RogueAI

Nothing wrong with political prejudices. I assume you're prejudiced against Stalinists? Fascists? Neonazi's? MAGA Republicans believe in some pretty s...

I don't think it works both ways. There are huge numbers of blacks still alive who remember when there was legal racism used against them. I can under...

I was curious if anyone here would defend Scott Adams.

It's not his comments that surprise me, it's the reaction to them.

Very! Thanks.

Hanover, can you change that quote? It makes it look like I"M saying that!!!

Are they highly accurate? After all, for much of human history, we've had some kooky beliefs about what, exactly, the world is and is made of.

I'm an idealist, so I think the brain is a mental object. All that exists are minds How could a mind emerge from a collection of electronic switches? ...

"Computer states signify only because humans endow them with meaning." I agree with this. I also think you can replace "computer" with "brain" and sti...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/russian-land-mines-disguised-as-toys-target-the-children-of-ukraine/

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Grand strategy is not the same as foreign policy. Foreign policy is how a nation pursues it's strategic goals. For example, while Clinton and Bush no ...

Since 1975. What do you mean by "the foreign policy establishment"? Do you mean think tanks? People like Kissinger? McNamara? Cheney?

If foreign policy isn't affected by presidents, and Congress has shown over the decades to want less and less to do with it, who do you think is setti...

Are you an American?

Do you think there would have been an Iraq war with a President Gore?

This is nonsense. Did you live in America during the Bush years? Do you think there would have been an Iraq war with a President Gore? Congress has be...

I'm not saying it's plausible, but it's possible. Interestingly, I wrote a paper on just this sort of thing a long time ago. I concluded that the exis...

It's possible that a universe without the possibility of physical suffering would seem miraculous or a put-up job, and that God has good reasons for n...

It will forever be a mystery. Myself, I think I caught a whiff of a certain computationalist that posted up a storm and then went out in a bang. I use...

Bartricks was an idealist. I'm not getting idealist vibes from Zettel.

Don't you think this is a metaphysical claim? "mind-independent stuff exists"

I can see that, but isn't that going to lead to radical skepticism? For example, let's take a non-metaphysical claim: "The cat is on the mat". Isn't t...

But "other minds exist" has a truth value. It's either true or false that there are other minds than my own. The truth value is currently unknowable, ...

Would you consider "other minds exist" and/or "there is more than one mind" to be a metaphysical proposition? (I should have asked you this first)

Can you give an example of an imponderable metaphysical proposition?

Yes, and my point is that with physicalism, the question of whether x is conscious will always be open-ended. That suggests the physicalism framework ...

Suppose you create a machine that you believe is conscious. You can learn all the physical facts there are to know about the machine, and still not be...

Or just not believe in materialism.

I think it does, but I'm curious what other people think. I'm getting out a little beyond my skis!

Well, then you're agnostic!

Well, what about ten thousand years?

To try to put it succintly, it's reasonable to be agnostic about alien contact ten years from now, but not ten minutes from now. But I can't see what'...

Anecdote: I took philosophy at UCLA and had Donald Kalish as my logic professor. He told an interesting story about how he and a partner were all read...

You can't assume this! In order to assume it, you would have to know that aliens, in fact, exist, and will contact us at some point in the future.

Here's my problem if we can't assign a value for Pr(E/H): any hypothesis about alien contact in future time t we have to be agnostic about. Will alien...

Yeah, but what it Pr(E/h)?

I don't dispute this, but others will, so I think that proving this should be your starting point.

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I thought denazification was the reason.

Trump seems to have stepped in it having dinner with an avowed white-nationalist holocaust denier.

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I too wonder how the immaterial can interact with the material. What is your response if the theist who believes in souls interacting with bodies shru...

Poking bread doesn't change my consciousness, but poking my brain does. To the extent that bread does affect my consciousness (e.g., the conscious sta...

Very close. I'm very pleased with how the Dems did.

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You do if you think you can't hold it.

People act in a way that is consistent with them having consciousness. For example, they react to pain by drawing their hand away, they react to greed...

Not non-anecdotal evidence; besides, that's what a "zombie" would say. Your position is that consciousness is a "folk" term, that will eventually be r...

Because I am conscious.