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Perhaps that is mostly a matter of folklore. https://www.bartehrman.com/how-did-the-apostles-die/

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I'd say that's a pretty reasonable doubt. :wink:

Or to provides a way to avoid facing, what it is to be human.

Have you watched any of it? I caught up to the latest episode last night. I'm liking it. But I'll leave it there, for now.

Pinker's book, The Blank Slate, explicitly argues against the notion of a blank slate.

Still hopeful are you?

You weren't expecting me to argue against that, were you? :wink:

What I was hoping for, was that Corvus would recognize his lack of insight into logic, and engage in error correction with regard to his thinking. Unf...

The invalidity of the Cogito hasn't been a factor in my involvement in the discussion. My involvement has been out of curiosity as to whether Corvus c...

I'd say it's quite scientific, to recognize new and better ways of understanding things. Casting Newton as non-scientific seems rather bizarre to me.

It's looking ever more likely to me, that the answer is, "Yes."

Interesting (and discussed somewhat in the Psychology Today article FJ linked). Although I seem to have fairly normal vision when it comes to static i...

I didn't read much of the last two dialogs, but jumped to the end and saw that. Impressive.

Are you equally impressed with flat-earthers who persist in arguing for a flat earth?

I can see that's a loaded question. :wink:

For someone who seriously wants to look into it, there are tests like the WAIS which can yield more fine grained knowledge of cognitive strengths and ...

Try this:

Why "Cults" rather than "relatively small social bands"? Pan troglodytes (chimpanzees), Pan paniscus (bonobos), Gorilla beringei, Gorilla gorilla, and...

The second premise - any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or var...

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Although I have worked at the same place for 32 years now, I can't say I am in a position to know whether it gives many greater confidence to tackle i...

It can be helpful to understand that some posters post seeking narcissistic supply, and admitting having been wrong is never part of that 'plan'. In s...

I'm afraid you have shown the core problem here to be your misunderstanding of logic. There is no sense in discussing proving something with you when ...

Because you being wrong is inconceivable? https://aristotle2digital.blogwyrm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Propositional-If-Then-Arguments.png

I work for an employee owned company, where all of the employees benefits from the company doing well. There are a lot of benefits to work being a pla...

Admitting it to us is of little consequence. Ability to admit it to himself could be hugely consequential for him.

Not to mention increase his competence at using logic. All for the low low price of admitting to having been a doofus.

Fascinating stuff.

Hey Bill, How have you been?

You are not alone, but you are apparently in the unfortunate situation of never having developed expertise of much significance. For me, knowing thing...

That is my impressiom. He mentioned "cause" earlier. My impression is he is confusing a statement about logical entailment for a statement about causa...

To put a more modern spin on it, for people with neurology like ours, deep learning that arises from time spent engaged in interacting with and learni...

Has anyone here read Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad? Much earlier than Bostrom, and if not the best, at least the funniest thinking on such topics.

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Not worth my time. But you can look for all the times when people here have responded to you dismissively, and look at what you wrote that led to such...

The irony of you projecting your own behavior on scientists...

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Scrupulosity is a somewhat relevant mental health issue. In cases of psychopathy I don't get the impression that there is any conscience there to supp...

Perhaps someday?

That sure sounds like trivializing folk psychology to me.

A pencil is not an information processing system. A pencil may be part of an information processing system which includes a person and a pencil and pi...

A computer can process information in ways that a pencil cannot. Why think consciousness can exist without the occurrence of information processing?

The argument commits an appeal to consequences fallacy.

Bostrom's speculation has always smelled grossly unparsimonious, to me.

Absolutely. There is all sorts of evidence for that, along a variety of different spectrums. Again. Absolutely.

A recent paper suggests that it is deeper than culture: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310012121

All of the supermodels I woo, ask if I do "The Hanover". I think it must be my look of disgust in response that results in me going down in flames.

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I'm not blaming you. I don't suppose you have libertarian free will. I'm not committed to debate at all. You might say I was investigating the degree ...