RogueAI

I agree, but after a million/billion/trillion years of searching and no other life and no account of abiogenesis, what do you think the implications f...

It wouldn't strike you as odd if it turns out we're the only life in the universe? That wouldn't be an incredibly surprising result? "Luck" would come...

OK, assume a million years have gone by and we've surveyed countless worlds and we're the only one with life. And we still have no idea how it happene...

I agree. They have to start wrapping this up now.

What if 10,000 years from now, we've surveyed millions of promising planets, have found no life anywhere else and still have no consensus on how it go...

Here's a good article about the science community's reaction to panpsychism: https://www.salon.com/2024/04/01/the-most-anti-science-belief-you-can-hol...

America gave some security promises to Ukraine years ago if they would give up their nukes. That undoubtedly plays a factor in things.

A couple points: religions like Christianity give the masses a reason to behave: be good, and go to heaven; be bad and got to hell. I think there are ...

None of us can know anything about what happens after death, so why even ask the question? But I suspect it's true.

You keep coming back until you learn that chasing idols (e.g., money, fame, power, substances, etc.) won't make you happy.

And this is strange, since the economy is usually the top issue, and it's been humming along: stock market highs (most people have 401(k)'s, so they b...

"As we did in our previous poll three months ago, we asked the respondents in this poll what they thought of Hamas’ decision to launch the October the...

It's a good one. I hope one of these days Sam Harris has him on his show.

Would an idealist even care about being in the machine or not? After all, if this is all a dream, what does it matter if I dream I'm living a life of ...

He uses that one a lot.

You have no clue what I mean when I say 9/11 was a big factor in American policy and it's not all just about oil? What is confusing about that?

Oil has always played a big factor, but so did 9/11. It was a tremendous shock to the system. Much of America's policies, including torture, were to m...

What's a good Searle article/paper that deals with that?

How can I tell you anything without putting it in a proposition?

Maybe for animals close to our abilities who can almost think like us, but Salmon know when and where to return to the spawning grounds. What kinds of...

I remember raging arguments at the International Skeptics Society years ago about whether enough monks writing down 1's and 0's could simulate conscio...

Animals know things, but what kinds of beliefs do they have? Certainly not propositional.

Money is not the end-all-be-all, but it is an important factor, and candidates would rather have it than not.

Have you ever seen this? https://xkcd.com/505/

I missed this somehow. This is absurd. You're not going to be able to simulate a conscious person/generate consciousness from paper and pencil. This i...

You're forgetting abortion. Since Dobbs, Democrats have overperformed in every special election. SCOTUS is taking up abortion again this Summer, and n...

Sure. Simulation Theory is fascinating. I don't reject it right off the bat like "you're a p-zombie and don't know it". But I do think the central pre...

Which is to say that a collection of electronic switches is conscious when there's a sufficient number of them and they're being turned on and off in ...

People lose rights when they go down certain roads. From the UN "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." That sounds good, bu...

You're right about Baldur's Gate, but ChatGPT certainly simulates mental processes (or seems to. More about that in a second). You can have a full on ...

If you're open to the possibility that consciousness could emerge from a computer simulation, are you also open to the idea that consciousness is alre...

But you are claiming that exchanging meaningful information about mental states entails exchanging meaningful information about brain states. Why aren...

I don't want the Palestinians destroyed anymore than I would have wanted the Germans or Japanese destroyed in WW2. They eventually came to their sense...

While all that's true, and Palestinian culture is inferior to Western culture (and "evil" in many respects re:women and LGBTQ), there's a bit more goi...

Are you claiming that exchanging meaningful information about LED lights entails exchanging meaningful information about transition metals and photons...

I refined this a bit for ChatGpt: User Assume that mental states are identical to brain states. Assume there are two children who have no idea what br...

Let me see if I'm understanding you right. You're claiming that two people who don't know what brains are and don't even know they have them can still...

It leaves out the fact Israel is a democratic respecter of women/LGBTQ rights and its neighbors are violators of them.

The population became expendable when they voted in Hamas. From that point on, it was just a matter of time before Hamas did something crazy. Israel s...

You could be all-powerful and/or all-knowing but unconsciously limiting yourself for some reason.

So they are exchanging information about brain states, but just aren't aware of it? And at a later date they realize they were talking about brains al...

That's fine. I'm not interested in proving this part of the argument. Now, how can people who have no idea of what brains are talk coherently about br...

Do you really need me to prove that ancient peoples talked about pain, suffering, loss, love, heartache, etc.? Have you ever read any of the plays or ...

How does one talk coherently about a brain state when one does not know what a brain is?

It's certainly not a professional philosopher, but it can be insightful sometimes.

I was thinking that perhaps you're claiming the two ignorant people talking about their mental states are also unknowingly talking about their brain s...

I think this is more than just a naming issue. Whether one is talking about Venus or morning star, one is referring to a bright light in the sky that ...

How can one coherently talk about an organ one is unaware even exists? That is absurd. Reductive materialism leads to an absurdity.

ChatGPT's perspective: User:If mental states are identical to brain states, then when two people are talking about their mental states they must also ...

How does someone who thinks the brain's purpose is to cool the blood talk coherently about brain states? Or take a child who was raised with little ed...