositions. Just saying that there are states of affairs a...

I pointed that out a long time ago and was chastised for not just allowing Wittgenstein to get away with it.

It’s just the fact that the definitions must be learned from convention in the first place. If a society has no marriage, it may have no concept of ba...

What is your interpretation as to what "empirical analysis" entails here for understanding analyticity? 4 out of 5 men believe unmarried males are bac...