I'm failing to find sense in experience happening to someone who is not aware the experience is their own. I'd say 'to experience' is the same thing a...
Is awareness not just a sum of all inner feelings and external sensations? Is there a fundamental difference betwee feeling taste or smell, and feelin...
Is there nothing we can say about it? Is it process, succession of separate events? Is it feeling, sensation? Can we not even say yes or no to those q...
Pain is pain, but is also a sensation. Joy is joy, but is also a feeling. Now, I see you are insisting conviction is conviction, but what I asked you ...
I'm talking about something else. We have a clue how it works, but not why. We see innate affinity of lipids to spontaneously form membranes, we under...
The mystery only disappears if we ignore larger mystery this little mystery is riding on, and the big mystery is emergence of consciousness and life f...
Emergence of consciousness and life from inanimate matter is unremarkable then? Perhaps that's exactly what you would expect to get when you combine s...
Not bad, but what if we are to unknowingly become gods ourselves? “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself" ...
It misses the point, which is that life, civilizations, internet, space travel... what you think, what I'm writing right now, all this is encoded and ...
ID also has argument about chances required to mutate DNA while not breaking the code already in it. Something about random changes to MS Word softwar...
In that case any argument against that theory should work against this machine as well. What is the best criticism for computational theory of mind? A...
Being more is greater than being less. Two of those must be greater than just one. That they share the 1st place does not make any of them less great,...
Beings may want build a simulator to avoid illness and death. Not sure if the world we live can be justified with any such noble reason. It seems then...
It's not because there are arguments it can not be done in principle, on a PC. I am not aware there are problems around AI learning to speak, are you ...
1000 years ago there is already a world where you are possible, determinist would say even inevitable. To make a fair comparison you would need to add...
Execution of specific functions goes step by step. But what functions will run, with what parameters and when, can be triggered and varies relative no...
I think it can be argued without it, but yes, little driver seat for consciousness, all with joystick and tiny little monitor so it can play itself as...
Maybe you mean it is fake if computer's inner representation of qualia is, say some list of pie-charts? I'd say no, because your electro-chemical repr...
We can code it into the program and so we can be certain it has it. Can we not? It also has that inner screen, so I can say there it is qualia right t...
It's like you read that nubered list as arguments, but that's just a list of hardware components. I'm just saying a PC can be programmed to be conscio...
You can't just say Newton's laws are not quite complete description of celestial motion for no reason at all, you have to point at something even vagu...
It's just description of the functions. It can still be questioned can ordinary computer host such program, or is there something fundamental about th...
Proper definition will be the judge. Agreed? And by proper I mean the one most of us agree on. But in any case, all arguments put forward here should ...
The question of free will, but more generally it's the question of top-down or downward causality. Let me expand this a bit so we have wider range to ...
Only if there is an argument such programs could not be made in principle. And I should probably mention both programs are able to modify and expand t...
I would argue program can be made to incorporate 'qualia' properties in a sufficiently robust way that enables those concepts to interact with other c...
I'm searching for new definition of 'free will' since I realized "ability to choose otherwise" doesn't really cut it. The more I think about "setting ...
...guided by the future goal, not the past state of our mind. What a fantastic definition for 'free will', I thought at first. Then I realized it's no...
Speaking of "collective", it is interesting "the greatest conceivable being" does not forbid existence of more than one such thing. They could then fo...
IF, THEN in computer language - what goes after 'then' is independent function, sentence on its own. Thus truth value is taken twice, separately for e...
Consider Matrix type simulation in a detrrministic universe. Could it be made in principle, such that entities in there would have free will, given la...
It sounds impossible in principle, but I think it's very much an open question can a deterministic system of elements give rise to emergent units cons...
I made shit up, it's called hypothesis. You say its practical application is unknown and yet you insist it has no value. You keep failing to address a...
Looks like I made a mistake to separate this topic from my original thread. What we are talking about now fits better there and is already fully expla...
I do believe I went through all that at some point in time, more or less, otherwise I would not think there is something different here and worth talk...
Based on how much compatibilism didn't make any sense to me before, I'd say there is something quite different, if not "more", implied in that stateme...
Logic. So the only valid objection is to take something I actually said, a whole concept or a sentence and address it directly. Anything else you say ...
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