Wayfarer

Herewith the online dictionary account of the etymology of ‘intelligence’. Notice the element of judgement - 'to choose, to pick out'. :up: Meanwhile,...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

Various flavours of nihilism. Ought to inspire one to seek mok?a.

But whoever designed the room does understand Chinese, otherwise he or she would not be able to implement it. Any understanding that is manifested is,...

consensus was, leave it, as there have been responses already. I'm not suggesting deletion because of the subject matter, only on the grounds of quali...

Since Hubble and now JWT, there are plenty of exoplanets whose existence can be inferred from the data. But they're all so distant that their existenc...

The way this question is phrased amounts to meaningless internet blather. There may be a legitimate philosophical issue at stake, but the wording is p...

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JWT spots dust storm on exoplanet. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-105 And another interesting astronomy story althoug...

Sometimes it really does seem to be trying to impress or to please. So it tries to fill in the blanks with a best guess, which is dangerously close to...

I will add, what is meant by 'mind' is something much greater than simply the contents of an individual's conscious thought. Conscious thought and int...

How did that strike you? As I mentioned I took it out of the library but didn't make a lot of headway. But he seems to be one of the 'idealist physici...

I agree my way of putting it seems pretty blunt, but I've read the book thoroughly, and he makes the case quite convincingly, in my view (although I'l...

Aside from trying to exploit his notoriety to part suckers from their money, Trump is fantasising about the spectacle of being forced into the 'perp w...

True, you can only access the chapter abstracts on the site, but the abstracts for the first few chapters convey the gist. I bought the Kindle edition...

Thereby not only blowing the Turing Test out of the water, but also Mary's Room. :lol: It really has amazing functionality. This seems to me to be abo...

The relationship between two such masses is defined solely in terms of gravitational attraction. The way sentient beings interact with the moon is thr...

I wish to hell it would just happen. This interminable will-they-or-won't they is driving me nuts. I want to wake up to the morning news (here in Aus)...

It's not the words you used, but their meaning, which I'm disputing. What you actually said was and I disputed the idea that rock measures anything, a...

All that insight, plus modesty! What's not to like? (I often reflect on the prescience which led Isaac Asimov to name his 1960's anthology, "I, Robot"...

Fascinating. I’ve been using ChatGPT regularly, I will try the next version. At this point, the only observation I have is to wonder about the soundne...

I notice that the Information as a basic property of the Universe abstract says that 'Pure energy can perform no 'useful' (entropy reducing) work with...

And I'm saying, it's not a matter of vocabulary. The question is one of metaphysics. What I'm saying is, that from the perspective of natural philosop...

I think the free-and-easy depiction of Zen Buddhism propagated by popular books in the West is nothing like the lived reality. From here

'Philosophy buries its undertakers' ~ Etienne Gilson It's more like becoming absorbed by it. Deepak Chopra is a regular at the Consciousness Studies c...

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:up: I think what you're groping towards is reflected in some aspects of Platonism, which I've already implicitly stated, but it's worth spelling it o...

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The crucial point that is largely lost in Western cultural traditions is the idea - although it's not an idea - of self-realization in the philosophic...

Some notes: (That is why Kant can describe himself as both an empirical realist and a transcendental idealist; there are two perspectives, one of whic...

It's reductionist, though. And it's also a lot like the empiricist criticisms of mathematics (i.e. Mill) that we become familiar with numerical concep...

There needs to be a degree of rigor in formulating such an idea. Our minds are constantly occupied by a stream of thoughts, some vocalised, some compr...

:ok: That's real treasurehouse!

You’re asking for a description of the world that is not described by physics. Such an undertaking would fall under the general heading of metaphysics...

Simply that appearances can deceive, after all

I agree that your last two posts are very odd. Perhaps in future you might take a moment to gather your thoughts before typing them.

I'd discourage the use of personal pronouns in respect of artificial intelligence systems. From the metaphorical horses' mouth ;-)

I can't help but also notice the resonances with Heidegger's 'presencing'. Outside the web of discursive thought and conceptualisation.

Fair point. But it's still a stretch to say you can imagine a world without good and evil - perhaps an uninhabited planet might fit the bill, but then...

'Atheists are those who stil feel the weight of their chains' ~ Albert Einstein

You can? What would that be like, then? A world where nothing is ever born or dies, is subject to illness or injury. I can't see how this can be 'easy...

There were many ancient religious cults that had such teachings - various forms of gnosticism, Mithraism, Zoroastrianism. A lot of people still believ...

A lot to mull over there. I only want to add that from my brief readings about the principle of magic, the ideas of sympathy and symbol are central to...

kudos for knowing

A Platonist riddle: 'A man (not a man) throws a stone (not a stone) At a bird (not a bird) in a tree (not a tree)' What is it a description of?

It still is something completely different to a termite, a forester, and a koala. And none of them are mistaken.

Snakes are symbols of treachery and deceit throughout Western culture, near to the ground, symbolizing abasement, their poison symbolizing death. But ...

I wonder if anyone here has read or knows of A General Theory of Magic, by Marcel Mauss, French sociologist? The jacket blurb is (I noted with amuseme...