T_Clark

I live in New England and I don't think there's better regular old day to day architecture anywhere in the US. Massachusetts is full of great houses, ...

All this high sounding stuff is baloney. The self is regular old everyday reality. Real as a lug nut. We all have one. Health people feel at home with...

Sometimes yes. Often no. As I noted, and you ignored, sometimes I want to look at a particular view of an issue and not talk about how others might de...

Really beautiful. Simple. Textures. Lines. Materials.

I thought the Celts were the lost tribe of Israel. Wait.. no. That's American Indians.

Except that, to me, it clearly does.

In my experience, p-zombies are just more pointless, unrealistic thought experiments like the trolley problem. They seem to be made up by people with ...

Thanks, I'll take a look. Most of the non-fiction I read these days mostly just makes me realize how much I don't know. I tend to just plow ahead and ...

All but one hotel/guest house my brother and I visited in Europe had a free breakfast. I guess it was a true continental breakfast - sliced meat, brea...

Yes. We had this discussion once, at least once, when you tried to shanghai one of my threads. Sometimes, often, I want to examine the substance and d...

I live as close to a life without wants as I ever have or ever will again. Not rich but enough money to live on with the things that matter to me. A h...

I'm partial to "No further questions. I rest my case."

I nominate the last four pages of the Shoutbox as the lamest extended discussion in forum history. Except for the pictures of Ingalls Rink.

I spent quite a bit of time in Toledo for work back in the 90s and 2000s. Yes, a beat up town, but I enjoyed my time there.

A lot of Mexicans there in Astana?

It's an insult. "Ad hominem" refers to an argument.

New word. Thanks. I'm not sure you have to capitalize it any more than you would "maverick," "bowdlerize," or "trump."

Here are pictures of the inside. Even more beautiful. Hidden because they take up so much space. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/I...

Can you send us a picture? This is a picture of Ingalls Rink at Yale University by the younger Saarinen. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common...

I checked. Although Finland is included in the Nordic countries, it is not usually considered part of Scandinavia. It has an entirely different langua...

I'd never heard of it. Looked it up. Seems pretty inoffensive. What we eat as children affects us forever. Have I told you about Velveeta? Finland has...

Ok then, I guess the subtlety of your argument confused me. We don't know people are conscious because... I think we're about to get into another disc...

Yes, I recognize that. My response was was intended as vaguely passive aggressive. I wasn't offended. We could argue about whether you were not clear ...

Is your family Finnish? Did I already know that?

There are many bad things you can say about me with some justice, but insulting my intelligence just doesn't work.

I read it the first time. I read it again just now. My comment stands. And don't call me Willcox.

Saying that the brain and mind are different things is not the same as saying the brain has nothing to do with the mind or that neuroscience has nothi...

Albert Einstein couldn't conceive of the leading theories of quantum physics. As you said, that doesn't mean they are wrong.

Have you read it? Is it worth it?

I agree. I don't get it either.

In what plausible universe would I be the only one who has this characteristic, even though everything physical about me and other humans is the same;...

See "The Feeling of What Happens" by Damasio. I'm not saying it will be convince you, but it is a serious scientific attempt at a preliminary explanat...

I see artificial intelligence; along with other advancements such as genetics, nuclear power and weapons, particle physics, nanotechnology, and longev...

I think what we call phenomenal consciousness, experience, what it's like to be... is a mental process much like other mental processes. Everyone make...

The whole p-zombie thing has always driven me crazy. Of course other people have internal lives that are like mine, i.e. phenomenal consciousness, exp...

I was moved by your story, so I decided I wanted to perform a literary analysis. Here it is. I did it all by myself:

I think I've told you this before - New York City is magic to me.

That is painfully true, as evidenced by just about every related discussion here on the forum. Be that as it may, with current issues about AI, it loo...

I just realized I left something out. I love dictionaries, thesauruses, lists of rhyming words, etymologies. I love definitions. I like to take a word...

We could have a long and fruitless discussion about this, but I suggest we don't.

How do we know other people are conscious? What standards do we use? Apply those same standards to AI. I see you made that same suggestion in a previo...

Yes, I understand that's what he's saying. Isn't that rejecting scientific explanations for conscious experience? That's how I would characterize it.

@"javi2541997" I don't know if you saw this:

I've only read a little by him. One essay on the hard problem and a few quotes. He sure seems to reject scientific explanations for conscious experien...

Because poetry wasn't the subject of the discussion. Because figuring out the language is part of the experience of poetry. Because providing definiti...

I was thinking after I wrote that last post - Making a definition in poetry is like explaining a joke.

It started out interesting, but then switched from talking about definition in a general or philosophical sense to a poetic one. That lost me, at leas...

This is definitely true. A lot of my understanding of philosophical issues comes from my examination of my own way of knowing and experiencing things....

I think I recognize pretty well what consciousness is from the inside. I have no problem with how you've expressed it, although my take is less poetic...