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a truly autonomous AI creates it's it's own prompts spontaneously and then reasons them in a self enclosed cycle while absorbing additional external s...
April 27, 2023 at 20:26
consciousness for me is fundamental. As in a non conscious universe, spacetime is not a factor. Because consciousness experiences location and Time fr...
April 27, 2023 at 20:19
Agreed. Bit confused here. Negative entropy is what life does. From What I understand Positive negentropy is "moreness" of negentropy. Negative negent...
April 27, 2023 at 20:16
The true source being the human brain according to you? A rather large assumption to make I believe. There is a lot at play here. Physics, chemistry, ...
April 27, 2023 at 19:37
Not true from my personal perspective/rationalisation. The changing thing is changing. The constant it abides by in doing so - change - is permanent i...
April 27, 2023 at 14:33
Haha! I would expect as much :)
April 27, 2023 at 14:27
I do. For me change is a property of potential. Potential wouldn't be potential without a capacity to change into lesser potent products following the...
April 27, 2023 at 14:25
It's a little hazardous to assume that an interdisciplinary approach is not one that often leads to novel insights. If we had a world where every disc...
April 20, 2023 at 09:03
Yes. But it would likely be taken as an analogy by most people rather than something literal. Quantum biology is an emerging field of study if you car...
April 20, 2023 at 08:55
According to what? It's an assumption. And yet we have a hard problem of consciousness that we haven't yet reconciled using biology alone. So, I under...
April 20, 2023 at 08:52
If change was not a stable or constant property then change would stop. Change changes everything else but it's own ability/property to cause change. ...
April 20, 2023 at 08:49
There only has to be one substance with the "stable property" of "change". That is to say it consistently, or constantly transforms. Perhaps instead o...
April 07, 2023 at 13:21
If my will is not a thing then how could I be free to pick my words? Again contradiction. Sure, you're correct, the judgement/interpretation of the wo...
April 07, 2023 at 07:28
That is part of its role yes. Being aware of (having knowledge) or being aware how to (having a skill) certainly means you have the option for more co...
April 07, 2023 at 06:42
You can't. Language may be shared but meaning is not. Each word has different and nuanced meaning and associations depending on who you ask. So the sa...
April 07, 2023 at 06:36
You just contradicted yourself from start to finish. Not talking about being sure I exist and ending with do you really exist. The difficulty is disce...
April 07, 2023 at 06:22
Certainty of the knowledge of ourselves doesn't have to be imposed. On the contrary, it's readily available and knowable. Uncertainty is the impositio...
April 07, 2023 at 05:23
from what I understood the context for the "break from nature" was that the human mind is too sophisticated for its own good and that we thus navigate...
April 06, 2023 at 16:28
It may not be what you meant/are searching for/expecting but that doesn't neccesarily mean the description is "off". It just means that the premises y...
April 06, 2023 at 16:05
It's an interesting dynamic in that while B is under no moral/legal obligation to press charges, pressing charges obliges them on a legal/moral incent...
April 06, 2023 at 15:56
Very true. Excellent elaboration and identification of the flaw in my logic. It can never be identical (justice) to simply playing the amount owed in ...
April 06, 2023 at 15:52
You're correct. There is no way of comparing. Because there are genetic components (pain receptors and endorphin production), anatomical components, t...
April 06, 2023 at 15:37
We are closed in a profound way. Our perceptions and awareness develop with reference to our individual environment. Our individual relationship with ...
April 06, 2023 at 15:17
I would say from a physical perspective that the genes that encode pain receptors and endorphin release mechanisms determine how "sensitive" someone i...
April 06, 2023 at 15:06
And what is a "fact" verses "belief". I believe facts. That belief is a fact. See what I did there? So there is a connection and interplay. Or I belie...
April 06, 2023 at 13:42
I think it's possible that, supposing there was some fundamental truth, or logos, a prime "Logic" or reason that underpins the true nature of reality ...
April 06, 2023 at 11:39
Haha well true if its just you where do you even begin creating something "else". Really you could only create "elseness" from yourself. Reform or res...
April 06, 2023 at 04:32
Well. We can. Some people can go through life uneducated, not curious, never questioning, like other animals do, and they are content/happy. What driv...
April 06, 2023 at 03:57
True. Our awareness of our capabilities and options are seemingly more advanced than the basic instincts of other animals. The realm of human thinking...
April 06, 2023 at 03:50
I disagree on what I am confusing. For me there is no confusion; the brain is basically the product of evolutionarily compounded/refined intelligence....
April 05, 2023 at 16:01
I think consciousness is awareness/intelligence from the point of view of ones individual identity. In that case both humans, other animals and AI mig...
April 05, 2023 at 14:14
Haha lol. Well even despite it's lack of intended symbolism I like Green. It is balanced; being in the center of the visible colour spectrum and has t...
April 05, 2023 at 14:08
I'm not a mathematician. Haha. Numbers are not my strong suit. We can crunch the numbers on intelligence for sure. How or to what degree something has...
April 05, 2023 at 07:21
Okay so I'll try to approach this with another analogy: imagine the mind or conscious awareness as some sort of "non-Newtonian fluid" that can be in b...
April 05, 2023 at 06:16
Same I think it seems elegant. Ties energy and matter together nicely in an axis (action and acted upon)
April 05, 2023 at 05:42
for me death is simply transfigurement. You will cease to be human and your identity will shift to something else. The energy and matter that upheld y...
April 04, 2023 at 17:03
I can't agree more. Well said. Bravo/brava.
April 04, 2023 at 16:20
Well, I think good friends are akin to therapists that work for free - through compassion (patience, tolerance, insight/understanding and non-judgemen...
April 04, 2023 at 16:14
Hmm this is a challenging notion to argue but I thank you for the task. It seems fun. I'm going to ad lib with this one. So lets say for arguments sak...
April 04, 2023 at 15:07
Exactly. When we make mistakes it's usually due to misidentification of rational connections, mislogics, poorly followed trains of thought. Thus the e...
April 04, 2023 at 14:25
It's a good question. 1). I think It would have to be a singular object to be held account/to give an account of its existence. So we aren't all askin...
April 04, 2023 at 10:42
Ah okay interesting. I see the conflation I made. Hmm yeah you're probably right.
April 04, 2023 at 03:33
If a mistake occurs I'm not sure it's "innocent" in the sense that the person caused it. But the mistake is either caused by "mal-intent" or "despite ...
April 03, 2023 at 15:10
Interesting outline indeed. Thank you for the insight. I agree with the process outlined: . For me a mistake can occur at any stage in that process. E...
April 03, 2023 at 14:57
So you're saying there's no meaning to anything that happens without applying human constructions like physics to reflect what we observe? For me, the...
April 03, 2023 at 09:10
I think again as I discussed with Banno. There are different levels of meaning. There is the innate objective "meanings" or descriptions/associations/...
April 03, 2023 at 08:48
Absolutely. Expectation dictates the success/failure dynamic. People with the biggest dreams/ambitions fall the hardest when they don't meet them. I t...
April 03, 2023 at 08:30
That indeed may all be true 180Proof. And finally, in conclusion. How does that make you feel? Do you suffer because of that rationalisation, or does ...
April 03, 2023 at 08:24
Haha I like this phrase. I can imagine knowing of/expecting the perfect answer to a formula or maths equation one is working on, and feeling like it p...
April 03, 2023 at 08:18
Well it creates dichotomies doesn't it? You can't have one side of something without the opposite. So we can see something as "futile", "pointless" or...
April 03, 2023 at 08:00