Not "opposite TO" (i.e. opposition) but opposite OF is what I wrote. Opposite of science ... of knowledge ... of explanation ... of truth-telling ... ...
Fortunately, "no created system" requires – is functionally enabled by – any "aspects of human consciousness" (i.e. a metacognitive processing bottlen...
Ethics is a reflective practice (which I mentioned previously) with normative implications similiar to aesthetics. Non-propositional (often suppositio...
Do we "retain knowledge" of our time as blastocysts? :roll: I imagine crawling is, at best, useless for flying. Maybe butterflies keep caterpillars ar...
:up: "The opposite" of science is pseudoscience. As @"Banno" more bluntly alludes to ... suggesting that 'dogma & bigotry' obstruct free inquiry (i.e....
:cool: My "hopes" are silver linings in the dark clouds rolling in. The butterfly, sir, is about to leave the caterpillar's "human" chrysalis (re: ). ...
Our h. sapiens species has shown itself to be uniquely smart enough to create at least one problem for itself so intractably complex in scale and scop...
:up: If by "nihilism" you mean 'not believing in anything' (i.e. believing all beliefs are false), then I agree with you, Tom. If, however, you mean '...
Neither. I'm saying that "all religions" are myths and that they can be – most, especially dead religions, have been – studied as such. They have the ...
It's a forecast, not a prediction, like AGI itself. I'm just as cynical about news articles except when they cite the sources of the scientific studie...
Some more comments on your comments ... 1. The oceans are already too warm to reverse catastrophic climate change. AGI will triage the global populati...
:chin: Well ... 1. I suspect runaway climate change will balkanize the globe even more than it is today because the capacities for mitigating the cata...
:up: Btw, we just differ over what constitutes an 'optimistic' view of our automated (IMO, prospective "post-scarcity") future. In a nutshell, anthrop...
Let me put it this way: I think AGI is the future of humanity. :nerd: A few 'optimistic' old posts ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comme...
Maybe I'm misreading your remark, but I haven't opined that "AI development" (i.e. AGI) is a "threat". IMO, it's human civilization with its shiny new...
Apparently, the OP's author fails to recognize his own biases in the premises of his question and thereby misunderstands its implications even when po...
We're animals, get over it. Few are capable of deliberately defying our deep programmiing by not proceating; some have no opportunity to breed, and ot...
:ok: Riiiiight, the whole thread failed "to read that paragraph properly". The phrase "evolutionary scale" doesn't have anything to do with natural se...
'Man as apex-predator', yeah okay. No amount of "creationist" dogma, however, changes the fact that the human genome is more than 96% identical with t...
Just the opposite – what in the opening sentence of my last post isn't clear ... Now re-read the first paragraph in my post. :roll: https://thephiloso...
Are you asking about (a) Buddhist tradition or my use of it as a metaphor from outside of the scientific worldview (re: entropy)? If the latter, consi...
Neither. I think as a species we are inherently deluded – an organic alchemy of cognitive biases, maladaptive habits & akrasia – homo insapiens. 'Mora...
:cool: Thanks. No. More so: anicca-anatta. Is that so? Well, in other related dharmic traditions, I understand that it is 'detachment from the psychol...
IMO, "system" gets us nowhere and only loops back (no pun intended) to the "brain-hardware / mind-software / IPO" metaphor that obfuscates much more t...
My take on these ideas are similiar, Benj, but put differently, I think more naturalistically, as follows: The human mind belongs to a natural system ...
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