This discussion involves two distinct issues. The first concerns uncomputable problems, on which I fully agree with you. The second relates to whether...
You're right that at first glance, machines and living organisms appear quite different—especially regarding structure and origin. However, if we focu...
You're right, I don’t consciously compute every problem I encounter. But that doesn’t mean computation isn’t happening. Much of the problem-solving is...
While it's true that most people might share your opinion, it's worth noting that several prominent thinkers have argued that the brain—or even the hu...
Teleology explains events as caused by goals or intended purposes. In contrast, teleonomy describes the appearance of goal-directedness, treating such...
The problem with this statement is that, in modern biology and the philosophy of science, teleology is generally rejected as a fundamental explanatory...
In my opinion anyone who rejects physicalism and the associated reduction of conscious experiences to material processes must assume that these experi...
Decoding refers to the exhaustive understanding of the biological system of the nematode – encompassing its genetics, cellular processes, neural archi...
By “understanding ourselves,” I meant fully decoding ourselves—much like scientists are currently attempting with the simplest model organism: the nem...
I disagree. If you consider that, in every society, the uneducated constitute the majority, then only someone who is similarly uneducated and shares t...
Interesting. I tend to think if a book feels like self-mortification, I might be in the wrong genre. Then again, maybe that’s the Calvinist in you tal...
In my opinion, the value of a novel lies in its ability to captivate me from the first page to the last—so compelling that I can’t put it down and reg...
For me, it's in the evaluation." An intelligent reptile would likely make different evaluations than an intelligent chimpanzee, although there would l...
I would define morality as the active process of evaluating things and assigning them a value of either right or wrong, rather than passively perceivi...
@"Mark S" What I intended to convey is that it is considerably simpler to prescribe the actions one ought take to achieve a particular goal, rather th...
That's why I'm saying that moralizing without such a goal is much more challenging than when you orient yourself towards a goal X that you already hav...
I'll give it a try. The lack of interest in moral concepts based on conditional norms of oughtness can be explained by the fact that it represents a r...
Meanwhile, I believe I understand what you're getting at. I will do my best to compose a satisfactory answer to it, but it will take a few more days, ...
Even if that were the case (which I do not doubt), it would have no significance for moral duties because, as Hume already stated, one cannot derive a...
Agreed, there are such things. However, I meant actual cases in which one deceives, disadvantages, oppresses, or exploits another. In the cases I am a...
What is the use of someone knowing what he ought to do if he is not willing to do it. There is, after all, the saying: "Man always remembers only nine...
This is a misunderstanding; I by no means wanted to say that all people are evil. My experience is that people are different: some are friendly, helpf...
Many theologians and philosophers have tried to find an objective morality, but without success. The last one I know of is John Leslie Mackie. In his ...
I have a similar view: mutations are random and chaotic, and so are the conditions that favor a few individual mutations and eliminate most of them. B...
This is a difficult hypothesis to prove. This is a deception, we can do many things but we cannot go against the laws of nature and against our instin...
Mark Twain's point is precisely that the law of God is that which governs the planets, rivers, plants and animals (including man). In other words, tha...
You are right, people can even do something purely spontaneous, while thinking about something else. How could I have forgotten this important possibi...
Yes, I abhor my own pain, since I am not a masochist, and other people's pain, since I am not a sadist either. I do not envy villains at all, since I ...
I don't believe that would be so difficult. You would just need to form two groups and ask one group to only have children with the darkest members, w...
Why not? Originally, all humans had the same skin color, namely black, from which the different colors developed. Why shouldn't the same be possible a...
As I said, I also see the disadvantages of uniformity, even though I don't view them as extreme as you do. Ideally, I would like to have both diversit...
You're right, there would be disadvantages, (I love diversity too) but I think the advantages would outweigh them. Although I'm not used to being over...
Besides, I would like it if we all belonged to one nation, if we all had the same skin color, no matter which: white or black, green or blue, the main...
It is in the nature of one to do good and in the nature of the other to do bad; we're not all the same, are we? I am not saying that we should expect ...
I, too, was confused by the concepts of morality for a long time. But by now, my confusion has subsided. Morality is good at defining good and evil, i...
I would be happy if humanity were united under a single government. Then there would be no borders and no wars. No country would invade its neighbor f...
Only the first sentence from the quote is indirect speech, but everything from "Now, although ..." onward represents Kant's own opinion as to why it i...
By the way, I have found a passage in the "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" that, in my opinion, can serve as evidence that Kant justifies the...
With Kant, I have my difficulties when he says: "Being charitable wherever possible is a duty, and besides, there are some souls so disposed to empath...
Me too. Unfortunately, I know too little about the author to know what exactly he was trying to say. Perhaps he wanted to express his disappointment w...
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