Perhaps Adorno interpreted the anarchic protests of the student movement as agitating for 'universities to be administered by student groups (councils...
I think without a clear, precise conception (or theory) of "consciousness", saying "isn't consciousness" doesn't actually say anything; ergo, at best,...
There are no "placebos" in foxholes. :mask: The "trick" is the belief that a placebo "cures" an ailment without active medicinal ingredients (ergo the...
:cool: :up: If you haven't already read them, I recommend Peter Watt's first contact hard scifi novel Blindsight (2006) and R. Scott Bakker's hard sci...
AGI will make errors and correct and learn from them hundred of thousands to millions of times faster than human brains can. It won't need to be "sent...
Thanks for clarifying. Yes, clocks, for instance, do not experience duration or retrospection. I think it's our metabolic functioning – relative state...
:pray: Let's hope not. . IME, science is to experimental medicines as religion is to ritual placebos/nocebos. The latter tricks many into ignoring the...
:chin: Assuming that just as metabolizing is to an organism or as breathing is to lungs, minding (aka "consciousness") is to a brain-CNS; would you th...
:smirk: Here's a recent book I just came across by computer engineer and neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins titled A Thousand Brains which summarizes 'lesson...
It's okay not to understand. We ask questions and make of the answers what we can based on what we each bring to the exchange. We move on once we real...
Interpreting (explanations of) e.g. "consciousness" is, at best, philosophical; using testable models in order to explain "consciousness" is, also at ...
The first candidate that comes to mind is the black box of AlphaGo's 'strategies & techniques' it used to vanquish world champion Go grandmaster Lee S...
@"universeness" Well then, use 'irreducible' instead. To my mind 'fundamental' connotes ontological reductionism (i.e. metaphysics re: entities) and '...
Exactly. :up: I'm not aware of @"Eugen" asking me to explain my own metaphysical or scientific speculations and that I've refused to answer as Gnomon ...
The final nail in Criminal Defendant-1's (aka "Putin's Bitch's") coffin is named Mike Pence ... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/27/pence-appears...
"Who am I?" A persona (mask) – a dynamic, virtual assemblage of perdurant bodily, cognitive & demographic data aka "self") – I believe I am: "the name...
I would not have recommended Metzinger's work several times if I do not find it compelling as corroborating my own speculations. Having not read his b...
fyi – I "believe" only what I state I believe. What I think, however, is that the OP doesn't make any sense. To begin with, at it's heart, there is a ...
'Consciousness' seems to function only (or mostly) as a keyhole through which we project our 'self-reflexive confabutions' for adapting our bodily mov...
What was done cannot be undone. We ought not let "the perfect" vanquish the good that we can approximate or try to do. Besides, in the long run oblivi...
Expound on this. I've no idea what you mean by "perceive time" or "temporal mind". I think "self-awareness" (i.e. real-time self-modeling) has to be b...
I'm still sticking with my prediction from a couple of months ago about the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2024 despite Biden's lame-duck...
From what I can tell the word was coined and used by the Flat Earth society in the 19th century and still today (Rationalwiki). Anyway, right, this is...
Events are phenomena, abstractions are not. "Maps are" abstract, or imaginary, "territories" like memories. We cannot 'experience' abstractions becaus...
Tucker Carlson for President in 2024? Watch out Defendent-1, he effin' made you, Donnie! :lol: In the US of Absurdia, this shitstorm might get even mo...
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