Not sure what you mean by this. If the bliss ever arrives then life will be less underestimated. It's not an all or nothing proposition, either. The s...
This is an ignorant take on the value of meditation. Suffering folks might internalize their zombie nature far before they are driven to the mat (medi...
Are you against the formation of a techno-optimistic religion? So long as the devotees tolerate my techo-pessimistic sentiments, and they don't make m...
Dartmoor (Devon, England) would be a beautiful place to live. Got to stay on the moor for seven days in a cabin next to a thatched cottage with an AGA...
@"Gnomon " :up: Am done pestering you and offer an apology to @"Benj96" for any offense. I just can't understand or follow what is being said. Is Info...
@"Gnomon " Did you read Vopson's paper, The Information Catastrophe? The Information Catastrophe, Melvin M. Vopson Vopson's paper here reads like a wa...
@"punos" Weird how ChatGPT got such a clean paragraph. It can't translate or unscramble the original paragraph because it doesn't remember how it scra...
@"Gnomon" Assuming you really do know what you are talking about, you lack a principal of charity. Your audience doesn't have the means to understand ...
No one has the decryption algorithm to the following scrambled paragraph, if there is one: srevinesu lebaB yrtpolexse si yldwi fo dna si eht ecdirbels...
You overlooked the part where people equate consciousness with working physical brains. If we started performing brain surgery on you, we might be abl...
Most people think a brain is required for consciousness. We can manipulate brains to make people fall unconscious, as I'm sure you've probably experie...
You are not an expert, as you say. I would want to know the physics inside and out before attempting to cite conjectures/experiments for support, thou...
:up: @"Gnomon" You gloss over interpretations of complex physics topics which I don't think you really understand in trying support your metaphysics. ...
@"universeness" Would either of you to care to explain the significance of this distinction that information is or isn't processed data. I suppose the...
Doesn't ChatGPT rely on the information contained within encyclopedias and textbooks? I've heard there is a breakdown in fidelity of information when ...
The energy comes from the erasure of information but is this reducible to the physics of running inputs through non-reversible logic gates? The input ...
At this point this is the only claim that I'd like to know more about but I'm not sure I could ever understand what is going on in the experiment to b...
Sorry for the rudeness, just a bit annoyed at your responses. You admitted it was mistake to pose the initial question and you didn't directly answer ...
Melvin Vopson could've made a mistake in his interpretation and conjecture deriving from Laundauer's principle. Is Information Physical and Does it Ha...
This is an empty, kitsch and unforgivable act of plagiarism. How dare you devalue your very own art. Or... wow, you've really come a long way in your ...
@"L'éléphant" gave a thoughtful answer to this concern, which I agree with. Have you seen David Lynch's Mulholland Drive by chance? Despite a lot of s...
I'm trying to imagine energy (the ability to do work) in the complete absence of matter, which I'm not sure makes much sense. This would imply a compl...
@"believenothing" I hope you're satisfied with the answers you got. You might find the following article about global aphasia interesting. It is possi...
Haven't read any of Ken Liu's stories but am currently reading Dostoevsky's novella,Notes from Underground, and find that the narrator is somewhat rid...
Just as CGI replaced a lot of practical effects in film AI innovation may end up eliminating real cinematic photography altogether (if it is cheaper)....
Maybe wealth could be a proxy for a kind of capacity for pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The Gulf petrostates always come to mind when I think of...
Yes and to be consistent you apply this also to the notions of space and time, infinite and continuous. They are concepts. They are conventions. With ...
It's odd to assume time and space are really infinite and discontinuous on one hand, then deny the existence of a kilometer. If we're to be consistent...
Why is it right to conclude that time and space are really infinite and continuous rather than discrete and discontinuous? Either of these abstract pr...
Sorry, there were four too many of those questions. :sweat: Guess I merely stating my belief in psychological hedonism, that a pursuit of pleasure and...
What passes as a rigorous explanation for why Zeno's paradox isn't a paradox? One can race a man against a turtle and see that men and turtles travers...
Most decisions, whether toward short or long term gratification, involve the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. Imagine the classic scenario o...
More so, you can't meaningfully have the concept of one without the other, and how we value either is dependent upon a variety of contexts in which bo...
This thread seems rhetorical/poetic and maybe plain silly. You might upset the neighbors. Toward the question, sure, like anything else, it's just a q...
We all understand what may compel a person to say that life has no meaning. It all boils down to what seems to be pointless and gratuitous suffering. ...
Reality goes on for those who aren't asleep. They might look at your unconscious body and count the hours. And so we'd expect, when the earth loses it...
There is a tiny country in Europe, sandwiched between the border of Andorra and France, which has stringent labeling laws for canned goods. They belie...
Arguably some cases of media coverage of public mourning are beneficial, insofar as it encourages more meaningful kinds of charitable support for thos...
Does this same assessment apply to folks that go to musical concerts or sports games? How much of culture then can be judged so? Few might call a PGA ...
Most sites of typical mourning that I've encountered are not that big and if they are big it relates to the notoriety of the deceased, or what their p...
Missed this one. Though I'm a bit terrified of the wrath of author like a Christian believer might be of you know who. Wicked humor in a list of dead ...
There were too many trees because of generative aspect of the sorcerer's duel. This is an arms race and we expect all the absurdity and explosions it ...
Maybe using projection is ill advised, since I couldn't tell you meaningfully the difference between a reader who is and isn't projecting. We're left ...
:up: The merge could actually be quite interesting if the narrator was suffering from delirium from the stress of the ordeal. He could be paranoid tha...
You don't think there is an aspect of projection in imagining the motives of these characters. We have to fill in the gaps to satisfy ourselves. Thoug...
A weird inkblot spectacular stream of consciousness. Goblin mage and nymph witch warring for control of Nadar, proxy of the realm. Maid Marianne put i...
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