Tell you the truth, the sad fact is that dialogue about philosophical concepts with ChatGPT is generally of far higher quality, and also considerably ...
Wow, some fantastic shots there. The modernist tiled building looks like the Sydney Opera House on acid. The two large reflective glass buildings are ...
Another one of the same. As it's on a similar theme I thought I would add it here rather than creating a whole new thread. It starts off with a compar...
I don't really get why AI has become a topic in this thread, when it wasn't even discussed in the presentation that the thread refers to, and when it ...
Physical laws goven physical things, but language and reason operate by different principles, let alone many other of the subtle abilities of the mind...
Thanks for the intro! I signed up and posed a few questions, which I won’t link in full, but Claude said at the end of it ‘I appreciate your nuanced p...
Figured it out. Siri had not actually interposed its own response to that thread, it had picked up our conversation about the message and encoded it a...
Sheldrake has published a lot of papers and books. I’m not going to come to his defence, as hostility towards PSI research is notorious and it’s a ver...
Can’t quite figure out where this is coming from, all the iOS AI is supposed to be coming out next release, we’re still on v17. But a short time later...
Ask almost anyone if they understand Kant. if they’re honest their answer will provide the correct pronunciation. ‘No, I can’t.’ On another matter, I ...
Agree. I’ve engaged in dialogues with ChatGPT almost daily since its release and am frequently amazed and impressed with the quality of the output. Bu...
I have an iPhone 13 - it’s not slow but it’s always a bit fiddly due to the limitations of the iOS interface. Latency issues might be due to the netwo...
It’s said that intelligence is ‘the ability to make distinctions’. I’m afraid that the distinction between news and opinion is one the general Fox aud...
I agree with you in principle, but in the specifics of Trump v Biden, I understand the angst directed at the NYT. In my view, the fact that Trump is e...
Thank you. That’s been the point at issue all along. I’ll only add that the term translated as ‘soul’ in that passage, as something which characterise...
Right. I should highlight the fact that I re-opened the thread because I found what I consider an important book, Thinking Being, Eric Perl, from whic...
That's basically the only point that was ever at issue in this argument. Didn't mean to be insulting, but I really don't think it makes sense to decla...
We had this uncanny experience at the Tower. Of course it was well known that Her Majesty was at Balmoral and the end nigh, but we couldn’t help feeli...
:up: I've been getting a lot from Vervaeke's lectures. (Mind you, there’s a lot of ‘em.) Deep idea: It is the pleroma, the ‘divine fullness’, or the ‘...
Sheldrake insists that there is ample empirical evidence for 'the sense of being stared at' and also people's sixth sense about who is going to call t...
I watched a recording of a recent lecture and discussion session featuring a US anthropologist called Tanya Lurmann (mentioned in another thread). She...
The only possible 'stable Republican outlier' is, in fact, Nikki Haley. From the same source I quoted yesterday: You can imagine the MAGA group peltin...
I believe it's been de-criminalised in the Australian Capital Territory, the area around the national capital. You're not allowed to trade in it, but ...
I'd encourage you to consider Australia (although the price of housing is astronomical). The burning hot zones in Australia are actually pretty remote...
I don't know either, but I've been following US politics pretty closely - probably too closely - and it seems obvious the current Republican party is ...
I might chip in here to say that in some contexts, or in some respects, what you can see depends on the kind of person you are, or perhaps the kind of...
Read this about Haley today: "Both national and swing state polls show Haley is a dramatically stronger candidate than Trump in the general election. ...
I've presented arguments and citations in support, and in the face of nothing better than pointless ad hominems and incomprehension. The reason I re-o...
Anil Seth says he's 'entirely comfortable' with 'the mind extending beyond the brain', holding up his iPhone to make the point, one I agree with. Over...
Anyway, as to the question, 'does consciousness extend beyond brains?', as I've entered the fray, I will review at least some of this 2.5 hour ( :yike...
Sorry, mis-typed - I meant to say, show me where I said that 'humans were magic'. But I then noticed that you had said: To which I replied I said that...
Show me where said that human beings are magic. I actually used a philosophical term to differentiate human beings from animals - can you recall what ...
The issue the Supreme Court focussed on was the consequences of States taking it on themselves to decide who can stand on a Presidential Ballot, which...
:clap: :ok: Because it is what you're appealing to by declaring that humans are 'just another species' and that the differences between humans and oth...
The back-story to all of this is that I used to mount an argument as follows. It was based on distinguishing ontology from science. My argument was th...
I believe Schrodinger's rhetorical point was to drive home the absurd nature of superposition with a life-size example. Even the proverbial cat wouldn...
As I said - language, reason, technology, and so on. H. sapiens is able to interrogate the nature of meaning and being in a way that other species can...
Buddha nature is inherently blissful. Part of enlightenment (bearing in mind, 'enlightenment' was coined by an English translator for the Buddhist ter...
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