RogueAI

Thanks for the responses.

Yes, I understand that, but what is is about brains that makes them conscious? There must be something about brains that makes them necessary and suff...

What is it about the brain that makes it the seat of consciousness?

Briefly, can you sketch out your reasoning for why consciousness emerges from brains and not, say, hearts? Or livers? And why are only some brain func...

You approve of assassinations of other country's generals, yet you have disdain for warmongers? Is that right?

Did you approve of Trump authorizing the killing of Suleimani? Actions like that are straight out of the neocon playbook. It led to an Iranian airstri...

I used to believe this, but I don't think it's true anymore. A state is just a collection of people, and peoples have morals, friends, allegiances, et...

Indeed, and yet a necessary condition for denying the existence of my mind is the existence of my mind.

If materialism requires one to be open-minded to the idea one is a p-zombie (or materialism somehow makes the idea that one is a zombie palatable), th...

Then physicalism is wrong, since I'm not a zombie. I cannot be wrong about not being a zombie. Do you think you're a zombie?

I was indoctrinated in materialism for almost all my life. It's only recently that I've discovered it's incoherent. Materialism claims that we could b...

It would be wrong in doing so, since I'm not a p-zombie. Are you saying it would be correct in making the move to conclude from the purely physical de...

Fictional characters and mathematical theorems and numbers are not physical. Picture Holmes in your mind right now. Is the Sherlock Holmes you're imag...

Regarding red lights, suppose I'm full of rage and want to run a red light so's I can smash into a particular car because it belongs to the man who's ...

Sherlock Holmes?* The Pythagorean Theorem? *Holmes was invented, but someone could certainly read the book and "discover" Holmes, all the other deligh...

This is an excellent post. I have always argued here that, in light of the Hard Problem, idealism is the most parsimonious theory. I think that that p...

That's a very good question. Islam is the last of the Abrahamic religions. I don't think it's had as much time to mellow. Also, the actions of colonia...

That's a misquote. Bitconnect said that. I don't entirely agree with what he said,

Religious extremism. What is yours?

Why do Muslim terrorists rape women to death? Put on suicide vests and blow innocent people up? Fly planes into civilian buildings? Behead people and ...

I disagree. The rise of Ai isn't going to compel people to think about "oxygen, gravity, mutations, liquidity". It's going to compel them to ask the v...

You didn't address this: "Yet even Jews in actual concentration camps (Auschwitz, not Gaza) didn't end up mass raping German women or committing atroc...

Is there a Hard Problem of Oxygen? Is the nature of Oxygen deeply mysterious? Is there a lack of consensus about what Oxygen is, or whether it's an il...

Which field?

What other mystery besides consciousness cuts across so many diverse fields? Psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, quantum mechanics...

How long does that hold true? Suppose a thousand years from now, there are still raging debates about the Hard Problem and no consensus. Is physicalis...

If everything is mental, and all minds disappeared, the universe would disappear. But if everything is physical and all minds (brains) disappeared, th...

Except, https://iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-conciousness/

All the advances in science are consistent with idealism. Science doesn't do metaphysics. It doesn't tell us that an electron is fundamentally a menta...

Yes, Merkwurdichliebe didn't seem any more insulting than anyone else in that thread. Also, I'm not a moderator. Moderators should rise above the fray...

He said "boo-hoo" when someone pointed out the deaths of children in the Israel-Gaza thread. Compared to the insults the moderators themselves are tos...

Of course there is. Scratch a hyperbolist, find a useful idiot.

The Israel haters here (esp. the moderators) sure do come across as pricks sometimes.

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Which takes us back to consciousness and mental states. Physicalism would be on much more solid ground if it could explain consciousness, but it loses...

What would the non-psychological reason be for, say, killing a cheating spouse for revenge?

Profit and wealth would be hard to get rid of, even in a post scarcity society. While a scarcity of material goods wouldn't exist, a scarcity of servi...

Because it's so obviously true. Are you going to tell me you've never done anything purely based on psychological reasons or because you were compelle...

To get to the tech level needed for post-scarcity, something like a profit-motive will have to exist.

I keep trying to imagine a zombie version of me doing my job effectively without knowing anything and then coming home and kicking its feet up and hav...

So then we're back to the problem I laid out a couple posts prior. They don't have beliefs, so they don't have knowledge. How then are they navigating...

They seem to be.

And it's navigating the world and doing its job effectively, and it's doing all this without knowing anything??? How does that work, exactly?

OK, so let's say we have a p-zombie duplicate of me, and we plunk it down in a world identical to this one, right? Me and the p-zombie should then act...

Does the p-zombie have knowledge?

I'm not so sure it doesn't have beliefs. Hypericin made a good case. If they do have beliefs, what do you think of the point I made a post ago?

Maybe. I know they're supposed to be behaviorally identical to us, but address this point: When I burn my finger, I might cry out "that hurts" and als...

Personally, I don't think numbers have any special existence. They're just ideas for conveniently counting things. The number "two" is just another wa...

I posted another poll done about a month ago that had similar results, but I don't feel like wading through pages and pages. Suffice it to say their s...

It's not a similar argument. Israel is not raping Palestinian women to death. They're not beheading babies. They made some men kneel down in their und...