What does an Ayn Randian society do with those who, through no fault of their own, are unable to pursue their own values. Specifically, I'm thinking o...
That we can only define consciousness by reference to our own consciousness, which is inaccessible to anyone else. I assume your conscious and subject...
Brother, I hear you, but in this world, we have to pick the lesser of two evils, and that means voting as if our vote is the deciding one. I never lik...
I don't think we can define consciousness, other than we each have a private definition of it, which we assume everyone else has a similar definition ...
The experience of seeing red certainly is real. So is being in pain. To deny the reality of experience is extremely counter-intuitive, and something I...
I would say that Mary has complete knowledge of seeing red iff she has seen red. Learning the physical facts of seeing red alone is not sufficient. Th...
I'm not so sure about that. Just because you ought to do something does not mean there's a moral obligation. For example, if I want to be a champion c...
The fact that two people could exchange information about their minds without also exchanging information about their brains suggests minds aren't bra...
Imagine we have two ancient Greeks conversing about their mental states. They talk about being happy to see their kids grow up, and about the aches an...
But that premise solves the question of where moral imperatives come from: there are no moral imperatives. If all that exists is one cosmic mind, how ...
As an idealist who believes that there is only one cosmic mind (and we are dissociated aspects of it- separateness is an illusion), I would argue ther...
Pretty much, and I admit that if science can't solve the hard problem, the needle may never swing further than mysterianism, but deep down, I don't th...
Facts don't run on a stopwatch, but explanations do, to some extent. For the longest time, dark matter was thought to be some type of particular. It s...
Progress on the easy problem is made, sure. On the hard problem? What progress is there? Integrated Information Theory is all the rage, but it's still...
You claim that computer consciousness is a possibility, and you have an explanation for how computers might be conscious, but how would you verify whe...
Do you see this as a problem for science? If science still has not made progress on these fundamental questions, say, a century from now, do you think...
Gradual uploading: Here the most widely-discussed method is that of nanotransfer. One or more nanotechnology devices (perhaps tiny robots) are inserte...
I'm an immaterialist. I don't agree the comic, but I've had discussions with computationalists who do. Your position sounds like computationalism, but...
"In the digital world, a transistor is a binary switch and the fundamental building block of computer circuitry." https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/t...
Ok, let's move away from switches, since they obviously have nothing to do with computing :roll: Check this out: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/inde...
At the heart of a computer is the microprocessor, which is a collection of transistors, which is to say that the heart of a computer is a bunch of tin...
So you believe computer consciousness is possible. That is to say that it is possible that a collection of electronic switches is conscious. Is that c...
Let's focus on computers. Would a computer running a simulation of a working brain be conscious? Are computers ever going to be conscious? Are any com...
How does that work? Why do chemical interactions across 80 billion neurons produce consciousness, but chemical reactions in other organs don't? What i...
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