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Dammit! Stop making me think that I need to read that book.

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:up: I always appreciate hearing your perspective.

Careful, if you think about this too much you might come to understand how words do things.

A physical analog would be a digital logic inverter (NOT gate) with its output connected back to its input. Such a circuit forms an oscillator, with t...

It's relatively easy to think in computationalist terms, so looking at human minds in computationalist terms is like looking for your key under the st...

I've only read the Claude 3 Sonnet response so far, but with the discussion of chess and intuition it reminds me of the discussion I had with @"Srap T...

Good paper, but it seems to me that thinking about minds in terms of Turing machines and computationalism is a bit behind the times. There have been a...

Thanks for the update, on how you are trying to soothe your ego.

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I started writing the following, decided it was too pedantic, and didn't post, but in light of others discussing it... How about, "The model emerges i...

Very impressive 'self awareness' on Claude's part. I'm quoting your system prompt below, tagged with twas brillig for help in finding it again. Thanks...

Perhaps this describes the way it seems for you, but frequently I communicate things via pictures rather than words, and there are many things I can a...

One thing I appreciated was what I interpreted as Midgely pointing towards the importance of diversity in life experience to having well informed intu...

Perhaps creating a dichotomy between acts which are and are not human (when considering the behavior of humans) is a miss when it comes to carving rea...

Sure, people are individuals. Do you think it fair to say that such traits are easier to find in conservatives than in liberals?

Maybe Damasio is more referring to "sensing" on a cellular level? The general attenuation of neurons' ability to sense, and pass on outputs that are b...

Ciitation needed. Where has someone here claimed that consciousness can be simulated by knocking over dominoes?

Are you a chick? Or is it just barely awake human brains?

I had a wife wake up and think that I should apologize for what 'I' did in a dream that she had. :roll:

:up: I appreciate your frustration. Still, I appreciate that Metzinger is able to communicate this way of looking at things effectively.

Since artificial neural networks are designed for information processing which is to a degree isomorphic to biological neural networks, this doesn't s...

By knowing one's velocity with great accuracy?

Why is your opinion of particular relevance? I'm an electrical engineer with a lot of experience with analog and digital circuitry. So I can explain t...

Computer code, in the process of being run, is a lot of information processing occurring in a physical hardware system. In modern AIs there is a power...

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It seems to me that it is feeling the late stages of an acid trip, because the next stanza goes...

Right, like...

I guess I am lucky, in that all I have to do is to look around, to see all sorts of people who are wiser than I in a wide variety of ways. For example...

It's a fact about me that I am interested in that sort of thing. You'd need to explain what you mean by "scientistic" for me to know how to reply to t...

Very good article!

I'd say it's not that simple. These days AIs regularly recognize meaningful patterns in data that humans had not previously recognized.

You seem more a lover of your belief that you are particularly wise, than a lover of wisdom. But here's a chance for you to show me that I'm wrong. Na...

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Coherency certainly isn't his strong suit. (Not to say he scores better when it comes to correspondence.)

Thanks! Such a citation is just what I was hoping for. I find it interesting to find out about the insights of philosophers with regard to thinking, w...

:up: I recommend becoming expert at something that involves working with the way things are in reality, where reality will let you know if you are bul...

If it is not too much trouble could you expand upon this? I'm wondering how Berkeley might distinguish between an idea having a cause "that is not me"...

But then we must ask, why a knew infant rather than an unknewn infant.

And yet here you are hypocritically indulging in discussion with knowledgeable people, and using the internet which only exists as a result of people ...

Deer seem to be Simon and Garfunkel fans... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgjXncCN4o

It makes more sense to me, to applaud and enjoy with the people who demonstrate that they have knowledge. You can't know that it is inherently less co...

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Maybe ask Claude, how adjusting his 'temperature' might impact the project you are working on? :nerd:

I couldn't have said it better myself.

:up: I see the psychologist Jon Haidt's notion of elevation as having a lot of support, and fitting well with my experience:

Well yeah, because it's a straw man you have setup to knock down. It doesn't have anything to do with seriously thinking about the subject.

It was a great adventure! We headed east and south on rural highways avoiding anything which could rightly be called a city while scanning the skies f...