I'm not sure that any possibility is likely. The initial conditions and their evolution into their present state were not necessary, they just happene...
Taking my truth to mean 'in my experience' totally demystifies usage if it is taken as a common phrase rather than one issuing from a philosopher. Per...
Palo Alto Networks and Cisco regularly voice warnings of the dangers of advancing AI applications that might invade and corrupt corporate networks. Th...
Cyber security companies are in the news being quite concerned with the growing capabilities of AGI's that can potentially infiltrate and corrupt corp...
Natural unplanned evolution is not necessarily our ally if we are dreaming of survival as a species. Naturally, the only foreseeable trend is extincti...
Those are two of the ideas that you claim to be related. That is your thesis. To do that you, not I, need to understand both your key words and the id...
By classic education do you mean a classical curriculum that teaches ancient and modern languages, philosophy, literature and history, or one of the m...
Your perspective on AI has been obsolete for years now. The type of AI I dreamed of long ago was hand programmed to do specific tasks for just the rig...
It is odd from an everyday ordinary language (an other 'orthogonal') perspective to say that I don't know what you mean by cold. Actually I do underst...
No, we don't understand either one. There are two distinct notions 'orthogonal' to each other plus a scale measure to create a rough translation from ...
A doctor will attempt to relate "I'm cold" to their Wittgensteinian meaning by asking "on a scale of 1 to 10 how cold do you feel?" That number is onl...
This challenging discussion gave me impetus to check the progress of AI on whatever to me available documentaries. They are now talking AGI, self-teac...
Everything. I doubt that there is any scientific or technological priority of any sort that can be addressed by actually sending live people into orbi...
Beautiful and challenging post. If I let it be general lack of progress in philosophy and in the arts then I am not obliged to demonstrate the missing...
That's the difference between technological and scientific projects. Technology makes constant advances on top of existent technology in an ever faste...
This has been an effective rationale for public funds and to raise individual contributions toward the 'sciences'. The argument makes a great deal of ...
My take of some relevant ancient history. The strongest logical statement in philosophy comes from Parmenides. To paraphrase, Everything is, period. T...
In the case of the sparrows I find their behavior abhorrent, nature doesn't. Because of that and other practical reasons I will not allow them on my b...
The idea of distinguishing artificial man-made from what is natural is useful in many ways. As example, many large spherical rocks seen in a valley co...
Natural is just anything that happens without human, artificial intervention. Man-made systems are unnatural. What is common is only what we as people...
That is a very powerful way of stating the crux of normalcy. A dart is a material object with size that pokes out a disk shaped hole in a material pla...
Geologically we are speaking in million-year or even billion-year time frames. Civilization only goes back thousands of years which on this time scale...
Recently I've tried a new approach to crack the Parmenides. If the Parmenides character is made to expand his world into Plato's Formal pluralism, wha...
That pretty much characterizes the US markets. There is a high level of fear that flips the market trend almost daily. Smart people are gradually with...
The free speech claim is just a smoke screen by his supporters. It's his other activities that got him notice. He will have his day in court, and then...
I like the two well-chosen Plato quotes there from the Timaeus. I complained before about the necessity of bringing a point of view to reading Plato. ...
The quantum universe is just another description of the physical universe but at the smallest quantum level. Consequent observable that change at huma...
The quantum universe is proposed to be whole, and an intelligent agent in a Platonic sense. It is supposed to be acting instantaneously beyond our 3-D...
Yes. Quite different from an empty infinite space or a container of sorts. Interestingly there is a modern quantum version of the World Soul. The idea...
Do you mean his explanation for the exclusion of Forms from the Theaetetus? Cornford was a unitarian with respect to Plato's underlying metaphysics an...
A definition might be too strict for something that mostly does not exist to be defined, it is an extended boundless dynamic field of inter-penetratin...
If they did they would lose an objective common ground of communication. The lexicon has its own biases as well but where would we be without it? Plat...
You make many cogent points in those posts that I have to think about as I write. Describing chora as a place or as an extension is un-Platonic primar...
A few years back I had to invade the library of a local seminary in search of an expensive Plato commentary. When I asked for help the young librarian...
Which is why it is only possible to misread Plato in one direction or another to a lesser or greater extent. Scholars' translations and readings are s...
It would make sense for the DOGE to use AI to sift through administrative records of government contracts for suspected waste and corruption. Younger ...
Maybe they do, but perhaps they only need to create sufficient confusion and division to paralyze disjointed multinational leadership. MAGA is a natio...
Is this normal in tone and content coming from an ally? Sounds to me as another attempt to destabilize the European democracies, just as Musk is tryin...
Plato lived in a mathematically rudimentary and physically primitive age, but his mode of thought was akin to today's physical theorists. He was quite...
Yes. Isolationism has been a goal of the US conservatives for a long time now. We're tired of transplanting our ideals of democracy to ungrateful fore...
But it isn't just bombing. The Hamas terrorists made it as personal and offensive as they could, exactly to provoke an oversized uncontrolled retaliat...
Thank you. The problem I have is the same mentioned by . Darwin tried to sell natural selection by pointing out that selective breeding of animals and...
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