Sure, that's the "common" one... "it's obvious". But also, in the common one, it simply says the epistemological definition is more strict. So my defi...
Nice try, but the definition I use aligns well with the definition given by your source, and poorly with your linked to "common" definition. And your ...
No, that was a correction, not a claim. I responded to your definition of self-evident, which was based on armchair lexicography (some misguided "defi...
I'm quoting this reference to stack exchange because here, in this thread, it's simply a link, buried in a fair sized post. And over on philosophy-for...
Pardon, but where is the contradiction? Go back to the robots for a bit; there's robot X and robot Y. Consider fact Fx: "I", robot X, assert that the ...
Follow the quotes back. Self evident means something that does not need to be demonstrated. I see a perfectly rational way to deny PoSR. While I can a...
So, let me clarify. You're going with: "'X is self evident because it begs the question' does not beg the question if I cannot justify X"? (1) is a re...
Let me ask you a direct question. If I refer to the bert1 that typed this stuff onto the forum and submitted it, and I refer to the bert1 that is curr...
There's no change in my position; I think you may have misinterpreted something. Doubly so, because if you assume I would never question my own opinio...
Facts are, as I understand it, bits of information we can consider to be true. I don't know what you mean by 1 to 1 corresponding models of creations....
I seem to be "affixed" to my body, somehow. When I look around, I don't see my face, but I see things from a first person perspective with a view with...
DNA is just the holder of your genotypes. An organism is a phenotypical expression. Phenotypes are influenced greatly by DNA, but they are also influe...
What do you mean by "force"? If you mean evidence proves something (forces conclusions), you're simply mistaken. Evidence always suggests; it never pr...
I'm not proposing that there's another method. I'm just highlighting that being justified does not imply being correct. Yes, that would work, if you c...
I disagree that it's an impasse, so I cannot "agree to disagree". In my mind, you're simply refusing to voice specific complaints about actual moral h...
But I don't see any inconsistency, even here: Such vegetarians draw a line arbitrarily, but it's a false equivalence to say that this makes it the sam...
This sounds very vague. What meats specifically? What vegetarians specifically? I've been finding it incredibly difficult to actually apply your criti...
This. Conservation of energy is, per Noether's Theorem, a consequence of time translation symmetry. At cosmological scales time translation symmetry b...
Justified means you have good reason to think a thing is true; having a justified belief doesn't guarantee truth. That's why we talk about knowledge a...
Closer when? By what metric? What is it you imagine is happening? You advance an invalid argument for some true thing S. Your opponent refutes your ar...
No, that was by no means clear. In fact, that makes this less clear, because: ...there can be no question about whether the thing that made a choice i...
Back up a hair. Here's what you're presuming to explain: I see this as a no-go theorem on having evidence of agency (of a choice). So I would ask you ...
Exactly. Wrong. There are invalid arguments for true things and irrefutable arguments for false things. To know a truth requires aligning your beliefs...
No, the critical part is not how complex the programming is... the critical part is having the right kind of system. That system involves a continuous...
You're confused. You're both choking on this and ignoring it: "The robot must actually act in the world and achieve a "real" goal state in the world."...
IMO, your perspective seems a bit off. I'll call your 100 years and go all in... what difference does it make if you die now, or never die? If you are...
I don't think so... know your history. The notions you describe were promoted by Chrysippus, a resident of the planet from 280BCE to 206BCE: https://w...
More or less, sure. Actually, no. It is going to involve those mechanical parts, critically so. The robot must actually act in the world and achieve a...
It's pretty difficult to find A's that are nothing but B's. Generally, either A and B have to be identical or B has to not only be a superclass of A b...
For me, it absolutely is. The alternative to this is that the question is, "what is my favorite pet theory"? I prefer the Feynman path: "I can live wi...
Why are those mutually exclusive? Who you are is what you are works fine for me. Again, only if those things are mutually exclusive. Otherwise, you wo...
I don't know about that: This has a flaw... if an action is uninfluenced by totally everything, then you cannot have willed it. So will necessitates a...
Words are our slaves, not our masters. The robot I described is the minimal system for which it makes sense to say that it is trying to do something. ...
TBH I'm kind of wondering about a similar issue... how this works in terms of moral choice. I made a terrible decision last Saturday at 11:47pm; it wa...
I don't think you're aware of how this actually works in practice. We don't make decisions "consciously", at least as a matter of course. We make deci...
Let's say I played a game of chess; I started at 11:47pm, last Saturday. I was playing against my friend on a computer. It was a rainy night. I opened...
But if we take "choice" in a looser sense, this fits entirely with your definition. So if you want to have this discussion, I want to keep a thumb her...
I believe I did both. "Him" is me. So if you're really "just trying to make him understand what we're talking about", how about addressing the questio...
That doesn't help; this is just the 7th grader overview. I'm looking for the bees knees of the meaning of the thing. Let's take a chess playing AI pro...
Well, let's slow down a bit. Consider actually building a robot that does things the "right" way (that is, it's not tough and fragile). Now take just ...
Not really; quite the opposite. As the zombie carries out the command, he is indeed intending it. The zombie picks up the shovel in order to clean the...
Suppose there's a classic, old, voodoo style zombie (not a p-zombie) hanging around. The zombie's master orders him to clean the troughs; the zombie c...
Why? The vast majority of humans have a unique genome. Human brains it's rumored have 100 trillion neural connections. And human males seem to find fe...
That is not a compelling argument. That you can intend to move demonstrates volition. That you have no choice by definition rules out free will. Essen...
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