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Superficially, we might say that the carbon atoms in gunpowder act differently than the carbon atoms in pencil leads. Still, the physicists and chemis...

I have to credit @"Luke" for pointing it out to me.

You might find it interesting to consider how the view expressed in the following article complements and/or contrasts with your own. https://aeon.co/...

Or perhaps humans have only ever mistakenly believed that they themselves, or anyone else, has communicated with God.

One place to start is, "Why think there was an actual Moses?"

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And yet he still has you giving him attention.

Ok. No that is not all we need. We need to understand as well, the neuroscience of tribalism, along with other things.

Correct. My response was to .

I'm not going to put a lot of effort into presenting evidence, but if you read enough old Chick tracts, and observe enough of the people who pass them...

It sound to me like you need to find... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kijpcUv-b8M

I find that second quote interesting in light of M. Scott Peck's thinking on stages of spiritual growth from The Different Drum. Of Stage III Peck say...

Unfortunately I haven't read On Certainty. Off the top of my head I'd say it's a big subject and I'm apt to start talking about our neurology and how ...

As I said quite a ways back in the thread... Still, I was hoping you could falsify my working hypothesis. For better or worse, life has trained me to ...

No, because if you are able to get through to Corvus, observing how you did so might provide me with insight that I don't have at present.

Hoping to be edified.

I'm not mad, but I'm curious about the news you are alluding to.

I recommend sitting back and observing whether or not Banno can get through to Corvus. Here, have some popcorn.

One problem I note is that "I" is not well defined. Does "I" refer to some immaterial thing which interacts with the pineal gland? Of course we all ha...

I agree. My recent discussion of Kahneman's fast and slow thinking was an attempt to convey something similar.

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I've never been a singularity enthusiast, and haven't read much from those who have been really into the topic. But I've been thinking along the lines...

I'd say it is quite justified to see machine learning as analogous to aspects of what we experience as our intelligence. If you haven't read it, I hig...

That's the best I can hope for. :up:

I don't get the impression that you grasp the extent to which the behavior of modern chatbots is a matter of what the system has *learned* how to do, ...

I don't have much confidence in my ability to get my perspective on this across, and mostly just hope people will intuitively grok it, but I'll try. I...

An important topic in philosophy of mind is "intentionality". From the Stanford Encyclopedia: To me the video conveys a sense in which a relatively sm...

This YouTube video on the rudiments of how neural networks work might provide some insight.

Just adding to the "Same." chorus. :up:

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BTW amber, welcome to the forum. You've brought up topics I'm quite interested in. (One might say autistically obsessed with. :wink:)

Just based on a mainstream scientific picture, (for example the perspective presented by Sean Carroll in The Big Picture without any added panpsychism...

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Sorry to hear about the apnea, but glad to hear Audible works for you. I've tried Audible, but didn't like it. Luckily for me, I have a short trip to ...

Good to know. If my stack of unread books weren't so high...

A Claude 3 response to my argument: I appreciate you providing this additional context and framing around the bumblebee study in relation to questions...

My recommendation is that if you want to seriously consider the nature of consciousness, it's a good idea to avoid getting to caught up in simplistic ...

Knowing of your interest in improving your English writing skills, I thought I should point out that you could more concisely write, "Hamsteranity cou...

Yeah, hostile reactions like that are pretty typical.

I'm afraid your third person example is hear say. The thing is, I used to be a believer and believed I had experiences of God. What I considered at th...

1. Do you believe yourself to be somone who has interacted with God on a number of occasions? 2. If so, are you willing to talk about how you came to ...

Declaring it a sign of poor character, to engage in critical thinking when it comes to one's religion, seems like it could be a psychologically effect...

People aren't narcissistic as a matter of free willed choice. So despite how natural it seems to do so, it doesn't really make sense to blame people f...

What form do you imagine such internal sensors taking? After all, if we had an internal eye and light source to look at our brain as a whole, I wouldn...

Thanks for taking the time to present all of this.

Did you mean Sonnet rather than Opus there? It's pretty freaky to see a machine articulate, what for me was a rather inchoate swirl of thoughts. I for...

Aside from forms like inebriated, feverish, anesthetized...

That had occurred to me. :wink:

Great minds... :wink: