What does it mean to say that "time means nothing to a photon"? Is it to say that time doesn't pass, or that the photon doesn't change? So I am born, ...
What is a mind if not consciousness? To say that one has a mind is to say that it has consciousness. So its aware of the face, but not aware that it i...
What is the difference between my ability to recognize faces and a computer's ability to recognize faces? When a computer uses a digital image of a fa...
Doesn't he mean "you don't have a chance of building a real mind"? We build fake minds all the time. This is the crux of the argument that most people...
Actually, it is a pointless exercise to argue with someone who thinks that they are right and Merriam Webster is wrong. The word "synonym" means two w...
So what if they are different words? The English language has many different words that mean the same thing. We have a tendency to complicate things. ...
How to walk isn't a goal, it is a set of instructions. If you didn't have the set of instructions for walking, talking, or things that we learned befo...
I can't help but laugh at this. You are saying that autonomy of the individual is garbage, as well as science. How does one express themselves for you...
Actually, isn't your primary goal, to have tea, not to get milk? Isn't getting milk and walking to the store SUB-goals of the primary goal? Isn't that...
This is so typical of the socialist/liberal logic of making oneself feel good about themselves by promoting the idea, "can't we all just get along?", ...
It seems to me that our emotions are the result of what we already value in our lives. To value something is to love that thing and I can only love it...
But walking is one of those things that, as adults that have been walking since we can remember, we take for granted. As infants we did have to make d...
How and when do we often move without having the goal to move - when we have a nervous twitch or something? When I move, I often have the goal to move...
There's something more. It's called peer review. Not everyone has the same biases. One scientist can announce their hypothesis, but it isn't doesn't c...
Since morals are the rules to live by in the culture you find yourself in, my morality comes from recognizing that like to be free and not in prison, ...
It depends on the species. For most species, the female is the one that carries the burden of carrying the offspring to term and then caring for them ...
I don't see where you're disagreeing with what I said. The goal would be to move. The difference between wanting to move and currently sitting still m...
This seems to show that the greatest being can only be imagined. BTW, what do you mean by "greatest"? "Greatest" is a subjective term. For some, God i...
Think of intentions/goals as the predicted outcome of some action. Our goals are like simulations of how we'd like it to be. The difference between ho...
Well, that is an argument that I have made before in discussions of "meaning-is-use". If anti-realism is the case, then yes, our words don't refer to ...
Stay on target. Your argument was that language can't be used to refer to things outside of the simulation. I showed that if language can be used in t...
But there is a corresponding event in regards to your other example of playing Mario. The corresponding event would be the computer code. The same can...
Do you have dyslexia, or something? I said that there has to be a programmer that made the simulator with the plan of what he/she wants the simulator ...
This supports the idea that it is a delusion. The delusional get easily offended if you question the truth of their belief (both the religious and tra...
But who made the simulator? The programmer would refer to this particular code that makes up the simulator program as "Michael playing a video game ca...
Yes, and they are both answers involving causation. It is your goal to make tea, which occurs prior to making the tea. The prepared tea in the future ...
I thought the answers to your questions should be obvious given your example of an outside world and a simulation of it. Are the scribbles only patter...
Yes, the drug manufacturers are enjoying a golden age as doctors over diagnose depression, AD, etc. Anti-depressants are one way of dealing with life'...
"Removing" falls under the category of "changing". The man that is uncomfortable with his arm can replace it with an artificial one. ...and this is wh...
It's not the same to compare not liking your hair color to not liking your genitalia and wanting to remove it. It's more comparable to not liking the ...
Is there an internet forum in the outside world that appears on my computer monitor with the same scribbles on it that I experience? Do I experience t...
No. What I was referring to specifically was a somatic delusion as that was the words I used and is plain to see to anyone paying attention. https://e...
What I have said is that they have a somatic delusion - which is a delusional belief that there is something wrong with your body - as in you are in t...
You seem to be forgetting that language itself would be part of the simulation. Language is sounds and visual scribbles - no different from any other ...
These are abnormalities, not the norm. The same can be said about being gay or trans. We can always find exceptions to the norm in pretty much everyth...
Then the soul can never be self-aware on it's own? The soul needs a body to be self-aware and even then we aren't even aware of our soul - we are only...
Then I need a brain to be conscious? If I were just a soul without a brain then there would be no difference in the experience of me being physically ...
Again, I don't see it as presented as a single part. There are many different parts, or distinctions, I can make out. I know these are different parts...
But whose lens, and from where? It doesn't seem to be that qualia is the problem for obtaining objectivity. It is the perspective itself from a certai...
Of course consciousness has parts. When you close your eyes, you are still conscious but have removed part of the conscious experience. People who are...
I think it is more of an indicator of the nature of knowledge/understanding itself. An omniscient being doesn't need to make observations because it's...
What makes them equal is their causal influence on each other. We observe physical things interacting and we observe the mind interacting with physica...
It's my understanding that the physical world is composed of things that have a causal influence on each other. It must be that things that have a cau...
Reasons and purposes are anthropomorphic but humans exist and are part of the world. So to say that there is no reason to survive would be to say that...
Ethics and morals are the same thing and I described morals as the rules of the society you find yourself born into. So to say that someone acted for ...
This is so typical of someone who hasn't educated themselves on the subject they are talking about - or only educated themselves by reading and listen...
where in the world does everyone actually have equal rights? Our leaders like to talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. It's nice to say it, but that...
"Good" and "bad" are merely subjective judgements based on your current goal which could be your survival or passing on your genes. Morals are simply ...
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