But did they really occur in isolation? What do you mean by isolated? It seems to me that the isolation is a mental projection onto the thinking proce...
Give me a break. That is not what I'm doing. I'm sorry, but I though you were critically looking at what I am saying. That is the point of me posting ...
The conversation has stalled because you aren't curious enough to get at what I mean when I say things like, "effects carry information about their ca...
Sure, I wouldn't want to engage AI on how to show someone I love them, or who to vote for in the next election, but I don't see any reason why it woul...
You are free to interpret the line how you want and to respond in any tone you wish. All that matters to me is if your response is sensible or not. No...
I don't see how one isolates a thought from the process of thinking. It would be like trying to isolate the stomach from digestion, and I don't see ho...
Fair enough. So my argument simply stands for those that recently made the argument that AI's responses are not valid responses while also having take...
It could also simply be that we are wrong about the causes. Train stations are built where there are towns, or close to interesting locations that hum...
I wasn't trying to disprove Witt here - just point at the contradiction of those on this forum that align with "meaning-is-use" and also claim that AI...
Maybe the issue is classifying causation as "physical" or "mental" rather than simply "procedural"? This is the way it is for you now, but what about ...
Are machines capable of thinking? Are humans machines? Does it matter whether it is biological or technological? Every process in the universe is uniq...
Don't you first need to solve the problem of why you can't poke your head into someone else's brain and not see any consciousness of sentience at all ...
Well, yeah P-Zombies will act differently than a human being because the causes of their behavior is different (no internal model of the world as the ...
AI already does just that. ChatGPT typically ends with asking the user if they would like more information or an example of what was just said. It ant...
This is just another way of saying that we have a set of instructions for interpreting sensory data. Else what is an anticipation or expectation? How ...
It does create a referent to the cause of your utterance. Why did you utter anything? Effects carry information about their causes. Words carry inform...
Sure you did, or else there is no aboutness (intentionality) to the scribbles. The terms you provided are simply more complex than other terms in whic...
So basically, you're a p-zombie. Did you? Because it seems for you to be able to say that you did (and it be true), you actually did and that there is...
Can you provide an actual example of this? An example of first/third person held at once would be useful as well. Sure, but that would also get us out...
Isn't that the point, though? If the scribble, "apple" were to be used in a way that does not refer to the very apple we know, then what is the speake...
What does it mean to be "meaningful" if not having some causal relation to the past or future? When an image does not appear on the screen, doesn't th...
Exactly. It merely "uses" the scribble, "understanding" in certain patterns with other scribbles. That is the issue with meaning-is-use - the scribble...
So I don't understand how a proponent of the idea that meaning is use in language can say the AI does not understand when it is using the words. The m...
Define a duck. What exactly is AI missing that disqualifies its use of language as being about the world, and therefore useful? Then all you are doing...
Aren't I? What type of map is the third person one? How does one go from a first person view to a third person view? Do we ever get out of our first-p...
This makes no sense. Determinism can be the case and everything you do is by the will of your own nature - which includes your past experiences and le...
I'm not. You completely missed the point. There can be misuses of language by a large number of people that simply repeat what they hear rather than i...
"Liberal agenda" in the true sense of the phrase appears to be an oxymoron, as liberals (in the true sense of the word) often disagree on many things....
That was a response to Banno's quote, not yours. Yes, I was agreeing with you - at least the part of the OP I was responding to - and I was just elabo...
What exactly do we mean, "not affected by what one says"? Are you referring to the inability of AI to test the validity of what it is saying? Are you ...
Nature. Have you never heard of Natural Selection? You're so predictable. And what do we actually mean when we say that "gender is a social constructi...
It seems to me that a starting point would be to define the terms we are using: "intelligence", "intent",' "understand", "thought", etc. The issue wit...
AI doesn't have the ability to intentionally lie, spin or misinform because it doesn't have motives beyond responding logically to what has been said ...
AI can adapt to the conversation remembering the context of the conversation and making new judgements when provided new information or a different wa...
It's not confusing times - just some confused people. Logic and reason is what clears the confusion. It's just that some people do not value logic and...
Yet if a human wrote the same thing it is quotable? How does the meaning of words change depending on its source only? If you and I said the same thin...
No. I haven't. I get the real thing from my wife, so why would I? Of course there are people that have a healthy sex life with their partner still see...
You're essentially arguing that both sides of the political spectrum like to force the same gender stereotypes on the rest of us, but for different re...
I wonder where people on this site will stand in maybe 10-15 years when AI possibly discovers the cure for cancer or the Theory of Everything. Will th...
You're missing the point that I made quite clear. If a female can exhibit male-level aggression then why is it called male-level? The level of aggress...
It sounds to me that this is an example of there being no general, overarching expectation of the sexes in our society as a whole and that it is only ...
Kant is not alive to be accountable and to tell us what he meant, not to mention that if he were alive today and possessed the knowledge of today what...
How does this example of your map representative of your mind as a map? Your map is always about where you are now (we are talking about your current ...
I don't know - maybe give us the information and let us decide for ourselves what we do with it - like everything else on this forum. Whether we matte...
You're essentially saying that the genetic fallacy is not a logical fallacy. It is, and it it's a fallacy for a reason. https://www.fallacyfiles.org/g...
"Bad" and "poor" were your words, not mine. All I am saying is that any progress in philosophy is dependent upon progress in science and technology. T...
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