Seems like one chapter in a larger post-postapocalypse story in which society has broken down and technology is a mix of old and new. It's decent in i...
I got that notion as well, it almost reads like an analogy for the psychological confusion and anxiety someone who transitions goes through, especiall...
Good writing, flows well. A nice holiday detective story. However, there's some logical gaps that bothered me. As with the others discussing in here, ...
Most actions that human's take are pretty much out of similar strings of causal behavior as animals. The only difference is that we are adaptable thro...
If a contest is meaningless, then how can it produce such frustration and emotion? I don't think anyone takes a contest in art seriously, and those wh...
It's more complex than that. What we feel as emotions are the strings of intuition and instincts. Emotions are part of evolution training us. Pain ove...
The illusion is what I described here: The illusion is our experience of ourselves to be more advanced than what we really are. We don't see the strin...
Which is in line with a highly complex web of prediction actions. What happens when a prediction system starts to predict possible outcomes of actions...
And that returns to the question of at which level of perception an objective understanding, a knowing, is preferable. The one which is in the middle,...
Actually, no, they're ideas I've developed on my own out of trying to conceptualize the evolutionary reason for consciousness and how we ended up with...
You can check out the thread on Physicalism as well, we all went deep into emergence of consciousness if you need more input on that angle. I firmly s...
It remains mostly just as a remark of an obvious observation on human perception, but it fails to lock down limitations as actual limitations of knowl...
Maybe some comment but wait to rate until they've read them all? I had that idea first, but then changed my process to reflect what I think is correct...
Not really, it comes from me evolving my ideas from what is known and what is likely, not what is desired or believed. The idea of mind and body(brain...
How do you create a brain without the history forming it? Yes, if you copy a brain exactly and place that copy into an exact replica of the body it ca...
Literally. But I'm not saying they are "decided" by something (read; someone). I'm talking about it like with the example of the flower. The guiding p...
No, I'm not disagreeing with this. The idea that any system can form consciousness is closer to Panpsychism. But as you say here with "history" is wha...
Well, this is the main question. If you reach an answer then let everyone in the scientific community know because that's the key to all of it. We kno...
That equation was just some messing around with the system. Emergent events are what emerges out of the chaos, not the chaos itself. If it forms a bal...
Do you mean attractor? I'm also not good at math, but thank bigbang I can try and apply conceptualizations with AI and produce a code for it. Are you ...
What I meant was, if we were finally able to compute or make predictable emergent systems ourselves, would that provide enough explanation? Meaning, i...
Their composition of neurons and regions of complex systems that together make up our consciousness. That's why they are special, but they're not more...
If you mess with it, you mess with consciousness. If you were to separate the head from the body and do it in a way that kept giving oxygen to the hea...
We do not yet know if it is impossible to predict or merely that the prediction is too complex for us to compute it. If it were, would that then be an...
I'm just using the brain itself for convenience in explanations. Researchers at the moment see the body as a pretty instrumental part of our identity ...
:up: Why is that special? There are countless of systems that emerges in nature that are extremely complex and almost impossible to understand how the...
Not sure which paragraph you are referring to, but I think you can find in my argument that an "object" is not as easily defined as traditional unders...
Be away for two days and the backlog of answers pool over :sweat: But it sounds more like: being long, therefore it has no insight. The "cast-iron" co...
Saying that a long post is a reason for "no insight", makes absolutely no sense. I've taken what you say into consideration in order to write out a de...
It’s a choice of POV to describe him externally. Internally he would just come off as a raging Caligulan asshole that would justify his deeds and be i...
Consciousness, in my view, is just part of the same coin as anything else. Maybe the best description would be that both mind and matter are part of t...
We need to define physical fundamentals first. We can argue that all existence is composed of smaller parts and that the sum complexity produce emerge...
Naturalism is just the broader idea that rejects the supernatural. In that sense, yes, I'm a naturalist as well. I do not think there are any supernat...
It is physical but not in the way of the reductionist interpretation. Emergent properties functions as a result of increasing complexity. The gist of ...
While your post sounded a bit overly harsh, I do agree that people taking the time to read someone's story, commenting or interacting in any way is tr...
I agree, I wasn’t stressed to read as I had some time off at the moment, but that time is quickly running out. What would be a nice new cutoff as a su...
Main problems I feel are: Framing science as some kind of simple one-note group functioning under religious dogma, which is false. While there are bad...
No, you just don't seem to understand it. You seem to just understand a pop-science media caricature of what science is, and it has formed your entire...
It's problematic to make a comment on all stories since we would solve who wrote what by just checking what people didn't comment on. So leaving a com...
No, it seems that you fear science more than I fear religion. The reason I don't think religion has merits for factually describing anything is primar...
I'm not arguing for science able to prove everything, just as it is impossible for you to say that it won't. Your argument kind of requires science to...
As someone who's been working with stories and storytelling for many years, but yet to taken the plunge into actually doing it myself... that may even...
Not much of a story, feels like a meditation on death that has good writing, but not story. And I don't understand the lack of capital letters? If tha...
Well written story about headbutting trauma before leaving it all behind. I don't think it requires being shorter or longer, it nails the length and h...
I still think 1-5 is good because a "3" is good to have for when you actually can't get a good grip of what you both feel or think about a story. When...
Sure, but I still think it's good to have some form of framework in mind, or else points can become the result of today's mood rather than an honest r...
Exactly, it makes no sense to imply that we shouldn't care about what politicians say. How many politicians in history can we argue are responsible an...
Time travel backwards seem to be mostly impossible due to the fact that reality collapses into a single point at each moment in time. If you were to t...
I viewed the moth event as almost promethean. He could be devoured but yet reassemble in some way and good health. I guess he would be obliterated int...
Agreed, a "1" is for texts that totally fail at every point to be a story. Something that neither has understanding of language, even abstract such, t...
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