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I was just showing that code can be false, and that was pseudocode, but I updated with real code from a programming language. It doesn't have anything...

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It's all binary in that the circuit logic is based on boolean algebra (true/false or 1/0). The instructions a processor carries out are based on combi...

A perception shouldn't be a synonym for a conception, so there needs to be some differentiating there. And a "cat watching" neural network is only cla...

That's a good point. How do philosophers typically define perception?

The pigeon doesn't understand "the cat" as a cuddly pet or abstract concept, but it can still recognize it, and likely has a similar visual experience...

Let's make this really, really simple. What is the result of visually perceiving a tree? A. Seeing a mental image. B. Seeing the tree. I'll let your u...

And no computer scientist is going to say that all an algorithm is doing is reading a magnetic charge.

The brain has to do be able to recognize a shape somehow. It's not magic, and shapes don't float along on photons into the eyes and travel from there ...

And if the algorithm in question is using thousands of GPUs or TPUs (tensor processing units) reading from a bunch of solid state drives over a server...

But you could use a camera stationed anywhere, and see what sort of objects an unsupervised network will learn to categorize. And there are autonomous...

I just came across scientific direct realism on Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Locke's primary properties, like shape, would be directly perceiv...

I don't know whether philosophers spend much time debating perception in bacteria, but when it comes to human perception, the argument between direct ...

Go read any description of artificial neural networks. When they want to get technical, they talk in terms of linear algebra, matrices, and finding th...

It's not. I would favor a direct scientific realist account of perception. But in any case, one could argue that smell, sound, color are how we experi...

I meant direct in the philosophical sense, where direct realists argue that perception is one of being directly aware of mind-independent objects out ...

Direct realism means awareness of mind-independent objects instead of some mental intermediary. For the hierarchal system to be indirect, our perceptu...

You have a point there. What if we let the cats train the neural networks? Even if this doesn't count as a critique of Kantianism, it does count again...

Precisely, cats all the way down.

Pretty sure the voters in the poll are aware of idealist arguments. Even if perception is ideal, that doesn't mean that existence is. But one doesn't ...

Never came across that word before. If I have Google translate it to Korean, then French, and then back to English it says: Print Authorization

Robert Wright was arguing that Buddhism is supported by evolutionary psychology, and helps us overcome our attachment to desire and what not.

One of The Partially Examined life podcasts on Buddhism dealt with this. They argued that although evolution resulted in our brains being what they ar...

That sort of prediction is impossible because it leaves off the environment required to create the next philosophical masterpiece. It also leaves off ...

Some folks voted other. Does this mean neutral monism, or does it mean both? Kant can be understood to say there is a real world, but we construct our...

I understand I and He to be two different people perceiving something red, unless one is lying. I can think in terms of watching a movie or reading a ...

Pretty sure some people have sided rather strongly with the environmental side of the debate when it comes to human behavior and mental characteristic...

The idea of human nature is that human beings are born predisposed to certain behaviors and attitudes, or predispositions, in the generalized sense. A...

But I'm not the same me, because in a different body, I will have different feelings, experiences, perceptions, etc.

Is that enough to call it "me"? To say that I left one body to enter another one?

But what does it mean for me to leave my body and enter another body? What is doing the exiting and entering?

Nah, only old-outdated versions of those things. Physicalists are not troubled by QM.

The physical sciences are materialistic. They describe phenomenon in terms of material interactions.

Sometimes I wonder. Philosophy is much more open ended than science. It doesn't have a rigorous empirical testing requirement. I'm not really sure wha...

But I'm not testing any theory when I use technology. I'm using the technology for every day purposes, not to test some scientific theory. It's also q...

There is no contradiction. That's the goal of science. Theories are tested to further our understanding of the world. No, not at all. I'm not furtheri...

Wasting time arguing semantics on an internet forum.

Yeah. But technology is not science. Technology is tool making and refining. It can be used for science, warfare, gaining food, etc.

That was considered natural philosophy at the time, and Aristotle came up with explanations. But he didn't have a method for testing his explanations....

Any good scientific theory will also include an explanation, such as what makes the termites stick to the stick. Would you say that chimpanzees are pr...

That doesn't make technology science. Technology is a tool that science uses, and the results of science inform the making of better tools. Science is...

No, they were not science.

That's not a theory, it's an observation. Observation alone isn't science.

What is the scientific theory that chimpanzees are testing when using sticks to draw termites out of termite mounds? Or what would our ancestors have ...

The claim is a statement of fact about the world, not technology. That's the point. Science isn't about making the next great smartphone. It's about e...

For the OP, notice how, ""Science tells us the universe is 13.7 billion years old, not 6,000.", has nothing whatsoever to do with technology (as a sta...

The origin, or the accepted practice? I have modern science in mind which is a community built around the scientific method and naturalistic explanati...

It's only completely subjective taken out of context. I assume most people realize the scientific revolution happened several centuries ago. So let's ...

It's not subjective, it's historically accurate for a reasonable definition of "relatively recent", like as in several centuries.

That doesn't go far enough. Empirical investigation is only part of it. You need the method for rigorous testing that seeks to get past our biases and...