I only meant to say that to understand something, one has to go to its material source, and by material I don't mean some physicality. Rather, the act...
I wonder, what is fear? An unwelcome feeling, no doubt. What is unwelcomeness? Some discomfort, a "bad" feeling. Bad? Where did THIS come from (and it...
It is a matter of making ideas clear, and this is hard to do here. Indeterminacy and thrownness, what do these mean? Indeterminateness refers to the l...
Simple? Not a chance. BUT: once gotten, one sees that the matter is supremely simple. The complexity is needed to arrive at simplicity. . The trouble ...
So it needs to be narrowed, and this is done apophatically: What is NOT necessary to the definition of ethics? Certainly, ethics needs a context, but ...
I read in the Abhidhamma explicit attempts to cultivate this disgust by with unsavory associations and other techniques. This book is a fascinating an...
It is, as all OP's, an invitation to disagree, agree and explore. Do keep in mind that anthropology and psychology are not philosophy. It is not that ...
The need to explain is ours. Certainly when religions were laid down in ancient societies, there was not the philosophical detachment from the concern...
Well, it is a nice poem, I have to admit. Not Wordsworth, but charming. But what does it argue? asks philosophy. It argues that words invent pseudo pr...
It is not a matter of a psychological response to scary things in the world that is being inquired about any more than geology is a matter of investig...
How about just dropping this traditional idea of some domain or place. Such a thing is off-putting from the start. Sounds like a place to meet Jesus, ...
How about just dropping this traditional idea of some domain or place. Such a thing is off-putting from the start. Sounds like a place to meet Jesus, ...
It reminds me of the positivists, who responded to Wittgenstein's Tractatus in a way he never intended. Wittgenstein is the most extraordinary person,...
But you jump to the chase. This denial of our mortality has a more basic analysis, for the question is begged, why bother with this issue at all? Fear...
I think this is an interesting answer, and likely is true, roughly. But when I ask about the essence of religion, I refer to something presupposed by ...
I don't think we willfully accept anything in an unthinking manner. A contradiction there. And they will perhaps laugh. Or be absolutely terrified. Ne...
Just a construction of an idea that one day will be at the center of defining what AI is. The assumption is, if we are to model AI according human fun...
A little cynical. It could just as easily be cast in positive terms, putting aside the screwing and killing, and giving primacy to love and compassion...
To sleep, perchance to dream. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I find the notion fascinating. Of course, dreaming as we know it is bound up with o...
It is not so much an exploration of AI's standing possibilities. It is a conception of what it would be to have a truly synthetic human mind. It would...
But here I am talking as if it were a biological manifestation in order to discuss the subjective possibilities of a synthetic mind. At issue is not t...
But consider that human are living evidence that physical systems (if you want to talk like this) can produce what we are, and if we are a biological ...
The trouble with trying to make a moral synthetic mind lies in the free play and the enculturation conditions that figure into becoming human. This is...
As I recall, VIKI had it in her mind to take care of us because we were so bent on self destruction. It carries the basic flaw of all utopian thinking...
I think the point is that, right, they would not have these shortcomings, but they would have no compunction one way or the other. No more than a fenc...
Always thought this was wrong: AI has a directive not to harm humans, but the notion of harm is indeterminate. Ethics is something that is not rigidly...
quote="noAxioms;825206"]There is no 'end' with evolution. Just continuity, and elimination of the species that cannot do that. It is indeed interestin...
A brave move, putting Heidegger out there. Mostly I see science majors posting in the belief that science covers philosophy, and I have a hard time co...
Apologies for that. I think of Quine's naturalism, and then this simple notion: where is the epistemic connectivity? The more a theory moves to make t...
Face value begs the question, what is there on its "face"? Husserl's "Ideas" is all about, of course, ideas. Eidetic seeing is his first order of busi...
This would be true if logic were, magically, its own interpretative base, as if the intuitive apociticity of modus ponens or De Morgan's theorum were ...
There is nothing in this post that suggests arithmetic is outside phenomenology's purview, that i can find. And Bitboll is not entirely right in his t...
And there is none. What you talk about is the very reason why we have the discipline called logic. the point I am making is that this field is questio...
Well, yes and no. Everything belongs there because that is all that is given, but this doesn't mean all that is given is interpretatively clear. Given...
I thought the analogy of logic clear. Tell me, what is logic? Note that whatever you say is going to have its meaning framed in logic. It would be que...
I think it is important to see that he is called a rational realist for a good reason: What is determinative as to being is the semantic embeddedness ...
If you accept the brain as the generative source of consciousness and its phenomena, you are also a brain doing the accepting, so the question goes to...
I think he is fascinating. And one must, I think, though this is something philosophers would find insulting to their dignity, consider near death exp...
But how is this to be taken? I remember reading Hegel once, and he, as I recall, placed the nothing in dialectical opposition to being, thereby produc...
I have every confidence you will be better at this than I am. Consider, if you will, the one abiding thought that dominates my thinking: The world is ...
Curious. Did you really think philosophy was just talking about itself? What is responsible for this is analytic philosophy, which has gotten lost, en...
Of course, gravity sounds a lot like God, then. For God is, sans the troublesome history and narratives, a metaethical, meta aesthetic metavalue groun...
something like this, but the "logos" was not scientific, it was a phenomenological nexus of intentionality. And since gravity is at this level of inqu...
No, I've never thought of it. Tell me briefly how a "surface semi-symmetrical in its continuity" would do what needs to be done here. Because the assu...
May I then offer you something that I found very helpful? It is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtLMNcpgYEs&t=1506s Hope I linked this properly....
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