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If a nation's social contract includes a clause about providing and maintaining security then I think it's completely moral and in right business for ...

I still think neural networks can be described as self monitoring programs - they modify their output in a goal-directed way in response to input. The...

Isn't this true for only a subset of AIs. I'm unsure if this is how, for example a self navigating, walking honda robot works, or the c. elegans worm ...

Hmm, I would think self awareness comes part and parcel with some level of sentience. I think a robot that can sense certain stimuli - etc. light, col...

And not just! The most incredible thing is that it takes completely uncharacterized, undivided datum; identifies regularities, characterizes them, imb...

A pareto-optimal outcome in the prisoner case is one where both prisoners remain silent. Are you saying the external factor or force is the justice sy...

In the example, it's not the ice that continues to another cycle, it's the substance it's made of, water. Ice is a form of water that can cease to be....

It's pragmatic. It would be, at best, very difficult to effectively communicate, build trust, and prioritize or achieve personal goals if not. I don't...

What about self-monitoring programs? Ones that can modify behavior or output when certain conditions are met -- e.g a robot that self corrects its wal...

Maybe it's better to think of objectivity as invariance. Invariance can still be relative to some situation and/or some set of transformations. A clea...

If the issue is value based then try and pinpoint the value differences underlying the disagreement. Then lay out your arguments for your value system...

I dont think anything will come of it other than further vocal condemnation and maybe an uptick in extremist sympathizers.

They both made a mistake in not expressing their emotions at the appropriate time. Her friend rushed the closure process and left him in a predicament...

lol. Honestly, I'm asking sincerely since it seems like a straight forward observation - what makes you say no one can reliably recognize an experienc...

There are definitely key, identifiable features of that experience that are missing in his description. Not at all to diminish or delegitimize the imp...

That is the buddhist sense

I'll try my best. Ego dissolution involves the complete loss of ability to identify oneself introspectively. There’s a sense of disorientation and ‘gr...

While that sounds like a beautiful, selfless, noble desire to feel, it wasn't an experience of ego dissolution.

^^ Its functionally similar to theism in a god of gaps sense. Reality was created by a supra-natural (ante this reality) being. The being has omnipote...

My point was just meant to highlight that quantum level mechanics isn't needed to model or characterize the physical aspects involved in neural signal...

To my knowledge, the physics involved in modeling neural circuit doesn't go past basic EM and thermo. Wave mechanics of course for characterizing fiel...

The levels of analysis that are relevant for making sense of CNS are neuronal, neuronal-population, and molecular. These can be mechanistically analyz...

By your definition I could be, it depends on how you define 'these things'. I wasn't saying 'disintegrations' are never inevitable. It's just they can...

I'm sorry it looks like many people were focusing their posts specifically on the syrian crisis and consequences of interventionist policy more broadl...

Promulgation of enlightenment ideals is a relatively recent phenomenon. Establishment of mass communication highways that enable dissemination of idea...

Interesting, I don't know about free will itself but I can tell you that at a certain level of reality there is strong evidence to suggest determinism...

This conflict of efficiency vs well-being has been somewhat addressed in private industry with certain progressive companies - google, venmo, tesla- d...

I think we have an innate drive to resolve kinks or contradictions in our knowledge. Feeling of dissonance and/or confusion, or feelings of knowledge ...

I completely agree it's good to be skeptical and questioning of orthodox thought. But I think the underlying circuitry of basic perceptual processes i...

The heart's nerves aren't wired to extract or process information. They're just wired to set a rhythmic pace of heart contraction. The gut's N.S. just...

I saw this and thought of your thread- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1018363788315773&id=574719552680201&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google....

Welcome and thanks for starting this topic! I think it's important to differentiate consciousness and brain a bit more. It's true that brains and cons...

1. Do you mean if everyone decided not to work officially? I.e. they 'work' at home - cleaning their kitchens, flowering the garden, making food; but ...

I don't think many people think much into the goods they've bought. And there are different kinds of products and different levels of value or connect...

I don't think the consumer's knowledge of a product's production method and sources is the issue. I believe you mean the manufacturer's or worker's al...

This is an incredibly far reaching claim. The first author of the UN report was himself Jewish; Noam Chomsky is Jewish; there are numerous other, less...

How does making a judgement on an issue make someone bias? Assuming common agreement on a set of shared human rights, there is a correct assessment of...

His administration supported and co-drafted the Haavara agreement and supported a variety of emigration ''solutions'' to the ''jewish question''. I th...

There is a difference between systematic, institutionalized discrimination and sanctioning of rights violations in a double standard manner and indivi...

Should we?

Ah darn! But yea he's had some interesting ideas, give him a read if you can. @Baden That's correct!

Close, more hints: his first name begins with M and is a lesser known existentialist.

What is oral, anal, phalic, latent, and genital? @Caldwell What is schopenhaur? (unsure if spelling is correct) A 20th century jewish philosopher who ...

Interesting. Do you feel education and advocacy are enough? I think people will still be susceptible to non-logical rhetoric, emotional factors, image...

I don't think it entails that. You can acknowledge someone doesn't know what is best for him without dictating his life actions; it can allow for heal...

Just curious - what would be your alternative to a democratic system?

I think it's intrinsic to the security-ensuring function of government to maintain the well being of citizens and the society more generally (or at le...

I don't think what most people believe happiness to be is zero sum. As people were mentioning -- it's more a way of living-- acting in ways consistent...

This idea is problematic, relations are not intrinsic properties of parts. As a quick example, the words 'Dog' and 'God' are composed of the same lett...