RogueAI

Welcome! What do you think of Trump?

So minds and brains are different? What are the differences?

If minds are brains (and I presume you think mental states are brain states) why are only some parts of the brain conscious?

In an infinitely large multiverse of a certain kind, there are going to be worlds like ours, but where extreme statistical flukes are the norm. Suppos...

They really are. I'm liking this younger generation of philosophers.

It took a long time for me to ditch the materialist mindset. For me, the biggest obstacle was feeling like a fool for taking "woo"ish things seriously...

Consciousness was already explained years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained But apparently, the REAL solution to the hard pro...

Well, you can see their behaviors. Their inner experiences (or lack thereof) are out of reach. Do other people see red the way I see green? Who knows.

Why do you assume people that come here don't have any say in the matter? You're assuming in your anti-natalist view that souls (disembodied minds, if...

Also: we can only go by our memories to determine whether things make sense. It's possible the universe makes no sense, but we are given false memorie...

The odds of the universe supporting any life at all are fantastically improbable. This is a good article: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuni...

I found this interesting: "Is there a God or a multiverse? Does modern cosmology force us to choose? Is it the case that the apparent fine-tuning of c...

Quantum Bayesian is really out there. Consciousness is all the rage these days.

How is that feeling generated from non-feeling matter? Why is there a feeling at all? Why is there a feeling associated with some brain processes but ...

One of the more powerful arguments Dennett (I think it's Dennett) makes is that we are wrong about consciousness in the same way that an ancient Greek...

Come on, read what he said! ::snaps fingers:: pay attention! What's wrong with you?

Which philosopher and/or paper most closely matches your view on consciousness?

You (supposedly) have discussions with luminaries yet you can't answer the most basic of questions and hide behind jargon. This is a philosophy forum ...

Are you an eliminativist? Do you think ChatGpt is conscious?

You're making Apo sound like an idiot! No offense to either of you, of course. Are you an eliminativist?

That begs a lot of interesting questions about machine consciousness, yet so far I can't get Apo to byte on any of that. What's the big deal???

I see I'm not the only one. Can you explain, in words of as few syllables as possible, what you think consciousness is?

When do you think that will happen?

What do you think of Koch losing his bet to Chalmers? Do you think Koch is ever going to win that bet (assuming he lives long enough)?

Can machines be conscious? Speaking and/or reporting are necessary conditions for consciousness and/or introspection??? Is a jumping spider conscious ...

OK, Mr. I'm-so-qualified :razz: Riddle me this: According to your theory of mind/consciousness, are insects conscious? Do they have minds? https://www...

If you're having problems with multiple people here, perhaps the problem is not the other people?

I can't back up what I'm saying with stats, but my impression of NPR from listening to it while driving home is that they have given quite a bit of ai...

Yeah, materialism does seem to entail it.

Isn't it possible they want to highlight historically underrepresented groups and correct an unfairness that has been the status quo for a very long t...

The good thing about both IIT and GNWT is that they take experience as something real. This is what Strawson called a physicalist realist position. So...

Yes, if anyone shows even a modicum of intelligence and/or compassion, except for the "plight" of white people, they become persona non grata.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/09/trump-prosperity-gospel-same-lie-neither-christians-grace-column/2835189001/ It figures that if Trum...

Sending people positive mental energy (praying for them) is never a bad thing. It's pretty egotistical to think you can bend God to your will, but it'...

What do you think of this? "Microorganisms demonstrate conscious-like intelligent behaviour, and this form of consciousness may have emerged from a qu...

Does anything that produces/utilizes a "Bayesian model of the world" have a self and/or consciousness? Also, why do some brain processes involve consc...

:100:

What about when we ascribe adjectives to our mind? Are we in error when we do that?

So mind is a thing, not a process? Or both?

And Bernie hung on way too long, needlessly damaging Clinton and preventing her from pivoting to the genera election.

Suppose we discovered the perfectly preserved corpse of an alien in one of their spaceships. For any definition of "conscious", what experiments could...

"Do Insects Have Consciousness and Ego? The brains of insects are similar to a structure in human brains, which could show a rudimentary form of consc...

Science should be able to explain something as fundamental as consciousness, shouldn't it? And why is "consciousness" in quotes?

There really do seem go be good guys and bad guys in this conflict. Russia, China, and Iran are the Axis powers, while U.S. and other democracies are ...

:100: Panpsychism is a gateway philosophy. It eventually leads to idealism.

When did consciousness first show up? Are insects conscious? Can machines become conscious?

People like Koch, Kastrup, and Tononi have PhD's in science. The idea that only philosophers worry about consciousness is decades out of date.

That's true for much of science. The JWST gives us pretty pictures, but doesn't have much impact on the problems facing us. Should we not have spent b...

You can only paper over problems for so long. Eventually the shut up-and-calculate approach fails, and the hard problems become more and more embarras...