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Hmm... Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove, published in 2015, is a horrifyingly plausible alternative history along the same lines. Now I wonder if there ...

Plantinga does believe that we can believe that our cognitive faculties are reliable, because God created them to be so. However it would be a recipe ...

No. Anti-theism is opposition to theism.

Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, while failing to provide a persuasive argument against naturalism, can provide some insight into...

The Three Body Problem (which BTW, is the title of a great SciFi book) at least suggests that the problem goes much deeper than availability of comput...

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I would think we would have to reach more definitive conclusion as to the quantum foundation of nature to have much hope of being free from fuzzy boun...

Please, at least post a photo of Count Tim in the silly hat.

You bring up a good point, but rather than swing between supporting or dismissing, why not simply recognize the need for a more complex and nuanced vi...

@"RogueAI" Somewhat creepily, the video below was suggested to me by Youtube last night. Cool video though, if you are into such nerd stuff. https://y...

That may be, but it is harder to convince people to worship the god of baffling with bullshit.

Christians typically think that God, being good, wouldn't mislead us.

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Ohms law is v=i*r where v represents Voltage i represents electrical current and r represents electrical resistance So for any given resistance, the r...

I don't see any reason to think such a system couldn't in principle be conscious, but it would be an extremely low temporal resolution sort of conscio...

Yeah, we've discussed it before. The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, as the name might suggest, has a lot of relevance to the workings of ...

BTW, it's a shame you never read The Different Drum. It provides a lot of perspective good for a forum moderator to have.

You haven't seen his response yet. :chin:

If Christoffer responds to this and tries to correct your misconceptions, do you consider it likely that you will be inclined to tell him that his res...

It fits well with General Relativity as well.

On a perdurance view you would be a four dimensional being, with one of those dimensions being the time dimensions of spacetime. So from such a perspe...

What you say there is just you jumping to the conclusion that my view is much more simplistic than it actually is. I responded to you with a focus on ...

What are the axes of your drawing? I'm used to thinking of (1,0j) as on the right hand side. I assume that is rotated 90° from my accustomed orientati...

This assumes psychological is other than physical. In any case, neural network pattern recognition is highly fault tolerant, and that is why we are ab...

At any give time, either the duck emerges as a perception, or the rabbit emerges as a perception. It is a function of how your brain is processing the...

I'm not clear on what you are asking.

I see weak emergentism as most reasonable, and in the context of weak emergence the emergence is only epistemic. So on this way of looking at things t...

This is just an argument from incredulity and a wheat field's worth of straw manning. It's unfortunate that so many who consider themselves to be crit...

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It's not the holisitically governing equation some may dream of, but we can certainly make a psychologically called shot based on scientific understan...

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I said I could provide a link if you can't think of recent examples. Do you need me to point out an example of the sort of interaction I was referring...

Doesn't sound like you are interested in thinking about it.

Never really been that into math. Do you have an understanding of the sort of interactions I was referring to?

No, not if you can look at things from a more holistic perspective, and recognize the interactions that occur within the world. I could provide a link...

He demonstrates scientific ignorance with the last sentence there, showing his scientific understanding to be highly questionable. At least that is wh...

Well, if I posted the right video, it discusses how logic gates are implemented in domino structures. So the domino structure is crudely isomorphic to...

It seemed to me to be reinforcing a simplistic intuitive view, since blocks aren't something we typically think of as interacting with each other in a...

Three things I think necessary for any information processing: 1 Nodes that perform some mathematical/logical function on inputs and produce an output...

Night all. It's been fun. :grin:

If it wasn't cases of complex causation that we are discussing, we wouldn't bother discussing supervenience and emergence. So I don't see the relevanc...

How many words do you think it should take, to explain "what emergence is" for all cases of emergent properties? Are you sure this should be considere...

Bringing in reducibility is shifting the goal posts, and I understand that you don't agree with it, but can you give me a reason to think that your di...

Combine enough blocks and you get a black hole, which wasn't in the blocks to start with.

Argument from authority. So what?

You are assuming the mental content in my mind as I read your post is identical to what? Do you think it was identical to the way you were mentally mo...

Even if you really really really believe it, it doesn't falsify physicalism. I'm awfully confident that you physically used a computer input device to...

Did you know we have endogenous cannabinoids doing their thing inside us all the time?

Neuroplasticity is not problematic for physicalism.