wonderer1

You left off, "and vile thread derailer". :wink:

I think evil is in the eye of the beholder, in that evil is something our evolved monkey minds tend to project on things in the world. The notion of a...

Do you think it is a moral failure for people to have inconsistent beliefs?

I don't have any clear idea of your theory of mind, and I don't expect the points I raise to get much traction in the minds of people unable to seriou...

Sure there are possible different genetic codes that result in the same phenotype, but the scenario under consideration here is not one of minimal DNA...

Like many others here, I can't make much sense of the things you say, and I would have to recommend that you talk to a neuropsycholgist about that.

Suppose "value" is a fallacious reification, and instead there is only valuing as a process that occurs. Could science study human valuing?

Copied from the other thread: I'd think you can only imagine being yourself with such supeficial changes, but what about less obvious, but more profou...

I propose "curmudgeonlogy".

5. It's a lot more fun to play with babies than to eat them. (emotivism)

I've got better things to do.

True, I haven't spent nearly so much time in an ivory tower playing make believe. Sorry to break it to you, but you really don't know what you are tal...

This says to me that you don't have enough experience in engaging in scientific processes to know what you are talking about. It sounds like you have ...

If you are not on that spectrum it should be an easy matter for you to read up on the pattern and explain how it doesn't fit. Why would you need any h...

The thing is, there are areas of research pointing to there being explanations beyond mere brute fact. See Jon Haidt's The Rightous Mind. There is val...

Right, meeting you has nothing to do with the basis by which my intuitions formed. However, I have had previous experiences which led to me having goo...

The real world has been in the picture throughout our discusssion. I was curious as to whether you would falsify my intuition that you are on the psyc...

Well, you can say that for you it does not strike a chord, but you don't speak for everyone. You didn't ask. In the context of this thread, the "We th...

Indeed.

I would guess vetting of sources for reliability would be a concern. What sources of infomation is a 'real time up to date' AI relying on without vett...

You can strike everything after "If" because it is just sophist propaganda spewing out of your head, whether intentionally so or not. A more interesti...

I'm somewhat trepidatious about it. The first thing that popped up when I googled "neuromorphic hardware" was this link sponsored on Google by Intel. ...

It also merits consideration that "us" strikes primal chords, in homo sapiens who aren't psychopathic to some degree. Any thoughts on that?

Hopefully not as they are embedded in our neural networks, with an ethical bias towards *us* not being harmed. (With "us" referring to some subset of ...

Sorry it took me so long to respond. This gave me a lot to think about. :up: I've got more mulling to do, but I agree with your penultimate sentence. ...

:100: :up: To your whole post. And to the quoted portion... Yeah it come across as religious bigotry, on the part of people who want philosophy to ass...

My pigeon problems are typically like those of Tim Minchin: https://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U?si=1ZBHTSc5wG_mYY8F In this modern era of remote pigeoning, a...

Well put.

Ok, what do you mean by "God"?

Existential Comics: A Dialogue on Compatibilism

Yeah, seems more likely that most know better than to encourage Hanover.

Are you saying that our ability to recognize patterns is dependent on our conscious thought? If so, I think you've got things backwards.

@"Tom Storm" I think a more realistic way of looking at it is that human reason is substantially a function of pattern recognition occurring in our br...

It's arguably because of a decison made by a relatively uninformed Ben Franklin.

The fact that we have some ability to get access to how the world really is, is what allowed for the construction of the internet which allows people ...

Well "master" might be a bit grandiose. On the other hand we are discussing philosophy with people all over the world, so maybe it works somewhat?

Interesting example! There is more to an ideal of reasoning than the ability to apply logic in a valid way. There is also the pattern recognition appl...

I took the following to mean, "If you drop moral realism you should drop all realism." Perhaps I was misinterpreting you, but I was explaining that I ...

I wouldn't say I fail to comprehend morality. I see morality as a function of evolved cognitive biases which tend to make individuals function success...

Autism?

I think there are evolutionary reasons that our thinking is biased in ways that tend to make us successful as a social species. I don't see a reason t...

It appears to me that playing this silly game is Corvus' whole point with this thread. Why would he want to cut to the chase?

That's ok. My question was directed @"Gnomon".

Do you understand that "materialist" is not a distinct category from "philosopher"? Your writing frequently suggests that you don't understand this.

I'm late to this discussion and haven't looked into what other responses there may have been to this. So please excuse me if this is redundant. Having...

Very interesting post, although I don't have enough mathematics background to follow all of the details. Could you provide a link to a 'Blobs for Dumm...

As best I can tell, the notion of "essences" doesn't refer to anything, and the use of the term often seems a matter of feigning knowledge where recog...

What is relatively persistent, by comparison with with most cells of bodily organs, is neurons and the neural networks structures that supervene on th...

A relevant strip from Existential Comics.

Good questions! I would be surprised, if even without the ethical biasing, ChatGPT would have come up with an accurate answer. I suspect something lik...