T_Clark

But the river that flows through Moscow in Russia isn’t the Volga.

And yet, bombs killing tens or hundreds or thousands of people in cities is something that happens in the world on a pretty regular basis. Compared to...

/uploads/resized/files/kx/7bqlwu9ugolbcpwj.png

I've told you before, Javi. You need to stop reading so much. You should take up knitting.

There used to be, but now ICE has deported them all to El Salvador.

To be clear, arguments about your question were not what I was calling "pseudo-science." Now to answer. Let me think...well...I guess the answer is "y...

This is all pitiful pseudoscience—“you can't get out what you don't put in”— baloney.

You and I don’t seem to be getting anywhere. As I noted previously, I think it’s a good time to end the conversation.

In general, that’s true, but I’m not interested in taking it up right now.

I never claimed otherwise. When one level of organization emerges from another, they aren’t the same thing. Living organisms are not the same thing as...

Seems to me, from a scientific point of view you’re dismissing even the possibility of speculation.

No. Ontology is, at least purportedly, what really is.

We are fully in the realm of "the hard problem of consciousness." We've discussed it here on the forum many times. Some people think it's a big deal. ...

Sez you. The only one I know of is the one we are discussing.

There’s no reason it can’t be a function of living biological agents and also emerge from matter.

Here’s a link to a David Chalmers paper. He’s the guy who came up with the idea of the hard problem of consciousness, which I reject. Still, at the be...

No. You’re right. I used the wrong word, although what I said applies to consciousness as well.

You're doing it again--Misrepresenting what you originally said and acting as if that addresses my comment. I'm all done with this conversation.

In my original response I wrote: This was a mistake. I should have written "was not well defined." I strongly disagree. The problem isn't that it can'...

You wrote: I responded: Now you respond: You didn't say "something coming from nothing." You said "You can't get weight from that which has none." Ene...

Agreed.

I wasn’t finding fault with anything you said. I was pointing out that the term was well defined in the OP. That is a common problem with discussions ...

This is not typically what people who believe in the hard problem of consciousness mean when they say “consciousness.” For them, it means an awareness...

Benzene, which has a sweet gasoline-like smell, is made up of hydrogen and carbon, neither of which have odors.

Again, this is clearly not true. You should read some cognitive science and cognitive psychology.

Not to be pedantic, but E = mc^2. Matter, which has mass, is created out of energy, which has no mass, everywhere and always. This is clearly wrong. L...

Have you read any cognitive science or evolutionary psychology related to the origin of intelligence? This is a well studied subject, although there a...

Here's what ChatGPT just told me: I like that.

There are (I guess) a nearly infinite number of configurations a universe could take on. Each one would be (I guess) just as likely as any other. We j...

Can you explain how you know this is true. It certainly doesn’t seem that way to me.

What does that mean—unstable? A universe with different properties would be a different universe, not an unstable one. I don’t know how the underlying...

A rule says how things have to behave. A pattern says how things do behave. The world doesn’t have to behave in any particular way, but it does behave...

If I climb a ladder with a ball, and I drop the ball from the top of the ladder, and it falls to the ground, I would call that non-random behavior. Do...

So, 8 billion people x 24 hours x 500 angles. How does the video get processed? Where does it get stored? Who decides what is criminal and what isn’t?...

The universe organizes itself— emergence, self catalysis, evolution, self organization. It’s not random. Some pathways have a much higher probability ...

So, if carbon and oxygen get together to form carbon monoxide, that’s kind of like carbon dating. Right? And then, if carbon dioxide is formed, that’s...

Oh, afraid to tag me. Afraid I will bring my massive intellect to bear. Slowly I turn, step-by-step, inch by inch. Niagara Falls!!

I agree, but then “listen to your heart” isn’t really what I would call a codification.

Sorry, this is silly. Treating someone in the manner you’d like to be treated yourself means to treat them with respect and compassion in the same way...

Especially when there is a specific question. That gives you a chance to be all smug and stuff.

I’m disappointed you didn’t follow T Clark Rule #12— Never explain.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png

Drew Carey.

Great song, except it always makes me think of "Midnight Cowboy," which is a really depressing movie.

I love reading good legal arguments. They’re like the best scientific articles. Every step has to have a reason and has to connect to the steps before...

My favorite discussion on the forum by far. It used to bring tears to my eyes when I wrote and read things here. As an engineer, I have made the argum...

This was clearly made by ChatGPT. I can tell because one of the employees in the photograph is Brooke Shields.

Anyone lived in a pretty how town with up so many floating bells down.

I suspect there is a tongue and a cheek involved here. Beyond that, I really can’t see what it has to do with my original comment.

I don’t know what this means or how it relates to what I wrote.