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Sir Philo Sophia

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you can ponder hypotheticals and exalt the human mind as being uniquely non-corporeal all you want, but words mean something. And if the way you state...
January 30, 2020 at 22:35
that is 'nonsense' in that Genetic algorithms automatically build models and solutions, some that even humans cannot think of. Also, NNs can create sy...
January 30, 2020 at 21:47
I think you have posed a malformed question that has mislead commenters into an wrong direction. I think you/we/they have to first address/answer "Wha...
January 30, 2020 at 21:37
I disagree. If anyone claims that the mind-body work are, or relate in, a certain way and that way also applies to current, man-made AI systems, then ...
January 30, 2020 at 20:51
this is not helpful to resolve what the mind is and how to model it. For it to be worthy of discussion here, IMHO, you have to, in clear detail, expla...
January 30, 2020 at 19:07
so, do you think full, human level Consciousness is possible to be implemented in an AI machine? Or, only organic wet-wear can possess it? Your argume...
January 29, 2020 at 06:52
I disagree. You omit utility. There is no meaning w/o some sense of utility. A mere ontology of info/data does not create knowledge if you have not ga...
January 29, 2020 at 05:19
BTW, I should have made it more clear in my above reply that you are technically right b/c I said "does not relate to" in "that state of being you des...
January 29, 2020 at 05:14
empathy could be not much more than an exercise in pattern matching requiring little info but mostly emotive bonding with your (info) projection to se...
January 29, 2020 at 05:02
so how can any of that be used to explain or reproduce what the (philo of) human mind does? They tried decades ago to use things like symbolic, predic...
January 29, 2020 at 04:51
thanks for sharing that. cute, but not very useful in the relm of the mind. That is, my original statement/assessment still stands re " any property h...
January 29, 2020 at 02:49
I expect that Shannon's metric cannot be dominant in the realm of the mind at least because there is no way to a priori know that the ultimate entropy...
January 29, 2020 at 02:17
not true. my hypothesis/theory/model under development, predicts otherwise. There is energy- Energy patterns as an entity in-and of itself. That is, i...
January 28, 2020 at 23:57
your idea on that is unclear to me. any property has to convey some kind of unique meaning/utility concerning the object it is a property of. How does...
January 28, 2020 at 18:12
then you disagree with the poster's (et. al.) premise/statement.
January 28, 2020 at 17:56
the poster (et. al.) are indeed saying this. So, you disagree with their premise... that state of being you describe is not related to information. th...
January 28, 2020 at 17:45
recall the topic is 'Information - The Meaning Of Life In a Nutshell', nothing to do with knowledge. So, I think you are still off topic b/c the poste...
January 28, 2020 at 17:30
you have gone off topic. stay focused...
January 28, 2020 at 16:59
BTW, that is not true. Genetic algorithms have been easily doing that for decades.
January 28, 2020 at 16:56
cognitive ability has nothing to do with this thread. The poster (et. al.) say that endless information accumulation alone is the meaning, goal, and h...
January 28, 2020 at 16:55
OK, lets take your (et. al.) line of logic/thinking further. Then, in your (et. al.) terms a modern, top supercomputer has achieved a greater meaning ...
January 28, 2020 at 16:49
so, you ascribe the meaning of life to gather endless useless *new* information? Using your (et. al.) logic then food is a greater meaning in life tha...
January 28, 2020 at 16:40
with what evidence do to you back up that otherwise leap to conclusion? how does my proposed model "ignore all sorts of phenomena " and fails to enabl...
January 28, 2020 at 07:56
So, according to your (and the original poster’s) idea, a teenager spending all day on facebook consuming endless information of relationships between...
January 28, 2020 at 07:35
yes, b/c they are built into the physics of the universe itself. all algorithms can be implemented with a comparison function combined with an "IF...T...
January 28, 2020 at 03:22
in my model, it does not work that way. I believe you are thinking about verbal thoughts, which are even more problematic than non-verbal. In my model...
January 28, 2020 at 02:31
this does not make any sense to me. For example, perceptual consciousness (which BTW requires many particle interactions) is measured to take at least...
January 28, 2020 at 02:16
that is not how it works. you are confounding many distinct mechanics. maybe you are unaware, but in AI (e.g., genetic algorithms, neural nets, boltzm...
January 28, 2020 at 02:04
why are you so convinced that qualia consciousness must arise from the quantum effects instead of simply being a macro-scale phenomenon w/o requiring ...
January 27, 2020 at 22:56
that is pretty vague. So, zero point energy of free space has experiential/qualia consciousness? you define free space a having qualia consciousness? ...
January 27, 2020 at 22:48
what are you meaning there? Are you making up your own terminology? 'Bayesian Information' should be related to using Bayes conditional probabilities ...
January 27, 2020 at 22:24
thanks for clarifying that. can you point me to a research paper on that you say? However, it does make my point that while the plant benefits from qu...
January 27, 2020 at 22:06
Upon what (theory or evidence) basis have you come to this conclusion? I see it otherwise, as very tractable (yet, extremely hard) to model and simula...
January 27, 2020 at 21:43
from where did you come up that idea? Let's not allow the 'magic' of quantum mechanics to be the stuff of selling snake oils... https://en.wikipedia.o...
January 27, 2020 at 21:33
I strongly doubt that. Under the theory of evolution, it should be not much more than reusing/repurposing legacy code to be part of achieving new func...
January 27, 2020 at 21:26
correct, not only are they aggregate population statistics on a region of surface tissue, but are only a subset of the kinds of waves that are known (...
January 27, 2020 at 20:54
so, according to your beliefs/thesis, it will be impossible for AI implemented on computational machines to attain human level qualia consciousness of...
January 27, 2020 at 20:18
I tend to agree with that. It is not too different, IMHO, from Earthlings saying that we are the only sentient life in the whole universe, and the rel...
January 27, 2020 at 19:25
I'm personally not too focused on how the brain does anything b/c often biological systems are 'gobligook' ways to carry out otherwise more strait for...
January 27, 2020 at 03:47
I do take what I understand to be 'qualia' (the vivid experience aspect of awareness) seriously; however, to me that has nothing necessarily to do wit...
January 27, 2020 at 02:57
@"Enrique" I believe you are wrong about that. Primates have it too. e.g., see: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03331972 Maybe I'm missing...
January 26, 2020 at 23:24
@"Devans99", re "Information - The Meaning Of Life " and "Producing/consuming information makes our lives happier. " I think you got that wrong on bas...
January 26, 2020 at 23:03
I think you guys seem to accepting a false premise here. That is, I would say that the whole premise that you have any sense of certainty of knowledge...
January 26, 2020 at 22:38
I just explained it above. that is kind of a creationist non-statement in the context of quantum mechanics and string theories, because it is not a mi...
January 26, 2020 at 22:06
@"Enrique", I've never found that to be such a mystery as most think it is. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in my mind, all math boils down to algorithmi...
January 26, 2020 at 20:54
@"Gnomon" and @"Enrique", please explain in more concrete terms what you guys mean by this. Makes little sense to me for explaining the experiential q...
January 26, 2020 at 20:40
@"Enrique", it is a great topic that you bring up here. You have some interesting ideas, yet I strongly suspect, in my theoretical work, that quantum ...
January 26, 2020 at 20:12
re "You are you. Always have been you. Always will be you." how do you prove your belief in that? It is not true just b/c you say so. e.g., all the ce...
January 25, 2020 at 23:53
@"Yohan", I think you are posing a malformed question in that I believe you are confounding concepts of one's 'conscious self' with concepts of one's ...
January 25, 2020 at 05:39