RogueAI

Are you claiming that colors are physical phenomena? If so, what proof do you have?

Aside from the various "how much does your mind weigh?" objections, let me give you my favorite argument: If brains and minds are the same thing, then...

If we tested two identical brains seeing red and the brain states were identical, we could infer the experience of seeing red is identical, but we cou...

Assuming suicide is available, the alternative to non-existence is available anytime the victim of consent feels the consent violation outweighs the b...

Is the lack of consent offset by the fact that whatever you bring into existence has the option of going back to non-existence (suicide)? Also, if I s...

I remember one of my philo professors making that argument years ago. You might be right.

It is impossible to get the consent of something that does not exist to bring it into existence. That's an impossible burden to meet.

In those cases, the preservation of the species doesn't justify the means. But that's not what we're dealing with. People want to procreate, and kids ...

good points.

Would any of the anti-having-kids people change their minds if it was discovered that we were the only technologically advanced species in the galaxy?...

It depends on whether space-faring creatures would evolve again. If not, all life on Earth will end when the sun gets too hot.

The consequences if everyone stopped having kids would be the death of the species. I'm assuming everyone (most? some?) here would agree that's someth...

Suppose you had a God's-eye view of the mental states of two people. One stationary and the other in an accelerating space ship. How would the two men...

"Guth, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resorts to freaks of nature to pose this “measure problem.” “In a single u...

My background isn't math, so I can't contribute too much along these lines. The other day, I was reading about proposals to take the infinitely large ...

Agreed.

Fishfry, my point isn't about whether the multiverse is infinite or not. I'm OK assuming we don't know one way or the other and will likely never know...

Fish, if a lottery was being run for the first time, and you were the manager, and the winning ticket's numbers were 314159265359, what would you conc...

But that just limits you to sets of numbers. Suppose we take the poker example I gave earlier. How many royal flushes does the dealer have to deal him...

I don't know about any of that. But many cosmologists advocate for a multiverse with infinitely many universes where the values of the physical consta...

All sequences are likely, but some are more explainable by chance than others. For example 3478907834617856 is explainable by chance. And what I mean ...

You assume human error. I always use the example of joining a poker game, and dealer deals himself a royal flush. Nobody would quit the table. After t...

Also, if an infinite number of universes exist, there are an infinite number of universes where incredible fantastical coincidences are the norm, not ...

What's a better candidate for an eternal thing and/or an uncaused cause, a physical universe or a god? My bet is on a god.

Interesting.

What's the solution? In your own words.

Exactly.

Idealism begs many questions that of course I have no answers to. However, the mind-body problem is more than just a lack of explanation.

I would be OK with a benevolent AI running things. It can hardly do a worse job than humans are doing.

There are no material objects. Idealism neatly solves the mind-body problem.

Do you really need me to go over the Sandy Hook shooting to convince you it's not a "false flag" operation? No, you don't. Good day.

My point in bringing up Q-anon is to contrast myself with Trump supporters because you kept claiming I might be ignorant about Q-anon being wrong and ...

Let's start with something simple: Do you think it's possible Trump actually won the election?

So, you're an American and you started a politics thread, and you're saying you don't know about Q-anon?

Are you an American?

"That is to say , what you want to call the felt sensation of red is not a stable primitive of experiencing but a bodily mediated interpretation." Unp...

If you are coming from the position Q-anon *might* be right, or Sandy Hook *might* have been a false flag operation, the discussion ends here. The moo...

2016? Probably. 2020? Yes. Now? Without a doubt. I don't see the appeal of the Trump con. I could not get fleeced by him. I think you have to be kind ...

"Yes, Donald Trump did call climate change a Chinese hoax" https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/03/hillary-clinton/yes-donald-trump-did-call...

You're trying to make an equivalence where none exists. The problem for Trump supporters is on their end, not mine, and this is objectively true. The ...

They may say that about me, but it's not true, and that's the problem- many conservatives have become detached from reality. I, personally, am not ent...

The reason politics has become divisive is because the conservative movement (about 80% of it) has lost their minds, has bought in to all this white g...

Think of it like solipsism with other consciousnesses. The analogy I always like is the jigsaw puzzle: there are individual unique pieces (our individ...

I understand where you're coming from. My reply before was kind of pompous sounding. You sound sympathetic to mysterianism.

The reason I don't think this is a language problem is that "mind" while hard to define for someone else is easy to define for one's self- we all know...

Yeah, I guess it would be: for any x, if x has a mind, x is not justified in doubting the existence of that mind.

But first, what do you mean by "means"? I don't care to go down this rabbit hole.

"Conscious awareness" is words too. More to the point, do you seriously think you might be "mindless"?

Good philosophy is clear and accessible, even to the novice: Mary's Room, Defense of Abortion, Trolley Car, Allegory of the Cave, Riddle of Induction,...

Ok