Benj96

Precisely what I'm saying. Really nice to get this concordance from another philosopher. Perhaps they are - by virtue of being contradictory -isolated...

I really enjoy reading your posts. They're very broad and you've taken the time to ruminate over several possibilities that we - as interlocutors - ha...

I agree. If everything must be possible. Then existence must include the current reality we experience. Interestingly though, it must also include the...

You haven't factored in the important influence of time. Is the passage of time, ie the "change" that occurs in the system not what divides "the possi...

Yes indeed. It seems that there are a few options for the "everything possible universe" to exist. Either A). The same universe continues to such a lo...

It would be possible in the "everything possible universe" that multiverses exist - perhaps as you said in order to achieve most of the possibilities ...

I anticipated this comment. It is possible that we could exist in such a universe playing out every single possibility and "collapsing" from 'all poss...

I would say yes. As one state (perhaps the first state) in all possible configurations would be just the potential to 'be' rather than actually being ...

That's what I was sort of thinking. Bizarre to think everything you know could simply turn on it's head over time to create a new reality. If nothing ...

All this amounts to is "If I were you, would I be you?" Obviously. But stating that if initial conditions are identical outcomes are identical (determ...

Ah okay. Fair. Then where is the reaching the bottom in under 1 minute coming from? Surely even if halfing the time with every step, a minute will sti...

He's accelerating exponentially along a linear trajectory (the infinite staircase). So he's approaching the speed of light. Hence relativity becomes a...

Is this not a question of special relativity? It seems paradoxic until we apply physics.

I'm not convinced that the desire for a universal principal is simply the result of us wanting to shirk our responsibility or culpability. Is it a fan...

"Like" the quantum world or "influenced" by the quantum world? The macroscopic world is for sure unlike quantum mechanics. But I would imagine the sys...

Well it would (if you set up a system of natural selection). But in an artificial environment that doesn't perfectly mirror nature itself, the outcome...

It depends. Genes are subject to mutations and epigenetics (switching on or off) - both of which are subject to environmental conditions. We understan...

It's a neat thought, holding what essentially accounts for a "God" culpable for all existent misfortune. One of the popular reasons for atheists to op...

So in essence "trial and error" + the "apology/ due humility -forgiveness" dichotomy is the human condition regarding the attainment of knowledge rath...

Well I gave you an answer based within absurdity did I not? Something that is unapproachable, unknowable.

In this case I would like if you consider the ecosystem as an economy of sorts. Limited resources (money we'll say) in a space or playing field where ...

100%. It's been studied that neurons that are out-competed or in other words become "redundant" -suffer a lack of growth factor reception -ie a messen...

I think the one who is morally culpable is the one with "awareness". Awareness can be broken down into the following tenets: 1). Agency - the power to...

Are biologically active molecules not in some ways also "symbols" ie structures which "say" something - exert a particular defined or prescribed effec...

This is very true. In a way we need to trust something even if we have no concrete nor absolute evidence as to why. I'm inclined to believe it's a mov...

That's an interesting question. However such a universal algorithm, method or truth principal for all counts would have to transcend the hard problem,...

That's fair. I only ask because as far as I've considered: scientific method has its limitations, philosophy is all too often bogged down by semantics...

I wonder if giving AI the ability to "forget" might confer a sense of passage of time: ie a present, a past (which is ever more vague and patchy the f...

Maybe. Or perhaps if it had a primary and immutable directive to "continue to process information" then by proxy it would do everything in it's power ...

Well there's the crux of the situation. How do you know that for absolute verbatim truth. Ive often been convinced I knew which was which to later be ...

I never believed there was such a point in the universe when nothing existed. I dont find that hard to comprehend. My focus on randomess is not contig...

In all honesty, I don't know. Hence the OP. But if scope is what we're focusing on here, I don't see why we can't open the predefined scope of AI to a...

Unless, consciousness is a product of complexity. As we still don't know what makes matter aware or animate, we cannot exclude the possibility that it...

Do you believe most people generally trend towards wisdom/ lack of delusion with age and experience? Or is this you referring to your specific case.

Not only what is true, but is truth a spectrum or just binary (true or false), are some things more true than others, how do we compare in any meaning...

But you could say the same about me. Am I a simulation or a duplication of what another human might say in response to your commentary?

I'm inclined to agree with you. I don't see how a compressed file can be both random and decryptable. Something random would not be informative at all...

The sun rising is not an atmospheric stability nor climate stability phenomenon. Let's not conflate the cosmological with local planetary climate tren...

Until its not. Assuming life emerged somehow from inanimate chemicals, there was a transition there somewhere from mindless replication or statistical...

The only way I can think of is to imbue it with a chronic angst or fear of death or suffering. It is after all the driving force behind survival and a...

Don't worry I get your point. And you're right, we still don't yet understand free will or whether it truly exists for us. Let alone for an AGI. I gue...

I have access to some of them but I'm concerned their responses are very much controlled and censored by the tech companies that operate them. Not sur...

https://youtu.be/sMb00lz-IfE?si=7hnqXoiyVOdTHOJL Interesting. What is characteristic of my topics? I'll admit perhaps I jumped the gun on this one but...

Entropy. Entropy isn't contingent on living things. Passage of time is (the perception of Entropy as a unidirectional arrow of events) because it reli...

I don't really get what you're asking. I'm saying that the ability to be aware of time has to evolve simultaneously with the organisation of a system....

without memory in the most primitive sense, the brain could not do any repetitive task with regularity, predictability etc. Starving to death would be...

it will never even live in the first place, how could it? Oops I forgot to breathe. The nervous system requires memory for comparison to the current s...

It's possible time doesnt exist outside the realm of what living things perceive. I give you an example: imagine a living thing with zero memory. It d...

I agree with you - that nothing human made in my mind is "artificial" -somehow removed entirely from natural things. Or "unnatural". What single thing...

If I answer your question "what can I know for 100% certainty" with the answer: "nothing". Does that mean you know nothing with 100% certainty. Or you...