Because details beyond what is necessary to establish the case, are not useful, and thus their relevant factor in their undesirability would be their ...
I couldn't tell you whether I dream in colour or not, probably the most vague of images at best, but most likely purely narrative (I'm fairly confiden...
Incidentally I've actually read the interpretation of dreams. It was a funny one. Spoiler alert, everything is really dicks. He doesn't go into the fo...
The evil falsehoods do in both cases, is firstly by big brothering people, and deciding what kind of information they can and cannot handle, or should...
You misunderstand. If someone values something based on its usefulness, but is wrong about its usefulness, then their placing value in it was a mistak...
The question that was put to me was about a miserable death, and my response was within that context. Not all deaths are miserable, some are surely gl...
No, its value is relative to its actual usefulness. We can be wrong about something's usefulness, which may make us value facts that are useless, but ...
Spirituality, to me, at base, is about soul maintenance. It's about keeping in healthy spirits. Art, and things that focus on the qualitative, rather ...
All truth is clearly desireable, males in particular love to know tons of useless facts, and can seem to never get enough of them. You already agree i...
I don't know what you mean by the representational thing, sounds like representational realism as a theory of consciousness, and if so then you just b...
That is oddly worded, the whole "sensory input" thing, sounds as if we're sitting in a dark room sending out outputs, and receiving inputs via our org...
I don't think that feelings, positive or negative are worth pursuing. I know a religious person, they like to have big inspirational conversations wit...
As for physical issues, my right knee is bad, I was reminded of that today. Yesterday at yoga they had like a whole class about working up to a variat...
Yup, no one is truly happy, and everyone that claims to be is full of shit, or tucking their doubts, longings, fears, and sadness into that big gaping...
I don't really see the relevance, nor even appeal to being able to choose one's beliefs. I wish for them to be determined, as I'm sure that we all do....
He's a PR guy, doing his job, attempting to secure financial assets. He isn't posting about topics that interest him, but rather the directions PF can...
I don't think that that on me. You said to suppose that there are moral facts. If they're the kinds of facts that don't matter consequentially in any ...
My older sister has OCD, she also has obsessive thoughts, as well as behavior. She takes meds for it, as well as anxiety. My fifteen year old little b...
I almost never used the quote function that loaded the reply page before, I always used the quick reply box at the bottom, or internal replies, so not...
There's a balance to be found I think. Sure, I would love to live unrestrained, and uninhibited. Wosret to the max! -- but prudence, and care for cons...
You keep coming back to this, but I've claimed nothing of the like. As I already stated to Mongrel, my very mention of p-zombies was merely a joke. My...
That wasn't my objection, per se, as much as regardless of the criteria presented as qualifying something as a conscious A.I. or just a robot, it is a...
I don't know about p-zombies, but I do think that we need to be clear about what consciousness is in order to be clear about identifying it -- and all...
No, it isn't, and I actually think that it will be more difficult for A.I.s to be able to parse natural language with an active physical world than me...
http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/turingTest.jpg Clearly a fool proof test. We don't seriously question whether or not other people have mind...
But part of mastering natural language is the use of connotation, it is not mysterious, or a sign of consciousness for A.I.s that have mastered langua...
Aren't those just movies that go the other direction and give them magic inexplicable consciousness? It is thus again, just written into the plot to c...
Driving is a lot different out west than back east. Everyone speeds, and many speed excessively. You really only have to worry about real cops on the ...
Maybe the concept is interesting. Maybe because it was the only thing resembling a positive opinion or position I put forward, and people prefer to ad...
In fiction they often go out of the way to remind us that the A.I. is an A.I. by often nonsensically being unable to grasp some emotional experience. ...
My thought process for making this thread was that we ought to have threads about the key philosophical issues, like consciousness, and what it is. I ...
Because that's what a thing that was interested, and could understand would do. Pretending to understand is often considered polite, walls aren't poli...
Yes, I think that we should do that, turn on the blog, or set up the subdomain. I believe that Tiff was going to be working on facebook and twitters p...
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