Michael

But consciousness happens when a physical brain behaves a certain way, right? So replicate that kind of behaviour using the same kind of material and ...

By studying the human brain and replicating its behaviour. What do you mean by "fundamental"? And if it can occur naturally by DNA-driven cell develop...

And you don't think that we operate according to algorithms of our own, albeit ones that are a product of DNA-driven cell development rather than inte...

Give a computer a Hex code of 000000, have it add FF, and the result is 0000FF. This is the hex code for blue, and it tells the computer to turn on th...

Have you not heard of machine learning?

That's not what I'm saying. My brain developed after my dad's sperm fertilized my mum's ovum. We don't need to recreate the origin of life to build a ...

I know biological organisms are complicated. But if they can develop naturally in response to a sperm interacting with an ovum then I don't see why th...

A computer simulation is just taking some input and applying the rules of a mathematical model, producing some output. The article I linked to explain...

Because you took issue with Bostrom's claim that silicon-based computers could give rise to consciousness. So what if we considered biological compute...

Because I don't have the knowledge, skills, or technology to build one, and know of nobody who does and has and who is willing to give or sell it to m...

No.

What about biological computers?

She wrote Frankenstein. Who? Anyway, that was , not me.

I don't see how that follows. We'd have to have some reason to believe that consciousness requires something like a human brain and that a human brain...

I think he took this from Nick Bostrom's trilemma: The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of run...

Lies. You’re a lizard. I believe that makes your chromosomes ZZ.

You said that someone is a man if they have XY chromosomes and male genitalia and a woman if they have XX chromosomes and female genitalia. But some p...

Huh. How did I not know that Mary Shelley was Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter.

I just asked a question. No need to be so defensive. That question allows for the existence of other colours, e.g. turquoise as you say. So are you sa...

I wasn't asking about the poll. I was addressing you saying "I consider a man a person with XY cromosome and male genitalia, and a woman a person with...

What about if someone has XY chromosomes and female genitalia, or XX chromosomes and male genitalia, or XXY chromosomes, or XYY chromosomes, or both m...

In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception

What’s a philosophical current?

It's similar to the use-mention distinction. We can imagine a thing to exist even if it doesn't exist.

Clearly someone didn't pay attention in biology class. Lizards, like birds, don't piss like we do. It's more of a paste.

Me right now. /uploads/resized/files/10/2qa7lb7bv3j3p3yb.jpeg Rushed it but oh well.

Maybe I needed an emoji to make it clear that mine was a joke too?

Dick Edit: I will have a drawing reply ready soon.

Well that's just showing off.

It means "fart" in the UK.

Does the materialist argue that matter is what makes mathematical or logical statements true? Does the fact that 1 + 1 = 2 and that ¬(A & ¬A) depend o...

That’s the strawman. Take mathematics as an example. Both the idealist and the external world realist can believe that whether or not 1 + 1 = 2 is “ob...

My apologies. I thought you were being sarcastic. But I see that you mean it.

Nobody. I read between the lines.

What does it mean for reasoning to be objective or subjective? And what about objective reasoning requires external world realism to be the case? I do...

That isn’t a good reason, even if you think otherwise.

That may be the external world realist’s interpretation of their observations but if idealism is the case then the interpretation is wrong. Is there s...

Why is there something rather than nothing? I don’t see why it makes more sense to say that first there was matter and then there was consciousness th...

True, true.

Lohan calls Obama 'colored', NAACP says no big deal I hereby rule in favour of @"Arkady".

I honestly don't know if they genuinely don't believe in it or if they do but care more about money and so lie about it.

It still is?

I think that better describes the Republican Party. Anti-climate change, trickle-down economics, bearded guy in the sky who demands that gays be oppre...

One did. He still won.

He's not a conservative, he's just a very naughty boy.

How about no more marriage?

But I'm not a pregnant American so it wouldn't affect me. Try again.

Kind of a pointless announcement as I doubt any Democrat would be friends with you. They have standards. :fire:

@"Postmodern Beatnik".

I didn't vote.