If this reality is a simulation, then it is possible that everything is a computer. Steven Pinker addresses this: It's not that everything is a comput...
It's a term I'm using to refer to your idea that scribbles can somehow do more than what is logically possible. You are free to use a different term t...
I don't think contradictions are helpful definitions. Intelligence is the act of bringing together unrelated knowns together to come up with a new, us...
Of course they do. If your wife tells you to get three oranges at the store and you come back home with only two, that will cause your wife to be angr...
Sure, because of the sheer number of scribbles and rules for putting them together in strings, not because of some special power of the scribbles have...
:up: When science describes "physical" objects as being the interaction of ever smaller objects, we never get to anything actually physical - only int...
Haven't you proven that you know that you think the moon exists by expressing as much here on this forum? I mean, you just wrote, "I know that I think...
Isn't that the question? If "I think...." is inherent in every thought including the perception and recognition of an oak tree and its behavior of she...
I think Steven Pinker's response when asked what intelligence is is applicable here: Now, a determinist might say that the path is also fixed and maki...
Has natural selection solved problems of survival using unique bodies and behaviors that fill specialized niches in the environment? Now I do not see ...
I'd say that things like toothaches, red, body odor, sweet, etc. are sensory impressions, imposed on us without any work by our consciousness and thin...
Probably the recalling of the visual experiences of similar looking trees which then creates the doubt of which tree it is, or if it is one that you h...
My point is that we could use anything to symbolize other things. Any visual could represent some other visual, sound, feeling, taste or smell. Our an...
So in this whole thread, you think everyone is either lying or uncertain of what they say? Should I also consider that everything you have said is eit...
I think a key quality of intelligence is the ability to solve problems - to conceive of new ideas from an amalgam of prior experiences. Intelligence s...
If it responds to you then it is aware of you (to some degree). Awareness and intelligence both seem to come in degrees and even seem to related as in...
I would refine what I said and say that colors, shapes, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings are primary and all thoughts and perceptions are composed ...
We all died and came back to life instantly so you must have some incessant need to have someone around to argue with. If you declare that all human b...
The behavior of what? Behavior is a process. Inventing massively parallel processing is a process as is massively parallel processing itself a process...
Then not all brain processes are intelligent processes? It seems to me that you are implying that intelligence requires consciousness. If that is the ...
Well, if it was their opinion, sure. There is some inherent uncertainty when it comes to expressing one's opinion, but not expressing observable facts...
Partly. I'm saying that words are fundamentally scribbles and it is what we do with them that makes them into what we call words. Scribbles are "physi...
Why would instinctual behaviors not be intelligent behaviors? Instinctual behaviors are developed over time with the trial and error being performed b...
Probably because the former is a much easier read and provides some escapism. Are you not more capable of learning about friendship by having friends ...
When you are thinking, "water is H2O", or "the oak tree is shedding its leaves", what is it like for you? What form do these thoughts take in your min...
Right, so Pat is making a statement about their uncertainty, not about the actual state of some oak tree. It is only useful if I'm not there looking a...
It makes no sense to say that "fiction" is representative of some truth in reality. If it did, it wouldn't qualify as "fiction". Ralph seems to like t...
It sounds like your mind is already made up that anything Nagel says about views is true. My experience is that people say, "read <insert your favorit...
I don't need to read Nagel. Tell me what it is like for you to imagine a view from nowhere. How would you know when you are imagining a view from nowh...
A view is information structured in a way to inform an organism of the state of the environment relative to the state of its body. A view is always re...
Again, words are just scribbles and sounds that we experience - no different than oak trees shedding and humans typing on a keyboard. Perceiving and u...
If the only thing Pat can be certain of is that they have thoughts, then what use is communicating those thoughts if what she thinks she experiences m...
What does The Lord of the Rings tell us about reality? Do fictional stories mirror some aspects of reality? Of course, how else would a reader identif...
Calling them "realities" would be a misuse of words. They are fictional stories, and we do not normally use the words, "fiction" and "reality" in ways...
Going from "The oak tree is shedding its leaves" to "I think the oak tree is shedding its leaves" is going from thinking in the visual of an oak tree ...
The philosophical implications of the scribble, "thought", or actual thoughts? Seems to me that to understand some philosophical implication of someth...
Language use is not a requirement for thinking. One can think without saying that you are thinking. Words are just scribbles and sounds. To think in w...
It seems to me that 1 is talking about (pointing to) the oak tree while 2 is talking about (pointing to) thoughts. What our present goal is determines...
Then how do you know which action to perform if you haven't observed the current situation, or know that your action succeeded if you don't make an ob...
...and what an "I" is. Think about when you are watching a really good movie or TV show, or reading a good book. You might be so engrossed in the stor...
No, and I never implied that you could with anything that I have said. This is why I made the distinction between a view from somewhere and a view fro...
Sounds like my explanation of how information is the relationship between cause and effect. It is when you wake up. Go back to what I said about using...
I would like for you to try to explain yourself without using terms like, "internal/external", "material/immaterial" and "objective/subjective". Each ...
YOU are the one using the terms "internal/external". I'm asking you what YOU mean by those terms. If you are saying that the mind is caused by the bra...
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