The philosophers who are currently growing up amidst the development of AI, and noticing the relevance of what is going on in AI to the way our minds ...
Right. I expect anyone working on an embodied AI, which is structured to learn from embodied experience, is in an at least somewhat secretive lab. (Li...
In the case of neurons, to the best of my knowledge, we do have a lot of cells we were born with. Certainly most of us have neurons that we have had s...
I don' know if your use of "evolve" is meant to refer to biological evolution, but if so, no we as individuals don't evolve. Species evolve. So do you...
The fact that it is information arising from the processing in a neural network which has inputs which are largely the outputs of sensory nerves. (E.g...
I'd suggest that some systems are conscious because they are in an ongoing process of melding incoming sensory information with what arises from deep ...
How about the following? Because some forms of information processing occur in embodied systems with sensorimotor interaction with the environment. Th...
This doesn't much describe what I experience as finding life meaningful, although there is an aspect of 'doing art' involved in the story below. For m...
In addition to what I addressed earlier, I wanted to point out that there seems to be an implicit dualism behind this comment. It seems to assume that...
As I said earlier: And I'll admit it isn't merely a straw man, but a highly complex straw man brought up by a brilliant though (in this context) poorl...
And? Plantinga completely neglects consideration of evolution in a social species, so isn't presenting a seriously considered account of evolution. Er...
I only got as far as "evo" before my search tool told me that I wasn't going to find "evolutionary psychology" in that link. I was unsurprised, in vie...
Thinking ones thoughts were purely a matter of biological dispositions would indeed be naive, but who actually thinks that way? I'd think it more reas...
:rofl: I'd be interested in such a thread as well, but there are so many gaping holes in the EAAN, that it would be hard to pick a best objection to i...
I'd say it is more a matter of limited perceptual and cognitive faculties on our parts. We don't have minds capable of comprehensively understanding t...
No, it doesn't make the problem any easier. Still physicalism is where progress in understanding is being made, whereas dualism and panpsychism seem t...
On the other hand, a lot of progress is being made, in understanding that things like the smell of coffee are a function of coordinated activity in ar...
Huh, I guess I must tend towards hyperactive rice monitoring. I make rice that comes close to my standard of ricely perfection without the slightest r...
I wonder if the Amazon writeup is decribing what Hoffman is arguing for accurately. But regardless, (and with the cutesy 'seriously but not literally'...
The conclusions don't seem so much in opposition to me. It seems to me that the following two sentences are just different ways of expressing a simila...
I'm not sure what is meant by "evolved independently" when we are talking about things evolving in one species. However, having a greater number of ne...
Unless it is happening when these people have stopped breathing, it should be evident that they are interacting with the environment in an important w...
Sure, I posted something along similar lines in the shoutbox a year ago: Anyway, I see from all your posturing that your ego is still as fragile as it...
It would be kind of silly to think there is only one difference. Considering all the bird species able to mimic human speech, it doesn't seem as if yo...
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I think a philosopher might be open to facing the truth of the nature of our minds, whatever that might be. It sounds like you are saying that a philo...
It seems to me one can dispense with theism, recognize that More is Different and that humans have more cortical neurons than any other species, and t...
I wasn't referring to intuitions related to determinism specifically, but to intuitions in general and how slow they can be to change, and the changin...
Certainly "human natures" instead of "human nature" would be a step towards communicating with a greater degree of accuracy. However, I don't think we...
This itself is evidence for determinism, in that you can't choose what it is that you find to be intuitive. Intuitions, being a matter of deep learnin...
I'm not a mathematician, and don't have sufficient basis for any strong opinion on the matter. As @"SophistiCat" pointed out there is a convenience to...
Different number bases have different convenience advantages depending on context. I use base 2 and base 16 frequently. Base 12 would probably provide...
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