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Good, since it is a topic of ongoing discussion. Just not much in the way @"Metaphysician Undercover" suggests.

If there were enough interest, we might try a discussion on ChatGPT to see what happens.

@"Jamal" as the pusher man. I can quite any time I like...

I was looking at the ChatGPT function that allowed group discussions. Within that discussion, a participant can openly ask the AI to explain or to fin...

See Reframing disability

It's worth noting that the notion of "disability" as a class is relatively recent. Osteological studies of Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar...

Again, what is "having a felt quality", if not "being conscious of a feeling"? Have you said anything more than that being conscious is being consciou...

Spot on! And the presumption is, as often as not, that the disabled do not contribute. But if you can't get up the stairs in order to pay your taxes.....

Yes - that's pretty much correct. The actual world is the one we are in, and it might have been any of the possible worlds. There is no modal differen...

I don't understand why guilt is an appropriate response to some else's' disability. Looks to be another case of re-centring - making it about the able...

To listen.

Blamed?

Those who do not pay taxes are a burden? Like these companies? :wink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2sqe3mzel4&list=PLbzXwm-c_QEt_usBv-I4e_6Jj4QVteekU&index=2 Far from the same thing? So here's another thing about dis...

Your obsessed with definitions. I've explained what possible worlds are and how the actual wold is a possible world. If there is a problem set it out....

Thanks for your thoughtful responses. A few interesting things are happening here. The most obvious is the prominence of the deficit model, in various...

Give her my regards... :wink:

The applicability of the word "sentience" is something for us to decide. What counts as being sentient?

Doesn't the answer simply depend on what we count as being sentient? That is, it's something to be decided , not discovered?

Why? And what, exactly, is the claim here? As if there were one thing that "it is like" to be aware that your toe hurts, to be aware that the sun is o...

Ok, cheers. Might be a lost opportunity, but I'm not up on the detail. Or cost. Maybe, in the forum after the next, it will be considered the norm.

I tend to use "cobblers", which amounts to the same thing, and agree with your reservations regarding "bullshit", which should now be considered a tec...

Thanks for the reply. Seems pretty minimalist. Summaries and semantic search look helpful. How the AI bot fits will depend on how it is implemented an...

, Not to be confused with "bullocks", which don't have any.

:wink: The difference between a fact and a value has a longer history than eve that, and Peterson, for all his faults, may have some idea of what Hume...

:brow: What you think your point is, I have been unable to make out. You are under no obligation to reply to me. Who did I invite to the thread?

....but...

Nice.

That meanings need not be essential does not imply that words do not have any meaning. He said: Looks pretty clear. Most trans people have a mental il...

:smile: You might say that. I couldn't possibly comment...

, , you both presume an adversarial model of discourse. Now fun as that is, it might be interesting to explore other possibilities...

Fine. I can see a benefit in making the AI's input explicit rather than covert. Lets's see what Jamal's thoughts are.

So you are happy to conflate transgender with gender dysphoria. And to support that with pop scientism. Ok. Thanks for your reply.

Perhaps not. I keep coming back to language being inherently social. It follows that an explanation solely in terms of an individual's brain or cognit...

:rofl: :up: Exactly.

Discourse announces an AI Assistant for using their software @"Jamal", any plans for the use of AI in our new home? Rather than worrying about how muc...

Cool. Now, what does it have to do with first and third person? And can we do it without qualia?

I suppose we might agree that there are real abstractions... as well as false, misleading and contradictory abstractions... :wink:

Sorry - not sure I follow your direction here. Yes, there are various cogent arguments that meaning is not rule-based, and I accept that. Language is ...

Yep.

Yes, I asked it for a summary of Pinker. It remains pertinent. Don't tell Baden. Yep. That's a typical semiotic move. I might be tempted to counter it...

Cheers.

Have a look at the definition and use in the Open Logic text already mentioned. It'd do you good.

You two need to talk.

Would that the advocates of qualia would reach some sort of agreement. SO you are at odds with those who have said elsewhere that qualia are just colo...

You have omitted qualia already. The word does no work in your explanation. The explanation is as effective without mention of qualia.

Being transgender and gender dysphoria are not the same. "Transgender" is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex assig...

Can you set out how this might work? What are you suggesting? If it can't be explained, it's not a problem but a brute fact. I could go along with tha...

, @"Hanover" How's this: Pinker’s Mentalese requires meaningful symbols whose content is fixed internally and whose correctness is internally determin...

Then it seems we are in agreement, at least on this. Except that I would drop talk of qualia as unneeded and potentially misleading. Let's go over the...