Indeed, it would be foolish to take my word for it - find out for yourself. From the POV of thought or of AlphaZero, as it were, it is necessarily the...
The conclusion of course happens to be true, but the argument alas does not run. Never mind Deep Blue, we have programs that deterministically evaluat...
I don't know, is there some other difference in general? It seems a fairly trivial difference to me, compared to the difference between, say, those wh...
Well bugger believers. What everyone wants to know is their own status, isn't it? Is you saved or is you ain't? Is God on our side? When you meet Jesu...
I'm reminded of discussions of the standard meter. Every meter rule is a meter long by being the same length as the standard meter. But the standard m...
Well I suspect it is analogous to the atomic structure of matter - that psyche, subjectivity, identity, whatever you call it, is made of archetypes. A...
Unfortunately this is now normal political discourse. One cannot fruitfully engage with people who do not care about self-contradiction. One has to re...
Archetype. Thus the physical hero is the same archetype that might be called Heracles or Superman, or some other. The difficulty is to see from time t...
Alas, one can kill oneself, but one cannot give birth to oneself. One cannot even conceive oneself. Perhaps the nearest to an opposite would be mastur...
What I meant to allude to in a light way, is how things that have no monetary value, like the atmosphere, or climate stability, or the Amazon jungle, ...
Reason: I like milk, and while I can milk a cow or a goat well enough, I am not very good at making buckets. Most people could not survive a week alon...
Your happiness means a lot to me. But we are discussing the social contract. And the social contract is just the way social relations are conducted, a...
You only have savings by the grace of the social contract. Governments regulate promissory notes such that society can rely on them, and you can hold ...
One can analogise the social contract to the agreement you make every time you go to a new web page; you don't read it, and you wouldn't understand it...
As far as i am concerned, there is no social contract, because I am entirely self-concerned. However, the facts are that humans are socially dependent...
In a way, I think the whole question is misguided. How can I tell the difference between the posts that come before this one, and the posts that come ...
I can relate to that. But what could you anticipate without memory? Excuse the Pavlovian, but one salivates in anticipation of dinner because one reme...
Let me say it boldly; memory is time. There is a rare condition, associated with binge drinking mainly, in which the ability to lay down new long term...
There seems to be past - present - future, as memory, sensation, and imagination. I suppose you privilege the present as all-encompassing, in that mem...
Here's a talk. It's low key, conversational, and a quietly devastating criticism of much current practice in education, mental health, and science. ht...
It's more so that any metric of value would be money. Rather the way that anything used to measure length becomes a ruler, whether it is a thumb, a fo...
I'm quite sure they are widely ignored and even suppressed. The voices of the dead, however, are silent by nature. This guy presents himself as Speake...
What do you think that statement is? the nearest I can get is a universal and definitive "Fuck off!", but I'm not sure that 'profound' is how I would ...
"Feeling" seems to be a amalgam of sensation and emotion. So I would say that the sensations of bathing induce emotions of pleasure. But here is a pro...
And I am saying that is a silly question. There is no conceivable measure. You can only measure my empathy with you and understanding of your post usi...
Not much can be done really and exactly; I feel your pain, but not really or exactly, but just slightly, vaguely, imaginatively. And that is called - ...
Much as I despise the guy, it is nothing shameful. One can be in favour of tax rises and not pay the government the rise one proposes until it is impl...
My favourite topic. I often walk northwards, until I get hungry, and then I turn round. Identity is not self-sameness, nor is it that uniqueness that ...
Well I have heard folks say they are proud to be American, or Irish or whatever, and perhaps they might have chosen a better way to say it, or perhaps...
This is not true. It's pretty unimportant if I focus on racial differences or if I don't, because I'm white; it becomes important if racial difference...
Sure, that likeness is in its literal meaninglessness rather than its cultural meaningfulness. This slots right into Orwell's world: "Attack is defenc...
I imagine she would prefer that there was not an over-privileged and an underprivileged group, but that all were born equal in privilege and benefit. ...
Do you not like Mondays either? I haven't seen it before. Lots of detail I'm not familiar with, but a rather narrow time frame. It almost seems to say...
Well yes, of course, but they do it in a context that, from the lonesome cowboy of Clint Eastwood through Chandler's Marlow, super-spider-bat-iron man...
Keeps repeating? You mean like 'over and over again'? Is that why you brought up the media attention, or was it directed at me? You might have made th...
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