Harry Hindu

That's the question: what makes carbon-based life so special to generate consciousness when carbon is just another physical element. Cells and organs,...

If we can reproduce intelligence "artificially" then why not cells? One might say that cells are simply the path to the more complex arrangements of m...

I see the problem as confusing the map with the territory. In talking about the first-person view we are talking about the map, not the territory. In ...

Take any choice you made in the past as an example. What were the reasons you made that choice? If given the same reasons would you have made a differ...

This might have once been true, but now anyone can claim (even if you were a man that was just convicted and being sent off to prison and now want to ...

This completely ignores the fact that society's expectations have changed. Having long hair and wearing earrings is no longer considered feminine, so ...

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If AI was disconnected from reality then how can it provide useful answers? What makes AI useful? What makes any tool useful?

I wonder if they think that using a calculator to find an answer to an equation falls into the same category. You didn't determine the answer, the cal...

Then you must also believe that using a long-dead philosopher's quote as the crux of your argument, or as the whole of your post, is also an issue. Yo...

I don't see AI as being intentionally dishonest like many on this forum do. Once you find a fault in AIs response you can usually address the issue an...

A man wearing a skirt does not mean they are being transgendered. It means that wearing a skirt is now gender-neutral. Just as in the 80s with all the...

But you defined gender as a cultural expectation. This means that for gender to change, the cultural expectation needs to change, not a person's perso...

AI is "trained" with real world data, just like you are. It's just that AI probably has a much larger number of sources than you might have. Do you gi...

Sex as a species expressed reproductive role means that terms like "man" and "woman" are sexes, not genders. "Man" and "woman" are like "bull" and "co...

and every politician that has a speech writer.

Provide a real world example because if the source of whatever "goes against" me is another person's want/desire/interest/feelings then we have not fo...

I don't know. It seems you are defining "selfish" in such a way that makes it meaningless, as there is no contrast to what "selfishness" is not.

If one does not attend to one's own needs first, how can they ever hope to help others with their needs? Do we expect the poor and the sick to contrib...

sounds like the genetic fallacy to me. The source of one's post is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is logically sound or not. How many on t...

Well, yeah. The decline of late-night comedy shows due to the lack of comedy and alternate viewpoints is effectively "cancel culture". Most Americans ...

The point is that both sides are to blame for "cancel culture" and for using political power to limit free speech.

The problem wasn't what Kimmel said. The problem was that he didn't have anyone on his show to provide an alternate view or argument to what he said.

The side that is the minority tends to embrace free speech and then acts to limit when they are in the majority. Free speech is the capacity to questi...

Of course. I was trying to explore your apparent contradiction. Neither. It would seem to me that a person dealing with drug abuse is dealing with oth...

What does one mean by, "identity"? If you already see your genetics as a defining characteristic - something that you did nothing to acquire - then yo...

If it's not locally real (what does "real" mean in this sense?) then why do physicists talk about electrons and photons being in a state of superposit...

I don't know. Is a strong will and the range by which we need confirmation from others to define ourselves an inborn trait (natural) or something that...

In other words, it is only a paradox from a certain constrained view of ignorance. How does information get out if it is shielded? How are the states ...

I thought you were talking about the Mind, not God. What is the difference anyway? What is the nature of God, or Mind, if not physical themselves? How...

But we are. We are talking about mixing causes to produce a new effect. An effect only occurs as an integration of prior events. An apple only rots wh...

I don't see it that way at all. There is a difference between being raised to think independently (either by accident or on purpose, depending on the ...

It appears to violate the rules of semantics - what in the world is the paradox about? Using your example of inference, what observable evidence prove...

Which version of "liberal" are you using here - The leftists/socialists version that uses the term in a manipulative way as cover for their authoritar...

But I showed you that you did: What you should have said is, "it is the case that A is a cause of C" because it appears that you were walking back you...

Here you seem to be making a distinction between what "everything" refers to and what "paradox" refers to. Yes, paradoxes exist. Paradoxes are a misus...

Then I don't understand how you get green paint without mixing blue and yellow. Mixing seems to be a very important part. It seems to me that blue and...

This is not what I'm implying when I use those words, and I don't know anyone that does imply that when using the term, "everything". It is only a mis...

Sure you did: You have never said A and B caused C. Exactly. His use of gravity as another irresistible force in his other example is the same. People...

You can only kill people by pushing them off a cliff or shooting them if other things happen besides you pushing them or shooting them. So A alone can...

Only because you are using the force of gravity as a metaphor for the force of speech. Gravity can't be resisted. Speech can. This is why your example...

what caused Jane to not die? Isn't doing the same thing and expecting the same result the definition of insanity? If a different result occurred then ...

Your example only shows when A causes C. By only providing an example of how A causes C you imply that you only believe that A causes C. How about an ...

I wanted to add to this. Given the situation that you have laid out with terrorists threatening death and torture if you do not do as they demand, ANY...

Exactly. But you fail to address where B is when A causes C. We know that B exists when A does not cause C, but where is B when A causes C? How do we ...

I have been reading what you wrote: A causes C except when it doesn't.

But isn't all this a "how" of the "what"? By realism, I mean the idea that there is a mind-independent world - a "how" to the "what". In other words, ...

Of course it is, but you've only focused on the "persuade, convince, provoke, incite, coerce" part and left out the "free will" part. Your argument th...

It is a strawman precisely because you have abandoned what it is we are actually talking about - speech and its impact on others behavior and the powe...

B is the more immediate cause of C precisely because B has power to override A. Your argument does not show that, so is a straw-man.